STATS
Final/Wed Dec 18, 2024/Centre Bell, Montreal/2024-25 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2ndT
011
246

02/Scoring summary

7 goals

1st

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFMTL
00:19MTLJoel Armia (5)Jake Evans, Emil Heineman01
06:26MTLPatrik Laine (4)Nick Suzuki, Juraj Slafkovský02

2nd

5 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFMTL
03:43BUFDylan Cozens (7)JJ Peterka, Owen Power12
05:54MTLJuraj Slafkovský (3)Cole Caufield, NHL 847523313
09:45MTLPatrik Laine (5)Nick Suzuki, Lane Hutson14
10:55MTLPatrik Laine (6)Cole Caufield, Lane Hutson15
19:15MTLJosh Anderson (6)Christian Dvorak, Brendan Gallagher16

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
BUF
Away / Home
MTL
1
Goals
6
21
Shots on goal
27
15
Missed shots
11
13
Blocked shots
23
63
Shot attempts
51
26
Hits
7
29
Faceoffs won of 56
27
51.8%
Faceoff win %
48.2%
11
Giveaways
10
8
Takeaways
8
6
Penalties
5
12
Penalty minutes
10
5
Power plays
6

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/Buffalo Sabres

Away · 18 skaters, 2 goaltenders
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Owen PowerD011-1011023:39
JJ PeterkaR0110000017:55
Dylan CozensC101023414-816:48
Bowen ByramD000-1201124:11
Mattias SamuelssonD000-2231220:39
Henri JokiharjuD000-1001018:19
Jack QuinnR000-1010217:19
Zach BensonL000-1230117:14
Tage ThompsonC0000001010-817:08
Alex TuchR000022110-114:34
Connor CliftonD0000023114:18
Peyton KrebsC000-100203-313:59
Ryan McLeodC000-101019-512:53
Jason ZuckerL000-1023012:35
Beck MalenstynL0000004112:00
NHL 8477979000131
NHL 8478502000111
Jiri KulichC0001003-2
Skaters123212613

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen21156.71440:00
NHL 84735036601.000

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.


05/Montréal Canadiens

Home · 18 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Patrik LaineR303-105002-013:12
Nick SuzukiC022+1000210-714:32
Cole CaufieldR022+1020014:13
Lane HutsonD022102
Juraj SlafkovskýL112200
Christian DvorakC011+102035-1117:57
Josh AndersonR101+1010016:17
Joel ArmiaR101+1410011:50
NHL 8475233011111
Brendan GallagherR011000
Jake EvansC0110004-5
Emil HeinemanL011120
Mike MathesonD0000051424:40
Kirby DachC000-103022-214:02
Justin BarronD000+1011013:27
Alex NewhookC0000114-4
Kaiden GuhleD000017
Arber XhekajD000201
Skaters6121827723

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Sam Montembeault21201.952

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/Penalties

11 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st06:06BUFZach BensonHolding2Lane Hutson
1st09:35BUFMattias SamuelssonInterference2Kirby Dach
1st12:16MTLNHL 8475233Tripping2Jason Zucker
2nd08:02BUFBowen ByramSlashing2Josh Anderson
2nd09:30BUFAlex TuchHigh-sticking2Kirby Dach
2nd10:11BUFDylan CozensDelay of game (puck over the glass)2
2nd11:47MTLAlex NewhookRoughing2Owen Power
3rd03:26MTLLane HutsonCross-checking2Zach Benson
3rd04:34MTLJoel ArmiaHooking2Owen Power
3rd16:34BUFNHL 8478502Tripping2Kirby Dach
3rd19:20MTLJoel ArmiaHigh-sticking2Tage Thompson

07/Game

Date
Wed Dec 18, 2024
Venue
Centre Bell, Montreal
Season
2024-25
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2024020497

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 25 of the 39 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. 2 goaltenders are missing from that list, and their lines are 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 them, because only the box score carries those. 4 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.