New York RangersNYR 0–2 Final New York IslandersNYI

Saturday, December 27, 2025

Final	1st	2nd	3rd	T	SOG
New York RangersNYR	0	0	0	0	27
New York IslandersNYI	1	0	1	2	26

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

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
0:58	NYI	Anders Lee (10) Unassisted · wrist xG 0.23	0–1 ▶
2nd Period
No scoring
3rd Period
19:43	NYI	Simon Holmstrom (8)EN Unassisted · wrist xG 0.53	0–2 ▶

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

NYR 33%Deserve to win67% NYI

NYR		NYI
2.55	Expected goals	4.40
0	Goals (no shootout)	2
1.30	Expected goals, 5 on 5	2.41
64	Shot attempts	58
42	Unblocked attempts	39
27	Shots on goal	26

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	NYI	xG swing	xG swing · Out-chanced NYR 1.17–0.12 In xG over 10 minutes, the start of the 1st to 10:00 of the 1st; goals 1–0
3rd Period
3:50	NYR	Goalie	Goalie · Shesterkin +2.1 goals saved 1 goal on 3.14 xG, 22 shots on goal
16:05	NYI	Goalie	Goalie · Rittich +2.0 goals saved 0 goals on 2.00 xG, 23 shots on goal
17:53	NYR	Pulled goalie	Pulled goalie · Pulled Shesterkin, down 1–0 With 2:07 left; NYI scored at 19:43 of the 3rd (0–2)

Shot map

NYR shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ NYI 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 York Rangers

	Skater	G	A	P	+/−	Att	xG	Hit	Blk	TOI
Forwards
93	Mika Zibanejad	0	0	0	-1	2	0.06	2	4	24:19
16	Vincent Trocheck	0	0	0	-2	5	0.22	3	0	22:38
10	Artemi Panarin	0	0	0	-1	15	0.62	0	1	21:50
50	Will Cuylle	0	0	0	-1	7	0.60	5	4	20:13
14	Taylor Raddysh	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	14:47
13	Alexis Lafrenière	0	0	0	-1	3	0.08	0	2	14:28
42	Noah Laba	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	1	3	14:13
94	Gabe Perreault	0	0	0	-1	4	0.03	1	0	13:27
10	Sam Carrick	0	0	0	0	2	0.16	0	0	09:43
22	Jonny Brodzinski	0	0	0	-1	1	0.02	0	0	09:01
73	Matt Rempe	0	0	0	0	1	0.13	4	0	05:44
Defense
44	Vladislav Gavrikov	0	0	0	0	3	0.07	0	0	23:47
4	Braden Schneider	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	3	1	21:46
17	Will Borgen	0	0	0	-1	3	0.03	1	1	16:38
29	Matthew Robertson	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	1	0	15:52
7	Carson Soucy	0	0	0	-1	6	0.43	2	0	15:33

Goalie	SA	GA	SV	SV%	xGA	GSAx
Igor Shesterkin	25	1	24	.960	3.58	+2.58

New York Islanders

	Skater	G	A	P	+/−	Att	xG	Hit	Blk	TOI
Forwards
14	Bo Horvat	0	0	0	+1	9	0.67	1	3	22:41
13	Mathew Barzal	0	0	0	+1	7	0.69	1	0	21:30
92	Simon Holmstrom	1	0	1	+2	3	0.72	0	0	18:44
51	Emil Heineman	0	0	0	0	5	0.18	1	0	16:59
72	Anders Lee	1	0	1	+1	3	0.28	0	3	16:10
64	Calum Ritchie	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	15:19
92	Jonathan Drouin	0	0	0	0	2	0.34	0	0	15:07
53	Casey Cizikas	0	0	0	0	1	0.09	0	0	13:37
44	Jean-Gabriel Pageau	0	0	0	+1	3	0.39	0	1	12:58
32	Kyle MacLean	0	0	0	0	2	0.40	3	0	10:10
49	Maxim Shabanov	0	0	0	0	3	0.16	1	0	09:38
17	Marc Gatcomb	0	0	0	0	1	0.08	5	3	08:32
Defense
48	Matthew Schaefer	0	0	0	0	9	0.10	0	2	27:03
6	Ryan Pulock	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	3	21:34
3	Adam Pelech	0	0	0	+2	1	0.02	0	1	21:25
77	Tony DeAngelo	0	0	0	+1	2	0.10	0	0	18:24
24	Scott Mayfield	0	0	0	0	3	0.10	1	2	13:38

