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Montréal Canadiens at Buffalo Sabres

Dec 9, 2023 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 3 31
Buffalo Sabres 2 48

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
12:59 MTL Jayden Struble (1) Johnathan Kovacevic (1) 1 - 0
13:13 MTL Nick Suzuki (8) PP Mike Matheson (14), Sean Monahan (8) 2 - 0
3rd Period
01:06 BUF Jeff Skinner (12) Tage Thompson (8) 2 - 1
06:36 BUF Kyle Okposo (4) Connor Clifton (4) 2 - 2
Shootout
MTL Juraj Slafkovský Shootout winner 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
09:44 MTL Johnathan Kovacevic Tripping 2
15:15 MTL Cayden Primeau Tripping 2
16:40 MTL Kaiden Guhle Tripping 2
2nd Period
03:02 BUF Mattias Samuelsson Interference 2
11:00 MTL Kaiden Guhle Roughing 2
11:00 BUF Eric Robinson Boarding 5
11:00 BUF Eric Robinson Game misconduct 10
17:13 MTL Gustav Lindstrom Holding 2
3rd Period
13:58 BUF Tage Thompson Interference 2
15:44 MTL Juraj Slafkovský Fighting 5
15:44 BUF Connor Clifton Fighting 5
18:54 MTL Christian Dvorak Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 57 47 31 2 3.2 39.1
Buffalo Sabres 78 62 48 2 5.3 60.9

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo 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: 3.2 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 5.3 expected, 2 scored

024Start2nd3rdOTMTL goal, 12:59 of 2nd, a 7% chanceMTL goal, 13:13 of 2nd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 1:06 of 3rd, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 6:36 of 3rd, a 30% chanceBUF 5.3MTL 3.2

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.

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
Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield · Juraj Slafkovský12:0351.744.90-1
Josh Anderson · Sean Monahan · Jake Evans6:3625.035.40-1
Joel Armia · Mitchell Stephens · Jesse Ylonen4:4350.017.10-0
Brendan Gallagher · Josh Anderson · Christian Dvorak3:2514.30.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kaiden Guhle · Justin Barron11:4141.733.90-1
Mike Matheson · Gustav Lindstrom8:5525.022.30-0
Johnathan Kovacevic · Jayden Struble8:1426.328.50-0

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
14 Nick Suzuki C 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 22:26 0.23 15-17 0.73-1.00
47 Jayden Struble D 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 14:27 0.07 11-19 0.49-0.84
8 Mike Matheson D 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 29:48 0.04 8-19 0.33-1.06
8 Johnathan Kovacevic D 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 20:50 0.07 9-15 0.54-0.61
23 Sean Monahan C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 18:40 0.16 8-20 0.59-0.83
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 12:52 0.05 7-13 0.29-0.81
13 Cole Caufield R 0 0 0 0 0 9 2 21:47 0.79 16-15 0.83-0.96
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 -1 0 4 4 16:58 0.54 7-24 0.32-1.32
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 0 0 0 -1 5 2 1 18:10 0.65 17-14 0.87-0.90
21 Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 -1 4 0 1 22:03 16-20 0.94-1.49
22 Christian Dvorak C 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 17:21 0.15 6-16 0.21-0.91
28 Gustav Lindstrom D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 15:09 0.07 12-19 0.48-1.03
40 Joel Armia R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:33 0.31 8-7 0.40-0.63
56 Jesse Ylonen R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:44 0.05 5-11 0.12-0.48
67 Mitchell Stephens C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 07:54 4-3 0.10-0.45
70 Tanner Pearson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 02:50 1-2 0.05-0.03
71 Jake Evans C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 21:21 10-22 0.75-1.07
72 Justin Barron D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 21:30 0.01 12-14 0.66-1.15
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Cayden Primeau W 48 46 2 64:37 5.37 +3.37

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Skinner · Tage Thompson · Casey Mittelstadt13:4870.876.91-0
Dylan Cozens · JJ Peterka · Zach Benson7:5466.748.40-0
Kyle Okposo · Eric Robinson · Peyton Krebs3:0771.450.60-0
Victor Olofsson · Tyson Jost · Isak Rosen2:1366.764.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin13:1672.775.01-0
Mattias Samuelsson · Owen Power11:4860.048.70-0
Erik Johnson · Connor Clifton4:0873.383.31-0

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
8 Kyle Okposo R 1 0 1 0 0 6 3 15:28 0.97 10-10 0.78-0.49
53 Jeff Skinner L 1 0 1 1 0 7 0 23:25 0.98 22-11 1.74-0.58
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 1 2 2 3 24:03 0.18 20-9 1.72-0.54
75 Connor Clifton D 0 1 1 1 5 1 1 13:21 0.22 14-12 0.83-0.41
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:01 0.19 12-5 0.72-0.16
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 18:37 0.21 17-11 0.41-0.52
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 19:42 0.17 19-10 0.53-0.49
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 1 0 5 1 27:01 0.89 22-11 1.74-0.58
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 09:03 0.13 10-5 0.71-0.18
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 11:15 0.08 12-10 0.91-0.57
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 20:46 0.16 19-12 1.41-0.63
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 22:46 0.03 23-19 1.32-1.07
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 18:50 0.36 13-10 0.39-0.55
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 23:54 0.11 19-13 0.71-0.78
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 1 0 5 8 29:28 0.19 21-8 1.38-0.48
27 Isak Rosen R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 04:12 8-9 0.34-0.37
50 Eric Robinson L 0 0 0 0 15 2 1 06:32 0.17 7-7 0.37-0.44
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 11:36 0.28 5-4 0.11-0.12
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
27 Devon Levi OTL 31 29 2 65:00 3.23 +1.23