Columbus Blue Jackets vs. Boston BruinsDec 3, 2023

FinalSunday, Dec 3, 2023· TD Garden

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
CBJ	0	1	0	1		CBJ	8	8	9	25
BOS	0	0	3	3		BOS	6	16	6	28

: CBJ 59BOS 62
: CBJ 2.67BOS 2.60
PP goals: CBJ 0BOS 2
Hits: CBJ 20BOS 28
Blocks: CBJ 21BOS 15
PIM: CBJ 10BOS 8
: CBJ 49%BOS 51%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Boston Bruins beat Columbus Blue Jackets 3–1

Boston Bruins beat Columbus Blue Jackets 3–1 at home. Brad Marchand (BOS) led the scoring with 3G 0A. BOS's first power-play unit (Marchand, van Riemsdyk, Pastrnak, Zacha and McAvoy) scored 2 power-play goals on 4 attempts in 4:58 together.

Points
Brad Marchand had a hat trick (3 points) on 5 shots in 19:17.Marchand
Points
Charlie McAvoy had 2 assists (2 points) on 4 shots in 24:30.McAvoy
PP1
BOS's first power-play unit (Marchand, van Riemsdyk, Pastrnak, Zacha and McAvoy) scored 2 power-play goals on 4 attempts in 4:58 together.Marchand van Riemsdyk Pastrnak Zacha McAvoy
Usage
Zach Werenski (CBJ) played 30:26, +6:04 up on his 24:22 season average over 69 games.Werenski
Luck
CBJ scored 1 goal on 2.67 expected goals (59 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
David Jiricek (CBJ) played 9:50, −4:53 down on his 14:43 season average over 42 games.Jiricek
Usage
Jake Bean (CBJ) played 12:59, −3:23 down on his 16:22 season average over 71 games.Bean
PP1
CBJ's PP1 (Gaudreau, Jenner, Werenski, Laine and Fantilli) went scoreless in 3:49 of 5v4 time with 3 attempts.Gaudreau Jenner Werenski Laine Fantilli

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

← CBJ attacks left (bottom on phones)BOS attacks right (top on phones) →

BOS
CBJ
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 121 of 121 attempts · BOS 62 · CBJ 59

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

BOS
CBJ
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

BOS pressure
CBJ pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: CBJ 30% of the game, BOS 35%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

BOS

CBJ

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	CBJ	BOS
	52	56
	2.55	2.06
	2.42	1.98
	13	10
	4	4
	16	11
	−0.002	+0.002
	30%	35%

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.

Columbus Blue Jackets

L1Marchenko – Voronkov – Chinakhov
9:5280% CF
L2Kuraly – Olivier – Texier
7:3742% CF
L3Gaudreau – Jenner – Johnson
7:3741% CF
L4Laine – Danforth – Fantilli
5:5333% CF
D1Werenski – Boqvist
18:5652% CF
D2Gudbranson – Bean
9:3436% CF
D3Provorov – Jiricek
9:3054% CF

PP1Gaudreau – Jenner – Werenski – Laine – Fantilli
3:4960% CF
PP2Provorov – Marchenko – Voronkov – Chinakhov – Johnson
1:37
PK1FJenner – Danforth
3:59
PK2FKuraly – Texier
3:21
PK1DGudbranson – Provorov
5:02
PK2DWerenski – Bean
2:04

Current CBJ line combinations →

Boston Bruins

L1Pastrnak – Zacha – DeBrusk
7:3658% CF
L2Marchand – Coyle – Heinen
6:5238% CF
L3van Riemsdyk – Frederic – Poitras
5:1883% CF
L4Geekie – Lauko – Beecher
4:3086% CF
D1Grzelcyk – McAvoy
9:2984% CF
D2Lindholm – Carlo
8:4639% CF
D3Shattenkirk – Forbort
7:5354% CF

PP1Marchand – van Riemsdyk – Pastrnak – Zacha – McAvoy
4:58100% CF
PP2Shattenkirk – Coyle – Lindholm – DeBrusk – Poitras
1:20100% CF
PK1FMarchand – Coyle
1:36
PK2FZacha – DeBrusk
0:57
PK1DForbort – Carlo
2:30
PK2DLindholm – McAvoy
1:04

Current BOS line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

19:25
CBJBoone Jenner (Mathieu Olivier, Zach Werenski)wrist0.27 xG
CBJ: Jenner, Werenski, Olivier, Danforth, BoqvistBOS: Marchand, Coyle, Lindholm, Pastrnak, McAvoy
CBJ 1 – 0 BOS

3rd period

1:56
BOSBrad Marchand (Danton Heinen, Charlie Coyle)snap0.17 xG
CBJ: Gaudreau, Jenner, Werenski, Boqvist, JohnsonBOS: Marchand, Shattenkirk, Coyle, Forbort, Heinen
CBJ 1 – 1 BOS
5:37
BOSBrad MarchandPP (Charlie McAvoy, James van Riemsdyk)wrist0.05 xG
CBJ: Kuraly, Werenski, Bean, TexierBOS: Marchand, van Riemsdyk, Pastrnak, Zacha, McAvoy
CBJ 1 – 2 BOS
7:46
BOSBrad MarchandPP (Pavel Zacha, Charlie McAvoy)wrist0.10 xG
CBJ: Gudbranson, Jenner, Provorov, DanforthBOS: Marchand, van Riemsdyk, Pastrnak, Zacha, McAvoy
CBJ 1 – 3 BOS

