Chicago Blackhawks vs. Minnesota WildMar 19, 2022

FinalSaturday, Mar 19, 2022· Xcel Energy Center

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
CHI	0	0	1	1		CHI	7	7	8	22
MIN	1	0	2	3		MIN	11	12	11	34

: CHI 38MIN 68
: CHI 1.49MIN 5.32
PP goals: CHI 0MIN 0
Hits: CHI 26MIN 15
Blocks: CHI 17MIN 13
PIM: CHI 8MIN 6
: CHI 63%MIN 38%

Fantasy takeaways

Generated from the play-by-play, shifts and season context. No opinions, just what changed.

Minnesota Wild beat Chicago Blackhawks 3–1

Minnesota Wild beat Chicago Blackhawks 3–1 at home. Jon Merrill (MIN) led the scoring with 0G 2A. New look for CHI: Toews–Kubalik–Dach skated 5:11 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (16.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

Points
Jon Merrill had 2 assists (2 points) on 3 shots in 18:18.Merrill
New line
New look for CHI: Toews–Kubalik–Dach skated 5:11 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (16.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Toews Kubalik Dach
Usage
Alex Vlasic (CHI) played 6:10, −8:43 down on his 14:53 season average over 14 games.Vlasic
Luck
MIN scored 3 goals on 5.32 expected goals (68 attempts), well short of its chances.
New line
New look for CHI: Carpenter–Katchouk–Entwistle skated 4:09 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Carpenter Katchouk Entwistle
New line
New look for MIN: Jost–Duhaime–Dewar skated 7:02 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (66.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Jost Duhaime Dewar
Usage
Kevin Fiala (MIN) played 13:53, −3:49 down on his 17:42 season average over 81 games.Fiala
Usage
Erik Gustafsson (CHI) played 11:20, −4:58 down on his 16:18 season average over 58 games.Gustafsson

Shot map

Both teams on one rink, filtered by strength and period.

Shot map

Every attempt, sized by expected goals. Goals are rings, shots on goal dots, misses hollow, blocks crosses.

Strength

Period

Team

← CHI attacks left (bottom on phones)MIN attacks right (top on phones) →

MIN
CHI
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 106 of 106 attempts · MIN 68 · CHI 38

Game flow

Cumulative expected goals and shot attempts, with power plays shaded and goals marked.

Cumulative shot attempts

MIN
CHI
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

MIN pressure
CHI pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: CHI 17% of the game, MIN 53%.

Shift chart

Every shift, grouped by line and pair; bars are coloured by strength state. Click a player to highlight.

Shifts

MIN

CHI

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Sequence card

5-on-5 possession-chain numbers from the sequence engine (Draw Equity and control cover all situations).

Sequence card
Stat	CHI	MIN
	32	60
	0.96	2.75
	0.91	2.69
	1	11
	5	4
	7	12
	+0.109	−0.109
	17%	53%

Definitions: sequence xG, transition attempts, Draw Equity, control and the Pressure Index.

Lines used

Detected from who actually shared the ice, with time together. Percentages are the unit's share of shot attempts.

Chicago Blackhawks

L1Kane – Strome – DeBrincat
10:1835% CF
L2Toews – Kubalik – Dach
5:1117% CF
L3Carpenter – Katchouk – Entwistle
4:0950% CF
D1McCabe – Jones
16:1739% CF
D2de Haan – Stillman
9:1426% CF
D3Gustafsson – Jones
6:3844% CF

PP1Kane – Gustafsson – Strome – DeBrincat – Raddysh
2:15100% CF
PP2Toews – Kubalik – Jones – Entwistle – Dach
1:30100% CF
PK1FCarpenter – Lafferty
1:33
PK2FKatchouk – Dach
1:01
PK1DMcCabe – Jones
3:31
PK2Dde Haan – Stillman
1:12

Current CHI line combinations →

Minnesota Wild

L1Foligno – Greenway – Eriksson Ek
11:2269% CF
L2Zuccarello – Hartman – Kaprizov
10:3770% CF
L3Gaudreau – Fiala – Boldy
8:1480% CF
L4Jost – Duhaime – Dewar
7:0267% CF
D1Brodin – Dumba
18:0266% CF
D2Kulikov – Merrill
13:1865% CF
D3Goligoski – Spurgeon
9:5963% CF

PP1Goligoski – Spurgeon – Zuccarello – Hartman – Kaprizov
4:0289% CF
PP2Brodin – Dumba – Gaudreau – Fiala – Boldy
1:50100% CF
PK1FFoligno – Eriksson Ek
1:39
PK2FJost – Dewar
0:39
PK1DKulikov – Merrill
1:32
PK2DGoligoski – Spurgeon
1:04

Current MIN line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

16:36
MINFrederick Gaudreau (Kevin Fiala, Jon Merrill)wrist0.04 xG
CHI: Kane, Gustafsson, Jones, Strome, DeBrincatMIN: Kulikov, Merrill, Gaudreau, Fiala, Boldy
CHI 0 – 1 MIN

