Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Montreal CanadiensMar 26, 2022

FinalSaturday, Mar 26, 2022· Centre Bell

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Toronto Maple LeafsTOR

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Montreal CanadiensMTL

4

Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
TOR	1	0	1	2		TOR	12	15	24	51
MTL	0	2	2	4		MTL	3	12	3	18

: TOR 77MTL 36
: TOR 4.78MTL 2.54
PP goals: TOR 1MTL 1
Hits: TOR 11MTL 30
Blocks: TOR 11MTL 16
PIM: TOR 4MTL 6
: TOR 41%MTL 59%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs 4–2

Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs 4–2 at home. David Savard (MTL) led the scoring with 1G 1A. Jake Allen (MTL) faced 51 shots and stopped 49 (.961), +19 against a season average of 32.1; the win.

Points
David Savard had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 22:30.Savard
Points
Paul Byron had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 16:06.Byron
Points
Mitch Marner had 2 assists (2 points) on 4 shots in 21:39.Marner
Points
Nick Suzuki had 2 assists (2 points) on 3 shots in 23:06.Suzuki
Goalie
Jake Allen (MTL) faced 51 shots and stopped 49 (.961), +19 against a season average of 32.1; the win.Allen
PP1
MTL's first power-play unit (Wideman, Anderson, Dvorak, Suzuki and Caufield) scored 1 power-play goal on 5 attempts in 1:32 together.Wideman Anderson Dvorak Suzuki Caufield
PP1
TOR's first power-play unit (Tavares, Rielly, Nylander, Marner and Matthews) scored 1 power-play goal on 8 attempts in 3:30 together.Tavares Rielly Nylander Marner Matthews
Usage
Tyler Pitlick (MTL) played 0:44, −10:29 down on his 11:13 season average over 38 games.Pitlick

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

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

MTL
TOR
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 113 of 113 attempts · MTL 36 · TOR 77

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

MTL
TOR
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: TOR 57% of the game, MTL 19%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

MTL

TOR

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	TOR	MTL
	74	32
	4.11	1.49
	3.82	1.37
	22	6
	4	8
	26	16
	−0.094	+0.094
	57%	19%

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.

Toronto Maple Leafs

L1Bunting – Marner – Matthews
13:5882% CF
L2Tavares – Kerfoot – Nylander
8:0440% CF
L3Engvall – Kampf – Mikheyev
7:4568% CF
L4Spezza – Simmonds – Blackwell
6:0743% CF
D1Brodie – Holl
15:3376% CF
D2Rielly – Lyubushkin
14:0657% CF
D3Giordano – Liljegren
13:1569% CF

PP1Tavares – Rielly – Nylander – Marner – Matthews
3:3089% CF
PP2Spezza – Giordano – Blackwell – Bunting – Liljegren
1:0750% CF
PK1FMarner – Kampf
1:31
PK2FKerfoot – Mikheyev
0:33
PK1DBrodie – Holl
1:24
PK2DGiordano – Lyubushkin
1:21

Current TOR line combinations →

Montreal Canadiens

L1Anderson – Suzuki – Caufield
12:0226% CF
L2Hoffman – Evans – Pitlick
10:4540% CF
L3Byron – Armia – Dvorak
9:0028% CF
D1Edmundson – Romanov
13:1026% CF
D2Wideman – Schueneman
10:1239% CF
D3Savard – Lagesson
6:5546% CF

PP1Wideman – Anderson – Dvorak – Suzuki – Caufield
1:32100% CF
PP2Hoffman – Armia – Dauphin – Pitlick – Schueneman
0:40
PK1FByron – Evans
1:34
PK2FPitlick – Suzuki
0:33
PK1DSavard – Romanov
2:27
PK2DEdmundson – Schueneman
0:00

Current MTL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

0:36
TORAuston Matthews (Michael Bunting, Mitch Marner)snap0.13 xG
TOR: Brodie, Holl, Bunting, Marner, MatthewsMTL: Edmundson, Anderson, Lagesson, Suzuki, Caufield
TOR 1 – 0 MTL

2nd period

9:44
MTLDavid Savard (Laurent Dauphin, Nick Suzuki)wrist0.07 xG
TOR: Giordano, Tavares, Kerfoot, Nylander, LiljegrenMTL: Savard, Dauphin, Lagesson, Suzuki, Caufield
TOR 1 – 1 MTL
18:08
MTLCole CaufieldPP (Chris Wideman, Nick Suzuki)wrist0.09 xG
TOR: Giordano, Marner, Kampf, LyubushkinMTL: Wideman, Anderson, Dvorak, Suzuki, Caufield
TOR 1 – 2 MTL

