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Minnesota WildMIN 2–4 Final Vancouver CanucksVAN

Saturday, December 6, 2025

Final 1st2nd3rd T SOG
Minnesota WildMIN 101 2 30
Vancouver CanucksVAN 031 4 21

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

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
3:11 MIN Matt Boldy (16) Mats Zuccarello (10), Yakov Trenin (6) · snap xG 0.11 1–0 ▶
2nd Period
9:29 VAN Tom Willander (1) Linus Karlsson (5), Jake DeBrusk (5) · wrist xG 0.06 1–1 ▶
11:46 VAN Elias Pettersson (1) Tom Willander (7), Aatu Räty (8) · wrist xG 0.02 1–2 ▶
15:12 VAN Aatu Räty (2) Evander Kane (10) · wrist xG 0.08 1–3 ▶
3rd Period
5:09 VAN Aatu Räty (3) Unassisted · backhand xG 0.47 1–4 ▶
17:22 MIN Mats Zuccarello (2)PP Kirill Kaprizov (15), Matt Boldy (15) · wrist xG 0.06 2–4 ▶

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

MIN 60%Deserve to win40% VAN
MINVAN
2.84Expected goals2.29
2Goals (no shootout)4
1.96Expected goals, 5 on 51.85
58Shot attempts48
47Unblocked attempts34
30Shots on goal21

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
15:12 MIN Goalie Goalie · Wallstedt −2.0 goals saved
3 goals on 0.97 xG, 10 shots on goal

Shot map

MIN shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ VAN shoots
Quinn Hughes: slap, 55 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 0:40) Brock Faber: wrist, 48 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 4:18) Conor Garland: snap, 35 ft, xG 0.08 (P1 5:20) Matt Boldy: wrist, 6 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 5:32) Aatu Räty: snap, 43 ft, xG 0.05 (P1 7:26) Quinn Hughes: backhand, 23 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 7:39) Brock Boeser: snap, 23 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 8:05) Brock Boeser: snap, 61 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 8:11) Max Sasson: wrist, 5 ft, xG 0.09 (P1 8:40) Quinn Hughes: snap, 44 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 8:48) Kirill Kaprizov: wrist, 31 ft, xG 0.09 (P1 10:29) Yakov Trenin: wrist, 34 ft, xG 0.06 (P1 11:42) Kirill Kaprizov: snap, 20 ft, xG 0.12 (P1 12:12) Ryan Hartman: wrist, 39 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 13:47) Tom Willander: snap, 66 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 15:13) Yakov Trenin: wrist, 29 ft, xG 0.12 (P1 16:13) Marcus Johansson: wrist, 5 ft, xG 0.13 (P1 16:34) Liam Ohgren: tip-in, 19 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 17:50) Jonas Brodin: wrist, 30 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 18:33) Vladimir Tarasenko: deflected, 5 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 18:34) Conor Garland: tip-in, 16 ft, xG 0.05 (P1 18:54) Kirill Kaprizov: wrist, 16 ft, xG 0.10 (P2 0:31) Mats Zuccarello: tip-in, 8 ft, xG 0.11 (P2 0:54) Zeev Buium: slap, 26 ft, xG 0.09 (P2 1:55) Evander Kane: snap, 22 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 3:20) Conor Garland: snap, 29 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 3:38) Max Sasson: snap, 30 ft, xG 0.11 (P2 3:59) Brock Faber: slap, 37 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 4:14) Brock Faber: wrist, 45 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 4:21) Joel Eriksson Ek: slap, 39 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 4:42) Kirill Kaprizov: tip-in, 17 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 4:48) Jake Middleton: wrist, 37 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 5:17) Conor Garland: snap, 48 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 7:19) Joel Eriksson Ek: wrist, 41 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 7:58) Conor Garland: snap, 34 ft, xG 0.09 (P2 10:21) Jake Middleton: wrist, 65 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 12:00) Drew O'Connor: slap, 55 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 12:18) Matt Boldy: wrap-around, 5 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 13:24) Jake DeBrusk: backhand, 13 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 14:28) Matt Boldy: backhand, 21 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 14:39) Ryan Hartman: wrist, 44 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 16:27) Joel Eriksson Ek: tip-in, 22 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 17:57) Jake Middleton: wrist, 68 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 18:05) Max Sasson: backhand, 18 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 19:00) Brock Faber: wrist, 69 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 0:11) Conor Garland: wrist, 25 ft, xG 0.14 (P3 0:24) Jared Spurgeon: snap, 6 ft, xG 0.16 (P3 1:12) Vladimir Tarasenko: slap, 25 ft, xG 0.11 (P3 2:07) Vladimir Tarasenko: wrist, 39 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 2:12) Quinn Hughes: slap, 173 ft, xG 0.00 (P3 2:18) Zeev Buium: wrist, 53 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 2:49) Brock Faber: wrist, 52 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 2:59) Joel Eriksson Ek: tip-in, 14 ft, xG 0.07 (P3 3:05) Matt Boldy: slap, 57 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 3:15) Brock Boeser: wrist, 31 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 3:50) Yakov Trenin: wrist, 8 ft, xG 0.14 (P3 6:05) Jared Spurgeon: wrist, 53 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 6:18) Jake Middleton: wrist, 5 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 6:19) Nico Sturm: backhand, 6 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 6:20) Kiefer Sherwood: backhand, 10 ft, xG 0.19 (P3 6:52) Tyler Myers: snap, 43 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 7:49) Evander Kane: snap, 44 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 8:46) Kiefer Sherwood: tip-in, 24 ft, xG 0.08 (P3 8:55) Evander Kane: backhand, 39 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 9:20) Brock Boeser: wrist, 11 ft, xG 0.14 (P3 10:21) Marcus Johansson: snap, 13 ft, xG 0.13 (P3 12:19) Aatu Räty: snap, 33 ft, xG 0.07 (P3 12:37) Conor Garland: slap, 79 ft, xG 0.00 (P3 14:19) Mats Zuccarello: wrist, 40 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 14:48) Tyler Myers: slap, 57 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 15:51) Marcus Johansson: slap, 34 ft, xG 0.11 (P3 16:35) Joel Eriksson Ek: slap, 29 ft, xG 0.08 (P3 16:57) Danila Yurov: wrist, 42 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 18:00) Matt Boldy: wrist, 7 ft, xG 0.18 (P3 18:49) Marcus Johansson: wrap-around, 5 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 19:07) Matt Boldy: GOAL, snap, 28 ft, xG 0.11 (P1 3:11) Tom Willander: GOAL, wrist, 38 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 9:29) Elias Pettersson: GOAL, wrist, 68 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 11:46) Aatu Räty: GOAL, wrist, 35 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 15:12) Aatu Räty: GOAL, backhand, 2 ft, xG 0.47 (P3 5:09) Mats Zuccarello: GOAL, wrist, 37 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 17:22)
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