3rd period

8:57
CHISeth Jones (Patrick Kane, Dylan Strome)wrist0.06 xG
CHI: Kane, Gustafsson, Jones, Strome, DeBrincatMIN: Foligno, Brodin, Dumba, Greenway, Eriksson Ek
CHI 1 – 1 MIN
16:47
MINRyan Hartman (Mats Zuccarello, Kirill Kaprizov)snap0.13 xG
CHI: Toews, Gustafsson, Jones, Carpenter, DachMIN: Goligoski, Spurgeon, Zuccarello, Hartman, Kaprizov
CHI 1 – 2 MIN
19:53
MINJordan GreenwayEN (Jon Merrill)wrist0.41 xG
CHI: Kane, McCabe, Kubalik, Jones, Strome, DeBrincatMIN: Kulikov, Foligno, Merrill, Hartman, Greenway
CHI 1 – 3 MIN

Box score

Skaters grouped by the line they played on; CF% is the 5v5 share of shot attempts while on the ice.

Chicago Blackhawks

CHI skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Patrick Kane R	L1	0	1	1	-1	4	0.10	0	0	2	22:38	—	—	42	34
Alex DeBrincat R	L1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.14	0	1	0	22:08	—	—	39	37
Dylan Strome C	L1	0	1	1	-1	0	0.00	0	2	0	20:18	—	—	39	35
Kirby Dach C	L2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.32	0	0	0	16:32	—	—	42	28
Jonathan Toews C	L2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	0	2	15:11	—	—	33	26
Dominik Kubalik L	L2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.24	0	0	0	13:48	—	—	32	25
Ryan Carpenter C	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.13	1	3	2	13:40	—	—	26	26
Boris Katchouk L	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.09	2	0	0	12:24	—	—	25	16
MacKenzie Entwistle R	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.16	2	0	0	9:51	—	—	33	29
Jake McCabe D	D1	0	0	0	-1	4	0.07	6	3	0	23:46	—	—	39	15
Caleb Jones D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	19:47	—	—	41	22
Riley Stillman D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	2	0	15:31	—	—	27	25
Calvin de Haan D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.01	1	3	2	14:42	—	—	27	13
Seth Jones D	D3	1	0	1	-2	1	0.06	1	1	0	24:41	—	—	38	37
Erik Gustafsson D	D3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.04	1	0	0	11:20	—	—	42	59
Sam Lafferty C	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	16:58	—	—	32	7
Taylor Raddysh R	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.11	5	1	0	15:03	—	—	40	23
Alex Vlasic D	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	6:10	—	—	0	0

CHI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Kevin Lankinen(start)	L	33	31	2	.939	3.58	57:32

Minnesota Wild

MIN skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Marcus Foligno L	L1	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	3	0	0	16:09	—	—	58	73
Joel Eriksson Ek C	L1	0	0	0	-1	3	0.91	1	2	0	16:08	—	—	57	48
Jordan Greenway L	L1	1	0	1	0	6	0.79	0	1	2	15:43	—	—	56	54
Kirill Kaprizov L	L2	0	1	1	+1	5	1.17	0	0	0	18:07	—	—	71	87
Mats Zuccarello R	L2	0	1	1	+1	3	0.30	0	0	0	17:35	—	—	67	82
Ryan Hartman R	L2	1	0	1	+2	5	0.87	0	0	2	17:16	—	—	67	87
Kevin Fiala L	L3	0	1	1	+1	2	0.19	0	0	2	13:53	—	—	77	78
Frederick Gaudreau C	L3	1	0	1	+1	2	0.13	0	3	0	13:25	—	—	67	72
Matt Boldy L	L3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.05	1	0	0	12:53	—	—	77	72
Tyson Jost C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.05	0	1	0	12:38	—	—	67	77
Connor Dewar C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	4	0	0	11:49	—	—	57	49
Brandon Duhaime L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	8:28	—	—	60	92
Jonas Brodin D	D1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	1	0	23:36	—	—	66	73
Mathew Dumba D	D1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.19	0	2	0	23:02	—	—	66	73
Jon Merrill D	D2	0	2	2	+2	3	0.21	0	0	0	18:18	—	—	63	68
Dmitry Kulikov D	D2	0	0	0	+2	3	0.12	2	1	0	17:17	—	—	68	81
Jared Spurgeon D	D3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.16	1	0	0	19:23	—	—	60	68
Alex Goligoski D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.17	1	2	0	17:53	—	—	65	83

MIN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Cam Talbot(start)	W	22	21	1	.955	1.49	59:49

Methodology

Shot locations come from the NHL play-by-play, normalised so each shooter attacks the same way, then flipped so the home team attacks right. On-ice stats and lines come from the shift charts: a unit is the exact set of skaters sharing the ice, and CF% is the share of all shot attempts while they were out. Head-to-head cells are 5v5 time against each opponent. Expected goals and the Pressure Index appear as their models are released.