3rd period

7:33
TORWilliam NylanderPP (John Tavares, Mitch Marner)wrist0.30 xG
TOR: Tavares, Rielly, Nylander, Marner, MatthewsMTL: Savard, Edmundson, Pitlick, Suzuki
TOR 2 – 2 MTL
17:32
MTLPaul Byronwrist0.09 xG
TOR: Rielly, Bunting, Marner, Matthews, LyubushkinMTL: Byron, Edmundson, Armia, Dvorak, Romanov
TOR 2 – 3 MTL
19:37
MTLChristian DvorakEN (Paul Byron, David Savard)wrist0.70 xG
TOR: Spezza, Tavares, Rielly, Nylander, Marner, MatthewsMTL: Byron, Savard, Dvorak, Evans, Romanov
TOR 2 – 4 MTL

Box score

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

Toronto Maple Leafs

TOR skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mitch Marner R	L1	0	2	2	-1	4	0.45	0	0	0	21:39	—	—	83	86
Auston Matthews C	L1	1	0	1	-1	6	1.09	1	1	0	21:32	—	—	84	86
Michael Bunting L	L1	0	1	1	0	4	0.31	0	0	0	18:11	—	—	84	86
John Tavares C	L2	0	1	1	-2	3	0.65	0	0	0	18:39	—	—	58	72
William Nylander R	L2	1	0	1	-2	4	0.41	0	0	0	17:36	—	—	53	72
Alexander Kerfoot C	L2	0	0	0	-1	2	0.29	1	0	0	15:04	—	—	50	62
David Kampf C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	0	0	0	15:01	—	—	64	54
Ilya Mikheyev R	L3	0	0	0	0	5	0.34	0	0	0	14:17	—	—	70	72
Pierre Engvall L	L3	0	0	0	0	3	0.19	1	0	0	13:16	—	—	72	63
Jason Spezza C	L4	0	0	0	-1	3	0.14	0	1	0	9:59	—	—	62	44
Colin Blackwell C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.04	2	0	0	9:54	—	—	69	81
Wayne Simmonds R	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	4	1	0	8:15	—	—	40	6
TJ Brodie D	D1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.03	0	1	0	20:13	—	—	75	80
Justin Holl D	D1	0	0	0	+1	4	0.33	0	1	2	19:26	—	—	74	87
Morgan Rielly D	D2	0	0	0	-2	3	0.08	0	0	2	21:35	—	—	67	58
Ilya Lyubushkin D	D2	0	0	0	-1	4	0.31	1	0	0	16:50	—	—	59	53
Mark Giordano D	D3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.02	0	5	0	19:48	—	—	70	58
Timothy Liljegren D	D3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.08	1	1	0	17:08	—	—	70	78

TOR goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Erik Kallgren(start)	L	17	14	3	.824	1.83	58:47

Montreal Canadiens

MTL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Nick Suzuki C	L1	0	2	2	0	3	0.24	4	0	0	23:06	—	—	29	24
Cole Caufield R	L1	1	0	1	0	1	0.47	2	0	0	18:17	—	—	31	25
Josh Anderson R	L1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	2	1	0	18:14	—	—	22	14
Rem Pitlick C	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	20:01	—	—	33	32
Jake Evans C	L2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	3	1	0	19:16	—	—	33	41
Mike Hoffman C	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.34	0	0	0	16:01	—	—	46	38
Christian Dvorak C	L3	1	0	1	+2	1	0.70	1	1	2	16:43	—	—	30	41
Paul Byron L	L3	1	1	2	+2	2	0.25	4	1	0	16:06	—	—	29	31
Joel Armia R	L3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.00	3	2	0	15:06	—	—	21	12
Alexander Romanov D	D1	0	0	0	+2	1	0.01	2	0	0	27:16	—	—	31	28
Joel Edmundson D	D1	0	0	0	0	2	0.02	2	1	4	21:10	—	—	23	15
Corey Schueneman D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.04	2	2	0	19:11	—	—	29	26
Chris Wideman D	D2	0	1	1	0	1	0.03	0	2	0	13:19	—	—	40	39
David Savard D	D3	1	1	2	+2	3	0.33	3	1	0	22:30	—	—	28	34
William Lagesson D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	1	2	0	14:08	—	—	32	27
Laurent Dauphin C	—	0	1	1	+1	1	0.09	0	1	0	10:55	—	—	42	30
Michael Pezzetta L	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	3:09	—	—	0	0
Tyler Pitlick C	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0:44	—	—	—	—

MTL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jake Allen(start)	W	51	49	2	.961	4.78	59:56

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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.