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Tue, Sep 29, 2026·TD Garden, Boston

New York Rangers 0, Boston Bruins 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 66% of the time.

BOS winsNYR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
NYR0509010024
BOS070838323

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P3 16:14BOSFraser MintenGWGAssists: Mason Lohrei · Snap, 0.10 xG0–1
  2. P3 17:06BOSJJ PeterkaAssists: Elias Lindholm, Hampus Lindholm · Snap, 0.16 xG0–2
  3. P3 17:29BOSMark KastelicENAssists: Fraser Minten, Marat Khusnutdinov · Snap, 0.79 xG0–3
Penalties (2)
  1. P1 10:27BOSTanner Jeannot: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 16:56NYRNoah Laba: Tripping2 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.

NYR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0BOS
47% to win53% to win
← NYR attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Miller won the faceoff against Zacha
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

NYRBOS
24Shots on goal23
2.3Expected goals3.2
47Shot attempts55
26Faceoffs won26
1Power plays1
2Penalty minutes2
37Hits36
12Blocked shots16
20Giveaways10
4Takeaways4

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.

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. bestMiller – Bjorkstrand – Dorofeyev11:18

    xG 1.27–0.39 (76%)attempts 16–8goals 0–0

  2. Zibanejad – Lafrenière – Perreault13:00

    xG 0.26–0.32 (45%)attempts 7–10goals 0–0

  3. Tolvanen – Cuylle – Laba10:05

    xG 0.50–0.61 (45%)attempts 11–13goals 0–1

  4. Veleno – Kartye – Rempe8:41

    xG 0.16–0.37 (30%)attempts 6–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGavrikov – Fox14:09

    xG 0.68–0.50 (58%)attempts 14–11goals 0–1

  2. Schneider – Smits13:54

    xG 0.52–0.55 (49%)attempts 8–14goals 0–1

  3. Pettersson – Durzi17:34

    xG 0.41–0.87 (32%)attempts 14–18goals 0–0

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestLindholm – Pastrnak – Peterka12:21

    xG 0.64–0.45 (59%)attempts 13–10goals 1–0

  2. Zacha – Geekie – Mittelstadt11:49

    xG 0.65–0.49 (57%)attempts 10–10goals 0–0

  3. Kuraly – Jeannot – Kastelic10:44

    xG 0.29–0.38 (43%)attempts 6–12goals 0–0

  4. Khusnutdinov – Minten – Hagens9:27

    xG 0.27–0.83 (25%)attempts 11–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLindholm – Borgen16:11

    xG 0.95–0.56 (63%)attempts 14–12goals 1–0

  2. Aspirot – Lohrei15:57

    xG 0.63–0.75 (46%)attempts 15–18goals 1–0

  3. Clifton – Zadorov20:16

    xG 0.53–0.92 (36%)attempts 16–14goals 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.

BOS 3.2 xGNYR 2.3 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSNYR

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 9/100 · #48 of 52 this seasonSwing 0.72 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 47% (winner's lowest chance)
NYR 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +45 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 66% of the time.

BOS winsNYR wins

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

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