Buffalo Sabres vs. Montreal CanadiensNov 25, 2017

FinalSaturday, Nov 25, 2017· Centre Bell

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
BUF	0	0	0	0		BUF	10	15	11	36
MTL	1	1	1	3		MTL	14	9	3	26

: BUF 78MTL 52
: BUF 1.80MTL 3.01
PP goals: BUF 0MTL 1
Hits: BUF 26MTL 21
Blocks: BUF 15MTL 30
PIM: BUF 4MTL 4
: BUF 57%MTL 43%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Montreal Canadiens beat Buffalo Sabres 3–0

Montreal Canadiens beat Buffalo Sabres 3–0 at home. Paul Byron (MTL) led the scoring with 1G 1A. MTL's first power-play unit (Petry, Pacioretty, Shaw, Galchenyuk and Drouin) scored 1 power-play goal on 3 attempts in 1:09 together.

Points
Alex Galchenyuk had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 16:21.Galchenyuk
Points
Paul Byron had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 4 shots in 14:26.Byron
Points
Jonathan Drouin had 2 assists (2 points) on 1 shot in 17:04.Drouin
PP1
MTL's first power-play unit (Petry, Pacioretty, Shaw, Galchenyuk and Drouin) scored 1 power-play goal on 3 attempts in 1:09 together.Petry Pacioretty Shaw Galchenyuk Drouin
Goalie
Carey Price (MTL) faced 36 shots and stopped 36 (.1000), +6 against a season average of 30.3; the win.Price
Luck
BUF scored 0 goals on 1.80 expected goals (78 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Joe Morrow (MTL) played 23:19, +6:42 up on his 16:37 season average over 55 games.Morrow
Usage
Jacob Josefson (BUF) played 5:28, −6:04 down on his 11:32 season average over 38 games.Josefson

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

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

MTL
BUF
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 130 of 130 attempts · MTL 52 · BUF 78

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

MTL
BUF
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: BUF 43% of the game, MTL 24%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

MTL

BUF

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	BUF	MTL
	79	49
	1.71	1.23
	1.63	1.21
	10	8
	4	6
	25	6
	+0.045	−0.045
	43%	24%

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.

Buffalo Sabres

L1Pominville – Kane – Eichel
11:2178% CF
L2Pouliot – O'Reilly – Reinhart
4:0043% CF
L3Okposo – Josefson – Nolan
3:2733% CF
L4Larsson – Griffith – Girgensons
2:2075% CF
D1Scandella – Ristolainen
15:3952% CF
D2McCabe – Antipin
13:1467% CF
D3Gorges – Beaulieu
12:4756% CF

PP1Pominville – Pouliot – Kane – Beaulieu – Antipin
1:54100% CF
PP2Okposo – O'Reilly – Ristolainen – Reinhart – Eichel
1:4950% CF
PK1FO'Reilly – Girgensons
1:06
PK2FKane – Eichel
0:36
PK1DScandella – Ristolainen
1:19
PK2DGorges – McCabe
0:55

Current BUF line combinations →

Montreal Canadiens

L1Plekanec – Gallagher – Hudon
13:0637% CF
L2Pacioretty – Shaw – Danault
12:4055% CF
L3Byron – Galchenyuk – Drouin
10:1957% CF
L4Deslauriers – Froese – de la Rose
5:2224% CF
D1Petry – Alzner
13:4231% CF
D2Benn – Morrow
11:1865% CF
D3Mete – Jerabek
7:2233% CF

PP1Petry – Pacioretty – Shaw – Galchenyuk – Drouin
1:09100% CF
PP2Petry – Byron – Gallagher – Danault – Drouin
0:38100% CF
PK1FDeslauriers – de la Rose
1:19
PK2FPacioretty – Danault
1:16
PK1DPetry – Alzner
2:33
PK2DBenn – Morrow
1:27

