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Montréal Canadiens, 2022-23

Be the GM of the Montréal Canadiens Take over the 2022-23 team: trade, manage the cap and simulate the season.

Atlantic Division, Eastern Conference

2022-23 record

League rank GP Record Points Points % Goals for Goals against Diff Home Away
28 82 31-45-6 68 0.415 232 307 -75 17-21-3 14-24-3

Records are wins, then losses, then losses in overtime or a shootout.

Analytics

Five-on-five, from 82 games. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones. What these numbers mean

45.5Corsi for %28th of 32 · 3,359 attempts for, 4,022 against
45.6Fenwick for %28th of 32 · unblocked attempts
45.8Shots for %28th of 32 · shots on goal
43.5Expected goals for %30th of 32 · 147.5 expected for, 191.3 against
44.8Goals for %27th of 32 · 162 for, 200 against
99.6PDO9.2% shooting + 90.5% saves

Each share is coloured by where it ranks among the 32 teams: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile. PDO is left plain, since it is neither good nor bad on its own.

Form through the season

Share of expected goals Share of shot attempts

35%40%45%50%55%Game 20Game 40Game 60Game 80Expected goalsShot attemptsThe team's share over its last 10 games

Each point looks back over the last 10 games at five-on-five. Above 50% the team was getting the better of play, below it the worse. The expected goals line counts each chance for what it was worth, and the shot attempts line counts them all alike.

Lines and pairings

The three forwards and the two defencemen who spent the most time on the ice together at five-on-five, and how the team did while they were out: its share of the shot attempts and of the expected goals, and the goals for and against. Time is minutes and seconds across the season.

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Suzuki · Kirby Dach · Cole Caufield32357:5953.149.422-23
Josh Anderson · Nick Suzuki · Rafael Harvey-Pinard19118:5946.855.710-3
Alex Belzile · Chris Tierney · Michael Pezzetta1178:4836.539.75-4
Nick Suzuki · Jesse Ylonen · Rafael Harvey-Pinard1177:1538.839.52-6
Josh Anderson · Christian Dvorak · Juraj Slafkovský1671:2439.641.32-5
Evgenii Dadonov · Brendan Gallagher · Christian Dvorak1267:0654.853.41-3
Defence pairGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Johnathan Kovacevic · Jordan Harris59621:5450.148.332-25
David Savard · Kaiden Guhle30354:5140.639.914-22
David Savard · Mike Matheson36308:3945.047.112-5
Chris Wideman · Arber Xhekaj29291:0248.338.010-10
Joel Edmundson · Kaiden Guhle28269:4742.538.29-15

The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's lines and pairs that played a fair amount together: at least a tenth of the time of the busiest one. Hover over one for its percentile.

Where the shots come from

Shots for
Shots against

Every attempt in all situations, with the net being shot at on the right. Darker red means more attempts from that spot. Click a line in a key to see only that kind; Goals marks where each one was scored from.

Value for money

$80.9MCap space usedthe cap hits of its 31 ranked players
$34.9MWorth at the going rate35.3 goals above replacement
-$46.1MValue31st of 32 · worth minus cap hit; below zero is overpaid

What the team got for its cap space in the regular season, counting the players with enough games to be ranked and a known contract. A player's season is worth what teams as a whole paid for one like it, and value is that less his cap hit. A player who changed teams is shared out by the games he played for each. How value is worked out

Dead cap

What the team counted against the cap this season for players who were no longer on it: $833K in all. What dead cap is

Player Why Counts
Karl Alzner Bought out $833K Bought out in October 2020; runs to 2023-24

Roster

Everyone who played for the team this season, with their stats for it. Colours show where each number ranks in the league, from green (top fifth) to red (bottom fifth). Hover over a number for its percentile.

Cap hit is what a player counts against the salary cap this season. A star beside it means a former team pays part of it, and the amount shown is this team's share. Value is what his season was worth at the going rate, minus his cap hit. It appears once he has played enough to be ranked.

CF% and xGF% are the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals while he was on the ice at five-on-five. Rating is goals above replacement: the goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player who played the same minutes. For a player who changed teams, these numbers cover his whole season.

