Silver Nuggets: Matchups from Game 1 (and what needs to go better for Game 2)

To be quite honest, I didn't know that I'd have so many things to link after just ONE GAME of hockey, but alas, this is what games vs. the Montreal Canadiens are like. There's a ton of excellent content and differing perspectives that are really interesting to read that I'll link below, but for this small blurb, I'm going to talk about the hockey. Specifically, I'm going to use the always-excellent datarink's visualization to talk some observations from Game 1 and comment on what needs to go right for Game 2.

To clarify what all of this means, the colour of the circle signifies how a player on one axis did in terms of shot attempt differential (corsi) vs.