Philadelphia FlyersPHI 1–4 Final Seattle KrakenSEA

Sunday, December 28, 2025

Final 1st2nd3rd T SOG
Philadelphia FlyersPHI 001 1 33
Seattle KrakenSEA 013 4 20

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

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
No scoring
2nd Period
3:48 SEA Jordan Eberle (14) Kaapo Kakko (6), Matty Beniers (17) · snap xG 0.21 0–1 ▶
3rd Period
5:49 SEA Chandler Stephenson (10) Eeli Tolvanen (18) · snap xG 0.15 0–2 ▶
17:31 SEA Eeli Tolvanen (6)EN Chandler Stephenson (14) · deflected xG 0.90 0–3 ▶
18:03 PHI Carl Grundstrom (6) Rodrigo Abols (4), Nikita Grebenkin (5) · wrist xG 0.02 1–3 ▶
18:24 SEA Eeli Tolvanen (7)EN Unassisted · wrist xG 0.68 1–4 ▶

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

PHI 85%Deserve to win15% SEA
PHISEA
2.87Expected goals2.55
1Goals (no shootout)4
1.65Expected goals, 5 on 50.96
67Shot attempts44
50Unblocked attempts26
33Shots on goal20

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
15:20 PHI xG swing xG swing · Out-chanced SEA 1.22–0.07
In xG over 10 minutes, 6:00 to 16:00 of the 1st; neither team scored
3rd Period
0:22 SEA Goalie Goalie · Grubauer +2.1 goals saved
0 goals on 2.11 xG, 19 shots on goal
16:31 PHI Pulled goalie Pulled goalie · Pulled Vladar, down 2–0
With 3:29 left; SEA scored at 17:31 of the 3rd (0–3)
18:19 PHI Pulled goalie Pulled goalie · Pulled Vladar, down 3–1
With 1:41 left; SEA scored at 18:24 of the 3rd (1–4)

Shot map

PHI shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ SEA shoots
Matty Beniers: wrist, 48 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 1:11) Jamie Oleksiak: snap, 64 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 1:52) Matvei Michkov: wrist, 39 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 1:59) Eeli Tolvanen: wrist, 36 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 3:14) Noah Cates: wrist, 34 ft, xG 0.07 (P1 4:46) Cam York: wrist, 53 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 4:55) Jared McCann: snap, 30 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 5:20) Tye Kartye: tip-in, 59 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 5:41) Frederick Gaudreau: tip-in, 27 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 5:49) Cam York: wrist, 35 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 7:38) Carl Grundstrom: deflected, 5 ft, xG 0.05 (P1 7:39) Jamie Drysdale: slap, 57 ft, xG 0.05 (P1 8:08) Jamie Drysdale: slap, 48 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 8:32) Travis Konecny: wrist, 19 ft, xG 0.10 (P1 8:43) Eeli Tolvanen: backhand, 133 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 9:09) Matvei Michkov: wrist, 3 ft, xG 0.39 (P1 9:37) Jared McCann: wrist, 33 ft, xG 0.07 (P1 11:23) Cam York: snap, 52 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 12:19) Noah Cates: wrist, 19 ft, xG 0.13 (P1 13:18) Trevor Zegras: slap, 26 ft, xG 0.11 (P1 13:31) Rodrigo Abols: snap, 25 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 14:32) Travis Konecny: snap, 21 ft, xG 0.16 (P1 15:18) Trevor Zegras: wrist, 68 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 15:26) Rodrigo Abols: wrist, 31 ft, xG 0.10 (P1 15:58) Jordan Eberle: wrist, 118 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 17:40) Matvei Michkov: wrist, 21 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 18:11) Travis Konecny: wrist, 41 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 18:43) Ryan Lindgren: slap, 30 ft, xG 0.12 (P1 19:57) Adam Larsson: wrist, 66 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 0:28) Jacob Melanson: wrist, 21 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 1:39) Jared McCann: slap, 55 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 1:44) Christian Dvorak: backhand, 11 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 2:58) Travis Sanheim: backhand, 22 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 3:33) Sean Couturier: tip-in, 17 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 4:53) Ryan Lindgren: snap, 37 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 6:01) Ben Meyers: wrap-around, 6 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 7:34) Tye Kartye: wrist, 55 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 7:45) Berkly Catton: wrist, 29 ft, xG 0.11 (P2 10:10) Travis Konecny: tip-in, 15 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 12:43) Rasmus Ristolainen: wrist, 158 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 13:17) Travis Konecny: wrist, 39 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 14:01) Trevor Zegras: wrist, 38 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 14:52) Owen Tippett: snap, 28 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 15:40) Denver Barkey: wrist, 44 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 15:56) Adam Larsson: wrist, 61 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 16:27) Jamie Drysdale: snap, 70 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 17:16) Christian Dvorak: wrist, 36 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 17:28) Owen Tippett: slap, 58 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 18:09) Sean Couturier: deflected, 7 ft, xG 0.15 (P3 0:22) Sean Couturier: backhand, 8 ft, xG 0.10 (P3 0:30) Cale Fleury: wrist, 28 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 0:55) Matvei Michkov: tip-in, 8 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 2:14) Rasmus Ristolainen: wrist, 55 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 3:42) Travis Sanheim: wrist, 67 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 5:09) Travis Sanheim: wrist, 55 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 5:13) Matvei Michkov: backhand, 23 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 7:10) Bobby Brink: bat, 6 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 7:11) Jared McCann: wrist, 62 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 7:25) Owen Tippett: wrist, 49 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 8:35) Sean Couturier: wrist, 19 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 8:46) Adam Larsson: wrist, 63 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 9:55) Christian Dvorak: tip-in, 8 ft, xG 0.08 (P3 10:10) Christian Dvorak: backhand, 5 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 10:11) Jamie Drysdale: tip-in, 38 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 10:30) Noah Cates: wrist, 50 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 11:11) Shane Wright: wrist, 43 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 13:33) Bobby Brink: wrist, 42 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 14:36) Matvei Michkov: wrist, 65 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 14:45) Travis Konecny: wrist, 11 ft, xG 0.12 (P3 15:50) Owen Tippett: wrist, 25 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 16:40) Owen Tippett: wrist, 31 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 17:06) Jordan Eberle: GOAL, snap, 18 ft, xG 0.21 (P2 3:48) Chandler Stephenson: GOAL, snap, 25 ft, xG 0.15 (P3 5:49) Eeli Tolvanen: GOAL, deflected, 4 ft, xG 0.90 (P3 17:31) Carl Grundstrom: GOAL, wrist, 25 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 18:03) Eeli Tolvanen: GOAL, wrist, 40 ft, xG 0.68 (P3 18:24)
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

