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Boston BruinsBOS 3–4 Final/OT New Jersey DevilsNJD

Monday, March 16, 2026

Final/OT 1st2nd3rdOT T SOG
Boston BruinsBOS 2010 3 22
New Jersey DevilsNJD 0211 4 34
Playoff odds, % Change
BOS -7.4
NJD +0.2
OTT +1.8
DET +1.6
CBJ +1.0
NYI +0.8
MTL +0.6
PHI +0.5

How the result moved each team's playoff odds, calculated Mar 16, 2026 4:53 PM EDT.

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
4:02 BOS David Pastrnak (25) Henri Jokiharju (10), Marat Khusnutdinov (16) · wrist xG 0.21 1–0 ▶
14:29 BOS Pavel Zacha (20) Viktor Arvidsson (20), Charlie McAvoy (41) · wrist xG 0.25 2–0 ▶
2nd Period
0:32 NJD Connor Brown (12) Jack Hughes (32) · snap xG 0.37 2–1 ▶
8:08 NJD Jesper Bratt (15) Connor Brown (19), Jack Hughes (33) · slap xG 0.16 2–2 ▶
3rd Period
2:50 NJD Paul Cotter (7) Maxim Tsyplakov (2), Brenden Dillon (10) · wrist xG 0.15 2–3 ▶
4:32 BOS David Pastrnak (26) Unassisted · backhand xG 0.11 3–3 ▶
Overtime
4:53 NJD Paul Cotter (8) Jack Hughes (34), Dougie Hamilton (21) · wrist xG 0.16 3–4 ▶

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

BOS 31%Deserve to win69% NJD
BOSNJD
2.23Expected goals3.33
3Goals (no shootout)4
1.51Expected goals, 5 on 52.54
45Shot attempts71
34Unblocked attempts51
22Shots on goal34

Shot map

BOS shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ NJD shoots
Luke Hughes: slap, 59 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 1:32) Simon Nemec: slap, 62 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 1:54) Charlie McAvoy: wrist, 39 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 2:50) Charlie McAvoy: wrist, 66 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 3:03) Johnathan Kovacevic: wrist, 19 ft, xG 0.13 (P1 3:33) Henri Jokiharju: snap, 65 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 3:58) Nikita Zadorov: wrist, 55 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 4:06) Jonas Siegenthaler: slap, 68 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 5:11) Cody Glass: snap, 38 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 5:26) Lenni Hameenaho: backhand, 14 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 5:27) Morgan Geekie: slap, 43 ft, xG 0.06 (P1 7:09) Simon Nemec: snap, 52 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 7:46) Sean Kuraly: snap, 37 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 8:04) Hampus Lindholm: snap, 55 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 8:28) Lenni Hameenaho: slap, 25 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 8:51) Fraser Minten: tip-in, 12 ft, xG 0.07 (P1 9:32) Simon Nemec: snap, 58 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 10:39) Simon Nemec: wrist, 44 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 10:48) Timo Meier: wrist, 23 ft, xG 0.12 (P1 11:41) Timo Meier: poke, 7 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 11:42) Nico Hischier: tip-in, 14 ft, xG 0.06 (P1 12:38) Mark Kastelic: slap, 58 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 14:58) Mason Lohrei: wrist, 23 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 15:55) Connor Brown: slap, 39 ft, xG 0.05 (P1 16:14) Johnathan Kovacevic: slap, 58 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 16:32) Jonas Siegenthaler: wrist, 116 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 0:03) Jonas Siegenthaler: wrist, 46 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 0:13) Fraser Minten: wrist, 8 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 1:03) Fraser Minten: backhand, 12 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 1:13) Arseny Gritsyuk: wrist, 58 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 1:36) Sean Kuraly: wrist, 21 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 2:45) David Pastrnak: wrist, 20 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 3:23) Johnathan Kovacevic: slap, 53 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 4:39) Nico Hischier: deflected, 26 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 4:53) Timo Meier: wrist, 38 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 4:56) Sean Kuraly: backhand, 53 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 6:03) Jonas Siegenthaler: slap, 30 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 6:49) Connor Brown: wrist, 28 ft, xG 0.21 (P2 7:46) Nikita Zadorov: snap, 45 ft, xG 0.04 (P2 9:38) Simon Nemec: wrist, 47 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 9:59) Dougie Hamilton: wrist, 57 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 11:00) Alex Steeves: backhand, 16 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 11:22) Sean Kuraly: slap, 45 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 12:22) Timo Meier: wrist, 34 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 13:04) Nico Hischier: snap, 49 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 13:10) Dougie Hamilton: wrist, 45 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 14:25) Connor Brown: wrist, 12 ft, xG 0.16 (P2 14:37) Jack Hughes: backhand, 9 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 14:38) Jonathan Aspirot: slap, 59 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 15:11) Johnathan Kovacevic: slap, 60 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 15:43) Timo Meier: tip-in, 19 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 15:48) Dawson Mercer: backhand, 96 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 16:06) Jack Hughes: slap, 35 ft, xG 0.10 (P2 16:24) Jack Hughes: wrist, 46 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 16:41) Connor Brown: tip-in, 15 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 16:49) Mark Kastelic: snap, 40 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 18:11) Dougie Hamilton: wrist, 41 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 19:08) Timo Meier: snap, 35 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 19:55) Charlie McAvoy: wrist, 40 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 0:19) Viktor Arvidsson: wrap-around, 4 ft, xG 0.05 (P3 0:29) Alex Steeves: tip-in, 10 ft, xG 0.09 (P3 2:18) Jonathan Aspirot: slap, 62 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 2:24) Cody Glass: wrist, 23 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 5:12) Jonas Siegenthaler: snap, 47 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 6:16) Simon Nemec: wrist, 63 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 7:02) Lenni Hameenaho: wrist, 30 ft, xG 0.17 (P3 7:41) David Pastrnak: slap, 39 ft, xG 0.11 (P3 12:42) Morgan Geekie: slap, 44 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 13:15) Fraser Minten: tip-in, 10 ft, xG 0.10 (P3 14:23) Jack Hughes: wrist, 36 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 15:02) Elias Lindholm: tip-in, 13 ft, xG 0.12 (P3 18:27) Morgan Geekie: tip-in, 7 ft, xG 0.13 (P3 18:32) Jesper Bratt: wrist, 6 ft, xG 0.25 (OT 0:51) Luke Hughes: wrist, 8 ft, xG 0.18 (OT 1:17) David Pastrnak: slap, 24 ft, xG 0.15 (OT 2:00) Arseny Gritsyuk: wrist, 56 ft, xG 0.03 (OT 2:35) Jack Hughes: snap, 34 ft, xG 0.11 (OT 3:51) Charlie McAvoy: wrist, 24 ft, xG 0.15 (OT 4:44) David Pastrnak: GOAL, wrist, 9 ft, xG 0.21 (P1 4:02) Pavel Zacha: GOAL, wrist, 9 ft, xG 0.25 (P1 14:29) Connor Brown: GOAL, snap, 21 ft, xG 0.37 (P2 0:32) Jesper Bratt: GOAL, slap, 29 ft, xG 0.16 (P2 8:08) Paul Cotter: GOAL, wrist, 21 ft, xG 0.15 (P3 2:50) David Pastrnak: GOAL, backhand, 13 ft, xG 0.11 (P3 4:32) Paul Cotter: GOAL, wrist, 8 ft, xG 0.16 (OT 4:53)
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

