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Montréal Canadiens at Vegas Golden Knights

Mar 5, 2023 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 3 28
Vegas Golden Knights 4 28

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
12:37 VGK Shea Theodore (7) Teddy Blueger (9) 0 - 1
19:41 VGK Ivan Barbashev (11) Jack Eichel (25), Jonathan Marchessault (23) 0 - 2
2nd Period
07:20 VGK Reilly Smith (21) William Karlsson (29) 0 - 3
3rd Period
02:04 MTL Mike Matheson (5) Jonathan Drouin (20) 1 - 3
07:44 VGK Ivan Barbashev (12) Michael Amadio (9), Nicolas Hague (11) 1 - 4
08:07 MTL Alex Belzile (2) Michael Pezzetta (6), Joel Edmundson (6) 2 - 4
08:42 MTL Rafael Harvey-Pinard (8) Jesse Ylonen (7), Nick Suzuki (28) 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:38 MTL Michael Pezzetta Hooking 2
2nd Period
08:26 VGK Jonathan Marchessault Hooking 2
3rd Period
04:26 VGK Zach Whitecloud Interference 2
10:42 MTL Johnathan Kovacevic Fighting 5
10:42 VGK Alec Martinez Fighting 5

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 56 38 28 3 2.6 40.2
Vegas Golden Knights 74 45 28 4 2.6 59.8

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdVegas 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: 2.6 expected, 3 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 2.6 expected, 4 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndMTL goal, 2:04 of 3rd, a 9% chanceMTL goal, 8:07 of 3rd, a 2% chanceMTL goal, 8:42 of 3rd, a 19% chanceVGK goal, 12:37 of 1st, a 7% chanceVGK goal, 19:41 of 1st, a 21% chanceVGK goal, 7:20 of 2nd, a 17% chanceVGK goal, 7:44 of 3rd, a 7% chanceVGK 2.6MTL 2.6

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
Mike Hoffman · Josh Anderson · Jonathan Drouin10:5557.769.71-0
Nick Suzuki · Jesse Ylonen · Rafael Harvey-Pinard7:0253.881.91-0
Denis Gurianov · Nick Suzuki · Rafael Harvey-Pinard6:4843.816.30-1
Alex Belzile · Chris Tierney · Michael Pezzetta5:4644.443.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
David Savard · Mike Matheson15:4429.220.01-0
Johnathan Kovacevic · Jordan Harris11:1240.662.31-1
Joel Edmundson · Frederic Allard6:5357.148.21-1

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
8 Mike Matheson D 1 0 1 -1 0 3 1 26:57 0.24 15-22 0.62-1.06
48 Rafael Harvey-Pinard L 1 0 1 0 0 5 2 19:47 0.57 15-17 0.58-0.77
60 Alex Belzile R 1 0 1 0 0 2 3 10:40 0.10 5-11 0.17-0.31
6 Joel Edmundson D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 2 16:38 0.02 18-19 0.56-0.74
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 22:10 16-22 0.58-0.85
56 Jesse Ylonen R 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 16:58 0.09 14-21 0.63-0.38
61 Michael Pezzetta L 0 1 1 0 2 1 4 07:36 0.06 5-10 0.17-0.29
92 Jonathan Drouin L 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 17:10 0.06 16-22 0.77-0.71
8 Johnathan Kovacevic D 0 0 0 0 5 2 3 14:29 0.13 15-23 0.85-0.69
11 Chris Tierney C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 09:44 5-10 0.15-0.35
15 Denis Gurianov R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 13:34 0.07 11-21 0.13-1.24
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 19:19 0.34 17-19 0.95-0.66
20 Rem Pitlick C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 15:08 0.14 9-24 0.36-0.76
22 Christian Dvorak C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:26 12-18 0.39-0.65
43 Jordan Harris D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 21:58 23-40 1.04-1.04
58 David Savard D 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 24:59 0.02 10-28 0.33-1.21
68 Mike Hoffman C 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 17:18 0.68 16-15 0.77-0.56
82 Frederic Allard D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 11:31 0.04 13-8 0.37-0.28
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Jake Allen L 28 24 4 58:38 2.58 -1.42

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jonathan Marchessault · Ivan Barbashev · Jack Eichel11:4363.070.31-0
Teddy Blueger · Keegan Kolesar · Brett Howden11:2758.669.31-1
Phil Kessel · Chandler Stephenson · Paul Cotter9:4960.030.80-1
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Michael Amadio8:5835.752.00-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nicolas Hague · Zach Whitecloud13:4842.929.11-2
Alec Martinez · Alex Pietrangelo13:4460.961.61-1
Brayden McNabb · Shea Theodore13:1469.782.92-0

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
49 Ivan Barbashev L 2 0 2 2 0 2 6 17:35 0.45 23-12 0.79-0.29
19 Reilly Smith R 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 15:30 0.25 10-11 0.80-0.43
27 Shea Theodore D 1 0 1 2 0 6 1 18:35 0.20 31-12 1.02-0.20
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 15:36 0.02 19-12 0.62-0.29
22 Michael Amadio R 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 12:13 0.07 8-12 0.58-0.55
41 Nicolas Hague D 0 1 1 -1 0 2 2 19:04 0.09 22-22 0.61-1.17
71 William Karlsson C 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 14:46 0.43 10-11 0.71-0.43
73 Teddy Blueger C 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 15:15 18-13 0.51-0.34
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 0 1 1 1 2 3 2 15:35 0.23 23-10 0.72-0.23
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 21:47 0.02 27-15 0.77-0.21
7 Alex Pietrangelo D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 23:34 0.09 22-11 0.94-0.56
8 Phil Kessel R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:15 0.17 17-13 0.54-0.88
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 17:03 0.13 23-11 0.67-0.82
21 Brett Howden C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 15:42 0.16 21-14 0.54-0.34
25 Alec Martinez D 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 17:34 0.01 19-11 1.13-0.50
28 Zach Whitecloud D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 17:50 0.02 21-23 0.68-1.12
47 Paul Cotter L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 11:13 0.08 16-10 0.38-0.82
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 13:53 0.18 20-12 0.54-0.22
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
32 Jonathan Quick W 28 25 3 60:00 2.55 -0.45