Tampa Bay LightningTBL 4–3 Final/OT Anaheim DucksANA

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Final/OT 1st2nd3rdOT T SOG
Tampa Bay LightningTBL 1111 4 29
Anaheim DucksANA 0120 3 28

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

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
13:30 TBL J.J. Moser (4) Darren Raddysh (20), Brandon Hagel (14) · snap xG 0.11 1–0 ▶
2nd Period
15:17 ANA Jansen Harkins (3) Ross Johnston (9) · wrist xG 0.11 1–1 ▶
19:11 TBL Brayden Point (7) Max Crozier (7), Nikita Kucherov (33) · tip-in xG 0.22 2–1 ▶
3rd Period
3:57 ANA Beckett Sennecke (12) Unassisted · snap xG 0.09 2–2 ▶
8:00 TBL Nikita Kucherov (18)PP Brandon Hagel (15), Charle-Edouard D'Astous (10) · slap xG 0.05 3–2 ▶
13:02 ANA Mason McTavish (10)PP Pavel Mintyukov (6) · snap xG 0.18 3–3 ▶
Overtime
2:47 TBL Darren Raddysh (9) Brandon Hagel (16), Andrei Vasilevskiy (1) · wrist xG 0.20 4–3 ▶

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

TBL 50%Deserve to win50% ANA
TBLANA
3.07Expected goals3.05
4Goals (no shootout)3
1.73Expected goals, 5 on 51.78
57Shot attempts61
41Unblocked attempts45
29Shots on goal28

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).

3rd Period
11:00 ANA xG swing xG swing · Out-chanced TBL 1.22–0.18
In xG over 10 minutes, 1:00 to 11:00 of the 3rd; goals 1–1
12:02 ANA Deserve to win Deserve to win · ANA takes the lead, 63–37%
TBL had led since 9:10 of the 1st, by as much as 71%

Shot map

TBL shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ ANA shoots
Brandon Hagel: slap, 57 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 0:49) Nikita Nesterenko: tip-in, 84 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 1:30) Nikita Nesterenko: snap, 49 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 1:59) Jackson LaCombe: snap, 30 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 3:09) J.J. Moser: snap, 65 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 4:00) Darren Raddysh: snap, 54 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 4:12) Darren Raddysh: snap, 61 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 4:16) Olen Zellweger: snap, 47 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 5:51) Zemgus Girgensons: tip-in, 12 ft, xG 0.08 (P1 6:41) Yanni Gourde: tip-in, 8 ft, xG 0.08 (P1 7:13) Pavel Mintyukov: wrist, 181 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 7:19) Darren Raddysh: slap, 50 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 8:00) Jackson LaCombe: slap, 59 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 8:27) Jacob Trouba: slap, 50 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 8:30) Pontus Holmberg: wrist, 32 ft, xG 0.09 (P1 9:10) Anthony Cirelli: wrist, 14 ft, xG 0.11 (P1 10:27) Jake Guentzel: tip-in, 7 ft, xG 0.05 (P1 10:29) Brandon Hagel: snap, 49 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 13:06) Jacob Trouba: slap, 61 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 14:10) Alex Killorn: snap, 34 ft, xG 0.08 (P1 14:35) Alex Killorn: tip-in, 20 ft, xG 0.07 (P1 16:28) Anthony Cirelli: snap, 11 ft, xG 0.25 (P1 16:37) Chris Kreider: tip-in, 28 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 17:03) Ian Moore: slap, 54 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 17:40) Mason McTavish: snap, 38 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 0:54) Leo Carlsson: snap, 35 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 1:21) Brandon Hagel: slap, 55 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 1:41) Declan Carlile: backhand, 25 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 2:09) Yanni Gourde: tip-in, 11 ft, xG 0.13 (P2 4:07) Beckett Sennecke: snap, 36 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 4:20) Brandon Hagel: snap, 41 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 4:52) Leo Carlsson: wrist, 14 ft, xG 0.15 (P2 5:08) Jacob Trouba: wrist, 13 ft, xG 0.23 (P2 5:41) Jacob Trouba: slap, 53 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 6:11) Oliver Bjorkstrand: snap, 40 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 7:41) Anthony Cirelli: tip-in, 20 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 8:38) Brayden Point: snap, 35 ft, xG 0.09 (P2 9:09) Nikita Kucherov: wrist, 34 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 9:25) Nikita Kucherov: wrist, 26 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 9:40) Leo Carlsson: snap, 64 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 10:49) Cutter Gauthier: wrist, 141 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 11:02) Brandon Hagel: snap, 57 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 12:08) Brandon Hagel: tip-in, 9 ft, xG 0.10 (P2 12:46) Jackson LaCombe: snap, 65 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 13:20) Chris Kreider: tip-in, 20 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 13:29) Cutter Gauthier: slap, 33 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 17:19) Brandon Hagel: snap, 165 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 18:20) Cutter Gauthier: tip-in, 15 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 19:59) Darren Raddysh: slap, 48 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 0:27) Jake Guentzel: wrist, 24 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 0:34) Darren Raddysh: backhand, 29 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 0:50) Troy Terry: snap, 31 ft, xG 0.13 (P3 1:01) Mikael Granlund: backhand, 6 ft, xG 0.16 (P3 1:05) Nikita Nesterenko: snap, 23 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 1:13) Jacob Trouba: slap, 55 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 1:22) Nikita Kucherov: wrist, 39 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 1:53) Leo Carlsson: snap, 30 ft, xG 0.07 (P3 2:34) Jansen Harkins: wrist, 54 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 3:12) Troy Terry: snap, 43 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 5:34) Alex Killorn: snap, 22 ft, xG 0.23 (P3 7:41) Pavel Mintyukov: wrap-around, 5 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 9:30) Anthony Cirelli: tip-in, 8 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 9:51) Mason McTavish: snap, 7 ft, xG 0.21 (P3 10:02) Jackson LaCombe: slap, 55 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 10:07) Mason McTavish: slap, 32 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 10:59) Pavel Mintyukov: wrist, 54 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 11:37) Leo Carlsson: wrist, 34 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 11:55) Beckett Sennecke: wrist, 6 ft, xG 0.19 (P3 12:02) Jackson LaCombe: snap, 49 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 12:09) Nikita Nesterenko: wrist, 38 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 14:09) Brayden Point: backhand, 10 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 15:37) Nikita Kucherov: slap, 33 ft, xG 0.10 (P3 16:11) Charle-Edouard D'Astous: snap, 34 ft, xG 0.11 (P3 16:32) Brandon Hagel: snap, 43 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 16:53) Darren Raddysh: slap, 76 ft, xG 0.00 (P3 17:17) Cutter Gauthier: wrist, 19 ft, xG 0.09 (OT 1:08) Nikita Kucherov: slap, 33 ft, xG 0.15 (OT 1:25) Anthony Cirelli: snap, 16 ft, xG 0.08 (OT 2:26) Anthony Cirelli: wrist, 8 ft, xG 0.34 (OT 2:28) J.J. Moser: GOAL, snap, 26 ft, xG 0.11 (P1 13:30) Jansen Harkins: GOAL, wrist, 8 ft, xG 0.11 (P2 15:17) Brayden Point: GOAL, tip-in, 5 ft, xG 0.22 (P2 19:11) Beckett Sennecke: GOAL, snap, 20 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 3:57) Nikita Kucherov: GOAL, slap, 39 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 8:00) Mason McTavish: GOAL, snap, 30 ft, xG 0.18 (P3 13:02) Darren Raddysh: GOAL, wrist, 11 ft, xG 0.20 (OT 2:47)
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

