Montreal Canadiens vs. Ottawa SenatorsFeb 26, 2022

FinalSaturday, Feb 26, 2022· Canadian Tire Centre

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
MTL	1	1	0	2		MTL	9	13	10	32
OTT	0	1	0	1		OTT	9	11	7	27

: MTL 53OTT 53
: MTL 3.74OTT 2.82
PP goals: MTL 0OTT 1
Hits: MTL 15OTT 30
Blocks: MTL 13OTT 12
PIM: MTL 8OTT 8
: MTL 55%OTT 45%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Montreal Canadiens edge Ottawa Senators 2–1

Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators 2–1 at OTT. Artturi Lehkonen (MTL) led the scoring with 2G 0A. New look for MTL: Perreault–Pezzetta–Poehling skated 5:00 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

Points
Artturi Lehkonen had two goals (2 points) on 3 shots in 16:04.Lehkonen
New line
New look for MTL: Perreault–Pezzetta–Poehling skated 5:00 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Perreault Pezzetta Poehling
Usage
Victor Mete (OTT) played 19:40, +5:11 up on his 14:29 season average over 36 games.Mete
Luck
MTL scored 2 goals on 3.74 expected goals (53 attempts), well short of its chances.
Luck
OTT scored 1 goal on 2.82 expected goals (53 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Joshua Brown (OTT) played 20:36, +6:31 up on his 14:05 season average over 51 games.Brown
Usage
Erik Brannstrom (OTT) played 25:19, +5:39 up on his 19:40 season average over 52 games.Brannstrom
Usage
Dylan Gambrell (OTT) played 7:44, −4:28 down on his 12:12 season average over 62 games.Gambrell

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

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

OTT
MTL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 106 of 106 attempts · OTT 53 · MTL 53

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

OTT
MTL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: MTL 41% of the game, OTT 32%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

OTT

MTL

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	MTL	OTT
	54	42
	4.08	1.85
	3.68	1.78
	14	8
	5	4
	19	11
	−0.026	+0.025
	41%	32%

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.

Montreal Canadiens

L1Anderson – Suzuki – Caufield
12:5758% CF
L2Hoffman – Gallagher – Dauphin
9:0553% CF
L3Lehkonen – Evans – Pitlick
8:2560% CF
L4Perreault – Pezzetta – Poehling
5:0050% CF
D1Chiarot – Romanov
15:1571% CF
D2Wideman – Schueneman
13:1255% CF
D3Petry – Kulak
12:2048% CF

PP1Petry – Hoffman – Gallagher – Suzuki – Caufield
3:32100% CF
PP2Perreault – Chiarot – Anderson – Lehkonen – Pitlick
1:15
PK1FLehkonen – Evans
2:09
PK2FDauphin – Pitlick
0:56
PK1DChiarot – Romanov
2:33
PK2DPetry – Kulak
0:46

Current MTL line combinations →

Ottawa Senators

L1Brown – Paul – Sanford
8:1469% CF
L2Gaudette – Tkachuk – Stützle
3:4850% CF
L3Watson – Gambrell – Kelly
3:4025% CF
L4Ennis – Tierney – Formenton
3:2938% CF
D1Holden – Zub
12:3133% CF
D2Brown – Brannstrom
7:1046% CF

PP1Ennis – Gaudette – Brannstrom – Tkachuk – Stützle
2:23100% CF
PP2Tierney – Brown – Sanford – White – Mete
1:36100% CF
PK1FWatson – Paul
2:03
PK2FBrown – Formenton
1:54
PK1DHolden – Brown
3:16
PK2DMete – Zub
1:30

Current OTT line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

16:47
MTLArtturi Lehkonen (Ben Chiarot)wrist0.20 xG
MTL: Chiarot, Lehkonen, Evans, Pitlick, RomanovOTT: Ennis, Tierney, Mete, Formenton, Brannstrom
MTL 1 – 0 OTT

