Los Angeles KingsLAK 5–4 Final/OT Columbus Blue JacketsCBJ

Monday, March 9, 2026

Final/OT	1st	2nd	3rd	OT	T	SOG
Los Angeles KingsLAK	2	1	1	1	5	31
Columbus Blue JacketsCBJ	1	2	1	0	4	32

Playoff odds, %	Change
CBJ	-8.0
LAK	+6.6
NYI	+1.9
EDM	-1.2
SEA	-1.2
SJS	-1.1
OTT	+1.1
PIT	+1.1
PHI	+1.0
BOS	+1.0
NSH	-0.9
WPG	-0.9
DET	+0.7
WSH	+0.6
VGK	-0.6

How the result moved each team's playoff odds, calculated Mar 9, 2026 3:11 PM EDT.

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
6:46	LAK	Scott Laughton (10) Brian Dumoulin (13), Alex Turcotte (10) · snap xG 0.25	1–0 ▶
14:48	LAK	Artemi Panarin (21) Samuel Helenius (3) · wrist xG 0.11	2–0 ▶
17:35	CBJ	Conor Garland (8) Sean Monahan (19), Ivan Provorov (18) · wrist xG 0.09	2–1 ▶
2nd Period
10:53	CBJ	Denton Mateychuk (10) Isac Lundeström (6), Boone Jenner (20) · backhand xG 0.01	2–2 ▶
12:13	CBJ	Conor Garland (9) Denton Mateychuk (16) · snap xG 0.10	2–3 ▶
14:09	LAK	Adrian Kempe (24) Anze Kopitar (20), Brian Dumoulin (14) · snap xG 0.29	3–3 ▶
3rd Period
10:07	LAK	Brian Dumoulin (2) Mikey Anderson (9), Scott Laughton (5) · snap xG 0.14	4–3 ▶
18:04	CBJ	Kirill Marchenko (23)PP Zach Werenski (46), Charlie Coyle (34) · snap xG 0.10	4–4 ▶
Overtime
2:34	LAK	Adrian Kempe (25) Artemi Panarin (44), Drew Doughty (13) · slap xG 0.09	5–4 ▶

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

LAK 73%Deserve to win27% CBJ

LAK		CBJ
3.50	Expected goals	2.12
5	Goals (no shootout)	4
2.38	Expected goals, 5 on 5	0.96
67	Shot attempts	56
49	Unblocked attempts	42
31	Shots on goal	32

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).

2nd Period
13:00	CBJ	No shift	No shift · Gudbranson, 31:23 on the bench No shift after 18:34 of the 1st; 6 shifts (5:02) before that
14:09	LAK	Deserve to win	Deserve to win · LAK takes the lead, 65–35% CBJ had led since 1:52 of the 1st, by as much as 78%
14:10	LAK	xG swing	xG swing · Out-chanced CBJ 1.75–0.36 In xG over 10 minutes, 5:10 to 15:10 of the 2nd; goals 1–2
3rd Period
6:40	LAK	No shift	No shift · Ward, 11:11 on the bench No shift from 14:33 of the 2nd to 7:51 of the 3rd; 9 shifts (5:09) before that
6:40	LAK	No shift	No shift · Malott, 11:10 on the bench No shift from 14:33 of the 2nd to 7:50 of the 3rd; 6 shifts (3:51) before that

Shot map

LAK shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ CBJ 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