Boston Bruins

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
88 David Pastrnak 202 +1 60.62 2124:03
28 Elias Lindholm 000 0 10.12 1120:38
92 Marat Khusnutdinov 011 +2 00.00 0119:56
18 Pavel Zacha 101 -1 10.25 2118:54
93 Fraser Minten 000 +2 50.28 1118:13
39 Morgan Geekie 000 0 30.23 1016:23
11 Casey Mittelstadt 000 -2 00.00 1015:24
33 Viktor Arvidsson 011 -1 20.05 0015:16
21 Alex Steeves 000 0 20.21 6111:34
52 Sean Kuraly 000 -1 50.08 0010:50
84 Tanner Jeannot 000 -1 00.00 3010:39
47 Mark Kastelic 000 -1 20.02 1008:50
Defense
6 Mason Lohrei 000 0 30.04 0322:07
27 Hampus Lindholm 000 0 40.02 0022:00
73 Charlie McAvoy 011 -2 40.21 0320:55
91 Nikita Zadorov 000 +1 30.04 3220:07
20 Henri Jokiharju 011 +1 20.00 1319:14
45 Jonathan Aspirot 000 -1 20.06 0216:15
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Joonas Korpisalo 34430 .882 3.33 -0.67

New Jersey Devils

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
86 Jack Hughes 033 +2 80.30 0224:16
63 Jesper Bratt 101 +1 40.41 1022:38
13 Nico Hischier 000 -1 50.16 0022:03
16 Connor Brown 112 +2 50.85 1019:50
91 Dawson Mercer 000 -2 10.00 0019:07
28 Timo Meier 000 -1 70.23 1117:56
12 Cody Glass 000 0 30.05 0015:26
81 Arseny Gritsyuk 000 -1 20.04 2011:17
47 Paul Cotter 202 +1 20.31 3009:18
29 Lenni Hameenaho 000 0 40.22 0009:16
72 Nick Bjugstad 000 +1 00.00 2007:42
72 Maxim Tsyplakov 011 0 00.00 3007:39
Defense
7 Dougie Hamilton 011 0 40.10 1126:19
43 Luke Hughes 000 0 30.21 1022:35
71 Jonas Siegenthaler 000 0 60.14 0221:31
71 Simon Nemec 000 0 100.09 1119:48
8 Johnathan Kovacevic 000 0 60.21 1116:10
5 Brenden Dillon 011 +1 10.00 3115:48
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Jacob Markstrom 22319 .864 2.23 -0.77

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.

