Columbus Blue Jackets vs. Montreal CanadiensMar 12, 2024

FinalTuesday, Mar 12, 2024· Centre Bell

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
CBJ	0	0	0	0		CBJ	22	8	11	41
MTL	3	0	0	3		MTL	8	11	4	23

: CBJ 98MTL 44
: CBJ 3.71MTL 2.11
PP goals: CBJ 0MTL 1
Hits: CBJ 17MTL 23
Blocks: CBJ 7MTL 32
PIM: CBJ 8MTL 10
: CBJ 53%MTL 47%

Fantasy takeaways

Generated from the play-by-play, shifts and season context. No opinions, just what changed.

Montreal Canadiens beat Columbus Blue Jackets 3–0

Montreal Canadiens beat Columbus Blue Jackets 3–0 at home. Brendan Gallagher (MTL) led the scoring with 1G 0A. MTL's first power-play unit (Matheson, Suzuki, Caufield, Newhook and Slafkovský) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 3:34 together.

PP1
MTL's first power-play unit (Matheson, Suzuki, Caufield, Newhook and Slafkovský) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 3:34 together.Matheson Suzuki Caufield Newhook Slafkovský
New line
New look for CBJ: Gaudreau–Jenner–Nylander skated 8:13 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (65.2% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Gaudreau Jenner Nylander
Luck
CBJ scored 0 goals on 3.71 expected goals (98 attempts), well short of its chances.
Goalie
Cayden Primeau (MTL) faced 41 shots and stopped 41 (.1000), +9 against a season average of 31.8; the win.Primeau
Usage
Egor Chinakhov (CBJ) played 4:57, −10:25 down on his 15:22 season average over 52 games.Chinakhov
New line
New look for CBJ: Texier–Fix-Wolansky–Sillinger skated 4:53 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (61.1% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Texier Fix-Wolansky Sillinger
Usage
Boone Jenner (CBJ) played 25:48, +5:48 up on his 20:00 season average over 57 games.Jenner
Usage
Jake Bean (CBJ) played 12:03, −4:20 down on his 16:23 season average over 71 games.Bean

Shot map

Both teams on one rink, filtered by strength and period.

Shot map

Every attempt, sized by expected goals. Goals are rings, shots on goal dots, misses hollow, blocks crosses.

Strength

Period

Team

← CBJ attacks left (bottom on phones)MTL attacks right (top on phones) →

MTL
CBJ
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 142 of 142 attempts · MTL 44 · CBJ 98

Game flow

Cumulative expected goals and shot attempts, with power plays shaded and goals marked.

Cumulative shot attempts

MTL
CBJ
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

MTL pressure
CBJ pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: CBJ 59% of the game, MTL 23%.

Shift chart

Every shift, grouped by line and pair; bars are coloured by strength state. Click a player to highlight.

Shifts

MTL

CBJ

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Sequence card

5-on-5 possession-chain numbers from the sequence engine (Draw Equity and control cover all situations).

Sequence card
Stat	CBJ	MTL
	85	46
	2.13	2.02
	1.99	1.94
	13	14
	6	6
	23	19
	−0.008	+0.008
	59%	23%

Definitions: sequence xG, transition attempts, Draw Equity, control and the Pressure Index.

Lines used

Detected from who actually shared the ice, with time together. Percentages are the unit's share of shot attempts.

Columbus Blue Jackets

L1Gaudreau – Jenner – Nylander
8:1365% CF
L2Texier – Fix-Wolansky – Sillinger
4:5361% CF
L3Gaunce – Olivier – Meyer
3:1250% CF
L4Kuraly – Voronkov – Chinakhov
0:00
D1Werenski – Boqvist
13:3556% CF
D2Severson – Provorov
12:5682% CF
D3Gudbranson – Bean
9:3162% CF

PP1Gaudreau – Jenner – Werenski – Nylander – Boqvist
4:37100% CF
PP2Severson – Provorov – Voronkov – Chinakhov – Sillinger
2:13100% CF
PK1FJenner – Sillinger
1:45
PK2FOlivier – Texier
1:30
PK1DGudbranson – Provorov
2:17
PK2DSeverson – Werenski
1:36

Current CBJ line combinations →

Montreal Canadiens

L1Suzuki – Caufield – Slafkovský
11:2443% CF
L2Gallagher – Anderson – Evans
8:3836% CF
L3Armia – Newhook – Roy
7:3931% CF
L4Pearson – Pezzetta – Harvey-Pinard
4:5617% CF
D1Matheson – Guhle
11:5542% CF
D2Savard – Xhekaj
10:1850% CF
D3Kovacevic – Struble
10:0414% CF

PP1Matheson – Suzuki – Caufield – Newhook – Slafkovský
3:3480% CF
PP2Gallagher – Anderson – Harvey-Pinard – Roy – Xhekaj
0:25
PK1FArmia – Evans
3:41
PK2FPearson – Suzuki
0:40
PK1DSavard – Matheson
4:36
PK2DKovacevic – Guhle
1:49

Current MTL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

0:21
MTLBrendan Gallagher (Jake Evans)deflected0.02 xG
CBJ: Werenski, Nylander, Texier, Boqvist, SillingerMTL: Savard, Gallagher, Anderson, Evans, Xhekaj
CBJ 0 – 1 MTL
3:15
MTLJuraj SlafkovskýPP (Mike Matheson, Cole Caufield)slap0.09 xG
CBJ: Gudbranson, Jenner, Bean, ChinakhovMTL: Matheson, Suzuki, Caufield, Newhook, Slafkovský
CBJ 0 – 2 MTL
5:48
MTLJoshua Roy (Arber Xhekaj, Alex Newhook)tip-in0.12 xG
CBJ: Gudbranson, Kuraly, Bean, Fix-Wolansky, VoronkovMTL: Savard, Armia, Newhook, Roy, Xhekaj
CBJ 0 – 3 MTL

Box score

Skaters grouped by the line they played on; CF% is the 5v5 share of shot attempts while on the ice.