Los Angeles Kings

	Skater	G	A	P	+/−	Att	xG	Hit	Blk	TOI
Forwards
14	Alex Laferriere	0	0	0	-2	6	0.15	3	0	23:32
10	Artemi Panarin	1	1	2	+3	7	0.34	1	0	21:19
55	Quinton Byfield	0	0	0	-3	4	0.30	2	2	21:04
9	Adrian Kempe	2	0	2	+2	6	0.83	2	0	21:02
12	Trevor Moore	0	0	0	-2	4	0.17	4	0	20:57
11	Anze Kopitar	0	1	1	+1	8	0.64	0	0	20:48
21	Scott Laughton	1	1	2	+2	3	0.33	1	1	15:09
25	Jared Wright	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	2	1	11:12
15	Alex Turcotte	0	1	1	+1	3	0.21	2	0	10:07
79	Samuel Helenius	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	1	0	06:47
17	Taylor Ward	0	0	0	+1	1	0.03	1	1	06:06
39	Jeff Malott	0	0	0	0	2	0.00	2	0	04:55
Defense
92	Brandt Clarke	0	0	0	0	5	0.07	0	4	22:01
8	Drew Doughty	0	1	1	-2	4	0.02	0	0	21:58
44	Mikey Anderson	0	1	1	-1	2	0.06	2	1	20:21
5	Cody Ceci	0	0	0	+3	3	0.06	0	1	18:32
6	Joel Edmundson	0	0	0	0	3	0.04	2	2	17:19
2	Brian Dumoulin	1	2	3	+3	6	0.25	0	0	17:12

Goalie	SA	GA	SV	SV%	xGA	GSAx
Anton Forsberg	32	4	28	.875	2.12	-1.88

Columbus Blue Jackets

	Skater	G	A	P	+/−	Att	xG	Hit	Blk	TOI
Forwards
86	Kirill Marchenko	1	0	1	-1	7	0.57	0	0	22:51
19	Adam Fantilli	0	0	0	-3	2	0.05	0	0	21:44
27	Mason Marchment	0	0	0	-1	2	0.12	0	0	19:37
23	Sean Monahan	0	1	1	+1	2	0.09	2	4	17:21
3	Charlie Coyle	0	1	1	-1	2	0.00	1	1	16:37
22	Boone Jenner	0	1	1	+1	3	0.06	1	0	14:15
4	Cole Sillinger	0	0	0	-2	0	0.00	1	1	13:18
91	Kent Johnson	0	0	0	+1	6	0.46	0	1	13:04
24	Mathieu Olivier	0	0	0	-2	2	0.03	0	1	12:26
21	Isac Lundeström	0	1	1	+1	2	0.08	1	4	12:11
83	Conor Garland	2	0	2	0	4	0.20	1	0	12:05
18	Miles Wood	0	0	0	+1	1	0.00	2	0	09:31
Defense
8	Zach Werenski	0	1	1	-4	6	0.18	1	2	29:04
78	Damon Severson	0	0	0	-2	5	0.10	0	1	24:08
9	Ivan Provorov	0	1	1	+3	7	0.12	0	0	23:07
5	Denton Mateychuk	1	1	2	+1	1	0.01	0	1	17:52
15	Dante Fabbro	0	0	0	-1	2	0.03	1	2	17:29
44	Erik Gudbranson	0	0	0	0	2	0.03	1	0	05:02

Goalie	SA	GA	SV	SV%	xGA	GSAx
Jet Greaves	31	5	26	.839	3.50	-1.50

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.