Tampa Bay Lightning

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
59 Jake Guentzel 000 +3 50.06 0120:06
38 Brandon Hagel 033 +2 100.33 0019:14
86 Nikita Kucherov 112 +1 60.38 0018:29
71 Anthony Cirelli 000 +1 70.94 1118:00
21 Brayden Point 101 +1 40.34 0117:45
37 Yanni Gourde 000 0 20.22 3017:01
28 Zemgus Girgensons 000 0 10.08 5016:10
29 Pontus Holmberg 000 -1 10.09 1014:28
93 Gage Goncalves 000 0 00.00 1012:46
28 Oliver Bjorkstrand 000 -1 30.07 0011:35
20 Nick Paul 000 -2 20.00 1111:30
17 Dominic James 000 -2 00.00 2108:19
Defense
43 Darren Raddysh 112 +1 100.32 1326:08
90 J.J. Moser 101 +2 30.12 2024:57
51 Charle-Edouard D'Astous 011 -2 10.11 2218:48
81 Erik Cernak 000 -1 00.00 0018:28
72 Declan Carlile 000 0 20.02 0014:55
24 Max Crozier 011 +1 00.00 0214:27
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Andrei Vasilevskiy 28325 .893 3.05 +0.05

Anaheim Ducks

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
64 Mikael Granlund 000 -1 30.16 1018:28
83 Mason McTavish 101 +1 40.55 1018:27
91 Leo Carlsson 000 -2 50.30 0018:26
45 Beckett Sennecke 101 +1 30.36 1018:03
61 Cutter Gauthier 000 -1 70.26 0117:57
17 Alex Killorn 000 0 30.37 0016:48
19 Troy Terry 000 -1 30.16 0016:26
22 Chris Kreider 000 +1 20.07 1115:46
25 Ryan Poehling 000 0 10.00 1213:45
13 Nikita Nesterenko 000 0 40.11 1113:24
49 Ross Johnston 011 0 00.00 4008:01
10 Jansen Harkins 101 0 20.13 0007:22
Defense
65 Jacob Trouba 000 0 60.31 3125:42
2 Jackson LaCombe 000 -2 50.15 0125:27
98 Pavel Mintyukov 011 +1 40.04 0022:31
3 Ian Moore 000 -1 40.04 0216:52
14 Drew Helleson 000 +1 00.00 0115:29
8 Olen Zellweger 000 0 50.02 0213:39
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Lukas Dostal 29425 .862 3.07 -0.93

