St. Louis Blues vs. Vancouver CanucksMar 21, 2026

FinalSaturday, Mar 21, 2026· Rogers Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
STL	0	2	1	3		STL	5	11	5	21
VAN	0	0	1	1		VAN	4	6	5	15

: STL 54VAN 37
: STL 4.38VAN 2.15
PP goals: STL 0VAN 1
Hits: STL 18VAN 26
Blocks: STL 15VAN 16
PIM: STL 4VAN 6
: STL 33%VAN 67%

Fantasy takeaways

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

St. Louis Blues beat Vancouver Canucks 3–1

St. Louis Blues beat Vancouver Canucks 3–1 at VAN. Pavel Buchnevich (STL) led the scoring with 1G 1A. VAN's first power-play unit (Boeser, DeBrusk, Hronek, Pettersson and Rossi) scored 1 power-play goal on 8 attempts in 2:05 together.

Points
Pavel Buchnevich had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 16:42.Buchnevich
Points
Logan Mailloux had 2 assists (2 points) on 1 shot in 21:59.Mailloux
PP1
VAN's first power-play unit (Boeser, DeBrusk, Hronek, Pettersson and Rossi) scored 1 power-play goal on 8 attempts in 2:05 together.Boeser DeBrusk Hronek Pettersson Rossi
New line
New look for VAN: Pettersson–Karlsson–O'Connor skated 7:39 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (42.1% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Pettersson Karlsson O'Connor
Usage
Logan Mailloux (STL) played 21:59, +5:18 up on his 16:41 season average over 66 games.Mailloux
New line
New look for VAN: Blueger–DeBrusk–Hoglander skated 4:04 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (0% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Blueger DeBrusk Hoglander
New line
New look for VAN: Kane–Douglas–Räty skated 5:21 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (25% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Kane Douglas Räty
Usage
Pius Suter (STL) played 11:22, −4:36 down on his 15:58 season average over 63 games.Suter

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

← STL attacks left (bottom on phones)VAN attacks right (top on phones) →

VAN
STL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 91 of 91 attempts · VAN 37 · STL 54

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

VAN
STL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

VAN pressure
STL pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: STL 48% of the game, VAN 29%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

VAN

STL

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

VAN skaters (rows) against STL skaters (columns) at 5v5. Square size is time together; colour is xGF% from the VAN side.

Matchup matrix

VAN xGF% 4060square size = TOI together · blank = under 1:00

Sequence card

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

Sequence card
Stat	STL	VAN
	60	31
	3.86	1.12
	3.51	1.07
	8	6
	0	1
	19	16
	−0.076	+0.076
	48%	29%

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.

St. Louis Blues

L1Thomas – Holloway – Snuggerud
14:0156% CF
L2Drouin – Dvorsky – Stenberg
8:4963% CF
L3Buchnevich – Kyrou – Neighbours
7:5893% CF
L4Toropchenko – Suter – Finley
5:4086% CF
D1Broberg – Mailloux
15:3368% CF
D2Holl – Fowler
14:3965% CF
D3Parayko – Lindstein
12:4767% CF

PP1Drouin – Thomas – Broberg – Holloway – Snuggerud
2:48
PP2Buchnevich – Kyrou – Neighbours – Mailloux – Dvorsky
1:44
PK1FToropchenko – Finley
1:02
PK2FBuchnevich – Stenberg
0:44
PK1DBroberg – Mailloux
1:51
PK2DFowler – Parayko
0:59

Current STL line combinations →

Vancouver Canucks

L1Boeser – Rossi – Ohgren
8:1320% CF
L2Pettersson – Karlsson – O'Connor
7:3942% CF
L3Kane – Douglas – Räty
5:2125% CF
L4Blueger – DeBrusk – Hoglander
4:040% CF
D1Pettersson – Willander
13:1822% CF
D2Hronek – Buium
11:2661% CF
D3Pettersson – Mancini
4:5325% CF

PP1Boeser – DeBrusk – Hronek – Pettersson – Rossi
2:05100% CF
PP2Kane – Karlsson – O'Connor – Willander – Buium
0:50100% CF
PK1FBlueger – Ohgren
1:15
PK2FO'Connor – Räty
0:42
PK1DPettersson – Hronek
2:54
PK2DPettersson – Willander
0:56

Current VAN line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

10:17
STLPius Suter (Robert Thomas, Dylan Holloway)deflected0.76 xG
STL: Holl, Fowler, Thomas, Suter, HollowayVAN: Hronek, Pettersson, Karlsson, O'Connor, Pettersson
STL 1 – 0 VAN
11:36
STLPavel Buchnevich (Philip Broberg, Logan Mailloux)snap0.06 xG
STL: Buchnevich, Kyrou, Broberg, Neighbours, MaillouxVAN: Boeser, Rossi, Ohgren, Mancini, Buium
STL 2 – 0 VAN

