Tampa Bay LightningTBL 5–8 Final Columbus Blue JacketsCBJ

Saturday, January 24, 2026

Final 1st2nd3rd T SOG
Tampa Bay LightningTBL 221 5 30
Columbus Blue JacketsCBJ 422 8 31

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

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
5:47 CBJ Cole Sillinger (6) Charlie Coyle (21) · wrist xG 0.05 0–1 ▶
7:48 TBL Jake Guentzel (23) Unassisted · wrist xG 0.00 1–1 ▶
8:37 CBJ Mason Marchment (10) Erik Gudbranson (2) · wrist xG 0.05 1–2 ▶
10:01 TBL Darren Raddysh (13)PP Nikita Kucherov (50), Jake Guentzel (30) · slap xG 0.09 2–2 ▶
18:33 CBJ Adam Fantilli (13) Kirill Marchenko (24), Mason Marchment (12) · wrist xG 0.23 2–3 ▶
19:47 CBJ Dmitri Voronkov (17) Unassisted · snap xG 0.19 2–4 ▶
2nd Period
3:29 TBL Nikita Kucherov (26) Brandon Hagel (23), Anthony Cirelli (19) · backhand xG 0.10 3–4 ▶
4:58 TBL Anthony Cirelli (14) Nikita Kucherov (51), Brandon Hagel (24) · snap xG 0.12 4–4 ▶
9:05 CBJ Mason Marchment (11) Zach Werenski (35), Charlie Coyle (22) · wrist xG 0.08 4–5 ▶
18:57 CBJ Charlie Coyle (11)PP Adam Fantilli (19), Zach Werenski (36) · wrist xG 0.13 4–6 ▶
3rd Period
14:55 CBJ Sean Monahan (8)EN Unassisted · wrist xG 0.53 4–7 ▶
18:54 TBL Jake Guentzel (24) Nikita Kucherov (52), Anthony Cirelli (20) · wrist xG 0.10 5–7 ▶
19:35 CBJ Mason Marchment (12)EN Adam Fantilli (20), Kirill Marchenko (25) · wrist xG 0.85 5–8 ▶

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 41%Deserve to win59% CBJ
TBLCBJ
2.12Expected goals4.54
5Goals (no shootout)8
1.32Expected goals, 5 on 52.28
65Shot attempts51
47Unblocked attempts42
30Shots on goal31

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
18:33 TBL Goalie Goalie · Johansson −2.2 goals saved
3 goals on 0.83 xG, 10 shots on goal
2nd Period
3:29 CBJ Goalie Goalie · Greaves −2.4 goals saved
3 goals on 0.57 xG, 11 shots on goal
10:00 TBL Shortened bench Shortened bench · 1 forward, 1 defenseman sat
Cernak and Goncalves: last shifts between 17:45 and 18:33 of the 1st
3rd Period
8:20 CBJ No shift No shift · Christiansen, 19:36 on the bench
No shift after 16:00 of the 2nd; 10 shifts (5:34) before that
14:45 TBL Pulled goalie Pulled goalie · Pulled Johansson, down 6–4
With 5:15 left; CBJ scored at 14:55 of the 3rd (4–7)
17:33 TBL Pulled goalie Pulled goalie · Pulled Johansson, down 7–4
With 2:27 left; TBL scored at 18:54 of the 3rd (5–7)
19:00 TBL Pulled goalie Pulled goalie · Pulled Johansson, down 7–5
With 1:00 left; CBJ scored at 19:35 of the 3rd (5–8)
19:20 TBL No shift No shift · D'Astous, 10:03 on the bench
No shift after 7:46 of the 3rd; 24 shifts (17:20) before that

