New Jersey DevilsNJD 3–2 Final Columbus Blue JacketsCBJ

Monday, October 13, 2025

Final	1st	2nd	3rd	T	SOG
New Jersey DevilsNJD	1	1	1	3	28
Columbus Blue JacketsCBJ	0	1	1	2	33

No impact calculated for this game. Impacts are calculated for games in the next 7 days.

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
15:47	NJD	Timo Meier (2)PP Jack Hughes (2), Jesper Bratt (2) · wrist xG 0.06	1–0 ▶
2nd Period
8:49	CBJ	Kirill Marchenko (4) Unassisted · wrist xG 0.26	1–1 ▶
11:09	NJD	Dawson Mercer (1)PP Arseny Gritsyuk (3), Ondrej Palat (1) · slap xG 0.18	2–1 ▶
3rd Period
19:03	NJD	Dawson Mercer (2)EN Nico Hischier (2), Brenden Dillon (1) · wrist xG 0.51	3–1 ▶
19:39	CBJ	Dmitri Voronkov (2) Ivan Provorov (2) · poke xG 0.22	3–2 ▶

Score away–home after each goal; season totals in parentheses.

Shot quality

Expected goals (xG) rate every unblocked shot by how often shots like it go in, from where it was taken, the shot type, the strength and what happened just before it. How it works

NJD 40%Deserve to win60% CBJ

NJD		CBJ
3.89	Expected goals	3.71
3	Goals (no shootout)	2
2.29	Expected goals, 5 on 5	2.39
56	Shot attempts	70
43	Unblocked attempts	49
28	Shots on goal	33

Game notes

What stood out as the game went on, from the play-by-play and the shifts. Time on the bench is counted in 5-on-5 play outside the penalty box; the note says the player sat, not why. Goals saved are against the shots' expected goals (xG).

1st Period
10:00	CBJ	xG swing	xG swing · Out-chanced NJD 1.42–0.03 In xG over 10 minutes, 1:00 to 11:00 of the 1st; neither team scored
2nd Period
1:00	NJD	xG swing	xG swing · Out-chanced CBJ 1.72–0.20 In xG over 10 minutes, 11:30 of the 1st to 1:30 of the 2nd; goals 1–0
4:30	CBJ	No shift	No shift · Wood, 37:19 on the bench No shift after 6:08 of the 1st; 3 shifts (1:17) before that
20:00	NJD	Goalie change	Goalie change · Markstrom in for Allen The start of the 3rd; Allen had allowed 1 goal on 24 shots (2.43 xG)
3rd Period
17:35	CBJ	Pulled goalie	Pulled goalie · Pulled Greaves, down 2–1 With 2:25 left; NJD scored at 19:03 of the 3rd (3–1)
19:20	CBJ	Pulled goalie	Pulled goalie · Pulled Greaves, down 3–1 With 0:40 left; CBJ scored at 19:39 of the 3rd (3–2)

Shot map

NJD shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ CBJ shoots

About these numbers

xG comes from hockeystats.io's own model, a gradient-boosted tree model trained on every unblocked shot from the 2021-22 to 2025-26 regular seasons using the NHL's public play-by-play. Each shot's value is the share of similar shots that became goals. A team's xG is the sum over its shots; "deserve to win" asks how often the team would outscore its opponent if every shot went in at exactly that rate. Blocked shots count as attempts but have no xG (the NHL records where they were blocked, not where they were taken), so the map leaves them out.