Minnesota Wild

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
12 Matt Boldy 112 +1 60.42 1021:27
97 Kirill Kaprizov 011 -1 70.39 2021:20
14 Joel Eriksson Ek 000 0 60.24 2019:54
90 Marcus Johansson 000 0 40.43 1018:12
36 Mats Zuccarello 112 -2 40.21 1117:43
38 Ryan Hartman 000 0 20.02 2015:20
13 Yakov Trenin 011 -2 30.31 4013:23
91 Vladimir Tarasenko 000 -1 40.17 0012:42
22 Danila Yurov 000 -2 10.01 1112:25
78 Nico Sturm 000 -2 10.05 0009:34
92 Liam Ohgren 000 0 20.04 1008:14
19 Tyler Pitlick 000 0 00.00 3006:57
Defense
7 Brock Faber 000 0 60.12 0325:06
25 Jonas Brodin 000 0 10.04 1320:07
8 Zeev Buium 000 -2 30.11 0019:40
46 Jared Spurgeon 000 -1 20.16 0218:36
55 Jake Middleton 000 -1 50.11 2318:19
24 Zach Bogosian 000 -2 10.00 1015:15
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Jesper Wallstedt 21417 .810 2.29 -1.71

Vancouver Canucks

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
83 Conor Garland 000 -1 70.41 0023:34
6 Brock Boeser 000 -1 50.23 1021:15
64 David Kampf 000 +1 10.00 2217:57
44 Kiefer Sherwood 000 +3 50.26 5017:41
91 Evander Kane 011 +2 50.16 1015:38
54 Aatu Räty 213 +3 40.66 4014:09
74 Jake DeBrusk 011 0 20.03 2014:01
63 Max Sasson 000 0 40.29 2112:23
94 Linus Karlsson 011 +1 20.00 2011:32
18 Drew O'Connor 000 0 10.01 4109:54
13 Arshdeep Bains 000 0 00.00 0007:27
Defense
43 Quinn Hughes 000 +1 50.09 0124:49
17 Filip Hronek 000 +1 00.00 2123:56
26 Marcus Pettersson 000 -1 10.00 0223:28
57 Tyler Myers 000 0 20.06 2122:14
5 Tom Willander 112 +3 20.07 0013:18
25 Elias Pettersson 101 +3 10.02 0011:42
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Nikita Tolopilo 30228 .933 2.84 +0.84

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.

