Minnesota Wild vs. Montreal CanadiensJan 7, 2019

FinalMonday, Jan 7, 2019· Centre Bell

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
MIN	0	0	1	1		MIN	9	5	11	25
MTL	0	0	0	0		MTL	11	11	10	32

: MIN 55MTL 60
: MIN 2.83MTL 2.13
PP goals: MIN 0MTL 0
Hits: MIN 20MTL 28
Blocks: MIN 19MTL 21
PIM: MIN 25MTL 26
: MIN 59%MTL 41%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Minnesota Wild edge Montreal Canadiens 1–0

Minnesota Wild beat Montreal Canadiens 1–0 at MTL. Mikael Granlund (MIN) led the scoring with 1G 0A. Kenny Agostino (MTL) played 0:25, −12:42 down on his 13:07 season average over 62 games.

Usage
Kenny Agostino (MTL) played 0:25, −12:42 down on his 13:07 season average over 62 games.Agostino
New line
New look for MTL: Armia–Drouin–Domi skated 9:56 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (41.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Armia Drouin Domi
Usage
Shea Weber (MTL) played 7:58, −15:47 down on his 23:45 season average over 57 games.Weber
Usage
Eric Fehr (MIN) played 0:25, −10:47 down on his 11:12 season average over 71 games.Fehr
Luck
MTL scored 0 goals on 2.13 expected goals (60 attempts), well short of its chances.
Luck
MIN scored 1 goal on 2.83 expected goals (55 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Ryan Suter (MIN) played 32:36, +5:59 up on his 26:37 season average over 81 games.Suter
Usage
Nick Seeler (MIN) played 7:07, −5:17 down on his 12:24 season average over 70 games.Seeler

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

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

MTL
MIN
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 115 of 115 attempts · MTL 60 · MIN 55

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

MTL
MIN
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: MIN 25% of the game, MTL 32%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

MTL

MIN

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	MIN	MTL
	49	55
	1.10	2.02
	1.08	1.97
	7	2
	5	2
	23	11
	+0.044	−0.044
	25%	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.

Minnesota Wild

L1Parise – Coyle – Kunin
10:5332% CF
L2Koivu – Zucker – Niederreiter
10:0862% CF
L3Staal – Granlund – Greenway
9:4152% CF
D1Suter – Spurgeon
15:3241% CF
D2Pateryn – Brodin
13:1453% CF
D3Prosser – Seeler
5:0525% CF

PP1Staal – Suter – Parise – Zucker – Granlund
4:32100% CF
PP2Koivu – Suter – Spurgeon – Zucker – Niederreiter
0:57100% CF
PK1FKoivu – Foligno
1:36
PK2FBrown – Kunin
1:21
PK1DSuter – Spurgeon
2:57
PK2DPateryn – Brodin
2:20

Current MIN line combinations →

Montreal Canadiens

L1Armia – Drouin – Domi
9:5642% CF
L2Tatar – Gallagher – Danault
7:5867% CF
L3Byron – Lehkonen – Kotkaniemi
7:3353% CF
D1Petry – Reilly
7:5567% CF
D2Benn – Kulak
7:4860% CF
D3Weber – Mete
4:1664% CF

PP1Petry – Byron – Gallagher – Lehkonen – Kotkaniemi
2:30100% CF
PP2Weber – Tatar – Armia – Drouin – Domi
2:16
PK1FByron – Chaput
3:20
PK2FDanault – Lehkonen
2:12
PK1DPetry – Benn
2:04
PK2DKulak – Mete
1:01

Current MTL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

3rd period

6:58
MINMikael Granlundwrist0.07 xG
MIN: Staal, Suter, Spurgeon, Granlund, GreenwayMTL: Petry, Reilly, Armia, Drouin, Domi
MIN 1 – 0 MTL

Box score

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

Minnesota Wild

MIN skaters
Skater	Line	G	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Charlie Coyle C	L1	0	0	0	1	0.20	2	1	0	21:45	—	—	32	21
Zach Parise L	L1	0	0	0	1	0.22	1	2	0	20:15	—	—	32	5
Luke Kunin C	L1	0	0	0	2	0.04	3	1	0	16:43	—	—	31	7
Mikko Koivu C	L2	0	0	0	3	0.34	1	1	0	18:59	—	—	65	54
Jason Zucker L	L2	0	0	0	3	0.26	3	0	2	17:47	—	—	60	48
Nino Niederreiter R	L2	0	0	0	2	0.51	4	0	0	14:28	—	—	57	48
Eric Staal C	L3	0	0	+1	2	0.61	0	1	0	20:30	—	—	54	52
Mikael Granlund C	L3	1	1	+1	1	0.13	0	0	2	18:44	—	—	52	47
Jordan Greenway L	L3	0	0	+1	2	0.12	0	2	0	12:12	—	—	52	53
Ryan Suter D	D1	0	0	+1	1	0.00	0	1	0	32:36	—	—	43	14
Jared Spurgeon D	D1	0	0	+1	2	0.20	1	4	0	26:19	—	—	42	16
Jonas Brodin D	D2	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	0	2	21:11	—	—	54	66
Greg Pateryn D	D2	0	0	0	2	0.04	2	3	2	18:52	—	—	53	66
Nate Prosser D	D3	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	8:57	—	—	43	37
Nick Seeler D	D3	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	2	17	7:07	—	—	36	6
Marcus Foligno L	—	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	7:18	—	—	44	87
JT Brown R	—	0	0	0	2	0.14	1	0	0	5:55	—	—	63	97
Eric Fehr C	—	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0:25	—	—	—	—

MIN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Devan Dubnyk(start)	W	32	32	0	.1000	2.13	59:55

Montreal Canadiens

MTL skaters
Skater	Line	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Jonathan Drouin L	L1	-1	4	0.30	0	1	0	18:19	—	—	47	40
Max Domi C	L1	-1	3	0.12	1	1	2	17:11	—	—	52	42
Joel Armia R	L1	-1	0	0.03	1	0	0	16:42	—	—	43	33
Phillip Danault C	L2	0	0	0.13	1	0	0	19:04	—	—	57	71
Tomas Tatar L	L2	0	3	0.18	3	0	0	18:13	—	—	67	78
Brendan Gallagher R	L2	0	2	0.05	0	1	0	17:49	—	—	74	74
Artturi Lehkonen L	L3	0	3	0.73	4	2	0	18:57	—	—	42	74
Paul Byron L	L3	0	3	0.24	2	2	0	18:03	—	—	46	78
Jesperi Kotkaniemi C	L3	0	1	0.00	0	2	0	15:23	—	—	45	74
Jeff Petry D	D1	-1	6	0.14	4	0	0	27:08	—	—	63	65
Mike Reilly D	D1	-1	1	0.01	1	1	2	17:35	—	—	51	48
Jordie Benn D	D2	0	1	0.03	2	3	0	21:12	—	—	38	65
Brett Kulak D	D2	0	2	0.03	4	4	0	19:07	—	—	58	72
Victor Mete D	D3	0	0	0.01	0	2	0	21:15	—	—	52	75
Shea Weber D	D3	0	2	0.03	0	1	0	7:58	—	—	64	43
Michael Chaput C	—	0	1	0.10	0	1	0	9:09	—	—	63	100
Nicolas Deslauriers L	—	0	0	0.00	5	0	0	7:31	—	—	69	95
Kenny Agostino L	—	0	0	0.00	0	0	20	0:25	—	—	—	—

MTL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Carey Price(start)	L	25	24	1	.960	2.39	57:59

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.