Tuesday, March 10, 2026
How the result moved each team's playoff odds, calculated Mar 10, 2026 7:12 PM EDT.
Highlights
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
UTA 23%Deserve to win 77% MIN
UTA MIN
2.36 Expected goals 4.12
0 Goals (no shootout) 5
1.57 Expected goals, 5 on 5 2.86
57 Shot attempts 67
42 Unblocked attempts 51
25 Shots on goal 30
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
14:10
MIN
xG swing
xG swing · Out-chanced UTA 1.29–0.04
In xG over 10 minutes, 5:20 to 15:20 of the 1st; goals 1–0
3rd Period
14:52
MIN
Goalie
Goalie · Gustavsson +2.0 goals saved
0 goals on 2.00 xG, 22 shots on goal
Shot map
UTA shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal → MIN shoots
JJ Peterka: wrist, 52 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 1:31)
Bobby Brink: tip-in, 13 ft, xG 0.05 (P1 1:42)
Jake Middleton: wrist, 56 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 1:47)
Brock Faber: snap, 64 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 2:50)
Logan Cooley: tip-in, 9 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 3:17)
Dylan Guenther: wrist, 41 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 3:59)
Barrett Hayton: snap, 15 ft, xG 0.12 (P1 4:23)
Michael Carcone: wrist, 48 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 5:20)
Marcus Johansson: snap, 27 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 6:05)
Clayton Keller: wrist, 28 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 7:52)
Sean Durzi: slap, 56 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 7:59)
Joel Eriksson Ek: backhand, 45 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 8:53)
Matt Boldy: snap, 31 ft, xG 0.08 (P1 9:28)
Matt Boldy: tip-in, 22 ft, xG 0.09 (P1 9:37)
Vladimir Tarasenko: wrist, 41 ft, xG 0.05 (P1 10:17)
Kirill Kaprizov: wrist, 25 ft, xG 0.11 (P1 11:02)
Kirill Kaprizov: snap, 13 ft, xG 0.20 (P1 11:09)
Quinn Hughes: wrist, 35 ft, xG 0.08 (P1 11:16)
Joel Eriksson Ek: tip-in, 13 ft, xG 0.10 (P1 11:21)
Kirill Kaprizov: snap, 36 ft, xG 0.09 (P1 11:30)
Michael McCarron: wrist, 13 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 13:20)
Kirill Kaprizov: wrist, 30 ft, xG 0.10 (P1 14:07)
Dylan Guenther: wrist, 46 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 16:25)
Dylan Guenther: wrist, 35 ft, xG 0.05 (P1 17:03)
Clayton Keller: wrist, 28 ft, xG 0.07 (P1 17:44)
Michael Carcone: slap, 43 ft, xG 0.08 (P1 18:53)
Kevin Stenlund: tip-in, 14 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 18:58)
Kevin Stenlund: backhand, 11 ft, xG 0.10 (P1 19:00)
Brock Faber: wrist, 63 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 1:25)
Logan Cooley: snap, 22 ft, xG 0.16 (P2 2:26)
Michael Carcone: wrist, 77 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 3:20)
Quinn Hughes: slap, 51 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 4:47)
Kailer Yamamoto: snap, 31 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 6:03)
Vladimir Tarasenko: wrist, 34 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 6:28)
Jonas Brodin: slap, 65 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 7:49)
Lawson Crouse: wrist, 17 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 8:13)
Clayton Keller: snap, 44 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 8:34)
Dylan Guenther: slap, 42 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 10:04)
Clayton Keller: snap, 36 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 10:17)
Logan Cooley: snap, 22 ft, xG 0.17 (P2 10:56)
Brock Faber: wrist, 15 ft, xG 0.14 (P2 11:05)
Brock Faber: wrist, 54 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 11:15)
Brock Faber: wrist, 60 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 11:22)
Bobby Brink: wrist, 27 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 12:56)
