Minnesota Wild vs. Montreal CanadiensOct 17, 2019

FinalThursday, Oct 17, 2019· Centre Bell

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
MIN	0	0	0	0		MIN	6	6	5	17
MTL	3	0	1	4		MTL	15	7	11	33

: MIN 55MTL 59
: MIN 1.09MTL 2.11
PP goals: MIN 0MTL 1
Hits: MIN 22MTL 21
Blocks: MIN 14MTL 23
PIM: MIN 17MTL 17
: MIN 50%MTL 50%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Montreal Canadiens rout Minnesota Wild 4–0

Montreal Canadiens beat Minnesota Wild 4–0 at home. Brendan Gallagher (MTL) led the scoring with 1G 0A. New look for MIN: Staal–Parise–Zucker skated 6:39 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

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New look for MIN: Staal–Parise–Zucker skated 6:39 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Staal Parise Zucker
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New look for MTL: Thompson–Cousins–Suzuki skated 8:12 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (35.3% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Thompson Cousins Suzuki
Usage
Joel Eriksson Ek (MIN) played 8:38, −7:12 down on his 15:50 season average over 61 games.Eriksson Ek
Luck
MTL scored 4 goals on 2.11 expected goals (59 attempts), finishing well above its chances.
Usage
Shea Weber (MTL) played 20:45, −3:19 down on his 24:04 season average over 64 games.Weber
Usage
Max Domi (MTL) played 13:55, −3:14 down on his 17:09 season average over 70 games.Domi
Usage
Gerry Mayhew (MIN) played 6:55, −5:01 down on his 11:56 season average over 12 games.Mayhew
Usage
Brett Kulak (MTL) played 13:20, −3:53 down on his 17:13 season average over 55 games.Kulak

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 114 of 114 attempts · MTL 59 · 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 17% of the game, MTL 40%.

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
	44	53
	0.52	1.76
	0.51	1.72
	1	8
	1	8
	17	22
	−0.037	+0.038
	17%	40%

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

L1Staal – Parise – Zucker
6:3950% CF
L2Foligno – Eriksson Ek – Kunin
4:2711% CF
L3Donato – Greenway – Mayhew
2:3080% CF
L4Koivu – Hartman – Fiala
0:5867% CF
D1Suter – Spurgeon
12:4542% CF
D2Brodin – Dumba
11:4248% CF
D3Seeler – Hunt
9:5045% CF

PP1Staal – Suter – Parise – Dumba – Fiala
3:5390% CF
PP2Koivu – Spurgeon – Zucker – Hunt – Donato
2:46100% CF
PK1FFoligno – Eriksson Ek
2:23
PK2FHartman – Greenway
1:09
PK1DSuter – Spurgeon
3:02
PK2DBrodin – Dumba
2:54

Current MIN line combinations →

Montreal Canadiens

L1Armia – Drouin – Kotkaniemi
9:2567% CF
L2Tatar – Gallagher – Danault
8:1568% CF
L3Thompson – Cousins – Suzuki
8:1235% CF
L4Byron – Lehkonen – Domi
6:3362% CF
D1Chiarot – Fleury
11:1062% CF
D2Weber – Mete
10:4443% CF
D3Petry – Kulak
8:2987% CF

PP1Petry – Tatar – Armia – Domi – Suzuki
3:31100% CF
PP2Weber – Gallagher – Cousins – Drouin – Kotkaniemi
2:53100% CF
PK1FThompson – Armia
2:53
PK2FDanault – Lehkonen
1:52
PK1DWeber – Petry
2:39
PK2DChiarot – Mete
1:19

Current MTL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

14:37
MTLVictor Mete (Nick Cousins)snap0.18 xG
MIN: Staal, Suter, Spurgeon, Hartman, FialaMTL: Weber, Thompson, Cousins, Armia, Mete
MIN 0 – 1 MTL
17:32
MTLJoel ArmiaPP (Jonathan Drouin, Shea Weber)backhand0.15 xG
MIN: Koivu, Suter, SpurgeonMTL: Weber, Petry, Armia, Drouin, Domi
MIN 0 – 2 MTL
19:23
MTLNick Suzuki (Jeff Petry, Max Domi)backhand0.12 xG
MIN: Parise, Zucker, Seeler, Hunt, KuninMTL: Petry, Tatar, Armia, Domi, Suzuki
MIN 0 – 3 MTL