Shot map

TBL shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ CBJ shoots
Erik Gudbranson: slap, 49 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 3:08) Kirill Marchenko: wrist, 35 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 3:42) Danton Heinen: wrist, 63 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 5:23) Erik Cernak: wrist, 57 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 5:59) Yanni Gourde: backhand, 30 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 6:09) J.J. Moser: slap, 60 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 7:29) Charle-Edouard D'Astous: wrist, 67 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 8:19) Ivan Provorov: snap, 60 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 9:04) Oliver Bjorkstrand: snap, 18 ft, xG 0.19 (P1 9:46) Boone Jenner: tip-in, 8 ft, xG 0.07 (P1 12:32) Adam Fantilli: tip-in, 9 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 15:27) Damon Severson: wrist, 69 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 16:26) Dmitri Voronkov: backhand, 9 ft, xG 0.15 (P1 16:41) Zemgus Girgensons: backhand, 9 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 16:53) Charle-Edouard D'Astous: snap, 38 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 16:57) Erik Cernak: wrist, 58 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 17:05) Adam Fantilli: wrist, 36 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 18:06) Adam Fantilli: wrist, 22 ft, xG 0.14 (P1 18:29) Darren Raddysh: snap, 67 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 19:16) J.J. Moser: slap, 65 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 19:33) Brandon Hagel: wrist, 57 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 0:40) Cole Sillinger: snap, 33 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 0:52) Zach Werenski: backhand, 26 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 0:56) Jake Guentzel: wrist, 59 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 1:08) Dominic James: backhand, 9 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 1:09) Sean Monahan: wrist, 107 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 1:19) Jake Christiansen: wrist, 26 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 3:00) Kirill Marchenko: snap, 34 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 6:58) Zach Werenski: snap, 27 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 7:34) Kirill Marchenko: wrist, 24 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 8:31) Isac Lundeström: snap, 32 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 9:49) Pontus Holmberg: snap, 45 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 10:03) Charlie Coyle: backhand, 6 ft, xG 0.19 (P2 10:24) Oliver Bjorkstrand: snap, 45 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 10:35) Darren Raddysh: slap, 72 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 11:05) Boone Jenner: wrist, 39 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 11:15) Boone Jenner: tip-in, 17 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 11:21) Damon Severson: slap, 53 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 13:21) Zach Werenski: snap, 24 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 13:35) Boone Jenner: deflected, 10 ft, xG 0.16 (P2 13:37) Nick Paul: wrist, 22 ft, xG 0.09 (P2 14:43) Nikita Kucherov: slap, 37 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 15:02) Charle-Edouard D'Astous: slap, 57 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 15:38) Brandon Hagel: wrist, 38 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 16:15) Yanni Gourde: wrist, 42 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 16:19) Ivan Provorov: slap, 61 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 18:38) Oliver Bjorkstrand: tip-in, 