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Montréal Canadiens at Buffalo Sabres

Oct 27, 2022 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 3 34
Buffalo Sabres 2 45

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
13:31 MTL Brendan Gallagher (2) Josh Anderson (1), Christian Dvorak (1) 1 - 0
2nd Period
00:31 BUF Jeff Skinner (1) PP Alex Tuch (2), Jack Quinn (1) 1 - 1
3rd Period
06:51 MTL Kaiden Guhle (1) David Savard (3), Cole Caufield (2) 2 - 1
12:54 BUF Dylan Cozens (3) Jacob Bryson (3), Lawrence Pilut (1) 2 - 2
16:14 MTL Josh Anderson (3) David Savard (4) 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
00:22 BUF Tage Thompson Interference 2
03:13 BUF JJ Peterka Interference 2
07:27 MTL Sean Monahan Tripping 2
18:34 MTL Kirby Dach Hooking 2
2nd Period
05:57 MTL Mike Hoffman Cross checking 2
13:13 MTL Chris Wideman Tripping 2
3rd Period
03:11 BUF Owen Power Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 60 46 34 3 2.4 50.0
Buffalo Sabres 71 58 45 2 3.6 50.0

How the game went

505101520Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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: 2.4 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.6 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndMTL goal, 13:31 of 1st, a 7% chanceMTL goal, 6:51 of 3rd, a 4% chanceMTL goal, 16:14 of 3rd, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 0:31 of 2nd, a 18% chanceBUF goal, 12:54 of 3rd, a 3% chanceBUF 3.6MTL 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

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
Mike Hoffman · Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield9:2157.948.91-0
Brendan Gallagher · Josh Anderson · Christian Dvorak8:2359.345.22-0
Jonathan Drouin · Sean Monahan · Kirby Dach8:1542.952.90-1
Evgenii Dadonov · Jake Evans · Rem Pitlick5:4333.372.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
David Savard · Kaiden Guhle15:3145.934.52-0
Johnathan Kovacevic · Jordan Harris12:5363.653.01-1
Chris Wideman · Arber Xhekaj11:2748.164.00-0

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
17 Josh Anderson R 1 1 2 2 0 4 3 13:42 0.29 22-13 0.71-0.58
58 David Savard D 0 2 2 2 0 0 1 22:49 19-22 0.72-1.08
7 Brendan Gallagher R 1 0 1 2 0 5 1 13:41 0.25 17-15 0.47-0.79
21 Kaiden Guhle D 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 22:40 0.05 17-23 0.56-1.16
13 Cole Caufield R 0 1 1 1 0 6 1 16:25 0.76 16-15 0.81-0.67
22 Christian Dvorak C 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 16:21 0.03 20-13 0.57-0.58
6 Chris Wideman D 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 15:23 0.03 14-16 0.61-0.42
8 Johnathan Kovacevic D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:46 0.08 15-9 0.56-0.48
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 19:21 0.19 13-11 0.48-0.58
20 Rem Pitlick C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:15 0.08 5-11 0.16-0.62
23 Sean Monahan C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 16:17 0.19 8-10 0.34-0.54
33 Evgenii Dadonov L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 11:55 0.04 5-7 0.16-0.05
43 Jordan Harris D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:23 0.03 18-11 0.72-0.57
68 Mike Hoffman C 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 15:40 0.05 14-13 0.68-0.46
71 Jake Evans C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:12 0.04 6-16 0.22-0.72
72 Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 14:10 0.05 14-17 0.60-0.41
77 Kirby Dach C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 12:35 0.14 13-9 0.69-0.19
92 Jonathan Drouin L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 15:28 0.11 9-14 0.37-0.42
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Samuel Montembeault W 45 43 2 60:00 3.57 +1.57

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson10:0248.548.10-1
Victor Olofsson · Dylan Cozens · JJ Peterka8:5256.346.61-1
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Peyton Krebs5:3466.764.90-0
Vinnie Hinostroza · Casey Mittelstadt · Jack Quinn5:1362.570.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Dahlin · Owen Power17:0242.240.10-2
Jacob Bryson · Ilya Lyubushkin11:4056.556.20-0
Casey Fitzgerald · Lawrence Pilut9:0644.427.80-0

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
24 Dylan Cozens C 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 17:09 0.17 9-9 0.34-0.39
53 Jeff Skinner L 1 0 1 -1 0 4 0 15:57 0.69 21-17 1.14-0.71
20 Lawrence Pilut D 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 11:11 0.03 11-5 0.28-0.12
22 Jack Quinn R 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 13:07 0.12 9-4 0.61-0.08
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 18:21 0.07 18-15 0.69-0.56
89 Alex Tuch R 0 1 1 -2 0 2 0 19:12 0.26 20-19 1.09-0.78
4 Casey Fitzgerald D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13:12 0.05 6-6 0.20-0.12
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 16:26 0.35 12-11 0.32-0.27
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 13:16 0.07 11-12 0.46-0.63
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 17:36 0.39 6-12 0.19-0.38
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:44 10-10 0.27-0.30
24 Vinnie Hinostroza C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:14 0.04 7-9 0.24-0.38
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 -3 2 1 0 23:54 0.04 24-32 1.19-1.31
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 27:48 0.25 22-27 0.78-1.07
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 13:11 0.16 13-12 0.33-0.47
46 Ilya Lyubushkin D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:41 0.05 15-14 0.64-0.58
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 -2 2 8 0 19:08 0.62 21-20 1.21-0.79
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 16:32 0.22 10-11 0.35-0.47
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Eric Comrie L 34 31 3 59:21 2.38 -0.62