Vancouver CanucksVAN 3–2 Final/SO Chicago BlackhawksCHI

Friday, October 17, 2025

Final/SO	1st	2nd	3rd	OT	SO	T	SOG
Vancouver CanucksVAN	0	2	0	0	1	3	32
Chicago BlackhawksCHI	2	0	0	0	0	2	33

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

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
12:41	CHI	Ryan Donato (2)PP Andre Burakovsky (2), Artyom Levshunov (2) · tip-in xG 0.16	0–1 ▶
19:14	CHI	Tyler Bertuzzi (2) Sam Rinzel (1) · wrist xG 0.48	0–2 ▶
2nd Period
6:49	VAN	Jake DeBrusk (1)PP Conor Garland (3), Quinn Hughes (3) · wrist xG 0.16	1–2 ▶
13:42	VAN	Max Sasson (2) Filip Hronek (3), Linus Karlsson (1) · wrist xG 0.21	2–2 ▶
3rd Period
No scoring
Overtime
No scoring
Shootout
	CHI	Teuvo Teravainen vs Kevin Lankinen	Saved
	VAN	Elias Pettersson vs Spencer Knight	Missed
	CHI	Connor Bedard vs Kevin Lankinen	Saved
	VAN	Conor Garland vs Spencer Knight	Saved
	CHI	Frank Nazar vs Kevin Lankinen	Saved
	VAN	Jake DeBrusk vs Spencer Knight	Missed
	CHI	Ryan Donato vs Kevin Lankinen	Saved
	VAN	Brock Boeser vs Spencer Knight	Goal

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

VAN 65%Deserve to win35% CHI

VAN		CHI
3.76	Expected goals	2.81
2	Goals (no shootout)	2
1.15	Expected goals, 5 on 5	2.19
65	Shot attempts	56
54	Unblocked attempts	46
32	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).

2nd Period
0:20	CHI	xG swing	xG swing · Out-chanced VAN 1.41–0.18 In xG over 10 minutes, 10:30 of the 1st to 0:30 of the 2nd; goals 2–0
3rd Period
19:40	VAN	xG swing	xG swing · Out-chanced CHI 1.67–0.09 In xG over 10 minutes, 13:40 of the 3rd to 3:40 of overtime; neither team scored
Overtime
1:57	VAN	Deserve to win	Deserve to win · VAN takes the lead, 61–39% CHI had led since 5:11 of the 1st, by as much as 84%

Shot map

VAN shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ CHI 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

Vancouver Canucks

	Skater	G	A	P	+/−	Att	xG	Hit	Blk	TOI
Forwards
6	Brock Boeser	0	0	0	0	5	0.25	2	0	23:27
83	Conor Garland	0	1	1	0	5	0.28	3	1	23:19
40	Elias Pettersson	0	0	0	0	6	0.65	1	1	21:34
74	Jake DeBrusk	1	0	1	0	13	1.30	2	1	21:32
77	Filip Chytil	0	0	0	0	4	0.13	0	0	20:40
44	Kiefer Sherwood	0	0	0	-1	3	0.03	4	0	15:02
91	Evander Kane	0	0	0	0	3	0.12	1	1	14:45
73	Teddy Blueger	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	3	2	12:57
18	Drew O'Connor	0	0	0	-1	2	0.05	0	0	12:50
63	Max Sasson	1	0	1	+1	2	0.22	0	0	08:17
13	Arshdeep Bains	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	0	0	07:56
94	Linus Karlsson	0	1	1	+1	1	0.03	2	0	07:55
Defense
43	Quinn Hughes	0	1	1	-1	10	0.31	0	0	30:08
17	Filip Hronek	0	1	1	0	3	0.16	2	1	22:31
26	Marcus Pettersson	0	0	0	0	4	0.10	1	1	20:46
57	Tyler Myers	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	2	1	19:13
25	Elias Pettersson	0	0	0	+1	1	0.01	2	0	12:39

Goalie	SA	GA	SV	SV%	xGA	GSAx
Kevin Lankinen	33	2	31	.939	2.81	+0.81

Chicago Blackhawks

	Skater	G	A	P	+/−	Att	xG	Hit	Blk	TOI
Forwards
98	Connor Bedard	0	0	0	+1	7	0.40	1	0	25:01
95	Ilya Mikheyev	0	0	0	0	7	0.36	2	1	20:43
16	Jason Dickinson	0	0	0	-1	2	0.08	1	2	19:46
59	Tyler Bertuzzi	1	0	1	+1	9	0.71	3	0	19:02
91	Frank Nazar	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	18:49
95	Andre Burakovsky	0	1	1	0	1	0.10	0	0	16:18
86	Teuvo Teravainen	0	0	0	0	3	0.21	1	0	16:18
8	Ryan Donato	1	0	1	-1	4	0.26	1	1	14:24
20	Ryan Greene	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	1	0	10:15
34	Colton Dach	0	0	0	0	4	0.15	3	0	08:41
Defense
72	Alex Vlasic	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	1	24:47
44	Wyatt Kaiser	0	0	0	0	4	0.19	1	1	19:35
5	Connor Murphy	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	1	1	15:38
24	Matt Grzelcyk	0	0	0	0	3	0.04	0	1	14:59
55	Artyom Levshunov	0	1	1	-1	1	0.00	1	0	13:47
46	Louis Crevier	0	0	0	0	1	0.19	1	0	12:46

Goalie	SA	GA	SV	SV%	xGA	GSAx
Spencer Knight	32	2	30	.938	3.76	+1.76

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.