JJ Peterka: wrist, 35 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 14:02)
Kailer Yamamoto: wrist, 6 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 14:03)
Kailer Yamamoto: wrist, 7 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 14:04)
Jonas Brodin: slap, 59 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 14:54)
Lawson Crouse: wrist, 43 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 15:08)
Clayton Keller: wrist, 17 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 15:20)
Michael McCarron: tip-in, 28 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 15:53)
Ryan Hartman: wrist, 81 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 17:32)
Mats Zuccarello: wrist, 22 ft, xG 0.14 (P2 17:38)
Brock Faber: wrist, 65 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 18:13)
Jonas Brodin: slap, 60 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 18:17)
Jonas Brodin: wrist, 100 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 18:39)
Dylan Guenther: wrist, 61 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 18:54)
Kailer Yamamoto: wrist, 31 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 19:52)
JJ Peterka: wrist, 19 ft, xG 0.13 (P2 19:58)
Mats Zuccarello: wrist, 31 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 0:13)
Ryan Hartman: wrist, 6 ft, xG 0.11 (P3 0:16)
Ryan Hartman: cradle, 6 ft, xG 0.51 (P3 0:18)
Clayton Keller: wrist, 53 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 0:54)
Lawson Crouse: wrist, 31 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 4:12)
Nick DeSimone: slap, 47 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 4:16)
Matt Boldy: wrist, 57 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 5:00)
Zach Bogosian: slap, 54 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 5:14)
Jack McBain: wrist, 72 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 5:28)
Ian Cole: snap, 16 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 6:24)
Jack McBain: wrist, 9 ft, xG 0.24 (P3 8:37)
Ian Cole: wrist, 67 ft, xG 0.00 (P3 8:52)
Nick Foligno: tip-in, 10 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 9:57)
Danila Yurov: wrist, 45 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 10:17)
Joel Eriksson Ek: wrist, 41 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 12:22)
Jonas Brodin: backhand, 88 ft, xG 0.00 (P3 12:45)
Vladimir Tarasenko: wrist, 25 ft, xG 0.10 (P3 14:09)
Marcus Johansson: wrist, 24 ft, xG 0.13 (P3 14:17)
Bobby Brink: wrist, 47 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 14:23)
Nick Schmaltz: wrist, 33 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 14:52)
Mats Zuccarello: tip-in, 5 ft, xG 0.20 (P3 15:29)
Matt Boldy: wrist, 11 ft, xG 0.16 (P3 15:44)
Logan Cooley: wrist, 36 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 15:54)
Jack McBain: tip-in, 12 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 16:01)
Clayton Keller: wrist, 32 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 16:33)
Barrett Hayton: tip-in, 6 ft, xG 0.12 (P3 17:22)
Dylan Guenther: slap, 47 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 18:06)
Nick Foligno: wrist, 35 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 18:37)
Ryan Hartman: deflected, 7 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 18:38)
Kirill Kaprizov: GOAL, wrist, 16 ft, xG 0.29 (P1 14:10)
Matt Boldy: GOAL, snap, 29 ft, xG 0.14 (P2 8:43)
Bobby Brink: GOAL, wrist, 26 ft, xG 0.11 (P3 2:09)
Danila Yurov: GOAL, wrist, 15 ft, xG 0.11 (P3 6:09)
Ryan Hartman: GOAL, backhand, 3 ft, xG 0.35 (P3 18:39)
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.
All columns
Box score
Utah Mammoth
Minnesota Wild
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.