11 ft, xG 0.09 (P2 19:51) Nikita Kucherov: slap, 32 ft, xG 0.12 (P3 0:43) Oliver Bjorkstrand: wrist, 43 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 1:46) Declan Carlile: wrist, 64 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 1:52) Dmitri Voronkov: wrist, 50 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 2:16) Yanni Gourde: backhand, 103 ft, xG 0.00 (P3 3:11) Darren Raddysh: wrist, 33 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 3:33) Zach Werenski: snap, 34 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 3:40) Erik Gudbranson: wrist, 69 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 6:21) Nikita Kucherov: tip-in, 12 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 6:33) Darren Raddysh: slap, 58 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 6:49) J.J. Moser: snap, 20 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 6:51) Jake Guentzel: snap, 30 ft, xG 0.14 (P3 6:59) Nikita Kucherov: wrist, 43 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 7:17) Boone Jenner: tip-in, 8 ft, xG 0.07 (P3 7:35) Oliver Bjorkstrand: snap, 40 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 8:03) Mason Marchment: wrist, 30 ft, xG 0.10 (P3 8:50) Dominic James: bat, 63 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 13:13) Cole Sillinger: wrist, 39 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 13:33) Simon Lundmark: wrist, 68 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 14:19) Darren Raddysh: slap, 54 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 14:50) Dmitri Voronkov: wrist, 87 ft, xG 0.00 (P3 15:15) Zemgus Girgensons: wrist, 28 ft, xG 0.08 (P3 16:03) Ivan Provorov: wrist, 90 ft, xG 0.00 (P3 17:17) Oliver Bjorkstrand: slap, 47 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 17:39) J.J. Moser: slap, 61 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 17:49) Jake Guentzel: wrist, 16 ft, xG 0.18 (P3 18:06) Anthony Cirelli: tip-in, 11 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 18:27) Jake Guentzel: wrist, 30 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 18:58) Mason Marchment: wrist, 96 ft, xG 0.59 (P3 19:20) Cole Sillinger: GOAL, wrist, 37 ft, xG 0.05 (P1 5:47) Jake Guentzel: GOAL, wrist, 81 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 7:48) Mason Marchment: GOAL, wrist, 40 ft, xG 0.05 (P1 8:37) Darren Raddysh: GOAL, slap, 42 ft, xG 0.09 (P1 10:01) Adam Fantilli: GOAL, wrist, 14 ft, xG 0.23 (P1 18:33) Dmitri Voronkov: GOAL, snap, 27 ft, xG 0.19 (P1 19:47) Nikita Kucherov: GOAL, backhand, 13 ft, xG 0.10 (P2 3:29) Anthony Cirelli: GOAL, snap, 14 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 4:58) Mason Marchment: GOAL, wrist, 29 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 9:05) Charlie Coyle: GOAL, wrist, 10 ft, xG 0.13 (P2 18:57) Sean Monahan: GOAL, wrist, 168 ft, xG 0.53 (P3 14:55) Jake Guentzel: GOAL, wrist, 22 ft, xG 0.10 (P3 18:54) Mason Marchment: GOAL, wrist, 48 ft, xG 0.85 (P3 19:35)
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
86 Nikita Kucherov 134 +1 70.32 1022:43
59 Jake Guentzel 213 -1 70.47 0019:03
38 Brandon Hagel 022 -1 50.08 2018:04
71 Anthony Cirelli 123 0 20.16 2017:23
28 Oliver Bjorkstrand 000 -2 60.40 0015:58
37 Yanni Gourde 000 -3 30.02 2015:40
28 Zemgus Girgensons 000 -1 30.10 3015:25
29 Pontus Holmberg 000 -2 10.02 0114:04
20 Nick Paul 000 -1 10.09 1014:02
17 Dominic James 000 0 20.02 1013:49
22 Jakob Pelletier 000 0 00.00 2111:53
93 Gage Goncalves 000 -1 00.00 0004:23
Defense
43 Darren Raddysh 101 -4 140.20 3127:36
90 J.J. Moser 000 -1 40.11 0226:56
72 Declan Carlile 000 +2 30.01 1221:53
51 Charle-Edouard D'Astous 000 -2 40.08 2017:20
7 Simon Lundmark 000 +1 10.01 2216:45
81 Erik Cernak 000 -1 20.03 0004:59
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Jonas Johansson 29623 .793 2.58 -3.42

