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Montréal Canadiens at Vegas Golden Knights

Stanley Cup Semifinals, Game 1 · Jun 14, 2021 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 1 29
Vegas Golden Knights 4 30

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
09:15 VGK Shea Theodore (1) Brayden McNabb (3), Chandler Stephenson (6) 0 - 1
2nd Period
02:18 VGK Alec Martinez (3) Shea Theodore (7), Reilly Smith (6) 0 - 2
12:05 MTL Cole Caufield (1) PP Tyler Toffoli (7), Corey Perry (4) 1 - 2
12:58 VGK Mattias Janmark (4) Alex Tuch (4), Zach Whitecloud (3) 1 - 3
3rd Period
10:06 VGK Nick Holden (2) Reilly Smith (7), William Karlsson (8) 1 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:38 VGK Jonathan Marchessault High sticking 2
18:20 MTL Phillip Danault Hooking 2
2nd Period
00:07 MTL Ben Chiarot Delaying game puck over glass 2
05:04 MTL Joel Edmundson Slashing 2
05:20 VGK Shea Theodore Tripping 2
08:20 MTL Brett Kulak Tripping 2
11:46 VGK William Carrier Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 53 37 29 1 3.7 42.2
Vegas Golden Knights 62 47 30 4 3.7 57.8

How the game went

505101520Start2nd3rdVegas Golden Knights aheadMontréal Canadiens ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Vegas Golden Knights had taken more, and below it and blue while Montréal Canadiens had.

Expected goals

Montréal Canadiens: 3.7 expected, 1 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 3.7 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndMTL goal, 12:05 of 2nd, a 21% chanceVGK goal, 9:15 of 1st, a 2% chanceVGK goal, 2:18 of 2nd, a 7% chanceVGK goal, 12:58 of 2nd, a 12% chanceVGK goal, 10:06 of 3rd, a 7% chanceVGK 3.7MTL 3.7

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

Where the attempts came from

Montréal Canadiens
Vegas Golden Knights

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brendan Gallagher · Phillip Danault · Artturi Lehkonen10:3147.859.90-0
Paul Byron · Josh Anderson · Jesperi Kotkaniemi9:0540.034.30-2
Tyler Toffoli · Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield8:3456.385.00-1
Eric Staal · Corey Perry · Joel Armia7:2628.619.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Shea Weber · Ben Chiarot10:3640.060.30-1
Brett Kulak · Alexander Romanov7:187.70.00-1
Joel Edmundson · Erik Gustafsson5:4150.053.00-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
13 Cole Caufield R 1 0 1 -1 0 6 1 15:43 0.91 10-9 0.57-0.23
73 Tyler Toffoli C 0 1 1 -2 0 4 2 18:06 0.53 9-9 0.57-0.19
90 Corey Perry R 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 14:10 0.22 2-6 0.03-0.13
6 Shea Weber D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 6 25:28 16-14 1.20-0.52
6 Joel Edmundson D 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 20:32 18-16 0.53-0.46
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 13:47 0.22 11-12 0.97-0.65
8 Ben Chiarot D 0 0 0 -3 2 0 5 25:41 13-22 1.02-0.74
12 Eric Staal C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 10:51 0.08 4-7 0.08-0.15
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 0 0 -2 0 4 4 17:39 0.28 10-9 0.57-0.19
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 6 14:10 0.35 11-17 0.43-0.84
24 Phillip Danault C 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 17:55 0.32 12-14 0.97-0.68
27 Brett Kulak D 0 0 0 -2 2 0 2 16:53 0.03 15-21 1.08-1.15
28 Alexander Romanov D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 15:11 0.02 2-15 0.00-0.95
40 Joel Armia R 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 14:58 0.00 5-10 0.05-0.25
41 Paul Byron L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 14:10 10-18 0.42-0.90
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 14:20 0.73 11-15 0.97-0.70
64 Erik Gustafsson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 13:45 7-9 0.19-0.21
82 Jesperi Kotkaniemi C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 12:42 0.01 9-17 0.38-0.95
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Carey Price L 30 26 4 55:59 2.47 -1.53

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Max Pacioretty · Mark Stone · Chandler Stephenson10:5832.018.91-0
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Jonathan Marchessault10:5656.342.62-0
Mattias Janmark · Alex Tuch · Nicolas Roy8:4768.864.91-0
Ryan Reaves · William Carrier · Keegan Kolesar6:4457.122.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alec Martinez · Alex Pietrangelo16:2053.156.80-0
Brayden McNabb · Shea Theodore15:5350.022.41-0
Nick Holden · Zach Whitecloud11:0369.252.22-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
27 Shea Theodore D 1 1 2 2 2 3 0 21:26 0.13 13-12 0.34-0.62
19 Reilly Smith R 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 16:49 0.13 10-7 0.26-0.31
5 Nick Holden D 1 0 1 2 0 3 3 11:58 0.12 18-8 0.92-0.84
13 Mattias Janmark C 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 13:03 0.12 13-7 0.68-0.42
25 Alec Martinez D 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 23:52 0.22 18-16 0.79-0.55
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 21:08 0.02 11-11 0.18-0.61
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 17:26 0.11 9-17 0.35-1.15
28 Zach Whitecloud D 0 1 1 2 0 2 2 14:23 0.04 18-8 0.92-0.84
71 William Karlsson C 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 17:38 0.00 12-7 0.23-0.31
89 Alex Tuch R 0 1 1 1 0 1 6 17:41 0.23 19-7 1.30-0.42
7 Alex Pietrangelo D 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 25:26 0.31 18-15 0.81-0.54
10 Nicolas Roy C 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 14:29 0.30 20-5 1.32-0.37
28 William Carrier L 0 0 0 0 2 3 8 09:07 0.48 10-3 0.53-0.09
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10:01 7-6 0.08-0.18
61 Mark Stone R 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 18:36 0.10 11-17 0.37-1.15
67 Max Pacioretty L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 16:52 0.21 9-18 0.29-1.18
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 08:46 8-4 0.04-0.13
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 0 0 0 2 2 1 2 17:01 0.18 16-7 0.47-0.31
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury W 29 28 1 59:59 3.40 +2.40