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Seattle KrakenSEA 4–3 Final/SO Vancouver CanucksVAN

Friday, January 2, 2026

Final/SO 1st2nd3rdOTSO T SOG
Seattle KrakenSEA 12001 4 28
Vancouver CanucksVAN 02100 3 24

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

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
17:34 SEA Cale Fleury (1) Jamie Oleksiak (5), Kaapo Kakko (8) · slap xG 0.02 1–0 ▶
2nd Period
8:53 SEA Chandler Stephenson (11)PP Jordan Eberle (13), Jared McCann (4) · snap xG 0.11 2–0 ▶
13:06 VAN Kiefer Sherwood (17)PP Jake DeBrusk (9), Tom Willander (10) · snap xG 0.49 2–1 ▶
18:13 SEA Ben Meyers (3) Ryan Winterton (5), Jacob Melanson (3) · tip-in xG 0.19 3–1 ▶
19:22 VAN Jake DeBrusk (10)PP Brock Boeser (9), Elias Pettersson (15) · deflected xG 0.31 3–2 ▶
3rd Period
6:15 VAN Linus Karlsson (10) Filip Hronek (21), Jake DeBrusk (10) · backhand xG 0.36 3–3 ▶
Overtime
No scoring
Shootout
VAN Jake DeBrusk vs Joey Daccord Saved
SEA Frederick Gaudreau vs Thatcher Demko Saved
VAN Elias Pettersson vs Joey Daccord Saved
SEA Kaapo Kakko vs Thatcher Demko Saved
VAN Liam Ohgren vs Joey Daccord Saved
SEA Matty Beniers vs Thatcher Demko Goal

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

SEA 22%Deserve to win78% VAN
SEAVAN
2.28Expected goals4.12
3Goals (no shootout)3
1.45Expected goals, 5 on 52.52
45Shot attempts78
39Unblocked attempts54
28Shots 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).

3rd Period
2:40 VAN xG swing xG swing · Out-chanced SEA 1.41–0.29
In xG over 10 minutes, 12:40 of the 2nd to 2:40 of the 3rd; goals 2–1

