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Mon, Dec 15, 2025·Madison Square Garden, New York

Anaheim Ducks 4, New York Rangers 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Anaheim Ducks win this game 62% of the time.

NYR winsANA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ANA091938426
NYR0911305127

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 7:18ANAJackson LaCombeSHAssists: Ryan Poehling, Jacob Trouba · Wrist, 0.31 xG1–0
  2. P2 16:18NYRMatthew RobertsonAssists: Artemi Panarin, Alexis Lafrenière · Wrist, 0.02 xG1–1
  3. P3 5:51ANACutter GauthierPPGWGAssists: Beckett Sennecke, Olen Zellweger · Snap, 0.08 xG2–1
  4. P3 19:38ANACutter GauthierENAssists: Leo Carlsson, Alex Killorn · Wrist, 0.79 xG3–1
  5. P3 19:57ANAPavel MintyukovAssists: Ryan Poehling, Ross Johnston · Snap, 0.14 xG4–1
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 5:14ANAJacob Trouba: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 3:23NYRTaylor Raddysh: Hooking2 min
  3. P2 5:12ANAMikael Granlund: Hooking2 min
  4. P2 6:51ANARyan Strome: Too many men on the ice2 min
  5. P2 12:38ANAOlen Zellweger: Hooking2 min
  6. P2 17:25NYRCarson Soucy: High sticking2 min
  7. P3 3:51NYRWill Borgen: Hooking2 min · PPG

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.

ANA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0NYR
47% to win53% to win
← ANA attackNYR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Strome won the faceoff against Trocheck
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ANANYR
26Shots on goal27
3.4Expected goals2.7
54Shot attempts64
15Faceoffs won33
3Power plays4
8Penalty minutes6
25Hits20
14Blocked shots12
15Giveaways13
7Takeaways4

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.

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. Killorn – Gauthier – Carlsson9:28

    xG 0.31–0.43 (42%)attempts 12–8goals 0–0

  2. Strome – Johnston – Poehling6:02

    xG 0.15–0.34 (31%)attempts 3–11goals 1–0

  3. Granlund – Vatrano – Terry9:07

    xG 0.20–0.42 (32%)attempts 6–11goals 0–1

  4. Kreider – McTavish – Sennecke10:33

    xG 0.16–0.40 (29%)attempts 8–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Moore – Zellweger7:58

    xG 0.13–0.24 (35%)attempts 8–7goals 0–0

  2. Gudas – Mintyukov15:39

    xG 0.46–0.80 (36%)attempts 11–15goals 1–0

  3. Trouba – LaCombe17:18

    xG 0.31–0.76 (29%)attempts 11–25goals 0–1

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. bestMiller – Sheary – Cuylle7:52

    xG 0.42–0.14 (74%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

  2. Carrick – Raddysh – Rempe6:19

    xG 0.34–0.14 (71%)attempts 12–2goals 0–1

  3. Trocheck – Miller – Panarin3:37

    xG 0.13–0.04 (76%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

  4. Brodzinski – Berard – Laba7:18

    xG 0.18–0.13 (58%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestRobertson – Schneider2:57

    xG 0.24–0.01 (96%)attempts 6–1goals 1–0

  2. Gavrikov – Schneider14:27

    xG 0.50–0.36 (58%)attempts 18–10goals 0–0

  3. Soucy – Vaakanainen4:58

    xG 0.15–0.01 (92%)attempts 3–2goals 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 2.7 xGANA 3.4 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRANA

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 ANA. Dots are goals.

Excitement 37/100 · #882 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.25 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 46% (winner's lowest chance)
ANA 100%5050%50NYR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +23 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Anaheim Ducks win this game 62% of the time.

NYR winsANA wins

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

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