Philadelphia Flyers

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
46 Trevor Zegras 000 -2 60.18 0021:04
11 Travis Konecny 000 -2 60.53 0019:21
74 Owen Tippett 000 -2 50.29 1117:38
10 Bobby Brink 000 -1 30.08 0116:45
27 Noah Cates 000 -1 40.20 2015:52
22 Christian Dvorak 000 -2 50.28 0014:52
39 Matvei Michkov 000 -2 70.50 0114:21
86 Denver Barkey 000 0 20.03 3114:19
14 Sean Couturier 000 0 40.33 1013:52
18 Rodrigo Abols 011 0 40.11 1113:27
17 Nikita Grebenkin 011 0 10.00 0112:25
91 Carl Grundstrom 101 0 20.07 2012:24
Defense
9 Jamie Drysdale 000 -2 50.12 1023:22
6 Travis Sanheim 000 -3 40.03 0219:25
55 Rasmus Ristolainen 000 0 20.03 1219:25
8 Cam York 000 -1 40.10 0118:57
24 Nick Seeler 000 +1 20.00 4418:03
36 Emil Andrae 000 0 10.00 0116:05
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Dan Vladar 18216 .889 0.96 -1.04

Seattle Kraken

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
17 Eeli Tolvanen 213 +3 51.61 4117:58
9 Chandler Stephenson 112 +3 10.15 0017:56
10 Matty Beniers 011 +1 30.03 0017:08
89 Frederick Gaudreau 000 +3 10.02 0116:35
7 Jordan Eberle 101 +1 20.21 1116:03
84 Kaapo Kakko 011 +1 10.00 0015:18
27 Berkly Catton 000 0 20.11 0213:38
51 Shane Wright 000 0 10.03 1213:27
19 Jared McCann 000 0 60.12 0013:27
59 Ben Meyers 000 -1 30.05 0113:06
63 Jacob Melanson 000 -1 20.02 5110:22
24 Tye Kartye 000 -1 20.02 4008:40
Defense
6 Adam Larsson 000 +3 60.02 2324:11
29 Vince Dunn 000 +1 10.00 0019:48
4 Jamie Oleksiak 000 -1 10.01 0219:43
41 Ryker Evans 000 -1 10.00 1119:08
8 Cale Fleury 000 +1 30.01 0118:58
55 Ryan Lindgren 000 +3 30.14 0118:34
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Philipp Grubauer 33132 .970 2.87 +1.87

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.