Utah Mammoth
Player
Rating
Points
Shots
On ice
Pen
FO
Other
GSAx
TOI
8 Nick Schmaltz C
+0.33
0.00
+0.03
+0.14
+0.15
-0.04
+0.05
—
19:03
9 Clayton Keller R
+0.27
0.00
+0.19
-0.05
+0.15
0.00
-0.02
—
19:49
28 Ian Cole D
+0.21
0.00
+0.06
+0.03
0.00
0.00
+0.11
—
19:51
82 Kevin Stenlund C
+0.18
0.00
+0.08
+0.12
0.00
+0.02
-0.04
—
15:00
22 Jack McBain C
+0.16
0.00
+0.22
-0.09
0.00
0.00
+0.03
—
12:03
67 Lawson Crouse L
-0.12
0.00
+0.08
-0.08
-0.15
0.00
+0.03
—
15:21
15 Alexander Kerfoot C
-0.20
0.00
0.00
-0.04
-0.15
+0.03
-0.04
—
13:16
11 Dylan Guenther R
-0.23
0.00
+0.16
-0.43
0.00
0.00
+0.03
—
17:33
52 MacKenzie Weegar D
-0.35
0.00
0.00
-0.28
-0.15
0.00
+0.08
—
16:43
6 John Marino D
-0.67
0.00
0.00
-0.77
0.00
0.00
+0.10
—
19:01
57 Nick DeSimone D
-0.73
0.00
0.00
-0.73
0.00
0.00
0.00
—
17:58
56 Kailer Yamamoto R
-0.81
0.00
+0.12
-0.96
0.00
-0.02
+0.05
—
10:47
53 Michael Carcone L
-0.84
0.00
+0.06
-0.86
0.00
0.00
-0.04
—
11:44
88 Nate Schmidt D
-0.85
0.00
0.00
-1.01
0.00
0.00
+0.16
—
20:25
70 Karel Vejmelka G
-0.88
0.00
—
—
0.00
—
—
-0.88
59:54
92 Logan Cooley C
-0.92
0.00
+0.25
-1.10
0.00
-0.05
-0.02
—
15:49
27 Barrett Hayton C
-1.20
0.00
+0.16
-1.33
0.00
0.00
-0.02
—
14:57
50 Sean Durzi D
-1.39
0.00
0.00
-1.41
0.00
0.00
+0.02
—
20:13
77 JJ Peterka R
-1.87
0.00
+0.13
-2.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
—
12:33
Minnesota Wild
Player
Rating
Points
Shots
On ice
Pen
FO
Other
GSAx
TOI
97 Kirill Kaprizov L
+3.51
+1.30
+0.51
+1.87
-0.15
0.00
-0.02
—
20:45
38 Ryan Hartman R
+2.91
+0.75
+0.65
+1.54
0.00
-0.01
-0.02
—
13:27
43 Quinn Hughes D
+2.57
+0.55
+0.10
+1.93
0.00
0.00
-0.02
—
23:43
91 Vladimir Tarasenko R
+2.37
+1.40
+0.11
+0.60
+0.30
0.00
-0.04
—
14:02
32 Filip Gustavsson G
+2.36
0.00
—
—
0.00
—
—
+2.36
59:52
7 Brock Faber D
+1.78
0.00
+0.12
+1.73
-0.15
0.00
+0.08
—
21:47
12 Matt Boldy L
+1.69
+0.75
+0.32
+0.39
+0.15
+0.03
+0.05
—
18:36
22 Danila Yurov R
+1.63
+0.75
+0.09
+0.96
-0.15
-0.02
0.00
—
12:05
10 Bobby Brink R
+1.19
+0.75
+0.18
+0.18
0.00
0.00
+0.09
—
12:37
36 Mats Zuccarello R
+1.06
0.00
+0.28
+0.80
0.00
+0.01
-0.02
—
19:22
90 Marcus Johansson L
+1.02
+0.70
+0.11
+0.21
0.00
0.00
0.00
—
13:21
71 Nick Foligno L
+1.00
+0.70
+0.04
+0.27
0.00
-0.01
0.00
—
11:41
24 Zach Bogosian D
+0.99
0.00
+0.01
+0.90
0.00
0.00
+0.08
—
15:28
5 Jake Middleton D
+0.74
0.00
0.00
+0.73
0.00
0.00
0.00
—
16:53
14 Joel Eriksson Ek C
+0.73
+0.55
+0.11
+0.06
0.00
-0.01
+0.03
—
18:18
25 Jonas Brodin D
+0.22
0.00
+0.02
-0.08
+0.15
0.00
+0.13
—
18:45
13 Yakov Trenin C
-0.07
0.00
0.00
-0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
—
12:17
47 Michael McCarron C
-0.30
0.00
+0.03
-0.46
0.00
+0.07
+0.05
—
13:27
46 Jared Spurgeon D
-0.68
0.00
0.00
-0.73
0.00
0.00
+0.05
—
17:34
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.