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Sat, Jan 18, 2025·Madison Square Garden, New York

Columbus Blue Jackets 0, New York Rangers 1 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Columbus Blue Jackets win this game 54% of the time.

NYR winsCBJ wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
CBJ0150504030027
NYR0401206041126

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

Every goal, with the change it made to the home team's win probability.

  1. No goals in regulation or overtime.

Shootout

  1. 1. NYR Artemi Panarin stopped
  2. 2. CBJ Kent Johnson stopped
  3. 3. NYR Vincent Trocheck scored
  4. 4. CBJ Adam Fantilli stopped
  5. 5. NYR Mika Zibanejad stopped
  6. 6. CBJ Kirill Marchenko stopped
Penalties (3)
  1. P1 11:06CBJAdam Fantilli: Slashing2 min
  2. P1 17:31NYRMika Zibanejad: Slashing2 min
  3. P3 10:36NYRMika Zibanejad: Holding the stick2 min

Replay

Watch the game unfold on the ice: every shot, hit, turnover and faceoff appears as it happened, then fades. Drag the timeline to jump; goals are marked on it.

CBJ00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0NYR
43% to win57% to win
← CBJ attackNYR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Fantilli won the faceoff against Zibanejad
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CBJNYR
27Shots on goal26
2.6Expected goals2.4
52Shot attempts58
17Faceoffs won26
2Power plays1
2Penalty minutes4
9Hits18
16Blocked shots12
15Giveaways19
9Takeaways10

Line combinations that worked

Model-based

Each team's forward lines and defence pairs at 5-on-5 (two minutes or more together), best first by expected goals for minus against.

Columbus Blue Jackets

Forward lines

  1. bestOlivier – Aston-Reese – Del Bel Belluz9:53

    xG 0.52–0.07 (88%)attempts 8–3goals 0–0

  2. Marchenko – Voronkov – Fantilli15:31

    xG 0.41–0.50 (45%)attempts 12–16goals 0–0

  3. Kuraly – Labanc – Pyyhtia8:25

    xG 0.10–0.23 (30%)attempts 4–9goals 0–0

  4. van Riemsdyk – Johnson – Sillinger11:45

    xG 0.29–0.51 (36%)attempts 11–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestWerenski – Fabbro17:41

    xG 0.69–0.29 (70%)attempts 16–14goals 0–0

  2. Severson – Werenski4:29

    xG 0.31–0.11 (73%)attempts 7–4goals 0–0

  3. Severson – Christiansen9:39

    xG 0.16–0.31 (34%)attempts 5–10goals 0–0

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. bestSmith – Zibanejad – Cuylle12:46

    xG 0.70–0.31 (70%)attempts 18–5goals 0–0

  2. Kreider – Panarin – Chytil3:23

    xG 0.21–0.05 (82%)attempts 6–2goals 0–0

  3. Carrick – Edstrom – Rempe4:19

    xG 0.08–0.06 (59%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  4. Kreider – Chytil – Kaliyev5:06

    xG 0.13–0.16 (44%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBorgen – Miller15:49

    xG 0.46–0.32 (59%)attempts 17–9goals 0–0

  2. Fox – Lindgren15:58

    xG 0.57–0.57 (50%)attempts 17–12goals 0–0

  3. Vaakanainen – Schneider13:12

    xG 0.28–0.35 (44%)attempts 8–11goals 0–0

How the game flowed

Model-based

Chance quality for each side, minute by minute, with pressure underneath.

Expected goals flow

Running total of expected goals for each team. Steep climbs are spells of pressure; dots are goals. Shaded bands mark power plays (team colour), 4-on-4 or 3-on-3 (grey) and empty nets.

NYR 2.4 xGCBJ 2.6 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRCBJ

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

NYR's chance of winning through the game. Above the middle line NYR is favoured, below it CBJ. Dots are goals.

Excitement 8/100 · #1209 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.71 · 0 goals in reachComeback index 50% (winner's lowest chance)
CBJ 100%5050%50NYR 100%P1P2P3OTEnd

Did the better team win?

Every shot replayed 10,000 times, scoring with its expected-goal probability.

Based on shot quality alone, Columbus Blue Jackets win this game 54% of the time.

NYR winsCBJ wins

Simulated goal difference (NYR − CBJ), 10,000 replays

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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).