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Buffalo Sabres at Montréal Canadiens

Feb 21, 2024 · Centre Bell

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 23
Montréal Canadiens 2 31

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
12:41 MTL Arber Xhekaj (3) Joshua Roy (3), David Savard (9) 0 - 1
2nd Period
04:20 BUF Zemgus Girgensons (5) Henri Jokiharju (10), Rasmus Dahlin (29) 1 - 1
06:35 MTL Jayden Struble (3) Joshua Roy (4), Alex Newhook (8) 1 - 2
09:28 BUF Jeff Skinner (18) PP Dylan Cozens (23), Tage Thompson (17) 2 - 2
18:08 BUF Alex Tuch (16) SH Unassisted 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
04:10 BUF Casey Mittelstadt Tripping 2
05:26 MTL Mike Matheson Boarding 2
05:26 BUF Jordan Greenway Roughing 2
05:26 MTL Josh Anderson Roughing 2
17:10 BUF Henri Jokiharju Slashing 2
2nd Period
08:40 MTL Juraj Slafkovský Holding 2
12:11 MTL Juraj Slafkovský Holding 2
16:56 BUF Tage Thompson Tripping 2
3rd Period
18:26 BUF Tage Thompson Slashing 2
19:34 MTL Juraj Slafkovský Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 48 29 23 3 2.9 38.5
Montréal Canadiens 66 51 31 2 3.0 61.5

How the game went

505101520Start2nd3rdMontréal 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: 2.9 expected, 3 scored · Montréal Canadiens: 3.0 expected, 2 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 4:20 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 9:28 of 2nd, a 21% chanceBUF goal, 18:08 of 2nd, a 16% chanceMTL goal, 12:41 of 1st, a 3% chanceMTL goal, 6:35 of 2nd, a 0% chanceMTL 3.0BUF 2.9

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
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson10:5248.057.60-0
Jordan Greenway · Casey Mittelstadt · Dylan Cozens9:1415.810.20-1
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Eric Robinson8:5150.039.71-0
Peyton Krebs · JJ Peterka · Zach Benson8:0914.39.10-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin17:3525.020.61-0
Connor Clifton · Jacob Bryson13:2162.579.30-1
Erik Johnson · Kale Clague10:2835.034.00-1

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
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 11:24 0.11 12-13 0.46-0.69
53 Jeff Skinner L 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 17:02 0.36 17-16 0.68-0.51
89 Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 18:14 0.16 14-16 0.50-0.49
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 22:47 9-30 0.33-1.32
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 2 18:43 0.17 6-18 0.23-0.54
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 29:10 0.06 12-30 0.40-1.50
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 0 4 4 0 17:47 0.54 17-16 0.67-0.38
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 5 17:05 0.01 9-15 0.19-0.37
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14:19 2-9 0.19-0.35
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 11:29 0.09 12-13 0.46-0.70
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 13:44 0.24 2-9 0.10-0.36
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 12:45 0.15 5-17 0.22-0.52
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 19:04 0.07 5-21 0.21-0.54
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 11:54 2-9 0.04-0.49
38 Kale Clague D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:53 7-14 0.18-0.36
50 Eric Robinson L 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 09:36 0.34 11-11 0.45-0.69
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:35 0.03 16-11 0.80-0.39
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:55 0.02 17-12 0.80-0.22
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 31 29 2 60:00 2.98 +0.98

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield · Juraj Slafkovský12:4076.065.10-0
Brendan Gallagher · Joel Armia · Jake Evans8:5968.858.30-0
Josh Anderson · Alex Newhook · Joshua Roy8:1788.997.42-0
Tanner Pearson · Brandon Gignac · Jesse Ylonen7:0017.63.30-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Matheson · Kaiden Guhle14:2459.351.20-0
David Savard · Arber Xhekaj13:2576.074.21-0
Jordan Harris · Jayden Struble11:0862.563.91-1

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
89 Joshua Roy R 0 2 2 2 0 1 0 11:27 0.47 16-2 0.85-0.02
47 Jayden Struble D 1 0 1 0 0 1 4 14:35 0.01 13-8 0.59-0.31
72 Arber Xhekaj D 1 0 1 1 0 4 4 18:52 0.10 23-12 0.69-0.46
15 Alex Newhook C 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 18:10 0.12 18-5 0.87-0.19
58 David Savard D 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 18:13 0.05 24-10 0.76-0.30
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:39 0.12 14-7 0.29-0.35
8 Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 -1 2 4 0 25:13 0.30 19-15 0.71-0.55
13 Cole Caufield R 0 0 0 -1 0 5 0 20:50 0.53 20-6 0.88-0.37
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 0 0 -1 0 5 0 22:12 0.39 20-6 0.69-0.37
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 2 2 4 1 14:43 0.28 19-6 0.89-0.19
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 0 0 0 -1 6 1 1 21:30 0.25 21-6 0.88-0.37
21 Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 20:45 0.03 20-15 0.68-0.61
40 Joel Armia R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:37 0.01 12-5 0.30-0.20
43 Jordan Harris D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:28 13-11 0.74-0.54
56 Jesse Ylonen R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 08:16 3-16 0.02-0.57
70 Tanner Pearson L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 12:58 7-18 0.06-0.57
71 Jake Evans C 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 15:05 0.30 12-8 0.47-0.27
74 Brandon Gignac C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 10:58 6-18 0.06-0.63
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Samuel Montembeault L 23 20 3 58:15 2.44 -0.56