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.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
38 Brandon Hagel L +2.65 +1.95 +0.21 +0.49 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 19:14
43 Darren Raddysh D +1.82 +1.45 +0.21 +0.03 0.00 0.00 +0.13 — 26:08
86 Nikita Kucherov R +1.54 +1.30 +0.25 +0.07 0.00 0.00 -0.08 — 18:29
90 J.J. Moser D +1.38 +0.75 +0.08 +0.56 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 24:57
21 Brayden Point C +1.24 +0.75 +0.22 +0.07 +0.15 0.00 +0.05 — 17:45
71 Anthony Cirelli C +1.02 0.00 +0.61 +0.37 0.00 -0.03 +0.07 — 18:00
59 Jake Guentzel C +0.98 0.00 +0.04 +0.90 0.00 +0.01 +0.03 — 20:06
24 Max Crozier D +0.74 +0.70 0.00 +0.09 -0.15 0.00 +0.10 — 14:27
88 Andrei Vasilevskiy G +0.60 +0.55 — — 0.00 — — +0.05 62:47
51 Charle-Edouard D'Astous D +0.35 +0.55 +0.07 -0.35 0.00 0.00 +0.08 — 18:48
37 Yanni Gourde C +0.13 0.00 +0.14 +0.21 -0.15 -0.05 -0.02 — 17:01
28 Zemgus Girgensons C +0.13 0.00 +0.05 +0.08 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 16:10
29 Pontus Holmberg R +0.01 0.00 +0.06 -0.04 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 14:28
81 Erik Cernak D -0.02 0.00 0.00 -0.17 +0.15 0.00 0.00 — 18:28
93 Gage Goncalves C -0.19 0.00 0.00 -0.19 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 12:46
67 Declan Carlile D -0.26 0.00 +0.01 -0.26 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 14:55
22 Oliver Bjorkstrand R -0.39 0.00 +0.05 -0.43 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 11:35
17 Dominic James C -0.72 0.00 0.00 -0.70 0.00 -0.03 +0.01 — 8:19
20 Nick Paul L -0.93 0.00 0.00 -0.97 0.00 -0.03 +0.07 — 11:30

Anaheim Ducks

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
23 Mason McTavish C +1.33 +0.75 +0.36 +0.19 0.00 +0.07 -0.04 — 18:27
45 Beckett Sennecke R +1.08 +0.75 +0.23 +0.16 0.00 0.00 -0.06 — 18:03
13 Nikita Nesterenko C +0.71 0.00 +0.07 +0.58 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 13:24
19 Troy Terry R +0.69 0.00 +0.10 +0.56 0.00 +0.01 +0.02 — 16:26
98 Pavel Mintyukov D +0.69 +0.70 +0.03 -0.06 0.00 0.00 +0.02 — 22:31
51 Olen Zellweger D +0.63 0.00 +0.01 +0.71 -0.15 0.00 +0.06 — 13:39
24 Jansen Harkins C +0.62 +0.75 +0.08 -0.20 0.00 +0.01 -0.02 — 7:22
65 Jacob Trouba D +0.61 0.00 +0.20 +0.34 0.00 0.00 +0.07 — 25:42
14 Drew Helleson D +0.51 0.00 0.00 +0.48 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 15:29
44 Ross Johnston L +0.48 +0.70 0.00 -0.22 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 8:01
17 Alex Killorn L +0.36 0.00 +0.24 +0.16 0.00 0.00 -0.04 — 16:48
64 Mikael Granlund C +0.21 0.00 +0.11 -0.10 +0.15 +0.05 0.00 — 18:28
20 Chris Kreider L +0.18 0.00 +0.05 +0.18 -0.15 +0.03 +0.07 — 15:46
25 Ryan Poehling C -0.11 0.00 0.00 -0.17 0.00 -0.02 +0.08 — 13:45
91 Leo Carlsson C -0.21 0.00 +0.20 -0.40 0.00 -0.01 0.00 — 18:26
61 Cutter Gauthier L -0.22 0.00 +0.17 -0.49 +0.15 -0.01 -0.03 — 17:57
2 Jackson LaCombe D -0.58 0.00 +0.10 -0.69 0.00 0.00 +0.01 — 25:27
74 Ian Moore D -0.66 0.00 +0.03 -0.77 0.00 0.00 +0.08 — 16:52
1 Lukas Dostal G -0.93 0.00 — — 0.00 — — -0.93 62:47

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.