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Montréal Canadiens at Buffalo Sabres

Jan 15, 2026 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 3 23
Buffalo Sabres 5 27

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:11 MTL Cole Caufield (22) Noah Dobson (21) 1 - 0
04:05 BUF Tage Thompson (23) PP Noah Ostlund (7), Jason Zucker (11) 1 - 1
10:30 BUF Josh Doan (15) PP Tage Thompson (23), Noah Ostlund (8) 1 - 2
14:20 MTL Ivan Demidov (11) PP Lane Hutson (38), Nick Suzuki (37) 2 - 2
2nd Period
03:05 MTL Nick Suzuki (15) PP Lane Hutson (39), Cole Caufield (23) 3 - 2
08:55 BUF Alex Tuch (16) Tage Thompson (24), Rasmus Dahlin (27) 3 - 3
3rd Period
05:12 BUF Tage Thompson (24) Josh Doan (19) 3 - 4
18:20 BUF Tage Thompson (25) Zach Benson (17) 3 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:46 MTL Lane Hutson High sticking 2
09:21 MTL Kaiden Guhle Interference 2
12:50 BUF Zach Benson Slashing 2
13:46 BUF Bowen Byram High sticking 2
2nd Period
02:32 BUF Jacob Bryson Holding 2
10:20 BUF Bowen Byram Roughing 2
10:20 MTL Mike Matheson Roughing 2
3rd Period
00:37 MTL Phillip Danault Tripping 2
07:08 BUF Jordan Greenway Roughing 2
07:08 MTL Brendan Gallagher Roughing 2
08:39 MTL Oliver Kapanen Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 42 36 23 3 2.9 44.0
Buffalo Sabres 58 39 27 5 3.2 56.0

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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: 2.9 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.2 expected, 5 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndMTL goal, 3:11 of 1st, a 14% chanceMTL goal, 14:20 of 1st, a 10% chanceMTL goal, 3:05 of 2nd, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 4:05 of 1st, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 10:30 of 1st, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 8:55 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 5:12 of 3rd, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 18:20 of 3rd, a 67% chanceBUF 3.2MTL 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

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 · Alexandre Texier · Cole Caufield10:4752.465.91-1
Oliver Kapanen · Juraj Slafkovský · Ivan Demidov8:1462.590.30-0
Phillip Danault · Josh Anderson · Zachary Bolduc7:4222.217.90-1
Brendan Gallagher · Sammy Blais · Joseph Veleno6:0537.558.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Matheson · Noah Dobson11:5646.249.20-0
Alexandre Carrier · Lane Hutson10:2216.727.11-1
Kaiden Guhle · Arber Xhekaj6:4450.065.20-0

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
13 Cole Caufield R 1 1 2 -1 0 5 0 19:17 0.42 12-12 0.94-0.61
14 Nick Suzuki C 1 1 2 -1 0 2 0 22:17 0.30 17-11 1.08-0.49
48 Lane Hutson D 0 2 2 -1 2 1 0 25:55 0.10 12-15 0.91-0.47
93 Ivan Demidov R 1 0 1 -1 0 3 0 16:10 0.26 7-5 0.24-0.05
53 Noah Dobson D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 21:39 0.01 19-17 1.09-0.72
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 10:58 0.41 7-11 0.60-0.42
8 Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 22:32 0.06 15-18 0.75-0.81
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 13:27 0.11 3-10 0.20-0.52
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 18:14 0.15 7-12 0.24-0.32
21 Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 14:56 0.03 10-13 0.85-0.40
24 Phillip Danault C 0 0 0 -2 2 0 3 14:58 2-17 0.08-0.66
27 Sammy Blais L 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 07:29 0.17 7-10 0.60-0.41
45 Alexandre Carrier D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 21:00 0.03 3-12 0.17-0.52
72 Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 10:29 7-9 0.48-0.26
76 Zachary Bolduc R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 5 12:04 0.09 4-8 0.23-0.39
85 Alexandre Texier L 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 13:45 0.49 16-11 1.09-0.47
90 Joseph Veleno C 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 11:12 8-12 0.71-0.42
91 Oliver Kapanen C 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 16:02 0.27 9-7 0.37-0.02
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
32 Jacob Fowler L 26 22 4 58:08 2.39 -1.61

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · Zach Benson10:4645.033.81-1
Peyton Krebs · Josh Doan · Noah Ostlund7:4876.958.70-0
Jason Zucker · Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn7:3985.733.80-0
Jordan Greenway · Beck Malenstyn · Tyson Kozak6:4980.095.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Bowen Byram · Owen Power9:1070.023.40-0
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin8:5555.026.31-1
Mattias Samuelsson · Bowen Byram8:2436.437.70-0

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
72 Tage Thompson C 3 2 5 2 0 3 0 20:43 0.51 12-14 0.61-0.76
91 Josh Doan R 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 16:55 0.14 16-7 0.80-0.33
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 2 2 0 0 3 0 17:21 0.21 11-4 0.25-0.20
89 Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 18:44 0.19 10-12 0.32-0.67
6 Zach Benson L 0 1 1 1 2 2 1 16:06 0.14 13-14 0.47-0.78
17 Jason Zucker L 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 14:27 6-8 0.06-0.33
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 27:39 0.29 20-19 0.79-1.13
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 11:10 9-7 0.41-0.69
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 10:55 0.13 12-5 0.40-0.34
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:21 0.03 11-11 0.32-1.09
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 25:24 0.18 19-19 0.79-1.33
24 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 1 4 1 0 25:05 0.01 13-13 0.68-1.07
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 23:04 0.10 17-10 0.46-0.62
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 08:45 0.32 8-2 0.41-0.02
48 Tyson Kozak C 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 09:22 0.02 8-3 0.41-0.03
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 18:29 0.19 10-12 0.32-1.14
73 Zach Metsa D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 07:38 0.02 8-3 0.30-0.05
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 06:02 0.01 7-2 0.16-0.05
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
92 Colten Ellis W 23 20 3 59:47 2.80 -0.20