Shot map

SEA shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ VAN shoots
Jacob Melanson: snap, 44 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 0:12) Ryan Lindgren: snap, 33 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 3:27) Eeli Tolvanen: wrist, 16 ft, xG 0.16 (P1 3:29) Filip Hronek: snap, 63 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 3:56) Kiefer Sherwood: snap, 22 ft, xG 0.15 (P1 4:13) Kiefer Sherwood: snap, 48 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 4:43) Shane Wright: tip-in, 6 ft, xG 0.10 (P1 5:05) Berkly Catton: wrist, 68 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 5:10) Nils Hoglander: snap, 28 ft, xG 0.08 (P1 5:30) Max Sasson: snap, 14 ft, xG 0.08 (P1 5:56) Linus Karlsson: backhand, 15 ft, xG 0.08 (P1 7:04) Matty Beniers: wrist, 33 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 7:27) Jamie Oleksiak: wrist, 39 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 8:07) Aatu Räty: snap, 51 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 8:40) Tom Willander: snap, 69 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 9:10) Marcus Pettersson: snap, 56 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 9:14) Drew O'Connor: snap, 66 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 9:25) Elias Pettersson: snap, 36 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 10:01) Marcus Pettersson: snap, 31 ft, xG 0.09 (P1 10:09) Pierre-Olivier Joseph: wrist, 54 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 10:32) Tyler Myers: tip-in, 19 ft, xG 0.06 (P1 10:38) Cale Fleury: snap, 68 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 11:19) Jamie Oleksiak: snap, 15 ft, xG 0.13 (P1 12:00) Jamie Oleksiak: backhand, 9 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 12:01) Drew O'Connor: snap, 44 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 13:19) Jared McCann: wrist, 35 ft, xG 0.06 (P1 14:00) Ryan Winterton: wrist, 38 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 14:40) Ben Meyers: wrist, 42 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 15:12) Frederick Gaudreau: wrist, 34 ft, xG 0.07 (P1 15:42) Jamie Oleksiak: slap, 57 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 16:26) Jordan Eberle: wrist, 20 ft, xG 0.09 (P1 17:03) Ben Meyers: wrist, 34 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 17:46) Shane Wright: wrist, 61 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 18:35) Brock Boeser: deflected, 9 ft, xG 0.07 (P1 19:31) Jake DeBrusk: slap, 59 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 1:03) Linus Karlsson: snap, 24 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 1:05) Marcus Pettersson: slap, 43 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 1:26) Aatu Räty: wrist, 49 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 2:44) Nils Hoglander: wrist, 24 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 3:01) Nils Hoglander: deflected, 21 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 3:07) Kiefer Sherwood: slap, 48 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 3:46) Drew O'Connor: wrist, 35 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 4:22) Liam Ohgren: tip-in, 36 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 6:47) Jacob Melanson: tip-in, 8 ft, xG 0.09 (P2 9:08) Vince Dunn: snap, 35 ft, xG 0.10 (P2 9:20) Ben Meyers: snap, 25 ft, xG 0.13 (P2 9:26) Jared McCann: snap, 26 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 9:32) Liam Ohgren: tip-in, 21 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 10:35) Brock Boeser: snap, 43 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 11:36) Max Sasson: tip-in, 9 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 11:37) Jake DeBrusk: snap, 45 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 13:03) Drew O'Connor: snap, 55 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 13:20) David Kampf: wrist, 13 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 13:51) Aatu Räty: snap, 33 ft, xG 0.11 (P2 14:26) Ryan Winterton: tip-in, 7 ft, xG 0.10 (P2 15:17) Linus Karlsson: snap, 41 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 15:48) Eeli Tolvanen: slap, 71 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 16:01) Elias Pettersson: wrist, 32 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 2:19) Linus Karlsson: tip-in, 14 ft, xG 0.08 (P3 2:33) Linus Karlsson: tip-in, 9 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 2:40) Filip Hronek: snap, 41 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 3:41) Cale Fleury: wrist, 60 ft, xG 0.00 (P3 4:19) Ben Meyers: slap, 44 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 4:21) Ben Meyers: wrist, 35 ft, xG 0.07 (P3 4:29) David Kampf: between-legs, 8 ft, xG 0.12 (P3 4:51) Kiefer Sherwood: snap, 45 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 4:59) Adam Larsson: slap, 62 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 5:29) Linus Karlsson: wrist, 35 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 5:44) Filip Hronek: slap, 58 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 6:12) Jamie Oleksiak: slap, 56 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 10:14) Brock Boeser: snap, 56 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 10:59) Jamie Oleksiak: slap, 52 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 12:51) Ben Meyers: wrist, 31 ft, xG 0.07 (P3 13:34) Marcus Pettersson: slap, 64 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 14:36) Jake DeBrusk: backhand, 11 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 14:51) Ben Meyers: wrist, 34 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 17:22) Drew O'Connor: tip-in, 12 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 19:25) Filip Hronek: snap, 45 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 19:28) Matty Beniers: wrist, 26 ft, xG 0.11 (OT 1:24) Matty Beniers: snap, 9 ft, xG 0.07 (OT 1:25) Eeli Tolvanen: wrist, 31 ft, xG 0.10 (OT 2:13) Berkly Catton: snap, 18 ft, xG 0.21 (OT 2:28) Filip Hronek: slap, 35 ft, xG 0.14 (OT 3:21) Jake DeBrusk: backhand, 9 ft, xG 0.04 (OT 3:22) Jake DeBrusk: backhand, 7 ft, xG 0.05 (OT 3:22) Filip Hronek: snap, 20 ft, xG 0.35 (OT 3:25) Jake DeBrusk: tip-in, 7 ft, xG 0.15 (OT 3:39) Cale Fleury: GOAL, slap, 54 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 17:34) Chandler Stephenson: GOAL, snap, 30 ft, xG 0.11 (P2 8:53) Kiefer Sherwood: GOAL, snap, 17 ft, xG 0.49 (P2 13:06) Ben Meyers: GOAL, tip-in, 5 ft, xG 0.19 (P2 18:13) Jake DeBrusk: GOAL, deflected, 4 ft, xG 0.31 (P2 19:22) Linus Karlsson: GOAL, backhand, 9 ft, xG 0.36 (P3 6:15)
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

Seattle Kraken

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
10 Matty Beniers 000 -1 40.19 0219:56
7 Jordan Eberle 011 -1 10.09 0119:15
27 Berkly Catton 000 0 20.22 0017:49
9 Chandler Stephenson 101 0 10.11 0217:10
51 Shane Wright 000 +1 30.12 1017:07
17 Eeli Tolvanen 000 0 30.26 2117:06
84 Kaapo Kakko 011 0 00.00 2016:42
89 Frederick Gaudreau 000 0 10.07 0115:26
19 Jared McCann 011 +1 30.10 0013:23
63 Jacob Melanson 011 +1 30.10 2012:45
59 Ben Meyers 101 +1 80.52 1012:29
26 Ryan Winterton 011 +1 30.11 0010:51
Defense
29 Vince Dunn 000 -1 10.10 0326:21
6 Adam Larsson 000 -1 10.02 3223:59
55 Ryan Lindgren 000 0 20.02 1119:41
41 Ryker Evans 000 +1 00.00 1419:06
8 Cale Fleury 101 +1 30.02 0217:55
4 Jamie Oleksiak 011 +2 60.24 0117:12
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Joey Daccord 24321 .875 4.12 +1.12

Vancouver Canucks

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
6 Brock Boeser 011 -2 60.11 1020:07
40 Elias Pettersson 011 +1 20.11 3119:31
74 Jake DeBrusk 123 +1 80.71 1118:12
44 Kiefer Sherwood 101 0 60.73 5016:43
18 Drew O'Connor 000 0 50.11 1016:33
91 Evander Kane 000 -2 10.00 3016:13
63 Max Sasson 000 -2 30.10 0016:10
64 David Kampf 000 0 20.24 2015:23
94 Linus Karlsson 101 +1 70.75 1014:31
54 Aatu Räty 000 0 40.16 1012:43
92 Liam Ohgren 000 0 50.12 0011:58
21 Nils Hoglander 000 0 60.19 3011:56
Defense
17 Filip Hronek 011 +1 110.58 1127:29
26 Marcus Pettersson 000 0 40.12 2223:11
8 Zeev Buium 000 0 20.00 0020:33
57 Tyler Myers 000 -1 30.06 2120:18
5 Tom Willander 011 -1 20.00 0018:32
7 Pierre-Olivier Joseph 000 -1 10.03 0013:52
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Thatcher Demko 28325 .893 2.28 -0.72

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.