Los Angeles Kings

Player	Rating	Points	Shots	On ice	Pen	FO	Other	GSAx	TOI
2 Brian Dumoulin D	+4.11	+2.00	+0.16	+1.80	+0.15	0.00	0.00	—	17:12
9 Adrian Kempe R	+3.35	+1.50	+0.54	+1.16	+0.15	-0.01	+0.02	—	21:02
10 Artemi Panarin L	+3.13	+1.45	+0.22	+1.52	0.00	0.00	-0.06	—	21:19
11 Anze Kopitar C	+2.43	+0.70	+0.42	+1.26	0.00	+0.07	-0.02	—	20:48
5 Cody Ceci D	+2.07	0.00	+0.04	+1.98	0.00	0.00	+0.05	—	18:32
21 Scott Laughton C	+2.05	+1.30	+0.22	+0.64	-0.15	+0.04	+0.01	—	15:09
15 Alex Turcotte C	+1.30	+0.55	+0.14	+0.64	0.00	0.00	-0.02	—	10:07
44 Mikey Anderson D	+0.73	+0.70	+0.04	-0.08	0.00	0.00	+0.07	—	20:21
79 Samuel Helenius C	+0.73	+0.70	0.00	+0.18	-0.15	0.00	0.00	—	6:47
53 Jared Wright R	+0.64	0.00	0.00	+0.57	0.00	0.00	+0.07	—	11:12
92 Brandt Clarke D	+0.60	0.00	+0.04	+0.37	0.00	0.00	+0.18	—	22:01
52 Taylor Ward R	+0.33	0.00	+0.02	+0.26	0.00	0.00	+0.05	—	6:06
6 Joel Edmundson D	+0.01	0.00	+0.03	-0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	17:19
39 Jeff Malott L	-0.02	0.00	0.00	-0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	4:55
8 Drew Doughty D	-0.10	+0.55	+0.01	-0.64	0.00	0.00	-0.02	—	21:58
12 Trevor Moore L	-0.23	0.00	+0.11	-0.34	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	20:57
14 Alex Laferriere R	-0.24	0.00	+0.10	-0.28	0.00	+0.01	-0.06	—	23:32
55 Quinton Byfield R	-0.37	0.00	+0.19	-0.46	-0.30	+0.10	+0.10	—	21:04
31 Anton Forsberg G	-1.88	0.00	—	—	0.00	—	—	-1.88	62:34

Columbus Blue Jackets

Player	Rating	Points	Shots	On ice	Pen	FO	Other	GSAx	TOI
83 Conor Garland R	+1.34	+1.50	+0.13	-0.27	0.00	0.00	-0.02	—	12:05
9 Ivan Provorov D	+1.18	+0.55	+0.08	+0.53	0.00	0.00	+0.02	—	23:07
86 Kirill Marchenko R	+1.13	+0.75	+0.37	+0.05	0.00	0.00	-0.04	—	22:51
21 Isac Lundeström C	+1.04	+0.70	+0.05	+0.08	0.00	+0.01	+0.20	—	12:11
23 Sean Monahan C	+0.98	+0.70	+0.06	+0.16	0.00	-0.12	+0.18	—	17:21
5 Denton Mateychuk D	+0.78	+1.45	+0.01	-0.87	+0.15	0.00	+0.05	—	17:52
38 Boone Jenner C	+0.68	+0.55	+0.04	+0.10	0.00	-0.01	0.00	—	14:15
91 Kent Johnson C	+0.42	0.00	+0.30	+0.09	0.00	0.00	+0.03	—	13:04
11 Miles Wood L	+0.07	0.00	0.00	+0.07	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	9:31
44 Erik Gudbranson D	-0.04	0.00	+0.02	-0.06	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	5:02
17 Mason Marchment L	-0.06	0.00	+0.08	-0.40	+0.30	0.00	-0.04	—	19:37
15 Dante Fabbro D	-0.30	0.00	+0.02	-0.42	0.00	0.00	+0.10	—	17:29
3 Charlie Coyle C	-0.40	+0.55	0.00	-0.95	0.00	-0.03	+0.03	—	16:37
8 Zach Werenski D	-0.51	+0.70	+0.12	-1.41	0.00	0.00	+0.08	—	29:04
19 Adam Fantilli C	-1.21	0.00	+0.03	-1.03	-0.15	-0.06	0.00	—	21:44
78 Damon Severson D	-1.21	0.00	+0.07	-1.18	-0.15	0.00	+0.05	—	24:08
4 Cole Sillinger C	-1.44	0.00	0.00	-1.47	0.00	0.00	+0.03	—	13:18
73 Jet Greaves G	-1.50	0.00	—	—	0.00	—	—	-1.50	62:34
24 Mathieu Olivier R	-1.53	0.00	+0.02	-1.56	0.00	0.00	+0.01	—	12:26

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.