2nd period

1:23
OTTColin WhitePP (Connor Brown, Victor Mete)snap0.19 xG
MTL: Petry, Pitlick, Suzuki, RomanovOTT: Ennis, Brown, White, Mete, Tkachuk
MTL 1 – 1 OTT
14:21
MTLArtturi Lehkonen (Jake Evans)slap0.10 xG
MTL: Chiarot, Lehkonen, Evans, Pitlick, RomanovOTT: Gaudette, Mete, Formenton, Stützle, Zub
MTL 2 – 1 OTT

Box score

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

Montreal Canadiens

MTL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Nick Suzuki C	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.42	0	1	0	22:35	—	—	63	57
Cole Caufield R	L1	0	0	0	0	4	0.63	0	0	0	20:32	—	—	63	59
Josh Anderson R	L1	0	0	0	0	0	0.13	1	0	0	19:23	—	—	59	57
Mike Hoffman C	L2	0	0	0	0	3	0.43	0	0	0	16:15	—	—	48	73
Laurent Dauphin C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.32	1	3	0	15:26	—	—	50	71
Brendan Gallagher R	L2	0	0	0	0	5	0.45	2	0	4	14:59	—	—	57	81
Artturi Lehkonen L	L3	2	0	2	+2	3	0.54	1	0	0	16:04	—	—	59	84
Jake Evans C	L3	0	1	1	+2	3	0.34	1	0	2	15:40	—	—	54	81
Rem Pitlick C	L3	0	0	0	+2	0	0.00	0	0	0	14:05	—	—	62	84
Mathieu Perreault C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	8:41	—	—	40	43
Ryan Poehling C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.17	0	0	0	8:18	—	—	50	59
Michael Pezzetta L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	3	0	0	6:45	—	—	50	59
Ben Chiarot D	D1	0	1	1	+2	2	0.05	1	2	2	24:09	—	—	68	82
Alexander Romanov D	D1	0	0	0	+2	1	0.01	1	1	0	23:20	—	—	70	80
Chris Wideman D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.04	1	1	0	15:24	—	—	55	67
Corey Schueneman D	D2	0	0	0	0	4	0.12	1	0	0	15:08	—	—	55	69
Jeff Petry D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	5	0	19:53	—	—	44	53
Brett Kulak D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.05	0	0	0	16:32	—	—	44	51

MTL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Andrew Hammond(start)	W	27	26	1	.963	2.82	59:59

Ottawa Senators

OTT skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Connor Brown R	L1	0	1	1	0	3	0.42	0	1	0	20:56	—	—	57	53
Nick Paul L	L1	0	0	0	0	4	0.26	1	1	0	17:43	—	—	48	46
Zachary Sanford L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.35	3	1	0	16:18	—	—	63	53
Brady Tkachuk L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.12	5	0	2	17:22	—	—	39	30
Tim Stützle C	L2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.09	0	1	0	16:49	—	—	39	18
Adam Gaudette R	L2	0	0	0	-1	4	0.29	1	0	2	9:50	—	—	58	27
Austin Watson L	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	4	2	0	11:38	—	—	30	25
Parker Kelly C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.14	7	1	0	10:32	—	—	26	21
Dylan Gambrell C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.07	1	0	0	7:44	—	—	42	50
Alex Formenton L	L4	0	0	0	-2	1	0.21	1	0	0	12:38	—	—	50	23
Tyler Ennis R	L4	0	0	0	-1	2	0.16	0	0	0	12:34	—	—	33	15
Chris Tierney C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	0	0	9:59	—	—	33	5
Artem Zub D	D1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.02	1	0	4	24:59	—	—	34	22
Nick Holden D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	2	0	24:08	—	—	41	34
Erik Brannstrom D	D2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.16	0	2	0	25:19	—	—	39	31
Joshua Brown D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.04	3	0	0	20:36	—	—	52	34
Victor Mete D	—	0	1	1	-2	0	0.00	0	1	0	19:40	—	—	62	36
Colin White C	—	1	0	1	0	4	0.49	2	0	0	14:30	—	—	53	29

OTT goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Matt Murray(start)	L	32	30	2	.938	3.74	58:45

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.