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Vancouver CanucksVAN 4–1 Final New York IslandersNYI

Friday, December 19, 2025

Final 1st2nd3rd T SOG
Vancouver CanucksVAN 301 4 31
New York IslandersNYI 001 1 24

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

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
8:57 VAN David Kampf (1) Jake DeBrusk (7) · wrist xG 0.11 1–0 ▶
10:35 VAN Kiefer Sherwood (14) Evander Kane (11), Marcus Pettersson (5) · wrist xG 0.07 2–0 ▶
15:47 VAN Kiefer Sherwood (15)PP Filip Hronek (16), Tom Willander (8) · snap xG 0.20 3–0 ▶
2nd Period
No scoring
3rd Period
14:55 NYI Anders Lee (9) Calum Ritchie (4), Mathew Barzal (18) · wrist xG 0.13 3–1 ▶
18:39 VAN Kiefer Sherwood (16)EN Filip Hronek (17) · wrist xG 0.53 4–1 ▶

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 52%Deserve to win48% NYI
VANNYI
3.44Expected goals2.41
4Goals (no shootout)1
2.00Expected goals, 5 on 51.17
54Shot attempts53
40Unblocked attempts38
31Shots on goal24

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
11:02 VAN Deserve to win Deserve to win · VAN takes the lead, 61–39%
NYI had led since 5:09 of the 1st, by as much as 62%
15:47 NYI Goalie Goalie · Sorokin −2.0 goals saved
3 goals on 0.95 xG, 9 shots on goal
3rd Period
14:08 NYI Pulled goalie Pulled goalie · Pulled Sorokin, down 3–0
With 5:52 left; NYI scored at 14:55 of the 3rd (3–1)
15:49 NYI Pulled goalie Pulled goalie · Pulled Sorokin, down 3–1
With 4:11 left; VAN scored at 18:39 of the 3rd (4–1)

