01/Line score
The shootout column is the single goal the winner is credited with in the final score, not the number of attempts converted. Shootout attempts do not appear on any skater's goal total.
02/Scoring summary
2nd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | MTL–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:59 | MTL | Jayden Struble (1) | NHL 8480192 | 1–0 |
| 13:13 | MTL | Nick Suzuki (8) | Mike Matheson, Sean Monahan | 2–0 |
3rd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | MTL–BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01:06 | BUF | Jeff Skinner (12) | Tage Thompson | 2–1 |
| 06:36 | BUF | NHL 8473449 (4) | Connor Clifton | 2–2 |
Shootout
| Team | Scored on the attempt | Goaltender |
|---|---|---|
| BUF | Victor Olofsson | Cayden Primeau |
| MTL | Cole Caufield | NHL 8482221 |
| BUF | Owen Power | Cayden Primeau |
| MTL | NHL 8481058 | NHL 8482221 |
| MTL | Juraj Slafkovský | NHL 8482221 |
03/Team stats
Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them. Shot attempts are shots on goal plus misses plus attempts that were blocked. A club's blocked shots are the blocks it made, credited to the blocker's club: a shot that deflects off one of the shooter's own teammates is credited to neither side, so this can run under the raw count of blocked shots in the game. Penalty minutes are the durations the feed publishes, plus the ten minute misconduct that automatically rides with a match penalty.
Power plays are opportunities, and they are derived rather than stored. The feed carries no strength on a goal and no end time on a penalty, so the penalty record is run forward to find the seconds a club really had a skater more than its opponent: coincidental penalties offset, a double minor counts twice, a misconduct costs no skater, and a call at the final horn counts for nothing. Power play time is not printed, it would rest on the same reconstruction with nothing published to check it against.
04/Montréal Canadiens
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Matheson | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – | 29:48 |
| Nick Suzuki | C | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12-6 | 22:26 |
| Sean Monahan | C | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6-3 | 18:40 |
| Jayden Struble | D | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | – | 14:27 |
| NHL 8480192 | – | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | — |
| Cole Caufield | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | – | 21:47 |
| Justin Barron | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | 21:30 |
| Jake Evans | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2-3 | 21:21 |
| Christian Dvorak | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10-6 | 17:21 |
| Josh Anderson | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | – | 16:58 |
| Joel Armia | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0-1 | 14:33 |
| Brendan Gallagher | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 12:52 |
| Tanner Pearson | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | 2:50 |
| NHL 8480184 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | — |
| NHL 8481058 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | — |
| Kaiden Guhle | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 1 | 5 | – | — |
| Juraj Slafkovský | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | – | — |
| Skaters | 2 | 3 | 5 | – | 31 | 16 | 15 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cayden Primeau | 48 | 46 | 2 | .958 | 64:37 |
05/Buffalo Sabres
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tage Thompson | C | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | – | 24:03 |
| Jeff Skinner | L | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | 23:25 |
| Connor Clifton | D | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | – | 13:21 |
| NHL 8473449 | – | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | — | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2-2 | — |
| Rasmus Dahlin | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 1 | – | 29:28 |
| Casey Mittelstadt | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10-11 | 27:01 |
| Owen Power | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 23:54 |
| Mattias Samuelsson | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | – | 22:46 |
| Henri Jokiharju | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 20:46 |
| JJ Peterka | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | – | 19:42 |
| Dylan Cozens | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5-4 | 18:50 |
| Victor Olofsson | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 11:36 |
| Peyton Krebs | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4-9 | 11:15 |
| Tyson Jost | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1-2 | 9:03 |
| Eric Robinson | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 6:32 |
| NHL 8473446 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | — |
| Zach Benson | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | — |
| Skaters | 2 | 2 | 4 | – | 48 | 25 | 8 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHL 8482221 | 31 | 29 | 2 | .935 | — |
One line here is not in the box score feed's dressed list for this game. Shots against, saves and goals against are counted off the play-by-play, which names the goaltender who faced every shot and every goal; time on ice is blank on those lines, because only the box score carries it.
06/Club not resolved
| Player | TOI | PIM | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHL 8478477 | — | — | — |
| NHL 8482765 | — | — | — |
These players dressed for this game but neither the play-by-play nor the box score feed attributes them to a club, so they are printed apart rather than guessed at.
07/Penalties
| Per | Time | Team | Player | Infraction | Min | Drawn by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 09:44 | MTL | NHL 8480192 | Tripping | 2 | NHL 8482765 |
| 1st | 15:15 | MTL | Cayden Primeau | Tripping | 2 | Tage Thompson |
| 1st | 16:40 | MTL | Kaiden Guhle | Tripping | 2 | JJ Peterka |
| 2nd | 03:02 | BUF | Mattias Samuelsson | Interference | 2 | Cole Caufield |
| 2nd | 11:00 | MTL | Kaiden Guhle | Roughing | 2 | Eric Robinson |
| 2nd | 11:00 | BUF | Eric Robinson | Boarding | 5 | Justin Barron |
| 2nd | 11:00 | BUF | Eric Robinson | Game misconduct | 10 | – |
| 2nd | 17:13 | MTL | NHL 8480184 | Holding | 2 | Tage Thompson |
| 3rd | 13:58 | BUF | Tage Thompson | Interference | 2 | Christian Dvorak |
| 3rd | 15:44 | MTL | Juraj Slafkovský | Fighting | 5 | Connor Clifton |
| 3rd | 15:44 | BUF | Connor Clifton | Fighting | 5 | Juraj Slafkovský |
| 3rd | 18:54 | MTL | Christian Dvorak | Tripping | 2 | Jeff Skinner |
08/Game
- Date
- Sun Dec 10, 2023
- Venue
- KeyBank Center, Buffalo
- Season
- 2023-24
- Type
- Regular season
- Decision
- Final / SO
- NHL game id
- 2023020411
Goals, assists, shots, hits, blocks and faceoffs are counted from the play-by-play for this game. Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them, so a club's skater shot total is the shot total the opposing goaltender faced. The skater line does not include a goaltender's own assists. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus come from the box score. Save percentage is saves over shots faced and excludes any empty-net goal, which the feed does not credit to a goaltender. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus are on file for 27 of the 38 players on this page. The dressed list itself is short: the box score feed names 37 players for this game, where a club normally dresses twenty and a full game is forty. The names it leaves out cannot be recovered from it, and this page does not invent them. One goaltender is missing from that list, and his line is built from the play-by-play instead: every shot and every goal names the goaltender who faced it, so shots against, saves and goals against are counted the same way the skater columns are. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus stay blank for him, because only the box score carries those. 8 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.