Box score

New Jersey Devils

	Skater	G	A	P	+/−	Att	xG	Hit	Blk	TOI
Forwards
13	Nico Hischier	0	1	1	+1	6	0.43	0	2	19:27
86	Jack Hughes	0	1	1	-2	3	0.07	0	2	18:40
16	Connor Brown	0	0	0	0	4	0.84	0	2	16:55
63	Jesper Bratt	0	1	1	-2	4	0.25	1	0	16:50
91	Dawson Mercer	2	0	2	+1	7	0.84	1	1	16:35
28	Timo Meier	1	0	1	+1	7	0.38	0	0	16:02
81	Arseny Gritsyuk	0	1	1	0	3	0.13	1	0	14:25
12	Cody Glass	0	0	0	0	3	0.16	0	0	13:47
81	Ondrej Palat	0	1	1	-2	2	0.15	1	1	13:08
41	Luke Glendening	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	10:24
47	Paul Cotter	0	0	0	0	1	0.05	5	0	08:37
Defense
43	Luke Hughes	0	0	0	0	3	0.10	0	0	22:42
71	Jonas Siegenthaler	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0	1	21:42
7	Dougie Hamilton	0	0	0	-1	6	0.44	0	2	21:00
22	Brett Pesce	0	0	0	-1	4	0.05	0	2	20:19
5	Brenden Dillon	0	1	1	0	0	0.00	4	2	18:28
71	Simon Nemec	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	0	3	14:05

Goalie	SA	GA	SV	SV%	xGA	GSAx
Jake Allen	24	1	23	.958	2.43	+1.43
Jacob Markstrom	9	1	8	.889	1.28	+0.28

Columbus Blue Jackets

	Skater	G	A	P	+/−	Att	xG	Hit	Blk	TOI
Forwards
86	Kirill Marchenko	1	0	1	0	13	0.85	1	1	24:24
23	Sean Monahan	0	0	0	0	2	0.09	1	1	22:45
91	Kent Johnson	0	0	0	-1	3	0.03	0	0	19:23
22	Boone Jenner	0	0	0	-1	2	0.04	3	1	19:08
3	Charlie Coyle	0	0	0	-1	2	0.11	2	1	17:49
19	Adam Fantilli	0	0	0	+1	5	0.69	0	1	17:10
10	Dmitri Voronkov	1	0	1	+2	6	0.66	2	0	17:09
24	Mathieu Olivier	0	0	0	+1	2	0.06	6	1	14:48
4	Cole Sillinger	0	0	0	+1	1	0.00	0	0	13:33
21	Isac Lundeström	0	0	0	0	1	0.10	0	0	11:00
21	Zachary Aston-Reese	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	1	0	07:51
18	Miles Wood	0	0	0	0	3	0.38	0	0	01:17
Defense
8	Zach Werenski	0	0	0	0	13	0.38	1	0	29:14
9	Ivan Provorov	0	1	1	+1	5	0.06	0	1	21:05
78	Damon Severson	0	0	0	+1	4	0.17	0	2	20:42
15	Dante Fabbro	0	0	0	+1	4	0.01	0	3	19:56
5	Denton Mateychuk	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	0	0	13:16
2	Jake Christiansen	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	1	0	07:44

Goalie	SA	GA	SV	SV%	xGA	GSAx
Jet Greaves	27	2	25	.926	3.10	+1.10

Skaters by time on ice. Goalie lines count shots with the goalie in net, from the NHL play-by-play.

Player ratings

What each player added to the result, in goals, from most to least. Hover a number for what it's made of.