Skater Pos GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits CF% xGF% Rating Cap hit Value
Nick Suzuki C 82 26 40 66 -13 33 162 50 46.1 42.9 +2.9 $7.875M-$5.1M
Kirby Dach C 58 14 24 38 -2 43 107 53 49.3 48.2 +3.6 $3.363M-$61K
Cole Caufield R 46 26 10 36 -10 2 158 18 48.5 43.1 +1.9 $881K+$1.2M
Mike Hoffman C 67 14 20 34 -10 28 148 24 45.0 43.0 -2.2 $4.5M-$5.3M
Mike Matheson D 48 8 26 34 7 33 126 53 46.6 44.9 +6.4 $4.875M+$441K
Josh Anderson R 69 21 11 32 -8 72 164 139 44.0 44.1 -0.2 $5.5M-$4.9M
Jonathan Drouin L 59 2 27 29 -18 18 69 29 46.8 43.8 -0.5 $5.5M-$5.2M
Christian Dvorak C 64 10 18 28 -12 6 88 13 44.1 41.6 -3.5 $4.45M-$6.2M
David Savard D 62 3 17 20 -14 40 63 61 42.2 43.1 -3.8 $3.5M-$5.5M
Rafael Harvey-Pinard L 34 14 6 20 7 10 58 57 44.7 48.2 +4.9 $825K+$3.5M
Jake Evans C 54 2 17 19 -5 28 55 27 46.4 45.6 +3.5 $1.7M+$1.6M
Evgenii Dadonov L 50 4 14 18 -10 16 72 19 49.9 49.5 +1.7 $5M-$3.1M
Kaiden Guhle D 44 4 14 18 -19 27 48 84 43.5 41.4 +1.8 $863K+$1.1M
Jordan Harris D 65 4 13 17 -3 26 70 53 47.0 46.1 +4.7 $843K+$3.3M
Sean Monahan C 25 6 11 17 -5 16 55 10 53.2 48.5 +1.1 $6.375M-$4.8M
Jesse Ylonen R 37 6 10 16 -11 0 43 14 42.9 42.7 +1.5 $880K+$966K
Johnathan Kovacevic D 77 3 12 15 3 39 92 93 48.2 46.9 +6.7 $767K+$4.8M
Justin Barron D 39 4 11 15 -2 20 40 49 44.9 41.7 +0.8 $925K+$351K
Michael Pezzetta L 63 7 8 15 -4 77 70 239 42.8 44.4 +1.6 $750K+$1.2M
Rem Pitlick C 46 6 9 15 -15 22 30 23 39.2 34.6 -5.0 $1.1M-$3.9M
Alex Belzile R 31 6 8 14 0 13 40 27 41.1 41.8 +1.3 $750K+$942K
Brendan Gallagher R 37 8 6 14 -5 45 93 18 49.6 48.2 +1.4 $6.5M-$4.7M
Joel Armia R 43 7 7 14 -7 22 69 37 45.7 42.0 -1.8 $3.4M-$4M
Arber Xhekaj D 51 5 8 13 -9 101 75 159 47.3 41.3 -3.1 $828K-$2.3M
Joel Edmundson D 61 2 11 13 -29 58 69 112 43.0 42.1 -3.8 $3.5M-$5.5M
Juraj Slafkovský L 39 4 6 10 -13 33 42 53 46.1 40.5 -2.5 $950K-$2M
Denis Gurianov R 23 5 3 8 -7 6 46 20 46.4 42.3 -2.9 $2.9M-$4.2M
Chris Tierney C 23 1 6 7 -7 4 13 4 41.6 36.0 -2.0 $750K-$1.4M
Chris Wideman D 46 0 6 6 -6 81 31 25 45.3 40.0 -5.5 $760K-$4M
Anthony Richard C 13 3 2 5 2 6 13 25 44.5 43.4 +0.5 $750K
Corey Schueneman D 7 0 1 1 1 0 8 4 44.6 38.4 +0.3 $750K
Joel Teasdale L 2 0 1 1 -2 0 1 2 46.5 51.4 +0.1 $750K
Lucas Condotta L 1 1 0 1 0 0 5 3 50.0 64.0 +0.5 $830K
Sean Farrell C 6 1 0 1 -2 0 8 0 41.7 30.6 -0.8 $898K
Frederic Allard D 3 0 0 0 2 0 6 0 62.8 64.6 +1.0 $750K
Owen Beck C 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 18.2 14.0 -0.3 $917K
Goalie GP WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save % Saved above xG Rating Cap hit Value
Jake Allen 42 152431 1335 1190 145 3.55 0.891 -10.3 +3.5 $2.875M-$1.4M
Samuel Montembeault 40 161930 1345 1212 133 3.42 0.901 +6.4 +20.6 $1M+$4M
Cayden Primeau 3 0200 54 46 8 3.46 0.852 -1.7 -1.1 $890K

