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Montréal Canadiens at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 1, 2025 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 4 29
Buffalo Sabres 2 25

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
01:13 MTL Cole Caufield (29) PP Patrik Laine (10), Nick Suzuki (43) 1 - 0
06:04 BUF Alex Tuch (22) Jacob Bryson (5) 1 - 1
07:33 BUF Jiri Kulich (12) Rasmus Dahlin (38), JJ Peterka (28) 1 - 2
13:33 MTL Josh Anderson (10) Christian Dvorak (13), Lane Hutson (41) 2 - 2
19:57 MTL Alex Newhook (12) Mike Matheson (22), Lane Hutson (42) 3 - 2
3rd Period
18:22 MTL Jake Evans (12) Christian Dvorak (14) 4 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
06:32 BUF Tage Thompson Interference 2
18:28 MTL Alexandre Carrier Hooking 2
2nd Period
00:39 BUF Bowen Byram Slashing 2
14:35 MTL Alexandre Carrier High sticking 2
14:52 BUF JJ Peterka Interference 2
19:24 MTL Jayden Struble Roughing 2
19:24 BUF Beck Malenstyn Interference goalkeeper 2
3rd Period
12:08 BUF Jordan Greenway Roughing 2
12:08 MTL Arber Xhekaj Roughing 2
19:02 MTL Jayden Struble Roughing 2
19:02 BUF Jordan Greenway Cross checking 2
19:02 BUF Dylan Cozens Roughing 2
19:02 BUF JJ Peterka Misconduct 10

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 57 39 29 4 3.2 45.1
Buffalo Sabres 68 39 25 2 2.4 54.9

How the game went

1050510Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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, 4 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.4 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndMTL goal, 1:13 of 2nd, a 15% chanceMTL goal, 13:33 of 2nd, a 14% chanceMTL goal, 19:57 of 2nd, a 8% chanceMTL goal, 18:22 of 3rd, a 40% chanceBUF goal, 6:04 of 2nd, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 7:33 of 2nd, a 10% chanceMTL 3.2BUF 2.4

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
Brendan Gallagher · Josh Anderson · Christian Dvorak10:2045.865.91-1
Nick Suzuki · Cole Caufield · Juraj Slafkovský10:1634.832.30-0
Joel Armia · Jake Evans · Emil Heineman8:1447.434.70-1
Patrik Laine · Alex Newhook · Owen Beck7:5953.379.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Matheson · Alexandre Carrier14:0238.130.90-1
Jayden Struble · Lane Hutson12:2754.573.50-1
David Savard · Arber Xhekaj10:0631.827.80-0

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
22 Christian Dvorak C 0 2 2 1 0 4 1 16:27 0.42 13-16 0.78-0.51
48 Lane Hutson D 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 21:58 0.19 25-18 1.19-0.38
13 Cole Caufield R 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 17:58 0.29 10-19 0.31-0.66
15 Alex Newhook C 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 13:41 0.25 12-12 0.31-0.18
17 Josh Anderson R 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 14:41 0.15 12-15 0.73-0.38
71 Jake Evans C 1 0 1 1 0 1 3 16:14 12-14 0.19-0.51
8 Mike Matheson D 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 26:34 12-19 0.34-0.77
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 20:29 0.16 12-17 0.46-0.58
92 Patrik Laine L 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 11:25 0.11 9-7 0.31-0.07
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 13:58 0.23 15-15 0.83-0.44
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 15:47 0.07 9-19 0.26-0.63
40 Joel Armia R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:18 0.10 14-13 0.34-0.48
45 Alexandre Carrier D 0 0 0 1 4 2 0 20:21 0.03 11-17 0.50-0.73
47 Jayden Struble D 0 0 0 -1 4 1 4 17:17 0.04 21-19 0.91-0.42
51 Emil Heineman L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 10:29 0.24 12-10 0.29-0.26
58 David Savard D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:35 0.01 12-18 0.23-0.47
62 Owen Beck C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 09:43 0.02 10-10 0.31-0.18
72 Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 16:05 9-22 0.16-0.58
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
75 Jakub Dobes W 25 23 2 60:00 2.43 +0.43

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Tuch · Jordan Greenway · Dylan Cozens9:1875.0100.00-0
Tage Thompson · JJ Peterka · Jiri Kulich8:0846.290.61-0
Tage Thompson · Ryan McLeod · JJ Peterka4:3944.421.10-0
Beck Malenstyn · Peyton Krebs · Jack Quinn2:5642.940.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Dahlin · Bowen Byram13:0536.428.71-0
Mattias Samuelsson · Owen Power8:1765.058.10-0
Connor Clifton · Jacob Bryson4:0962.532.31-1

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
20 Jiri Kulich C 1 0 1 -1 0 3 0 15:39 0.24 11-15 0.45-0.37
89 Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 -1 0 2 3 20:22 0.13 22-8 0.83-0.16
10 JJ Peterka R 0 1 1 1 12 1 2 20:01 0.06 16-17 0.51-0.70
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 -1 0 3 4 24:44 0.15 23-25 0.63-1.06
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 15:34 0.02 16-4 0.65-0.31
6 Dennis Gilbert D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 07:20 5-3 0.21-0.07
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 10:32 0.01 10-14 0.29-0.61
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 0 4 2 3 16:18 0.42 23-8 0.67-0.21
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:09 0.08 10-12 0.14-0.28
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:51 0.05 13-14 0.08-0.52
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16:55 17-13 0.58-0.35
24 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 22:07 0.50 19-24 0.52-0.94
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 1 2 2 7 17:44 0.26 22-10 0.72-0.51
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 19:30 0.06 22-12 0.49-0.33
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 08:51 0.03 8-7 0.27-0.16
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:35 0.14 16-13 0.37-0.65
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 2 20:17 0.21 17-20 0.62-0.90
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:18 0.06 10-11 0.21-0.32
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen L 28 25 3 58:41 2.41 -0.59