3rd period

12:40
MTLBrendan Gallagherwrist0.07 xG
MIN: Suter, Foligno, Dumba, Greenway, KuninMTL: Petry, Tatar, Gallagher, Danault, Kulak
MIN 0 – 4 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	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Zach Parise L	L1	-1	2	0.14	0	0	2	18:13	—	—	37	8
Jason Zucker L	L1	-1	1	0.04	2	2	2	17:32	—	—	45	16
Eric Staal C	L1	-1	0	0.07	2	0	0	16:02	—	—	46	7
Marcus Foligno L	L2	-1	0	0.04	3	0	0	17:16	—	—	32	23
Luke Kunin C	L2	-2	1	0.00	0	0	7	15:51	—	—	27	15
Joel Eriksson Ek C	L2	0	1	0.05	0	4	0	8:38	—	—	11	0
Jordan Greenway L	L3	-1	0	0.00	3	0	0	16:29	—	—	55	59
Ryan Donato C	L3	0	1	0.08	1	0	0	13:54	—	—	62	41
Gerry Mayhew C	L3	0	2	0.03	1	0	2	6:55	—	—	63	38
Mikko Koivu C	L4	0	1	0.01	0	0	0	14:45	—	—	47	19
Kevin Fiala L	L4	-1	3	0.27	1	0	0	13:30	—	—	58	13
Ryan Hartman R	L4	-1	0	0.00	3	0	0	10:39	—	—	56	16
Jared Spurgeon D	D1	-1	1	0.01	1	2	0	23:10	—	—	44	12
Ryan Suter D	D1	-2	0	0.04	1	1	0	21:22	—	—	40	12
Mathew Dumba D	D2	-1	1	0.11	2	1	0	22:56	—	—	44	40
Jonas Brodin D	D2	0	1	0.13	1	3	0	21:29	—	—	49	49
Brad Hunt D	D3	-1	1	0.05	0	0	0	17:02	—	—	52	14
Nick Seeler D	D3	-1	1	0.02	1	1	4	14:01	—	—	44	18

MIN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Alex Stalock(start)	L	33	29	4	.879	2.11	60:00

Montreal Canadiens

MTL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Joel Armia R	L1	1	0	1	+2	2	0.17	2	0	0	18:15	—	—	73	87
Jonathan Drouin L	L1	0	1	1	0	2	0.19	0	0	0	14:15	—	—	63	58
Jesperi Kotkaniemi C	L1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	14:12	—	—	69	69
Phillip Danault C	L2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.10	2	0	0	15:41	—	—	70	76
Tomas Tatar L	L2	0	0	0	+2	1	0.02	0	0	2	14:26	—	—	67	78
Brendan Gallagher R	L2	1	0	1	+1	6	0.54	0	1	0	14:21	—	—	68	73
Nate Thompson C	L3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.02	0	2	5	15:12	—	—	32	82
Nick Suzuki C	L3	1	0	1	+1	4	0.23	0	0	0	14:49	—	—	46	84
Nick Cousins C	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.12	1	0	0	13:19	—	—	33	84
Paul Byron L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	2	2	14:03	—	—	41	79
Max Domi C	L4	0	1	1	+1	2	0.17	0	0	0	13:55	—	—	62	78
Artturi Lehkonen L	L4	0	0	0	0	3	0.06	3	2	2	13:48	—	—	52	71
Ben Chiarot D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	3	2	22:39	—	—	48	75
Cale Fleury D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.08	4	3	2	16:38	—	—	53	71
Shea Weber D	D2	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	2	3	2	20:45	—	—	50	66
Victor Mete D	D2	1	0	1	+1	3	0.29	1	1	0	17:10	—	—	42	61
Jeff Petry D	D3	0	1	1	+2	1	0.07	1	3	0	22:26	—	—	62	96
Brett Kulak D	D3	0	0	0	+1	4	0.04	1	2	0	13:20	—	—	67	91

MTL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Carey Price(start)	W	17	17	0	.1000	1.09	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.