Box score

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

Columbus Blue Jackets

CBJ skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Kirill Marchenko R	L1	0	0	0	0	3	0.14	0	1	0	16:27	—	—	70	90
Egor Chinakhov R	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.09	2	1	0	14:53	—	—	59	56
Dmitri Voronkov L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.05	1	0	2	13:15	—	—	80	82
Sean Kuraly C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.31	4	0	0	15:21	—	—	30	47
Alexandre Texier L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.10	0	2	2	13:10	—	—	28	45
Mathieu Olivier R	L2	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	3	0	0	10:23	—	—	50	73
Boone Jenner C	L3	1	0	1	0	3	0.47	2	2	0	20:01	—	—	59	62
Johnny Gaudreau L	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.25	0	0	2	17:46	—	—	43	46
Kent Johnson C	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.19	1	4	0	11:17	—	—	52	46
Adam Fantilli C	L4	0	0	0	0	5	0.43	1	2	0	17:22	—	—	35	48
Patrik Laine L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.21	0	0	0	16:28	—	—	41	49
Justin Danforth R	L4	0	0	0	+1	0	0.11	2	0	0	14:12	—	—	42	53
Zach Werenski D	D1	0	1	1	0	2	0.19	0	0	0	30:26	—	—	50	60
Adam Boqvist D	D1	0	0	0	0	2	0.08	1	2	0	20:42	—	—	51	63
Erik Gudbranson D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	2	0	17:20	—	—	29	36
Jake Bean D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	2	0	12:59	—	—	39	29
Ivan Provorov D	D3	0	0	0	0	2	0.04	0	2	0	21:20	—	—	49	47
David Jiricek D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	1	4	9:50	—	—	54	53

CBJ goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Spencer Martin(start)	L	28	25	3	.893	2.60	57:17

Boston Bruins

BOS skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
David Pastrnak R	L1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.21	0	0	2	20:34	—	—	50	44
Jake DeBrusk L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.13	1	1	0	16:02	—	—	42	49
Pavel Zacha C	L1	0	1	1	0	3	0.31	1	0	0	15:49	—	—	62	69
Brad Marchand L	L2	3	0	3	0	5	0.53	2	0	0	19:17	—	—	46	47
Charlie Coyle C	L2	0	1	1	0	1	0.32	1	1	0	18:48	—	—	41	43
Danton Heinen L	L2	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	0	1	0	12:56	—	—	38	32
James van Riemsdyk L	L3	0	1	1	0	1	0.21	0	1	2	14:39	—	—	78	83
Trent Frederic C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.14	3	1	0	12:19	—	—	68	51
Matthew Poitras C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	0	0	0	11:56	—	—	74	72
Morgan Geekie C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.08	2	0	0	13:53	—	—	57	35
John Beecher C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	2	11:45	—	—	41	20
Jakub Lauko C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.14	5	0	0	10:38	—	—	37	18
Charlie McAvoy D	D1	0	2	2	-1	4	0.19	0	3	0	24:30	—	—	56	42
Matt Grzelcyk D	D1	0	0	0	0	2	0.05	3	0	0	15:45	—	—	72	49
Hampus Lindholm D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	2	2	20:58	—	—	32	36
Brandon Carlo D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.09	6	2	0	19:41	—	—	49	49
Derek Forbort D	D3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.10	4	0	0	18:09	—	—	56	52
Kevin Shattenkirk D	D3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.08	0	2	0	14:21	—	—	50	40

BOS goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jeremy Swayman(start)	W	25	24	1	.960	2.67	60:00

Goal anatomy

Animated replays from NHL EDGE tracking, with the entry, passes and shot speed for each goal.

Boone Jenner (CBJ) 2nd 19:25 · assists Mathieu Olivier, Zach Werenski · Forecheck turnover · 34.2 mph shot.

Boone Jenner · 2nd 19:25 · CBJ

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 34.2 mph
Distance: 8 ft

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Brad Marchand · 3rd 1:56 · BOS

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: loose
Odd man: 4-on-2
Passes: 3 (royal road)
Shot: 37.3 mph
Distance: 25 ft
Entry to goal: 3.4 s
Type: one-timer

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Brad Marchand · 3rd 5:37 · BOS PP

Play: deflection
Entry: carry
Odd man: 5-on-3
Passes: 5 (royal road)
Shot: 44.9 mph
Distance: 12 ft
Entry to goal: 7.1 s
Type: deflection

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Brad Marchand · 3rd 7:46 · BOS PP

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 5-on-4
Passes: 3 (royal road)
Shot: 70.4 mph
Distance: 29 ft
Entry to goal: 5.4 s

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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.