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Montréal Canadiens at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 27, 2023 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 4 41
Buffalo Sabres 3 33

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:22 MTL Jordan Harris (4) Jonathan Drouin (26), Mike Matheson (21) 1 - 0
03:49 BUF Lukas Rousek (1) Tyson Jost (16), Owen Power (25) 1 - 1
2nd Period
04:28 MTL Alex Belzile (6) David Savard (17) 2 - 1
05:49 BUF JJ Peterka (10) PP Alex Tuch (37), Casey Mittelstadt (34) 2 - 2
08:31 BUF Riley Stillman (1) Victor Olofsson (12), Lukas Rousek (1) 2 - 3
3rd Period
08:35 MTL Brendan Gallagher (6) Jake Evans (11), Jesse Ylonen (9) 3 - 3
Shootout
MTL Michael Pezzetta Shootout winner 4 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
06:23 MTL Brendan Gallagher Tripping 2
17:38 MTL Joel Edmundson Holding 2
2nd Period
00:57 MTL Jonathan Drouin Hooking 2
01:04 BUF Jeff Skinner High sticking 2
04:47 MTL Mike Hoffman Cross checking 2
18:53 BUF Kyle Okposo High sticking 2
Overtime
02:20 BUF Peyton Krebs Cross checking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 65 50 41 3 4.4 53.8
Buffalo Sabres 54 41 33 3 2.2 46.2

How the game went

1050510Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo 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: 4.4 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.2 expected, 3 scored

01234Start2nd3rdOTMTL goal, 1:22 of 1st, a 16% chanceMTL goal, 4:28 of 2nd, a 3% chanceMTL goal, 8:35 of 3rd, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 3:49 of 1st, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 5:49 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 8:31 of 2nd, a 7% chanceMTL 4.4BUF 2.2

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 · Rafael Harvey-Pinard11:3380.082.20-0
Jonathan Drouin · Denis Gurianov · Kirby Dach11:2339.155.71-0
Brendan Gallagher · Jake Evans · Jesse Ylonen10:0366.783.51-0
Alex Belzile · Chris Tierney · Michael Pezzetta5:1142.925.91-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
David Savard · Mike Matheson16:5851.459.10-0
Johnathan Kovacevic · Jordan Harris13:3655.677.42-1
Joel Edmundson · Justin Barron11:2653.873.40-0

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
7 Brendan Gallagher R 1 0 1 1 2 4 1 13:19 0.44 14-8 0.85-0.19
43 Jordan Harris D 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 18:53 0.25 16-12 1.08-0.29
60 Alex Belzile R 1 0 1 -1 0 3 2 10:40 0.22 8-8 0.41-0.38
8 Mike Matheson D 0 1 1 -1 0 5 1 29:05 0.30 21-20 1.16-0.88
56 Jesse Ylonen R 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 15:06 0.28 14-12 0.85-0.35
58 David Savard D 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 24:48 0.16 22-19 1.31-0.74
71 Jake Evans C 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 16:44 0.12 14-13 0.85-0.30
92 Jonathan Drouin L 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 17:24 0.30 14-18 0.83-0.46
6 Joel Edmundson D 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 17:00 0.03 12-9 0.65-0.16
8 Johnathan Kovacevic D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 19:41 0.08 18-14 1.18-0.34
11 Chris Tierney C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:49 3-6 0.06-0.31
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 22:09 0.09 18-9 1.09-0.30
15 Denis Gurianov R 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 16:05 0.05 13-17 0.68-0.44
20 Justin Barron D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 13:50 0.07 9-10 0.29-0.24
48 Rafael Harvey-Pinard L 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 19:22 0.65 17-6 1.09-0.27
61 Michael Pezzetta L 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 06:25 3-7 0.06-0.27
68 Mike Hoffman C 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 18:16 0.68 17-7 1.09-0.29
77 Kirby Dach C 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 22:29 0.74 12-15 0.63-0.41
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Jake Allen 33 30 3 65:00 2.18 -0.82

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Casey Mittelstadt12:1964.032.50-0
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Peyton Krebs11:1563.281.10-0
Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka10:2725.03.90-1
Victor Olofsson · Tyson Jost · Lukas Rousek8:0154.545.22-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ilya Lyubushkin · Owen Power19:0043.826.41-0
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin18:3631.415.30-2
Riley Stillman · Jacob Bryson8:2255.650.51-0

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
13 Lukas Rousek R 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 09:03 0.11 6-6 0.25-0.31
10 JJ Peterka R 1 0 1 -2 0 2 0 14:32 0.12 4-16 0.03-0.87
61 Riley Stillman D 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 08:59 0.09 6-4 0.19-0.19
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 19:37 0.18 18-14 0.45-1.18
17 Tyson Jost C 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 10:01 0.02 7-5 0.25-0.30
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 27:39 0.19 18-20 0.59-1.27
89 Alex Tuch R 0 1 1 0 0 6 0 21:43 0.43 17-13 0.44-1.04
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 13:00 0.04 8-7 0.25-0.31
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 14:09 0.13 13-9 0.59-0.14
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 16:53 0.09 12-15 0.57-0.62
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 22:22 0.05 13-24 0.25-1.29
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 18:04 0.19 5-21 0.06-1.35
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 16:58 0.21 5-14 0.06-0.73
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 29:58 0.03 21-25 0.68-1.29
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 16:34 0.15 12-16 0.57-0.62
46 Ilya Lyubushkin D 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 23:50 0.03 19-19 0.71-1.32
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 18:28 0.11 19-11 0.49-1.02
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 09:35 0.01 7-6 0.23-0.30
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Eric Comrie 41 38 3 64:42 4.42 +1.42