Results

Date Opponent Result Shots for Shots against
Apr 13, 2023 vs BOS L 4-5 34 21
Apr 12, 2023 @ NYI L 2-4 19 35
Apr 8, 2023 @ TOR L 1-7 21 46
Apr 6, 2023 vs WSH W 6-2 32 26
Apr 4, 2023 vs DET L 0-5 24 21
Apr 1, 2023 vs CAR L 0-3 14 50
Mar 30, 2023 vs FLA L 2-5 20 30
Mar 28, 2023 @ PHI L 2-3 29 27
Mar 27, 2023 @ BUF W 4-3 (SO) 41 33
Mar 25, 2023 vs CBJ W 8-2 32 23
Mar 23, 2023 @ BOS L 2-4 31 21
Mar 21, 2023 vs TBL W 3-2 20 33
Mar 18, 2023 @ TBL L 3-5 21 41
Mar 16, 2023 @ FLA L 5-9 30 42
Mar 14, 2023 @ PIT W 6-4 22 43
Mar 13, 2023 vs COL L 4-8 19 33
Mar 11, 2023 vs NJD L 1-3 24 37
Mar 9, 2023 vs NYR L 3-4 (SO) 26 33
Mar 7, 2023 vs CAR L 3-4 (SO) 24 39
Mar 5, 2023 @ VGK L 3-4 28 28
Mar 3, 2023 @ ANA L 2-3 28 33
Mar 2, 2023 @ LAK L 2-3 21 33
Feb 28, 2023 @ SJS W 3-1 32 39
Feb 25, 2023 vs OTT L 2-5 32 22
Feb 24, 2023 @ PHI W 5-2 31 26
Feb 21, 2023 @ NJD W 5-2 18 40
Feb 18, 2023 @ TOR L 1-5 30 41
Feb 16, 2023 @ CAR L 2-6 22 41
Feb 14, 2023 vs CHI W 4-0 31 22
Feb 12, 2023 vs EDM W 6-2 30 31
Feb 11, 2023 vs NYI W 4-3 (OT) 31 30
Jan 31, 2023 vs OTT L 4-5 32 29
Jan 28, 2023 @ OTT L 0-5 28 36
Jan 26, 2023 vs DET L 3-4 (OT) 23 42
Jan 24, 2023 vs BOS L 2-4 22 29
Jan 21, 2023 vs TOR W 3-2 (OT) 31 38
Jan 19, 2023 vs FLA L 2-6 25 40
Jan 17, 2023 vs WPG W 4-1 28 26
Jan 15, 2023 @ NYR W 2-1 31 39
Jan 14, 2023 @ NYI L 1-2 23 38
Jan 12, 2023 vs NSH W 4-3 35 42
Jan 9, 2023 vs SEA L 0-4 21 41
Jan 7, 2023 vs STL W 5-4 27 22
Jan 5, 2023 vs NYR L 1-4 18 31
Jan 3, 2023 @ NSH L 3-6 27 34
Dec 31, 2022 @ WSH L 2-9 33 40
Dec 29, 2022 @ FLA L 2-7 27 41
Dec 28, 2022 @ TBL L 1-4 26 38
Dec 23, 2022 @ DAL L 2-4 24 36
Dec 21, 2022 @ COL L 1-2 (OT) 20 36
Dec 19, 2022 @ ARI W 3-2 (OT) 26 39
Dec 17, 2022 vs TBL L 1-5 23 27
Dec 15, 2022 vs ANA L 2-5 25 32
Dec 14, 2022 @ OTT L 2-3 25 31
Dec 12, 2022 vs CGY W 2-1 (SO) 38 35
Dec 10, 2022 vs LAK L 2-4 22 35
Dec 6, 2022 @ SEA W 4-2 16 33
Dec 5, 2022 @ VAN L 6-7 (OT) 26 32
Dec 3, 2022 @ EDM L 3-5 33 22
Dec 1, 2022 @ CGY W 2-1 19 46
Nov 29, 2022 vs SJS L 0-4 28 24
Nov 25, 2022 @ CHI W 3-2 (SO) 23 32
Nov 23, 2022 @ CBJ W 3-1 29 31
Nov 22, 2022 vs BUF L 2-7 31 38
Nov 19, 2022 vs PHI W 5-4 (SO) 32 29
Nov 17, 2022 @ CBJ L 4-6 42 29
Nov 15, 2022 vs NJD L 1-5 26 39
Nov 12, 2022 vs PIT W 5-4 (OT) 42 24
Nov 9, 2022 vs VAN W 5-2 29 33
Nov 8, 2022 @ DET W 3-2 (SO) 33 43
Nov 5, 2022 vs VGK L 4-6 31 42
Nov 3, 2022 @ WPG L 2-3 (OT) 22 36
Nov 1, 2022 @ MIN L 1-4 35 31
Oct 29, 2022 @ STL W 7-4 25 30
Oct 27, 2022 @ BUF W 3-2 34 45
Oct 25, 2022 vs MIN L 1-3 27 31
Oct 22, 2022 vs DAL L 2-5 34 30
Oct 20, 2022 vs ARI W 6-2 30 27
Oct 17, 2022 vs PIT W 3-2 (OT) 39 28
Oct 15, 2022 @ WSH L 1-3 22 29
Oct 14, 2022 @ DET L 0-3 29 40
Oct 12, 2022 vs TOR W 4-3 23 32