Shot map

VAN shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ NYI shoots
Simon Holmstrom: backhand, 6 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 1:26) Simon Holmstrom: deflected, 6 ft, xG 0.06 (P1 1:28) Matthew Schaefer: slap, 51 ft, xG 0.06 (P1 4:00) Ryan Pulock: slap, 40 ft, xG 0.09 (P1 5:09) Emil Heineman: slap, 38 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 5:51) Drew O'Connor: wrist, 21 ft, xG 0.11 (P1 6:15) Marc Gatcomb: wrist, 56 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 6:45) Brock Boeser: wrist, 25 ft, xG 0.21 (P1 7:27) Scott Mayfield: wrist, 52 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 7:54) Tony DeAngelo: slap, 66 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 9:27) Drew O'Connor: wrist, 41 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 9:46) Marc Gatcomb: wrist, 26 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 10:10) Brock Boeser: deflected, 19 ft, xG 0.11 (P1 11:02) Brock Boeser: wrist, 7 ft, xG 0.09 (P1 11:03) Calum Ritchie: backhand, 9 ft, xG 0.16 (P1 12:48) Conor Garland: deflected, 40 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 15:27) Jonathan Drouin: wrist, 33 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 15:54) Anders Lee: snap, 43 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 16:38) Liam Ohgren: wrist, 47 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 18:03) Marc Gatcomb: deflected, 9 ft, xG 0.06 (P1 18:53) Mathew Barzal: deflected, 10 ft, xG 0.06 (P1 18:58) Evander Kane: wrist, 51 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 1:29) Liam Ohgren: wrist, 33 ft, xG 0.09 (P2 2:30) Linus Karlsson: wrist, 26 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 2:31) Marcus Pettersson: slap, 58 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 3:35) Marcus Pettersson: snap, 69 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 3:53) Tyler Myers: snap, 53 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 4:41) Tony DeAngelo: wrist, 46 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 6:07) Marco Rossi: wrist, 46 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 7:10) Tom Willander: slap, 46 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 8:39) Linus Karlsson: tip-in, 9 ft, xG 0.10 (P2 8:54) Linus Karlsson: backhand, 7 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 8:55) Linus Karlsson: backhand, 5 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 8:56) Ryan Pulock: slap, 61 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 9:18) Matthew Schaefer: wrist, 45 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 10:18) Jonathan Drouin: wrist, 19 ft, xG 0.14 (P2 10:39) Calum Ritchie: wrist, 11 ft, xG 0.16 (P2 10:49) Simon Holmstrom: wrist, 49 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 12:06) Tony DeAngelo: snap, 8 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 12:22) Tony DeAngelo: wrist, 14 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 12:37) Tony DeAngelo: deflected, 6 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 12:38) Ryan Pulock: slap, 61 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 12:41) Max Sasson: snap, 42 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 13:45) Anders Lee: deflected, 8 ft, xG 0.11 (P2 14:27) Liam Ohgren: slap, 28 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 15:28) Evander Kane: wrist, 18 ft, xG 0.16 (P2 16:33) Evander Kane: wrist, 9 ft, xG 0.17 (P2 16:49) Ryan Pulock: slap, 66 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 18:47) Marco Rossi: wrist, 39 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 19:54) Filip Hronek: wrist, 70 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 1:55) Marcus Pettersson: wrist, 53 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 2:30) Tom Willander: snap, 40 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 3:27) Linus Karlsson: bat, 8 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 3:28) Linus Karlsson: wrist, 7 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 3:29) Emil Heineman: snap, 33 ft, xG 0.11 (P3 4:13) Evander Kane: backhand, 17 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 4:28) Jake DeBrusk: wrist, 89 ft, xG 0.00 (P3 5:50) Anthony Duclair: wrist, 41 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 8:39) Tyler Myers: wrist, 60 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 9:22) Mathew Barzal: snap, 17 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 9:53) Conor Garland: wrist, 7 ft, xG 0.14 (P3 10:06) Jonathan Drouin: wrist, 30 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 11:13) Evander Kane: wrist, 47 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 11:31) Kyle MacLean: snap, 54 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 13:17) Marco Rossi: wrist, 173 ft, xG 0.41 (P3 14:14) Jake DeBrusk: backhand, 22 ft, xG 0.10 (P3 15:22) Evander Kane: wrist, 47 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 15:38) Mathew Barzal: wrist, 19 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 16:48) Matthew Schaefer: wrist, 63 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 17:24) Anders Lee: tip-in, 5 ft, xG 0.17 (P3 18:31) Marc Gatcomb: snap, 7 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 19:49) Marc Gatcomb: snap, 6 ft, xG 0.27 (P3 19:49) Adam Boqvist: slap, 60 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 19:53) David Kampf: GOAL, wrist, 9 ft, xG 0.11 (P1 8:57) Kiefer Sherwood: GOAL, wrist, 33 ft, xG 0.07 (P1 10:35) Kiefer Sherwood: GOAL, snap, 25 ft, xG 0.20 (P1 15:47) Anders Lee: GOAL, wrist, 8 ft, xG 0.13 (P3 14:55) Kiefer Sherwood: GOAL, wrist, 104 ft, xG 0.53 (P3 18:39)
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 GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
83 Conor Garland 000 -1 50.17 0120:14
6 Brock Boeser 000 -1 40.41 0319:42
23 Marco Rossi 000 -1 40.51 0219:07
64 David Kampf 101 +1 10.11 0016:37
74 Jake DeBrusk 011 +1 50.10 0016:02
44 Kiefer Sherwood 303 +2 30.80 2015:13
91 Evander Kane 011 +2 60.41 1014:38
18 Drew O'Connor 000 +1 30.13 0013:40
94 Linus Karlsson 000 0 70.37 0011:21
21 Nils Hoglander 000 +1 20.00 1011:13
63 Max Sasson 000 +1 10.01 0010:05
92 Liam Ohgren 000 0 40.22 3008:53
Defense
26 Marcus Pettersson 011 +1 40.05 0325:21
17 Filip Hronek 022 +1 10.01 0124:11
57 Tyler Myers 000 +1 20.04 0121:22
8 Zeev Buium 000 +2 00.00 0118:13
5 Tom Willander 011 0 20.10 1114:02
25 Elias Pettersson 000 -1 00.00 2113:10
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Thatcher Demko 24123 .958 2.41 +1.41

New York Islanders

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
13 Mathew Barzal 011 -1 40.13 0023:01
51 Emil Heineman 000 -1 40.15 4020:39
72 Anders Lee 101 0 40.46 2018:08
92 Simon Holmstrom 000 -1 30.12 0016:15
92 Jonathan Drouin 000 0 50.20 0016:06
53 Casey Cizikas 000 -1 00.00 2115:52
11 Anthony Duclair 000 0 20.05 0015:40
44 Jean-Gabriel Pageau 000 0 00.00 1014:27
64 Calum Ritchie 011 0 20.32 2011:27
17 Marc Gatcomb 000 0 60.42 5011:12
49 Maxim Shabanov 000 0 00.00 1011:04
32 Kyle MacLean 000 -1 10.02 1009:51
Defense
48 Matthew Schaefer 000 -1 60.12 0221:37
6 Ryan Pulock 000 -1 50.13 0120:39
77 Tony DeAngelo 000 -1 70.27 0220:09
24 Scott Mayfield 000 -1 20.01 2119:38
3 Adam Pelech 000 0 10.00 1419:37
34 Adam Boqvist 000 -1 10.02 0112:31
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Ilya Sorokin 30327 .900 2.50 -0.50

