Vancouver CanucksVAN 3–0 Final New York RangersNYR

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Final	1st	2nd	3rd	T	SOG
Vancouver CanucksVAN	1	1	1	3	17
New York RangersNYR	0	0	0	0	23

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

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
1:46	VAN	Evander Kane (6) Brock Boeser (8), Elias Pettersson (4) · wrist xG 0.15	1–0 ▶
2nd Period
3:24	VAN	Liam Ohgren (1) Linus Karlsson (6) · snap xG 0.06	2–0 ▶
3rd Period
16:52	VAN	Conor Garland (7)SHEN Filip Hronek (15) · backhand xG 0.50	3–0 ▶

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 28%Deserve to win72% NYR

VAN		NYR
2.47	Expected goals	2.76
3	Goals (no shootout)	0
1.30	Expected goals, 5 on 5	1.51
34	Shot attempts	59
28	Unblocked attempts	42
17	Shots on goal	23

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
16:20	NYR	Deserve to win	Deserve to win · NYR takes the lead, 67–33% VAN had led since 9:02 of the 1st, by as much as 62%
19:10	NYR	xG swing	xG swing · Out-chanced VAN 1.11–0.07 In xG over 10 minutes, 9:10 to 19:10 of the 1st; neither team scored
2nd Period
15:40	VAN	Goalie	Goalie · Demko +2.1 goals saved 0 goals on 2.14 xG, 14 shots on goal
3rd Period
15:57	NYR	Pulled goalie	Pulled goalie · Pulled Quick, down 2–0 With 4:03 left; VAN scored at 16:52 of the 3rd (3–0)

Shot map

VAN shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ NYR 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	1	1	0	2	0.15	1	1	19:53
74	Jake DeBrusk	0	0	0	+1	3	0.27	1	0	19:20
83	Conor Garland	1	0	1	+1	5	0.93	1	1	19:14
23	Marco Rossi	0	0	0	0	1	0.08	2	1	18:59
44	Kiefer Sherwood	0	0	0	+1	5	0.11	6	0	17:07
91	Evander Kane	1	0	1	+1	3	0.35	2	1	14:48
64	David Kampf	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	2	14:08
18	Drew O'Connor	0	0	0	+1	1	0.14	0	0	13:40
21	Nils Hoglander	0	0	0	0	2	0.08	2	0	11:40
63	Max Sasson	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	0	0	09:25
94	Linus Karlsson	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	1	0	08:19
92	Liam Ohgren	1	0	1	+1	2	0.24	1	0	07:15
Defense
17	Filip Hronek	0	1	1	+2	2	0.04	1	1	24:05
26	Marcus Pettersson	0	0	0	+1	2	0.00	0	2	23:27
57	Tyler Myers	0	0	0	+1	2	0.02	1	3	22:51
8	Zeev Buium	0	0	0	+1	2	0.05	1	0	22:28
25	Elias Pettersson	0	1	1	+1	1	0.00	0	1	13:10
5	Tom Willander	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0	0	12:20

Goalie	SA	GA	SV	SV%	xGA	GSAx
Thatcher Demko	23	0	23	1.000	2.76	+2.76

New York Rangers

	Skater	G	A	P	+/−	Att	xG	Hit	Blk	TOI
Forwards
10	J.T. Miller	0	0	0	-1	6	0.60	1	0	22:21
93	Mika Zibanejad	0	0	0	-1	7	0.21	0	0	22:15
16	Vincent Trocheck	0	0	0	-1	5	0.40	3	1	22:13
10	Artemi Panarin	0	0	0	-1	11	0.67	0	0	21:29
50	Will Cuylle	0	0	0	-1	6	0.43	5	0	20:20
13	Alexis Lafrenière	0	0	0	-1	3	0.04	1	0	18:22
43	Conor Sheary	0	0	0	-1	5	0.17	0	0	15:12
42	Noah Laba	0	0	0	-1	2	0.08	4	1	14:51
14	Taylor Raddysh	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	1	11:28
10	Sam Carrick	0	0	0	-1	2	0.00	1	0	08:43
73	Matt Rempe	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	3	0	07:07
Defense
44	Vladislav Gavrikov	0	0	0	-1	1	0.00	0	0	23:54
4	Braden Schneider	0	0	0	-1	3	0.10	3	1	20:29
7	Carson Soucy	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	17:28
17	Will Borgen	0	0	0	0	3	0.03	0	0	16:38
29	Matthew Robertson	0	0	0	-1	2	0.02	2	0	11:44