Vancouver Canucks

Player	Rating	Points	Shots	On ice	Pen	FO	Other	GSAx	TOI
74 Jake DeBrusk L	+1.92	+0.75	+0.84	+0.12	+0.15	-0.01	+0.07	—	21:32
63 Max Sasson C	+1.05	+0.75	+0.14	+0.20	0.00	-0.03	-0.02	—	8:17
8 Conor Garland R	+1.03	+0.70	+0.18	-0.04	+0.15	-0.01	+0.05	—	23:19
94 Linus Karlsson C	+0.93	+0.55	+0.02	+0.38	0.00	0.00	-0.02	—	7:55
32 Kevin Lankinen G	+0.81	0.00	—	—	0.00	—	—	+0.81	65:00
25 Elias Pettersson D	+0.42	0.00	+0.01	+0.28	+0.15	0.00	-0.02	—	12:39
40 Elias Pettersson C	+0.41	0.00	+0.42	-0.05	0.00	+0.01	+0.03	—	21:34
13 Arshdeep Bains L	+0.25	0.00	0.00	+0.24	0.00	+0.01	0.00	—	7:56
90 Victor Mancini D	+0.21	0.00	+0.08	+0.11	0.00	0.00	+0.03	—	12:17
6 Brock Boeser R	+0.04	0.00	+0.17	-0.10	0.00	-0.03	0.00	—	23:27
29 Marcus Pettersson D	+0.01	0.00	+0.07	-0.09	0.00	0.00	+0.03	—	20:46
17 Filip Hronek D	+0.01	+0.70	+0.10	-0.85	0.00	0.00	+0.05	—	22:31
72 Filip Chytil C	-0.01	0.00	+0.08	-0.09	0.00	-0.01	0.00	—	20:40
57 Tyler Myers D	-0.19	0.00	0.00	-0.24	0.00	0.00	+0.05	—	19:13
43 Quinn Hughes D	-0.47	+0.55	+0.20	-1.33	+0.15	0.00	-0.04	—	30:08
91 Evander Kane L	-0.56	0.00	+0.08	-0.51	-0.15	0.00	+0.03	—	14:45
18 Drew O'Connor L	-0.98	0.00	+0.03	-1.00	0.00	+0.01	-0.02	—	12:50
53 Teddy Blueger C	-1.17	0.00	0.00	-1.22	0.00	-0.05	+0.10	—	12:57
44 Kiefer Sherwood L	-1.71	0.00	+0.02	-1.58	-0.15	0.00	0.00	—	15:02

Chicago Blackhawks

Player	Rating	Points	Shots	On ice	Pen	FO	Other	GSAx	TOI
59 Tyler Bertuzzi L	+2.40	+0.75	+0.46	+1.20	0.00	+0.05	-0.06	—	19:02
6 Sam Rinzel D	+2.28	+0.70	+0.03	+1.48	0.00	0.00	+0.06	—	20:56
30 Spencer Knight G	+1.76	0.00	—	—	0.00	—	—	+1.76	65:00
28 Andre Burakovsky L	+1.38	+0.70	+0.07	+0.59	0.00	0.00	+0.02	—	16:18
44 Wyatt Kaiser D	+0.96	0.00	+0.12	+0.64	+0.15	0.00	+0.05	—	19:35
8 Ryan Donato C	+0.93	+0.75	+0.17	+0.12	-0.15	0.00	+0.05	—	14:24
95 Ilya Mikheyev R	+0.57	0.00	+0.23	+0.29	0.00	0.00	+0.05	—	20:43
48 Matt Grzelcyk D	+0.50	0.00	+0.03	+0.25	+0.15	0.00	+0.07	—	14:59
98 Connor Bedard C	+0.49	0.00	+0.26	+0.60	-0.30	-0.01	-0.06	—	25:01
72 Alex Vlasic D	+0.30	0.00	+0.01	+0.26	0.00	0.00	+0.03	—	24:47
34 Colton Dach C	+0.27	0.00	+0.10	-0.01	+0.15	+0.01	+0.02	—	8:41
55 Artyom Levshunov D	+0.27	+0.55	0.00	-0.28	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	13:47
73 Lukas Reichel L	+0.25	0.00	+0.02	+0.40	-0.15	-0.01	0.00	—	10:42
16 Jason Dickinson C	+0.23	0.00	+0.05	+0.01	0.00	+0.06	+0.12	—	19:46
86 Teuvo Teravainen C	+0.19	0.00	+0.14	+0.09	0.00	0.00	-0.04	—	16:18
5 Connor Murphy D	+0.18	0.00	+0.01	+0.12	0.00	0.00	+0.05	—	15:38
20 Ryan Greene C	+0.08	0.00	+0.02	+0.04	0.00	0.00	+0.02	—	10:15
91 Frank Nazar C	-0.02	0.00	0.00	+0.12	-0.15	+0.01	0.00	—	18:49
46 Louis Crevier D	-0.07	0.00	+0.13	-0.18	0.00	0.00	-0.02	—	12:46

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.