Seattle Kraken

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
59 Ben Meyers C +1.91 +0.75 +0.34 +0.83 0.00 -0.01 0.00 — 12:29
26 Ryan Winterton C +1.64 +0.70 +0.07 +0.86 0.00 -0.01 +0.02 — 10:51
63 Jacob Melanson R +1.44 +0.55 +0.06 +0.83 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 12:45
35 Joey Daccord G +1.12 0.00 — — 0.00 — — +1.12 64:39
8 Cale Fleury D +1.00 +0.75 +0.02 +0.12 0.00 0.00 +0.12 — 17:55
24 Jamie Oleksiak D +0.95 +0.70 +0.15 +0.05 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 17:12
9 Chandler Stephenson C +0.78 +0.75 +0.07 -0.14 0.00 +0.01 +0.08 — 17:10
19 Jared McCann L +0.76 +0.55 +0.06 +0.06 +0.15 0.00 -0.06 — 13:23
20 Eeli Tolvanen R +0.15 0.00 +0.17 -0.22 +0.15 0.00 +0.05 — 17:06
51 Shane Wright C +0.06 0.00 +0.07 +0.06 0.00 -0.01 -0.06 — 17:07
41 Ryker Evans D -0.07 0.00 0.00 -0.08 -0.15 0.00 +0.16 — 19:06
89 Frederick Gaudreau C -0.08 0.00 +0.04 -0.15 0.00 -0.03 +0.05 — 15:26
55 Ryan Lindgren D -0.19 0.00 +0.01 -0.24 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 19:41
27 Berkly Catton C -0.57 0.00 +0.14 -0.55 -0.15 +0.01 -0.02 — 17:49
84 Kaapo Kakko R -0.58 +0.55 0.00 -1.12 0.00 +0.01 -0.02 — 16:42
29 Vince Dunn D -0.85 0.00 +0.07 -1.06 0.00 0.00 +0.15 — 26:21
6 Adam Larsson D -0.88 0.00 +0.01 -0.84 -0.15 0.00 +0.10 — 23:59
7 Jordan Eberle R -0.96 +0.70 +0.06 -1.77 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 19:15
10 Matty Beniers C -1.64 0.00 +0.13 -1.77 0.00 -0.03 +0.04 — 19:56

Vancouver Canucks

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
74 Jake DeBrusk L +3.71 +2.00 +0.46 +1.22 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 18:12
17 Filip Hronek D +2.75 +0.70 +0.38 +1.64 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 27:29
94 Linus Karlsson C +2.55 +0.75 +0.49 +1.32 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 14:31
40 Elias Pettersson C +2.16 +0.55 +0.07 +1.30 +0.15 +0.03 +0.05 — 19:31
44 Kiefer Sherwood L +1.70 +0.75 +0.48 +0.48 0.00 +0.01 -0.02 — 16:43
29 Marcus Pettersson D +1.07 0.00 +0.08 +0.90 0.00 0.00 +0.08 — 23:11
64 David Kampf C +0.72 0.00 +0.15 +0.56 0.00 +0.03 -0.02 — 15:23
18 Drew O'Connor L +0.63 0.00 +0.07 +0.58 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 16:33
24 Zeev Buium D +0.45 0.00 0.00 +0.45 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 20:33
21 Nils Hoglander L +0.42 0.00 +0.12 +0.34 0.00 0.00 -0.04 — 11:56
92 Liam Ohgren L +0.31 0.00 +0.08 +0.24 0.00 -0.01 0.00 — 11:58
57 Tyler Myers D +0.26 0.00 +0.04 +0.20 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 20:18
54 Aatu Räty C +0.24 0.00 +0.10 +0.15 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 12:43
7 Pierre-Olivier Joseph D -0.27 0.00 +0.02 -0.28 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 13:52
5 Tom Willander D -0.36 +0.55 0.00 -0.85 0.00 0.00 -0.06 — 18:32
6 Brock Boeser R -0.50 +0.70 +0.07 -1.10 -0.15 0.00 -0.02 — 20:07
35 Thatcher Demko G -0.72 0.00 — — 0.00 — — -0.72 65:00
91 Evander Kane L -0.88 0.00 0.00 -1.01 +0.15 +0.02 -0.04 — 16:13
63 Max Sasson C -0.96 0.00 +0.07 -0.99 0.00 -0.02 -0.02 — 16:10

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.