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Buffalo Sabres at Montréal Canadiens

Jan 4, 2024 · Centre Bell

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 6 38
Montréal Canadiens 1 33

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
05:33 BUF Casey Mittelstadt (11) PP Jeff Skinner (13), Rasmus Dahlin (20) 1 - 0
06:59 BUF Jeff Skinner (16) PP Alex Tuch (16), Tage Thompson (12) 2 - 0
13:19 MTL Joel Armia (5) SH Unassisted 2 - 1
3rd Period
06:45 BUF Jack Quinn (4) JJ Peterka (14), Connor Clifton (10) 3 - 1
08:35 BUF Tage Thompson (11) Jeff Skinner (14), Alex Tuch (17) 4 - 1
14:31 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (11) Mattias Samuelsson (5), Casey Mittelstadt (22) 5 - 1
18:32 BUF Tage Thompson (12) Jeff Skinner (15), Jack Quinn (1) 6 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
13:16 MTL Joel Armia Hooking 2
15:19 BUF Team Too many men on the ice 2
2nd Period
05:00 MTL David Savard Slashing 2
06:14 MTL Mitchell Stephens Interference 2
12:14 MTL Michael Pezzetta Tripping 2
17:59 BUF Dylan Cozens Tripping 2
3rd Period
13:19 BUF Dylan Cozens Roughing 2
13:19 MTL David Savard Roughing 2
13:19 MTL Mike Matheson Roughing 2
13:19 BUF Dylan Cozens Roughing 2
14:43 BUF Zach Benson Delaying game puck over glass 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 68 54 38 6 3.6 52.8
Montréal Canadiens 64 46 33 1 3.6 47.2

How the game went

20151050Start2nd3rdMontréal 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: 3.6 expected, 6 scored · Montréal Canadiens: 3.6 expected, 1 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 5:33 of 2nd, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 6:59 of 2nd, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 6:45 of 3rd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 8:35 of 3rd, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 14:31 of 3rd, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 18:32 of 3rd, a 11% chanceMTL goal, 13:19 of 2nd, a 7% chanceMTL 3.6BUF 3.6

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.

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
Jordan Greenway · Casey Mittelstadt · Zach Benson11:4852.692.10-0
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson9:5166.784.31-0
Zemgus Girgensons · Victor Olofsson · Peyton Krebs8:0273.362.40-0
Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka6:4045.545.31-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Connor Clifton · Mattias Samuelsson14:1268.851.71-0
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin13:0761.354.00-0
Erik Johnson · Owen Power11:3343.887.90-0

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
53 Jeff Skinner L 1 3 4 1 0 4 0 15:57 0.24 20-9 0.62-0.23
72 Tage Thompson C 2 1 3 1 0 4 1 17:28 0.42 17-7 0.55-0.08
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 17:46 0.36 10-20 0.61-0.83
22 Jack Quinn R 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 13:26 0.29 13-18 1.05-1.66
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 1 2 0 0 4 2 21:17 0.15 19-15 0.75-0.84
89 Alex Tuch R 0 2 2 1 0 1 1 16:23 0.22 21-7 0.54-0.08
10 JJ Peterka R 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 11:28 0.43 10-20 0.89-1.39
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 2 0 5 5 21:32 0.11 22-19 0.83-1.07
75 Connor Clifton D 0 1 1 2 0 1 4 19:32 0.07 25-17 1.05-1.41
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 17:54 9-17 0.57-0.76
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 17:09 0.26 10-12 0.61-0.25
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 18:39 0.12 12-14 0.69-0.27
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 11:52 0.09 15-5 0.49-0.35
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 17:07 0.18 25-17 1.10-0.82
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 1 6 2 2 14:40 0.35 17-22 1.04-1.86
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 17:38 0.02 14-17 0.98-0.29
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 11:58 0.06 13-8 0.39-0.36
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:16 0.18 13-11 0.43-0.45
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
27 Devon Levi W 33 32 1 60:00 3.64 +2.64

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield · Juraj Slafkovský12:0644.040.00-0
Joel Armia · Mitchell Stephens · Michael Pezzetta7:2547.640.50-1
Brendan Gallagher · Jake Evans · Jesse Ylonen6:0954.561.60-1
Brendan Gallagher · Josh Anderson · Sean Monahan3:2814.312.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kaiden Guhle · Justin Barron9:3493.383.20-0
Jordan Harris · Jayden Struble9:2766.769.00-1
David Savard · Mike Matheson9:2227.332.30-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
40 Joel Armia R 1 0 1 0 2 3 1 15:12 0.24 18-14 1.02-0.86
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 15:32 0.19 14-19 1.07-0.92
8 Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 19:57 0.06 13-20 0.83-0.82
8 Johnathan Kovacevic D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 08:07 2-16 0.03-0.70
13 Cole Caufield R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 20:28 0.24 15-18 0.49-0.61
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 23:18 0.19 13-16 0.46-0.68
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 17:05 0.69 14-16 0.68-0.59
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 19:46 0.14 15-19 0.48-0.83
21 Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 18:54 18-17 0.90-0.73
23 Sean Monahan C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 19:00 0.38 16-10 0.86-0.49
43 Jordan Harris D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:34 0.13 18-17 0.80-0.90
47 Jayden Struble D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 17:45 0.03 25-14 1.15-0.70
56 Jesse Ylonen R 0 0 0 -2 0 5 2 13:28 0.64 13-16 1.00-0.87
58 David Savard D 0 0 0 -1 4 0 2 16:45 8-26 0.55-1.20
61 Michael Pezzetta L 0 0 0 -1 2 2 7 10:04 0.23 11-11 0.40-0.59
67 Mitchell Stephens C 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 11:04 12-11 0.46-0.59
71 Jake Evans C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 16:30 0.36 13-21 1.00-0.89
72 Justin Barron D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 16:47 0.07 17-4 0.80-0.23
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Jake Allen L 37 32 5 59:26 3.57 -1.43