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Buffalo Sabres at Montréal Canadiens

Feb 23, 2022 · Centre Bell

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 0 32
Montréal Canadiens 4 29

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
06:52 MTL Nick Suzuki (10) Cole Caufield (11) 0 - 1
2nd Period
05:57 MTL Nick Suzuki (11) Unassisted 0 - 2
3rd Period
01:18 MTL Cole Caufield (7) Nick Suzuki (22) 0 - 3
18:27 MTL Jake Evans (7) Ben Chiarot (6), Rem Pitlick (10) 0 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
08:28 BUF Dylan Cozens Tripping 2
2nd Period
04:43 MTL Cole Caufield High sticking 2
04:43 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Roughing 2
05:57 BUF Dylan Cozens Ps hooking on breakaway 0
12:01 MTL Brendan Gallagher Hooking 2
14:32 BUF Casey Fitzgerald Fighting 5
14:32 MTL Brendan Gallagher Fighting 5
3rd Period
14:17 MTL Alexander Romanov Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 56 39 32 0 2.4 53.9
Montréal Canadiens 45 38 29 4 3.4 46.1

How the game went

1510505Start2nd3rdMontréal Canadiens aheadBuffalo Sabres 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 Montréal Canadiens had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.4 expected, 0 scored · Montréal Canadiens: 3.4 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndMTL goal, 6:52 of 1st, a 12% chanceMTL goal, 5:57 of 2nd, a 18% chanceMTL goal, 1:18 of 3rd, a 9% chanceMTL goal, 18:27 of 3rd, a 49% chanceMTL 3.4BUF 2.4

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

Buffalo Sabres
Montréal Canadiens

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.

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Casey Mittelstadt8:2578.990.60-0
Cody Eakin · John Hayden · Anders Bjork5:2322.23.00-1
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson5:1342.931.20-0
Tage Thompson · Peyton Krebs · Dylan Cozens4:5442.970.80-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mark Pysyk · Jacob Bryson9:5935.75.10-1
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin8:3260.054.70-1
Casey Fitzgerald · Mattias Samuelsson6:4625.05.40-0

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
4 Casey Fitzgerald D 0 0 0 -1 5 0 2 18:49 12-11 0.50-0.53
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 18:07 0.39 21-13 0.87-0.72
13 Mark Pysyk D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 18:42 9-18 0.27-1.41
15 John Hayden C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 09:49 0.03 7-9 0.15-1.02
15 Brandon Biro L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:30 0.02 13-7 0.25-0.42
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 15:16 0.26 11-12 0.70-0.81
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 12:07 5-12 0.05-1.27
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 11:19 0.05 10-6 0.54-0.42
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 19:33 0.04 19-15 0.59-0.61
24 Anders Bjork L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 12:02 7-12 0.05-1.39
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -1 2 3 0 15:55 0.26 11-12 0.63-0.73
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -2 2 5 1 26:34 0.17 31-15 1.30-0.58
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 20:48 0.59 24-12 1.10-0.32
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 16:20 0.11 8-11 0.45-0.38
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:49 0.06 8-5 0.08-0.26
77 Mark Jankowski L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 12:58 0.04 11-7 0.13-0.39
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 21:16 15-16 0.25-1.63
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 -1 0 5 0 20:17 0.35 18-12 0.70-0.46
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Craig Anderson L 28 25 3 59:49 2.93 -0.07

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Artturi Lehkonen · Jake Evans · Rem Pitlick11:0918.81.70-0
Mike Hoffman · Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield7:2342.978.31-0
Mike Hoffman · Brendan Gallagher · Laurent Dauphin6:2271.488.70-0
Josh Anderson · Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield6:1450.092.01-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ben Chiarot · Alexander Romanov19:0736.825.60-0
Jeff Petry · Brett Kulak14:5752.278.21-0
Chris Wideman · Kale Clague12:5644.485.40-0

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
14 Nick Suzuki C 2 1 3 3 0 3 0 20:48 0.61 17-17 1.14-0.35
13 Cole Caufield R 1 1 2 2 2 5 1 17:08 0.46 14-16 0.83-0.14
71 Jake Evans C 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 16:14 6-13 0.04-0.90
8 Ben Chiarot D 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 24:21 0.03 15-24 0.58-1.35
20 Rem Pitlick C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 19:52 0.15 7-16 0.18-1.01
2 Jeff Petry D 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 19:18 0.04 15-11 0.78-0.16
6 Chris Wideman D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:19 9-10 1.06-0.18
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 0 7 2 0 14:31 0.20 16-10 1.43-0.32
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 10:13 7-8 0.49-0.05
25 Ryan Poehling C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:18 0.17 9-10 0.28-0.11
26 Laurent Dauphin C 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 18:21 0.96 17-15 1.35-0.61
27 Brett Kulak D 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 20:41 0.07 16-14 0.93-0.19
28 Alexander Romanov D 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 22:48 0.02 19-26 0.92-1.35
38 Kale Clague D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 15:51 0.01 9-11 1.22-0.21
41 Paul Byron L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 01:11 1-0 0.00-0.00
61 Michael Pezzetta L 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 07:57 3-8 0.15-0.21
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 17:20 0.16 6-16 0.33-1.01
68 Mike Hoffman C 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 19:49 0.09 19-15 1.63-0.46
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Samuel Montembeault W, SO 32 32 0 60:00 2.33 +2.33