Columbus Blue Jackets

CBJ skaters
Skater	Line	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Boone Jenner C	L1	0	3	0.71	2	2	0	25:48	—	—	63	58
Johnny Gaudreau L	L1	0	2	0.17	0	0	0	20:30	—	—	64	59
Alex Nylander L	L1	-1	5	0.83	0	0	0	18:39	—	—	71	59
Cole Sillinger C	L2	-1	2	0.03	1	1	0	19:55	—	—	60	41
Alexandre Texier L	L2	-1	4	0.07	0	0	0	17:05	—	—	64	40
Trey Fix-Wolansky R	L2	-1	4	0.28	4	0	0	14:58	—	—	63	47
Mathieu Olivier R	L3	0	1	0.02	4	0	2	10:36	—	—	67	59
Carson Meyer R	L3	0	2	0.07	3	0	2	9:55	—	—	71	43
Brendan Gaunce C	L3	0	1	0.21	1	0	2	8:04	—	—	81	65
Dmitri Voronkov L	L4	-1	2	0.20	1	0	0	14:20	—	—	55	37
Sean Kuraly C	L4	-1	1	0.00	1	0	2	9:21	—	—	74	48
Egor Chinakhov R	L4	0	1	0.05	0	0	0	4:57	—	—	56	69
Zach Werenski D	D1	-1	8	0.70	0	2	0	26:32	—	—	58	48
Adam Boqvist D	D1	-1	2	0.14	0	1	0	22:11	—	—	54	39
Ivan Provorov D	D2	0	0	0.04	0	0	0	20:42	—	—	76	68
Damon Severson D	D2	0	1	0.05	0	0	0	20:31	—	—	80	75
Erik Gudbranson D	D3	-1	2	0.12	0	1	0	17:34	—	—	67	48
Jake Bean D	D3	-1	0	0.00	0	0	0	12:03	—	—	56	28

CBJ goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Daniil Tarasov	—	19	19	0	.1000	1.75	54:12
Elvis Merzlikins(start)	L	4	1	3	.250	0.36	5:48

Montreal Canadiens

MTL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Nick Suzuki C	L1	0	0	0	0	0	0.05	0	2	0	20:29	—	—	45	51
Cole Caufield R	L1	0	1	1	0	6	0.54	2	1	0	18:40	—	—	37	51
Juraj Slafkovský L	L1	1	0	1	0	1	0.21	1	2	0	17:38	—	—	35	55
Jake Evans C	L2	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	1	0	0	18:43	—	—	35	47
Brendan Gallagher R	L2	1	0	1	+1	4	0.34	0	2	4	13:35	—	—	36	54
Josh Anderson R	L2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.17	1	1	2	13:23	—	—	34	54
Alex Newhook C	L3	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	1	1	0	16:11	—	—	22	50
Joel Armia R	L3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	0	3	0	14:28	—	—	27	48
Joshua Roy R	L3	1	0	1	+1	1	0.17	1	3	0	10:43	—	—	32	53
Rafael Harvey-Pinard L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.06	1	0	0	11:34	—	—	33	29
Tanner Pearson L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	0	0	11:21	—	—	39	24
Michael Pezzetta L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	3	0	0	6:53	—	—	30	17
Mike Matheson D	D1	0	1	1	0	2	0.28	0	2	0	24:16	—	—	39	41
Kaiden Guhle D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	1	2	2	22:42	—	—	42	57
David Savard D	D2	0	0	0	+2	2	0.03	1	7	0	22:23	—	—	46	68
Arber Xhekaj D	D2	0	1	1	+2	3	0.08	4	2	0	17:13	—	—	40	65
Johnathan Kovacevic D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	1	2	0	15:04	—	—	14	20
Jayden Struble D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	5	2	2	14:44	—	—	19	32

MTL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Cayden Primeau(start)	W	41	41	0	.1000	3.71	60:00

Goal anatomy

Animated replays from NHL EDGE tracking, with the entry, passes and shot speed for each goal.

Brendan Gallagher (MTL) 1st 0:21 · assists Jake Evans · Deflection · carried in · 3-on-2 at the blue line · 21.2 mph shot · 6.2 s from entry to goal.

Brendan Gallagher · 1st 0:21 · MTL

Play: deflection
Entry: carry
Odd man: 3-on-2
Passes: 0
Shot: 21.2 mph
Distance: 7 ft
Entry to goal: 6.2 s

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Juraj Slafkovský · 1st 3:15 · MTL PP

Play: cycle
Passes: 2 (royal road)
Shot: 51.6 mph
Distance: 29 ft
Type: one-timer

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Joshua Roy · 1st 5:48 · MTL

Play: deflection
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 2
Shot: 7.3 mph
Distance: 6 ft
Entry to goal: 5.7 s

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Methodology

Shot locations come from the NHL play-by-play, normalised so each shooter attacks the same way, then flipped so the home team attacks right. On-ice stats and lines come from the shift charts: a unit is the exact set of skaters sharing the ice, and CF% is the share of all shot attempts while they were out. Head-to-head cells are 5v5 time against each opponent. Expected goals and the Pressure Index appear as their models are released.