Boston Bruins

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
88 David Pastrnak R +2.31 +1.50 +0.40 +0.53 -0.15 0.00 +0.03 — 24:03
92 Marat Khusnutdinov C +1.41 +0.55 0.00 +0.68 +0.15 0.00 +0.03 — 19:56
93 Fraser Minten C +1.12 0.00 +0.18 +0.76 +0.15 -0.02 +0.05 — 18:13
20 Henri Jokiharju D +0.73 +0.70 0.00 -0.06 0.00 0.00 +0.09 — 19:14
6 Mason Lohrei D +0.03 0.00 +0.03 -0.15 0.00 0.00 +0.15 — 22:07
71 Viktor Arvidsson L -0.06 +0.70 +0.03 -0.94 +0.15 0.00 0.00 — 15:16
21 Alex Steeves C -0.07 0.00 +0.13 -0.21 0.00 0.00 +0.01 — 11:34
91 Nikita Zadorov D -0.11 0.00 +0.03 -0.26 0.00 0.00 +0.12 — 20:07
28 Elias Lindholm C -0.11 0.00 +0.08 -0.30 0.00 +0.06 +0.05 — 20:38
27 Hampus Lindholm D -0.14 0.00 +0.01 -0.13 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 22:00
39 Morgan Geekie C -0.14 0.00 +0.15 -0.25 0.00 0.00 -0.04 — 16:23
18 Pavel Zacha C -0.15 +0.75 +0.16 -1.09 0.00 -0.02 +0.05 — 18:54
73 Charlie McAvoy D -0.24 +0.55 +0.14 -1.01 0.00 0.00 +0.09 — 20:55
52 Sean Kuraly C -0.45 0.00 +0.05 -0.52 0.00 +0.01 0.00 — 10:50
47 Mark Kastelic C -0.48 0.00 +0.01 -0.50 0.00 +0.01 0.00 — 8:50
70 Joonas Korpisalo G -0.67 0.00 — — 0.00 — — -0.67 64:14
84 Tanner Jeannot L -0.71 0.00 0.00 -0.71 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 10:39
45 Jonathan Aspirot D -0.76 0.00 +0.04 -0.77 -0.15 0.00 +0.12 — 16:15
11 Casey Mittelstadt C -0.80 0.00 0.00 -0.77 0.00 -0.01 -0.02 — 15:24

New Jersey Devils

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
16 Connor Brown R +3.65 +1.45 +0.55 +1.65 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 19:50
86 Jack Hughes C +3.50 +1.95 +0.20 +1.30 0.00 -0.02 +0.08 — 24:16
63 Jesper Bratt L +2.62 +0.75 +0.27 +1.32 +0.30 0.00 -0.02 — 22:38
5 Brenden Dillon D +1.35 +0.55 0.00 +0.77 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 15:48
47 Paul Cotter L +1.30 +1.50 +0.20 -0.39 0.00 -0.01 0.00 — 9:18
71 Jonas Siegenthaler D +0.62 0.00 +0.09 +0.42 0.00 0.00 +0.10 — 21:31
8 Johnathan Kovacevic D +0.59 0.00 +0.13 +0.43 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 16:10
43 Luke Hughes D +0.57 0.00 +0.14 +0.43 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 22:35
7 Dougie Hamilton D +0.53 +0.55 +0.07 -0.12 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 26:19
42 Maxim Tsyplakov R +0.51 +0.70 0.00 -0.19 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 7:39
29 Lenni Hameenaho R +0.47 0.00 +0.14 +0.34 0.00 -0.01 0.00 — 9:16
17 Simon Nemec D +0.42 0.00 +0.06 +0.35 0.00 0.00 +0.01 — 19:48
12 Cody Glass C +0.38 0.00 +0.03 +0.31 0.00 +0.04 0.00 — 15:26
28 Timo Meier R 0.00 0.00 +0.15 -0.17 0.00 +0.01 +0.01 — 17:56
81 Arseny Gritsyuk R -0.04 0.00 +0.02 -0.05 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 11:17
72 Nick Bjugstad C -0.09 0.00 0.00 +0.08 -0.15 -0.02 0.00 — 7:42
13 Nico Hischier C -0.33 0.00 +0.10 -0.22 -0.15 -0.02 -0.04 — 22:03
91 Dawson Mercer C -0.73 0.00 0.00 -0.56 -0.15 0.00 -0.02 — 19:07
25 Jacob Markstrom G -0.77 0.00 — — 0.00 — — -0.77 64:53

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.