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Montréal Canadiens at Buffalo Sabres

Oct 14, 2021 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 1 31
Buffalo Sabres 5 36

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
06:40 BUF Kyle Okposo (1) PP Jacob Bryson (1), Colin Miller (1) 0 - 1
17:35 BUF Zemgus Girgensons (1) Colin Miller (2), Cody Eakin (1) 0 - 2
2nd Period
09:33 MTL Chris Wideman (1) Joel Armia (1), Mathieu Perreault (1) 1 - 2
17:05 BUF Victor Olofsson (1) PP Jacob Bryson (2), Jeff Skinner (1) 1 - 3
19:04 BUF Anders Bjork (1) Zemgus Girgensons (1), Vinnie Hinostroza (1) 1 - 4
3rd Period
04:29 BUF Tage Thompson (1) PP Jeff Skinner (2), Victor Olofsson (1) 1 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:24 MTL Cedric Paquette High sticking 2
08:27 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Interference 2
18:07 MTL Chris Wideman Hooking 2
2nd Period
02:47 BUF Henri Jokiharju Holding 2
04:21 BUF Cody Eakin Tripping 2
10:24 MTL Jonathan Drouin Hooking 2
14:41 MTL Team Too many men on the ice 2
15:54 MTL Ben Chiarot Hooking 2
19:29 BUF Robert Hagg Holding the stick 2
3rd Period
03:25 MTL Ben Chiarot Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 54 38 31 1 1.7 47.4
Buffalo Sabres 58 49 36 5 3.0 52.6

How the game went

1050510Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres 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 Buffalo Sabres had taken more, and below it and blue while Montréal Canadiens had.

Expected goals

Montréal Canadiens: 1.7 expected, 1 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.0 expected, 5 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndMTL goal, 9:33 of 2nd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 6:40 of 1st, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 17:35 of 1st, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 17:05 of 2nd, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 19:04 of 2nd, a 26% chanceBUF goal, 4:29 of 3rd, a 11% chanceBUF 3.0MTL 1.7

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
Buffalo Sabres

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
Josh Anderson · Jonathan Drouin · Christian Dvorak11:4427.86.20-2
Brendan Gallagher · Jake Evans · Cole Caufield7:2352.641.50-0
Mathieu Perreault · Tyler Toffoli · Nick Suzuki4:2942.926.70-0
Joel Armia · Cedric Paquette · Artturi Lehkonen4:0475.042.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
David Savard · Ben Chiarot12:1569.650.10-0
Jeff Petry · Brett Kulak6:2823.115.50-0
Jeff Petry · Alexander Romanov6:1337.58.60-0

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
6 Chris Wideman D 1 0 1 1 2 3 0 15:12 0.13 10-7 0.21-0.24
40 Joel Armia R 0 1 1 1 0 4 1 11:34 0.21 10-5 0.26-0.33
85 Mathieu Perreault C 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 10:59 0.09 7-7 0.15-0.20
2 Jeff Petry D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 22:43 0.02 6-18 0.08-0.66
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 14:13 0.18 13-12 0.23-0.53
8 Ben Chiarot D 0 0 0 -1 4 1 2 20:37 0.01 17-13 0.34-0.76
13 Cedric Paquette C 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 09:18 9-5 0.25-0.30
13 Cole Caufield R 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 16:39 0.20 12-13 0.23-0.48
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:07 0.04 9-9 0.12-0.33
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 3 17:22 0.02 6-15 0.06-0.69
22 Christian Dvorak C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 20:02 7-15 0.06-0.65
27 Brett Kulak D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 14:48 10-19 0.20-0.88
28 Alexander Romanov D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 18:52 0.03 10-14 0.09-0.47
58 David Savard D 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 20:20 0.14 18-9 0.36-0.41
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:38 13-6 0.23-0.37
71 Jake Evans C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 14:49 0.15 11-12 0.22-0.43
73 Tyler Toffoli C 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 15:13 0.50 6-8 0.08-0.19
92 Jonathan Drouin L 0 0 0 -2 2 2 0 17:03 0.03 6-13 0.06-0.63
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Samuel Montembeault L 36 31 5 60:00 2.99 -2.01

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Victor Olofsson · Rasmus Asplund · Tage Thompson7:2158.344.00-0
Jeff Skinner · Vinnie Hinostroza · Casey Mittelstadt6:3930.856.20-0
Jeff Skinner · Vinnie Hinostroza · Dylan Cozens4:4044.480.10-0
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Zemgus Girgensons3:5887.595.91-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mark Pysyk · Robert Hagg15:1762.181.30-1
Colin Miller · Jacob Bryson13:3455.074.81-0
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin12:1140.938.70-0

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
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 15:16 0.33 10-5 0.60-0.13
95 Victor Olofsson L 1 1 2 0 0 5 0 15:29 0.38 10-6 0.19-0.15
6 Colin Miller D 0 2 2 1 0 2 2 20:28 0.08 12-9 0.39-0.13
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 19:38 0.33 9-17 0.42-0.26
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 18:29 0.02 11-10 0.39-0.14
8 Kyle Okposo R 1 0 1 1 0 5 1 15:53 0.34 11-4 0.42-0.06
24 Anders Bjork L 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 13:36 0.40 12-7 0.69-0.08
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 17:05 0.30 10-10 0.26-0.20
20 Cody Eakin C 0 1 1 0 2 4 2 13:50 0.16 12-8 0.46-0.19
24 Vinnie Hinostroza C 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 16:13 0.15 13-20 0.86-0.36
8 Drake Caggiula L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 12:20 0.14 8-7 0.40-0.11
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:07 0.06 4-9 0.22-0.17
13 Mark Pysyk D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 19:52 18-12 0.88-0.22
18 Robert Hagg D 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 19:41 0.13 19-13 1.14-0.22
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 16:39 9-15 0.18-0.30
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14:30 0.09 11-8 0.45-0.08
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 19:43 0.13 11-13 0.45-0.28
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:14 10-7 0.16-0.15
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Craig Anderson W 31 30 1 59:57 1.71 +0.71