3rd period

8:32
VANFilip HronekPP (Elias Pettersson, Marco Rossi)snap0.08 xG
STL: Toropchenko, Broberg, Finley, MaillouxVAN: Boeser, DeBrusk, Hronek, Pettersson, Rossi
STL 2 – 1 VAN
19:12
STLJordan KyrouEN (Pavel Buchnevich, Logan Mailloux)backhand0.96 xG
STL: Fowler, Buchnevich, Kyrou, Neighbours, MaillouxVAN: Pettersson, O'Connor, Rossi, Willander, Buium
STL 3 – 1 VAN

Box score

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

St. Louis Blues

STL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Robert Thomas C	L1	0	1	1	+1	3	0.45	0	2	0	20:01	—	—	59	76
Jimmy Snuggerud R	L1	0	0	0	0	5	0.50	0	2	0	19:30	—	—	58	63
Dylan Holloway L	L1	0	1	1	+1	1	0.31	4	1	0	19:22	—	—	59	76
Jonathan Drouin L	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.08	0	0	0	14:55	—	—	57	73
Otto Stenberg C	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	14:45	—	—	50	51
Dalibor Dvorsky R	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	14:27	—	—	69	35
Pavel Buchnevich L	L3	1	1	2	+1	1	0.10	0	1	0	16:42	—	—	77	84
Jordan Kyrou R	L3	1	0	1	+1	3	1.57	0	1	0	15:56	—	—	82	82
Jake Neighbours L	L3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	2	0	4	11:58	—	—	88	90
Pius Suter C	L4	1	0	1	+1	2	0.79	0	1	0	11:22	—	—	71	94
Jack Finley C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.19	2	0	0	11:03	—	—	62	87
Alexey Toropchenko R	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.05	4	2	0	10:48	—	—	64	70
Philip Broberg D	D1	0	1	1	+1	0	0.02	1	0	0	22:34	—	—	70	62
Logan Mailloux D	D1	0	2	2	+1	1	0.10	1	0	0	21:59	—	—	69	61
Cam Fowler D	D2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.16	0	2	0	19:01	—	—	60	91
Justin Holl D	D2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	2	0	18:47	—	—	67	92
Colton Parayko D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	1	1	0	18:25	—	—	58	75
Theo Lindstein D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	1	0	0	15:39	—	—	68	81

STL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jordan Binnington(start)	W	15	14	1	.933	2.15	59:44

Vancouver Canucks

VAN skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Brock Boeser R	L1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.33	1	0	2	18:55	—	—	24	21
Marco Rossi C	L1	0	1	1	-1	1	0.28	2	0	0	17:41	—	—	41	11
Liam Ohgren L	L1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.17	1	0	0	15:24	—	—	38	27
Drew O'Connor L	L2	0	0	0	-1	4	0.48	3	0	0	16:34	—	—	41	31
Elias Pettersson C	L2	0	1	1	-1	0	0.10	1	1	0	15:06	—	—	42	34
Linus Karlsson C	L2	0	0	0	-1	2	0.27	0	1	0	13:44	—	—	36	26
Evander Kane L	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	15:31	—	—	32	27
Aatu Räty C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	4	0	0	12:57	—	—	31	39
Curtis Douglas C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	3	0	11:21	—	—	15	0
Teddy Blueger C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	15:24	—	—	13	0
Jake DeBrusk L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.18	1	0	0	13:19	—	—	43	3
Nils Hoglander L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	2	0	0	10:39	—	—	44	3
Marcus Pettersson D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	3	0	21:24	—	—	24	17
Tom Willander D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	4	0	18:02	—	—	27	49
Filip Hronek D	D2	1	0	1	-1	2	0.31	3	2	2	26:28	—	—	43	14
Zeev Buium D	D2	0	0	0	-1	2	0.02	0	1	0	23:36	—	—	47	41
Elias Pettersson D	D3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	1	0	0	14:49	—	—	25	9
Victor Mancini D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	2	1	0	13:56	—	—	22	2

VAN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Kevin Lankinen(start)	L	20	18	2	.900	3.42	59:42

Goal anatomy

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

Pius Suter (STL) 2nd 10:17 · assists Robert Thomas, Dylan Holloway · Deflection · 7.7 mph shot.

Pius Suter · 2nd 10:17 · STL

Play: deflection
Passes: 0
Shot: 7.7 mph
Distance: 5 ft
Type: rebound

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Pavel Buchnevich · 2nd 11:36 · STL

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 48.5 mph
Distance: 34 ft
Type: one-timer

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Filip Hronek · 3rd 8:32 · VAN PP

Play: point-shot
Passes: 4 (royal road)
Shot: 58.7 mph
Distance: 50 ft

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Jordan Kyrou · 3rd 19:12 · STL EN

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 3-on-1
Passes: 2
Shot: 34.2 mph
Distance: 14 ft
Entry to goal: 2.3 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.