New Jersey Devils

Player	Rating	Points	Shots	On ice	Pen	FO	Other	GSAx	TOI
5 Brenden Dillon D	+1.74	+0.55	0.00	+1.07	0.00	0.00	+0.12	—	18:28
91 Dawson Mercer C	+1.67	+1.50	+0.55	-0.56	+0.15	0.00	+0.03	—	16:35
34 Jake Allen G	+1.43	0.00	—	—	0.00	—	—	+1.43	40:00
16 Connor Brown R	+1.35	0.00	+0.55	+0.69	0.00	+0.01	+0.10	—	16:55
81 Arseny Gritsyuk R	+1.33	+0.70	+0.08	+0.71	-0.15	0.00	-0.02	—	14:25
28 Timo Meier R	+1.19	+0.75	+0.25	+0.19	0.00	+0.01	0.00	—	16:02
63 Jesper Bratt L	+0.69	+0.55	+0.16	-0.04	0.00	0.00	+0.02	—	16:50
86 Jack Hughes C	+0.57	+0.70	+0.04	-0.13	0.00	-0.07	+0.02	—	18:40
14 Luke Glendening C	+0.55	0.00	0.00	+0.57	0.00	0.00	-0.02	—	10:24
13 Nico Hischier C	+0.51	+0.70	+0.28	-0.57	0.00	+0.02	+0.08	—	19:27
43 Luke Hughes D	+0.36	0.00	+0.06	+0.17	+0.15	0.00	-0.02	—	22:42
18 Ondrej Palat L	+0.31	+0.55	+0.10	-0.38	0.00	0.00	+0.05	—	13:08
25 Jacob Markstrom G	+0.28	0.00	—	—	0.00	—	—	+0.28	20:00
22 Brett Pesce D	+0.11	0.00	+0.04	+0.13	-0.15	0.00	+0.10	—	20:19
12 Cody Glass C	-0.12	0.00	+0.10	-0.14	0.00	-0.08	0.00	—	13:47
7 Dougie Hamilton D	-0.26	0.00	+0.29	-0.35	-0.30	0.00	+0.10	—	21:00
48 Brian Halonen L	-0.30	0.00	0.00	-0.30	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	6:54
17 Simon Nemec D	-0.39	0.00	0.00	-0.35	-0.15	0.00	+0.11	—	14:05
47 Paul Cotter L	-0.75	0.00	+0.03	-0.78	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	8:37
71 Jonas Siegenthaler D	-1.28	0.00	0.00	-1.25	0.00	0.00	-0.03	—	21:42

Columbus Blue Jackets

Player	Rating	Points	Shots	On ice	Pen	FO	Other	GSAx	TOI
10 Dmitri Voronkov L	+2.08	+0.75	+0.43	+0.92	0.00	0.00	-0.02	—	17:09
86 Kirill Marchenko R	+1.94	+0.75	+0.55	+0.61	0.00	0.00	+0.03	—	24:24
15 Dante Fabbro D	+1.27	0.00	+0.01	+1.13	0.00	0.00	+0.13	—	19:56
11 Miles Wood L	+1.15	0.00	+0.24	+0.61	+0.30	0.00	0.00	—	1:17
23 Sean Monahan C	+1.15	0.00	+0.06	+1.06	0.00	+0.02	+0.01	—	22:45
73 Jet Greaves G	+1.10	0.00	—	—	0.00	—	—	+1.10	57:52
8 Zach Werenski D	+0.99	0.00	+0.25	+0.83	0.00	0.00	-0.08	—	29:14
9 Ivan Provorov D	+0.85	+0.70	+0.04	+0.06	0.00	0.00	+0.05	—	21:05
2 Jake Christiansen D	+0.34	0.00	0.00	+0.38	0.00	0.00	-0.04	—	7:44
4 Cole Sillinger C	+0.14	0.00	0.00	+0.32	-0.15	-0.01	-0.02	—	13:33
21 Isac Lundeström C	+0.04	0.00	+0.07	+0.01	0.00	+0.03	-0.06	—	11:00
19 Adam Fantilli C	-0.04	0.00	+0.45	-0.57	0.00	+0.02	+0.07	—	17:10
3 Charlie Coyle C	-0.07	0.00	+0.07	-0.19	0.00	0.00	+0.05	—	17:49
24 Mathieu Olivier R	-0.10	0.00	+0.04	-0.34	+0.15	0.00	+0.05	—	14:48
91 Kent Johnson C	-0.23	0.00	+0.02	-0.23	0.00	0.00	-0.02	—	19:23
27 Zachary Aston-Reese C	-0.53	0.00	+0.03	-0.56	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	7:51
38 Boone Jenner C	-0.57	0.00	+0.03	-0.84	+0.15	+0.05	+0.05	—	19:08
78 Damon Severson D	-0.80	0.00	+0.11	-0.97	0.00	0.00	+0.06	—	20:42
5 Denton Mateychuk D	-0.87	0.00	+0.02	-0.89	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	13:16

An expected-goals take on Dom Luszczyszyn's Game Score: goals and assists, the quality of a player's own shots, shot quality for and against while they were on the ice at 5v5, penalties, faceoffs and puck plays, all in goals; goalies by goals saved above expected. From the NHL play-by-play and shift charts.