Goalie	SA	GA	SV	SV%	xGA	GSAx
Jonathan Quick	16	2	14	.875	1.61	-0.39

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
35 Thatcher Demko G	+2.76	0.00	—	—	0.00	—	—	+2.76	59:51
92 Liam Ohgren L	+1.28	+0.75	+0.16	+0.41	0.00	-0.01	-0.02	—	7:15
8 Conor Garland R	+1.24	+0.75	+0.61	-0.18	0.00	-0.01	+0.07	—	19:14
17 Filip Hronek D	+1.18	+0.70	+0.03	+0.46	0.00	0.00	-0.01	—	24:05
91 Evander Kane L	+1.09	+0.75	+0.23	+0.06	0.00	0.00	+0.05	—	14:48
25 Elias Pettersson D	+0.84	+0.55	0.00	+0.26	0.00	0.00	+0.03	—	13:10
94 Linus Karlsson C	+0.79	+0.70	0.00	+0.21	-0.15	+0.01	+0.02	—	8:19
6 Brock Boeser R	+0.70	+0.70	+0.10	-0.13	0.00	-0.01	+0.05	—	19:53
29 Marcus Pettersson D	+0.45	0.00	0.00	+0.37	0.00	0.00	+0.08	—	23:27
63 Max Sasson C	+0.23	0.00	0.00	+0.21	0.00	+0.02	0.00	—	9:25
44 Kiefer Sherwood L	+0.20	0.00	+0.07	-0.02	+0.15	0.00	0.00	—	17:07
64 David Kampf C	+0.14	0.00	0.00	-0.09	+0.15	-0.02	+0.10	—	14:08
93 Marco Rossi C	+0.02	0.00	+0.05	+0.05	-0.15	+0.02	+0.05	—	18:59
21 Nils Hoglander L	0.00	0.00	+0.05	-0.05	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	11:40
74 Jake DeBrusk L	-0.05	0.00	+0.18	-0.21	0.00	0.00	-0.02	—	19:20
57 Tyler Myers D	-0.07	0.00	+0.01	-0.02	-0.15	0.00	+0.09	—	22:51
24 Zeev Buium D	-0.15	0.00	+0.04	-0.14	0.00	0.00	-0.04	—	22:28
18 Drew O'Connor L	-0.18	0.00	+0.09	-0.24	0.00	-0.03	0.00	—	13:40
5 Tom Willander D	-0.59	0.00	0.00	-0.59	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	12:20

New York Rangers

Player	Rating	Shots	On ice	Pen	FO	Other	GSAx	TOI
8 J.T. Miller C	+1.01	+0.39	+0.61	0.00	+0.02	0.00	—	22:21
10 Artemi Panarin L	+0.92	+0.43	+0.38	+0.15	0.00	-0.04	—	21:29
50 Will Cuylle L	+0.89	+0.28	+0.49	+0.15	+0.01	-0.04	—	20:20
93 Mika Zibanejad C	+0.70	+0.14	+0.43	+0.15	-0.02	0.00	—	22:15
13 Alexis Lafrenière L	+0.49	+0.03	+0.44	0.00	0.00	+0.02	—	18:22
16 Vincent Trocheck C	+0.45	+0.26	+0.47	-0.30	-0.02	+0.05	—	22:13
60 Scott Morrow D	+0.21	0.00	+0.18	0.00	0.00	+0.03	—	15:18
4 Braden Schneider D	+0.13	+0.07	+0.01	0.00	0.00	+0.05	—	20:29
17 Will Borgen D	+0.12	+0.02	+0.10	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	16:38
44 Vladislav Gavrikov D	-0.04	0.00	-0.02	0.00	0.00	-0.02	—	23:54
49 Jaroslav Chmelar R	-0.06	0.00	-0.21	+0.15	0.00	0.00	—	6:01
24 Carson Soucy D	-0.07	0.00	-0.12	0.00	0.00	+0.05	—	17:28
29 Matthew Robertson D	-0.21	+0.02	-0.23	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	11:44
39 Sam Carrick C	-0.22	0.00	-0.26	0.00	+0.01	+0.02	—	8:43
73 Matt Rempe C	-0.26	0.00	-0.26	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	7:07
32 Jonathan Quick G	-0.39	—	—	0.00	—	—	-0.39	58:26
43 Conor Sheary L	-0.68	+0.11	-0.78	0.00	-0.01	0.00	—	15:12
14 Taylor Raddysh R	-0.78	0.00	-0.83	0.00	0.00	+0.05	—	11:28
42 Noah Laba C	-0.79	+0.05	-0.74	-0.15	+0.04	+0.01	—	14:51

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.