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
44 Kiefer Sherwood L +3.00 +2.25 +0.52 +0.37 -0.15 -0.01 +0.02 — 15:13
91 Evander Kane L +2.23 +0.70 +0.27 +1.15 +0.15 -0.01 -0.02 — 14:38
17 Filip Hronek D +1.88 +1.40 +0.01 +0.44 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 24:11
35 Thatcher Demko G +1.41 0.00 — — 0.00 — — +1.41 60:00
29 Marcus Pettersson D +1.33 +0.55 +0.03 +0.45 +0.15 0.00 +0.15 — 25:21
64 David Kampf C +1.01 +0.75 +0.07 +0.14 0.00 +0.07 -0.02 — 16:37
57 Tyler Myers D +0.93 0.00 +0.03 +0.83 0.00 0.00 +0.07 — 21:22
5 Tom Willander D +0.87 +0.55 +0.06 +0.42 -0.15 0.00 -0.01 — 14:02
24 Zeev Buium D +0.82 0.00 0.00 +0.77 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 18:13
93 Marco Rossi C +0.78 0.00 +0.33 +0.34 0.00 +0.01 +0.10 — 19:07
94 Linus Karlsson C +0.76 0.00 +0.24 +0.56 0.00 -0.02 -0.02 — 11:21
6 Brock Boeser R +0.69 0.00 +0.27 +0.28 0.00 +0.01 +0.13 — 19:42
74 Jake DeBrusk L +0.59 +0.70 +0.06 -0.16 0.00 -0.01 0.00 — 16:02
18 Drew O'Connor L +0.56 0.00 +0.08 +0.47 0.00 -0.02 +0.02 — 13:40
92 Liam Ohgren L +0.39 0.00 +0.14 +0.27 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 8:53
8 Conor Garland R +0.25 0.00 +0.11 0.00 +0.15 0.00 -0.01 — 20:14
63 Max Sasson C +0.14 0.00 +0.01 +0.10 0.00 +0.03 0.00 — 10:05
21 Nils Hoglander L -0.21 0.00 0.00 -0.06 -0.15 0.00 0.00 — 11:13
25 Elias Pettersson D -0.32 0.00 0.00 -0.33 0.00 0.00 +0.01 — 13:10

New York Islanders

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
64 Calum Ritchie C +1.05 +0.70 +0.21 +0.19 0.00 -0.05 0.00 — 11:27
27 Anders Lee L +0.87 +0.75 +0.30 -0.19 0.00 +0.01 0.00 — 18:08
13 Mathew Barzal C +0.49 +0.55 +0.08 -0.37 +0.30 -0.05 -0.02 — 23:01
77 Tony DeAngelo D +0.40 0.00 +0.18 +0.17 0.00 0.00 +0.06 — 20:09
3 Adam Pelech D +0.18 0.00 0.00 +0.15 -0.15 0.00 +0.18 — 19:37
29 Jonathan Drouin L +0.14 0.00 +0.13 -0.01 0.00 +0.02 0.00 — 16:06
49 Max Shabanov R -0.08 0.00 0.00 -0.06 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 11:04
11 Anthony Duclair L -0.11 0.00 +0.03 -0.16 0.00 +0.01 0.00 — 15:40
32 Kyle MacLean C -0.13 0.00 +0.01 -0.12 0.00 -0.01 -0.02 — 9:51
16 Marc Gatcomb C -0.28 0.00 +0.27 -0.40 -0.15 0.00 0.00 — 11:12
6 Ryan Pulock D -0.32 0.00 +0.08 -0.46 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 20:39
10 Simon Holmstrom R -0.34 0.00 +0.08 -0.39 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 16:15
51 Emil Heineman L -0.40 0.00 +0.10 -0.50 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 20:39
34 Adam Boqvist D -0.43 0.00 +0.01 -0.49 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 12:31
30 Ilya Sorokin G -0.50 0.00 — — 0.00 — — -0.50 56:21
53 Casey Cizikas C -0.63 0.00 0.00 -0.64 0.00 0.00 +0.01 — 15:52
44 Jean-Gabriel Pageau C -0.69 0.00 0.00 -0.69 0.00 +0.02 -0.02 — 14:27
24 Scott Mayfield D -1.01 0.00 0.00 -1.05 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 19:38
48 Matthew Schaefer D -1.04 0.00 +0.08 -1.03 -0.15 0.00 +0.06 — 21:37

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.