Columbus Blue Jackets

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
86 Kirill Marchenko 022 +2 30.16 1117:35
19 Adam Fantilli 123 +1 50.42 2017:26
27 Mason Marchment 314 +2 51.66 1017:23
3 Charlie Coyle 123 +3 30.32 2217:13
24 Mathieu Olivier 000 0 00.00 4315:58
4 Cole Sillinger 101 +1 40.16 1014:43
23 Sean Monahan 101 +1 20.53 1114:26
91 Kent Johnson 000 +1 00.00 0113:12
10 Dmitri Voronkov 101 -1 50.36 5113:08
21 Isac Lundeström 000 -1 10.04 1013:01
22 Boone Jenner 000 +1 50.40 2112:46
58 Danton Heinen 000 -1 30.01 2110:06
Defense
8 Zach Werenski 022 0 50.33 1026:35
78 Damon Severson 000 0 20.01 1026:16
9 Ivan Provorov 000 +3 40.05 0123:38
44 Erik Gudbranson 011 +3 30.02 3223:23
6 Egor Zamula 000 0 00.00 0113:04
2 Jake Christiansen 000 0 10.08 0005:34
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Jet Greaves 30525 .833 2.12 -2.88

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
86 Nikita Kucherov R +3.77 +2.85 +0.21 +0.80 0.00 0.00 -0.08 — 22:43
71 Anthony Cirelli C +2.12 +1.85 +0.11 +0.17 0.00 +0.02 -0.02 — 17:23
59 Jake Guentzel C +1.68 +2.05 +0.30 -0.67 0.00 +0.02 -0.02 — 19:03
38 Brandon Hagel L +1.17 +1.25 +0.05 -0.29 +0.15 -0.01 +0.02 — 18:04
43 Darren Raddysh D +0.26 +0.75 +0.13 -0.60 0.00 0.00 -0.03 — 27:36
67 Declan Carlile D +0.13 0.00 0.00 +0.15 -0.15 0.00 +0.12 — 21:53
11 Jakob Pelletier L +0.06 0.00 0.00 +0.03 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 11:53
20 Nick Paul L +0.06 0.00 +0.06 -0.05 0.00 +0.03 +0.02 — 14:02
7 Simon Lundmark D -0.02 0.00 +0.01 -0.28 +0.15 0.00 +0.10 — 16:45
81 Erik Cernak D -0.12 0.00 +0.02 -0.13 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 4:59
22 Oliver Bjorkstrand R -0.20 0.00 +0.26 -0.44 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 15:58
28 Zemgus Girgensons C -0.42 0.00 +0.07 -0.47 0.00 -0.02 0.00 — 15:25
93 Gage Goncalves C -0.62 0.00 0.00 -0.62 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 4:23
29 Pontus Holmberg R -0.69 0.00 +0.02 -0.76 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 14:04
17 Dominic James C -0.75 0.00 +0.01 -0.76 0.00 +0.06 -0.06 — 13:49
90 J.J. Moser D -0.90 0.00 +0.07 -1.03 0.00 0.00 +0.06 — 26:56
37 Yanni Gourde C -0.93 0.00 +0.01 -0.97 0.00 +0.03 0.00 — 15:40
51 Charle-Edouard D'Astous D -0.94 0.00 +0.05 -0.85 -0.15 0.00 0.00 — 17:20
31 Jonas Johansson G -3.42 0.00 — — 0.00 — — -3.42 57:54

Columbus Blue Jackets

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
17 Mason Marchment L +4.14 +2.80 +1.08 +0.28 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 17:23
3 Charlie Coyle C +3.10 +2.00 +0.21 +0.81 0.00 -0.02 +0.10 — 17:13
8 Zach Werenski D +2.72 +1.25 +0.21 +1.27 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 26:35
19 Adam Fantilli C +2.47 +2.15 +0.28 -0.03 +0.15 -0.06 -0.02 — 17:26
86 Kirill Marchenko R +1.71 +1.25 +0.10 +0.33 0.00 -0.01 +0.03 — 17:35
23 Sean Monahan C +1.63 +0.75 +0.34 +0.51 0.00 -0.02 +0.05 — 14:26
78 Damon Severson D +1.50 0.00 +0.01 +1.51 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 26:16
4 Cole Sillinger C +1.24 +0.75 +0.10 +0.34 0.00 0.00 +0.04 — 14:43
10 Dmitri Voronkov L +1.22 +0.75 +0.23 +0.30 -0.15 0.00 +0.09 — 13:08
38 Boone Jenner C +0.73 0.00 +0.26 +0.43 0.00 +0.01 +0.03 — 12:46
91 Kent Johnson C +0.48 0.00 0.00 +0.43 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 13:12
24 Mathieu Olivier R +0.40 0.00 0.00 +0.25 0.00 0.00 +0.15 — 15:58
21 Isac Lundeström C +0.31 0.00 +0.03 +0.30 0.00 -0.03 +0.02 — 13:01
44 Erik Gudbranson D +0.27 +0.70 +0.01 -0.52 0.00 0.00 +0.08 — 23:23
2 Jake Christiansen D +0.23 0.00 +0.05 +0.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 5:34
6 Egor Zamula D +0.18 0.00 0.00 +0.17 0.00 0.00 +0.01 — 13:04
43 Danton Heinen L +0.16 0.00 +0.01 +0.10 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 10:06
9 Ivan Provorov D -0.07 0.00 +0.03 +0.10 -0.15 0.00 -0.05 — 23:38
73 Jet Greaves G -2.88 0.00 — — 0.00 — — -2.88 60:00

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.