Minnesota Wild

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
12 Matt Boldy L +2.30 +1.30 +0.27 +0.43 +0.30 0.00 0.00 — 21:27
36 Mats Zuccarello R +1.16 +1.45 +0.14 -0.45 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 17:43
97 Kirill Kaprizov L +0.68 +0.70 +0.25 -0.06 -0.15 0.00 -0.06 — 21:20
7 Brock Faber D +0.59 0.00 +0.08 +0.53 -0.15 0.00 +0.13 — 25:06
90 Marcus Johansson L +0.51 0.00 +0.28 +0.23 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 18:12
14 Joel Eriksson Ek C +0.49 0.00 +0.16 +0.39 0.00 -0.04 -0.02 — 19:54
91 Vladimir Tarasenko R +0.37 0.00 +0.11 +0.28 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 12:42
25 Jonas Brodin D +0.32 0.00 +0.02 +0.14 0.00 0.00 +0.15 — 20:07
46 Jared Spurgeon D +0.30 0.00 +0.11 +0.12 0.00 0.00 +0.08 — 18:36
13 Yakov Trenin C +0.10 +0.55 +0.20 -0.64 0.00 -0.01 0.00 — 13:23
5 Jake Middleton D +0.10 0.00 +0.07 -0.26 +0.15 0.00 +0.13 — 18:19
28 Liam Ohgren L -0.03 0.00 +0.03 -0.04 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 8:14
19 Tyler Pitlick C -0.05 0.00 0.00 -0.04 0.00 -0.01 0.00 — 6:57
38 Ryan Hartman R -0.16 0.00 +0.01 -0.11 0.00 -0.02 -0.04 — 15:20
22 Danila Yurov R -0.40 0.00 +0.01 -0.41 0.00 -0.05 +0.05 — 12:25
78 Nico Sturm C -0.47 0.00 +0.03 -0.47 0.00 -0.03 0.00 — 9:34
8 Zeev Buium D -0.53 0.00 +0.07 -0.58 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 19:40
24 Zach Bogosian D -0.59 0.00 0.00 -0.61 0.00 0.00 +0.02 — 15:15
30 Jesper Wallstedt G -1.86 0.00 — — -0.15 — — -1.71 57:05

Vancouver Canucks

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
54 Aatu Räty C +3.79 +2.05 +0.43 +1.20 0.00 +0.12 -0.02 — 14:09
5 Tom Willander D +1.93 +1.45 +0.05 +0.44 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 13:18
91 Evander Kane L +1.76 +0.70 +0.10 +0.94 0.00 0.00 +0.02 — 15:38
44 Kiefer Sherwood L +1.37 0.00 +0.17 +1.10 +0.15 -0.01 -0.04 — 17:41
25 Elias Pettersson D +1.12 +0.75 +0.01 +0.38 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 11:42
94 Linus Karlsson C +1.10 +0.70 0.00 +0.27 +0.15 0.00 -0.02 — 11:32
60 Nikita Tolopilo G +0.84 0.00 — — 0.00 — — +0.84 59:32
43 Quinn Hughes D +0.79 0.00 +0.06 +0.70 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 24:49
17 Filip Hronek D +0.51 0.00 0.00 +0.31 +0.15 0.00 +0.05 — 23:56
74 Jake DeBrusk L +0.38 +0.55 +0.02 -0.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 14:01
63 Max Sasson C +0.36 0.00 +0.19 +0.11 0.00 -0.01 +0.07 — 12:23
64 David Kampf C +0.12 0.00 0.00 -0.08 0.00 +0.10 +0.10 — 17:57
57 Tyler Myers D -0.08 0.00 +0.04 -0.15 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 22:14
8 Conor Garland R -0.14 0.00 +0.27 -0.40 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 23:34
23 Jonathan Lekkerimäki R -0.51 0.00 0.00 -0.51 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 6:35
6 Brock Boeser R -0.55 0.00 +0.15 -0.50 -0.15 -0.03 -0.02 — 21:15
13 Arshdeep Bains L -0.60 0.00 0.00 -0.60 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 7:27
18 Drew O'Connor L -0.74 0.00 +0.01 -0.64 -0.15 -0.01 +0.05 — 9:54
29 Marcus Pettersson D -0.84 0.00 0.00 -0.75 -0.15 0.00 +0.06 — 23:28

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.