Goalie	SA	GA	SV	SV%	xGA	GSAx
David Rittich	27	0	27	1.000	2.55	+2.55

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 York Rangers

Player	Rating	Shots	On ice	Pen	FO	Other	GSAx	TOI
31 Igor Shesterkin G	+2.58	—	—	0.00	—	—	+2.58	58:10
39 Sam Carrick C	+0.36	+0.10	+0.24	0.00	0.00	+0.02	—	9:43
10 Artemi Panarin L	+0.32	+0.40	-0.26	+0.15	0.00	+0.03	—	21:50
93 Mika Zibanejad C	+0.32	+0.04	+0.11	0.00	+0.01	+0.16	—	24:19
78 Brennan Othmann L	+0.28	+0.04	+0.24	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	5:47
73 Matt Rempe C	+0.27	+0.08	+0.19	0.00	+0.01	-0.02	—	5:44
50 Will Cuylle L	+0.19	+0.39	-0.24	-0.15	-0.01	+0.20	—	20:13
14 Taylor Raddysh R	-0.07	0.00	-0.10	0.00	+0.01	+0.02	—	14:47
13 Alexis Lafrenière L	-0.09	+0.05	-0.07	-0.15	-0.02	+0.10	—	14:28
4 Braden Schneider D	-0.15	0.00	-0.05	-0.15	0.00	+0.05	—	21:46
44 Vladislav Gavrikov D	-0.27	+0.05	-0.31	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	23:47
29 Matthew Robertson D	-0.28	0.00	-0.28	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	15:52
42 Noah Laba C	-0.29	0.00	-0.59	+0.15	0.00	+0.15	—	14:13
60 Scott Morrow D	-0.37	+0.03	-0.43	0.00	0.00	+0.03	—	20:04
24 Carson Soucy D	-0.44	+0.28	-0.87	+0.15	0.00	0.00	—	15:33
17 Will Borgen D	-0.59	+0.02	-0.64	0.00	0.00	+0.03	—	16:38
16 Vincent Trocheck C	-1.04	+0.14	-1.10	-0.15	+0.07	0.00	—	22:38
22 Jonny Brodzinski C	-1.25	+0.01	-1.27	0.00	+0.01	0.00	—	9:01
94 Gabe Perreault R	-1.41	+0.02	-1.41	0.00	+0.01	-0.02	—	13:27

New York Islanders

Player	Rating	Points	Shots	On ice	Pen	FO	Other	GSAx	TOI
33 David Rittich G	+2.70	0.00	—	—	+0.15	—	—	+2.55	60:00
10 Simon Holmstrom R	+2.15	+0.75	+0.47	+0.93	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	18:44
77 Tony DeAngelo D	+1.84	0.00	+0.07	+1.80	0.00	0.00	-0.02	—	18:24
27 Anders Lee L	+1.81	+0.75	+0.18	+0.79	0.00	-0.02	+0.11	—	16:10
13 Mathew Barzal C	+1.57	0.00	+0.45	+1.01	+0.15	-0.04	0.00	—	21:30
3 Adam Pelech D	+1.30	0.00	+0.01	+1.43	-0.15	0.00	+0.01	—	21:25
16 Marc Gatcomb C	+0.87	0.00	+0.05	+0.65	0.00	0.00	+0.17	—	8:32
44 Jean-Gabriel Pageau C	+0.68	0.00	+0.25	+0.37	0.00	+0.01	+0.05	—	12:58
14 Bo Horvat C	+0.52	0.00	+0.44	+0.06	-0.15	+0.03	+0.15	—	22:41
32 Kyle MacLean C	+0.52	0.00	+0.26	+0.22	0.00	+0.02	+0.02	—	10:10
49 Max Shabanov R	+0.34	0.00	+0.11	+0.11	+0.15	0.00	-0.02	—	9:38
24 Scott Mayfield D	+0.33	0.00	+0.06	+0.21	0.00	0.00	+0.06	—	13:38
29 Jonathan Drouin L	+0.25	0.00	+0.22	-0.10	+0.15	-0.02	0.00	—	15:07
41 Marshall Warren D	+0.23	0.00	+0.06	+0.12	0.00	0.00	+0.05	—	8:31
53 Casey Cizikas C	+0.17	0.00	+0.06	+0.19	0.00	-0.06	-0.02	—	13:37
48 Matthew Schaefer D	0.00	0.00	+0.06	-0.16	0.00	0.00	+0.10	—	27:03
51 Emil Heineman L	-0.13	0.00	+0.12	-0.25	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	16:59
6 Ryan Pulock D	-0.15	0.00	0.00	-0.47	+0.15	0.00	+0.17	—	21:34
64 Calum Ritchie C	-0.36	0.00	0.00	-0.05	-0.30	-0.01	0.00	—	15:19

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.