Current MTL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

Box score

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

Buffalo Sabres

BUF skaters
Skater	Line	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Jack Eichel C	L1	-1	8	0.59	1	0	0	21:10	—	—	77	76
Evander Kane L	L1	0	5	0.21	1	1	0	20:51	—	—	74	77
Jason Pominville R	L1	0	3	0.09	2	1	2	16:23	—	—	75	75
Ryan O'Reilly C	L2	-1	3	0.06	0	1	0	21:30	—	—	57	43
Sam Reinhart C	L2	-1	1	0.07	1	1	0	18:38	—	—	56	50
Benoit Pouliot L	L2	0	1	0.10	2	2	0	14:37	—	—	48	35
Kyle Okposo R	L3	-2	3	0.10	0	0	0	19:57	—	—	60	49
Jordan Nolan C	L3	-1	2	0.37	1	0	0	13:02	—	—	60	58
Jacob Josefson C	L3	0	0	0.00	1	2	0	5:28	—	—	25	4
Johan Larsson L	L4	-1	2	0.02	3	0	0	13:44	—	—	58	65
Zemgus Girgensons C	L4	0	1	0.01	5	0	0	11:42	—	—	74	80
Seth Griffith C	L4	0	1	0.01	0	0	2	9:03	—	—	58	61
Rasmus Ristolainen D	D1	-2	2	0.07	5	4	0	25:49	—	—	54	62
Marco Scandella D	D1	-1	0	0.02	0	1	0	20:37	—	—	56	61
Victor Antipin D	D2	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	18:08	—	—	67	57
Jake McCabe D	D2	0	2	0.03	1	0	0	17:31	—	—	71	71
Nathan Beaulieu D	D3	0	2	0.05	1	0	0	20:47	—	—	68	51
Josh Gorges D	D3	0	0	0.00	2	1	0	14:11	—	—	61	40

BUF goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Robin Lehner(start)	L	26	23	3	.885	1.52	54:38

Montreal Canadiens

MTL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Brendan Gallagher R	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.07	2	2	0	18:37	—	—	31	45
Tomas Plekanec C	L1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.38	0	4	2	17:54	—	—	32	56
Charles Hudon L	L1	0	0	0	0	4	0.18	1	1	0	16:01	—	—	39	63
Max Pacioretty L	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.82	0	2	0	18:05	—	—	46	57
Phillip Danault C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.06	4	1	0	17:23	—	—	46	52
Andrew Shaw R	L2	0	0	0	0	3	0.11	1	0	2	16:17	—	—	50	48
Jonathan Drouin L	L3	0	2	2	+1	1	0.03	1	1	0	17:04	—	—	46	38
Alex Galchenyuk C	L3	1	1	2	+1	2	0.11	1	0	0	16:21	—	—	43	39
Paul Byron L	L3	1	1	2	+2	4	0.48	0	0	0	14:26	—	—	61	81
Byron Froese C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.61	1	0	0	10:16	—	—	20	6
Nicolas Deslauriers L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	1	0	8:01	—	—	23	9
Jacob de la Rose L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	2	0	7:36	—	—	24	9
Jeff Petry D	D1	1	0	1	+1	1	0.05	2	4	0	24:16	—	—	28	43
Karl Alzner D	D1	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	3	0	22:59	—	—	31	46
Joe Morrow D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	0	3	0	23:19	—	—	54	40
Jordie Benn D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	1	2	0	20:27	—	—	51	62
Jakub Jerabek D	D3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.04	1	1	0	15:38	—	—	32	25
Victor Mete D	D3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.01	0	3	0	11:20	—	—	31	44

MTL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Carey Price(start)	W	36	36	0	.1000	1.80	60:00

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.

Buffalo Sabres vs. Montreal CanadiensNov 25, 2017

Fantasy takeaways

Montreal Canadiens beat Buffalo Sabres 3–0

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Sequence card

Lines used

Buffalo Sabres

Montreal Canadiens

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

Buffalo Sabres

Montreal Canadiens