Philadelphia Flyers

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
91 Carl Grundstrom R +1.05 +0.75 +0.05 +0.27 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 12:24
29 Nikita Grebenkin R +1.00 +0.55 0.00 +0.27 +0.15 0.00 +0.03 — 12:25
18 Rodrigo Abols C +0.93 +0.70 +0.07 +0.10 0.00 +0.01 +0.05 — 13:27
24 Nick Seeler D +0.67 0.00 0.00 +0.49 0.00 0.00 +0.18 — 18:03
8 Cam York D +0.66 0.00 +0.06 +0.57 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 18:57
52 Denver Barkey C +0.59 0.00 +0.02 +0.39 +0.15 0.00 +0.03 — 14:19
74 Owen Tippett R +0.58 0.00 +0.19 +0.39 0.00 -0.01 +0.01 — 17:38
11 Travis Konecny R +0.58 0.00 +0.34 +0.25 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 19:21
14 Sean Couturier C +0.54 0.00 +0.21 +0.35 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 13:52
22 Christian Dvorak C +0.53 0.00 +0.18 +0.31 0.00 +0.02 +0.02 — 14:52
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D +0.44 0.00 +0.02 +0.32 0.00 0.00 +0.10 — 19:25
39 Matvei Michkov R +0.25 0.00 +0.32 -0.13 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 14:21
46 Trevor Zegras C +0.20 0.00 +0.12 +0.11 0.00 -0.01 -0.02 — 21:04
6 Travis Sanheim D +0.18 0.00 +0.02 +0.06 0.00 0.00 +0.10 — 19:25
36 Emil Andrae D +0.09 0.00 0.00 +0.08 0.00 0.00 +0.01 — 16:05
27 Noah Cates L -0.09 0.00 +0.13 -0.28 0.00 +0.02 +0.04 — 15:52
10 Bobby Brink R -0.12 0.00 +0.05 -0.21 0.00 -0.01 +0.05 — 16:45
9 Jamie Drysdale D -0.22 0.00 +0.08 -0.30 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 23:22
80 Dan Vladar G -1.04 0.00 — — 0.00 — — -1.04 58:23

Seattle Kraken

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
20 Eeli Tolvanen R +3.17 +2.20 +1.04 -0.14 0.00 0.00 +0.07 — 17:58
31 Philipp Grubauer G +1.87 0.00 — — 0.00 — — +1.87 60:00
9 Chandler Stephenson C +1.49 +1.45 +0.10 -0.10 0.00 +0.08 -0.04 — 17:56
7 Jordan Eberle R +0.69 +0.75 +0.14 -0.25 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 16:03
84 Kaapo Kakko R +0.52 +0.70 0.00 -0.17 0.00 +0.01 -0.02 — 15:18
55 Ryan Lindgren D +0.38 0.00 +0.09 +0.43 -0.15 0.00 +0.01 — 18:34
8 Cale Fleury D +0.33 0.00 +0.01 +0.27 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 18:58
10 Matty Beniers C +0.22 +0.55 +0.02 -0.25 0.00 -0.06 -0.04 — 17:08
89 Frederick Gaudreau C -0.04 0.00 +0.02 -0.10 0.00 -0.01 +0.05 — 16:35
63 Jacob Melanson R -0.06 0.00 +0.01 -0.14 0.00 +0.01 +0.05 — 10:22
51 Shane Wright C -0.07 0.00 +0.02 -0.10 0.00 -0.02 +0.04 — 13:27
19 Jared McCann L -0.07 0.00 +0.08 -0.12 0.00 -0.01 -0.02 — 13:27
59 Ben Meyers C -0.07 0.00 +0.03 -0.16 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 13:06
12 Tye Kartye L -0.12 0.00 +0.02 -0.14 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 8:40
41 Ryker Evans D -0.17 0.00 0.00 -0.22 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 19:08
77 Berkly Catton C -0.18 0.00 +0.07 -0.16 -0.15 -0.02 +0.08 — 13:38
6 Adam Larsson D -0.29 0.00 +0.01 -0.45 0.00 0.00 +0.15 — 24:11
24 Jamie Oleksiak D -0.36 0.00 +0.01 -0.42 0.00 0.00 +0.06 — 19:43
29 Vince Dunn D -0.84 0.00 0.00 -0.82 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 19:48

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.