Boston Bruins vs. Vancouver CanucksDec 8, 2021

Final / SOWednesday, Dec 8, 2021· Rogers Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	OT	SO	T		Shots	1	2	3	OT	T
BOS	0	0	1	0	0	1		BOS	8	9	16	3	36
VAN	0	1	0	0	1	2		VAN	8	8	13	3	32

: BOS 62VAN 70
: BOS 3.45VAN 2.39
PP goals: BOS 1VAN 1
Hits: BOS 28VAN 20
Blocks: BOS 19VAN 15
PIM: BOS 8VAN 8
: BOS 52%VAN 48%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Vancouver Canucks edge Boston Bruins 2–1 (SO)

Vancouver Canucks beat Boston Bruins 2–1 in a shootout at home. Patrice Bergeron (BOS) led the scoring with 1G 0A. VAN's first power-play unit (Miller, Pearson, Horvat, Boeser and Hughes) scored 1 power-play goal on 5 attempts in 2:34 together.

PP1
VAN's first power-play unit (Miller, Pearson, Horvat, Boeser and Hughes) scored 1 power-play goal on 5 attempts in 2:34 together.Miller Pearson Horvat Boeser Hughes
New line
New look for VAN: Dickinson–Horvat–Hoglander skated 12:51 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (36.4% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Dickinson Horvat Hoglander
New line
New look for VAN: Miller–Pearson–Boeser skated 12:51 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (66.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Miller Pearson Boeser
Usage
David Pastrnak (BOS) played 24:59, +6:28 up on his 18:31 season average over 71 games.Pastrnak
Luck
BOS scored 1 goal on 3.45 expected goals (62 attempts), well short of its chances.
Goalie
Thatcher Demko (VAN) faced 36 shots and stopped 35 (.972), +5 against a season average of 30.7; the win.Demko
New line
New look for BOS: Foligno–Haula–Frederic skated 4:50 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (60% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Foligno Haula Frederic
New line
New look for BOS: Lazar–DeBrusk–Steen skated 4:51 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (75% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Lazar DeBrusk Steen

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

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

VAN
BOS
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 132 of 132 attempts · VAN 70 · BOS 62

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

VAN
BOS
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: BOS 31% of the game, VAN 35%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

VAN

BOS

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	BOS	VAN
	55	65
	2.36	1.53
	2.23	1.50
	8	2
	5	2
	10	10
	−0.023	+0.023
	31%	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.

Boston Bruins

L1Bergeron – Marchand – Pastrnak
11:5978% CF
L2Smith – Coyle – Hall
6:4418% CF
L3Lazar – DeBrusk – Steen
4:5175% CF
L4Foligno – Haula – Frederic
4:5060% CF
D1Forbort – McAvoy
14:2142% CF
D2Reilly – Clifton
12:1448% CF
D3Grzelcyk – Carlo
8:2559% CF

PP1Bergeron – Marchand – Foligno – Pastrnak – McAvoy
4:0591% CF
PP2Smith – Coyle – Hall – Grzelcyk – DeBrusk
1:080% CF
PK1FHaula – Coyle
1:29
PK2FBergeron – Marchand
0:56
PK1DForbort – Carlo
2:53
PK2DReilly – McAvoy
0:45

Current BOS line combinations →

Vancouver Canucks

L1Dickinson – Horvat – Hoglander
12:5136% CF
L2Miller – Pearson – Boeser
12:5167% CF
L3Garland – Pettersson – Podkolzin
10:1458% CF
L4Chiasson – Motte – Lammikko
5:2943% CF
D1Schenn – Myers
13:5852% CF
D2Hamonic – Hughes
8:4656% CF
D3Burroughs – Poolman
8:3631% CF

PP1Miller – Pearson – Horvat – Boeser – Hughes
2:34100% CF
PP2Chiasson – Garland – Pettersson – Hughes – Podkolzin
1:12100% CF
PK1FMiller – Motte
1:02
PK2FDickinson – Horvat
0:51
PK1DSchenn – Myers
2:34
PK2DPoolman – Hughes
0:45

Current VAN line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

15:01
VANBrock BoeserPP (J.T. Miller, Quinn Hughes)deflected0.14 xG
BOS: Haula, Coyle, Forbort, CarloVAN: Miller, Pearson, Horvat, Boeser, Hughes
BOS 0 – 1 VAN

3rd period

4:51
BOSPatrice BergeronPP (David Pastrnak, Charlie Coyle)deflected0.15 xG
BOS: Bergeron, Marchand, Coyle, Pastrnak, McAvoyVAN: Schenn, Myers, Horvat
BOS 1 – 1 VAN

Decided in the shootout: BOS 1 – 2 VAN.

Box score

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

Boston Bruins

BOS skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
David Pastrnak R	L1	0	1	1	4	0.46	1	0	0	24:59	—	—	60	67
Brad Marchand L	L1	0	0	0	4	0.56	1	3	2	23:19	—	—	64	75
Patrice Bergeron C	L1	1	0	1	9	0.84	0	1	2	19:39	—	—	72	79
Charlie Coyle C	L2	0	1	1	1	0.07	1	2	0	19:38	—	—	24	36
Taylor Hall L	L2	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	14:38	—	—	22	4
Craig Smith C	L2	0	0	0	1	0.23	0	1	0	13:07	—	—	27	44
Jake DeBrusk L	L3	0	0	0	1	0.03	1	0	0	11:03	—	—	58	74
Curtis Lazar C	L3	0	0	0	1	0.20	3	0	0	9:50	—	—	53	54
Oskar Steen C	L3	0	0	0	3	0.14	2	0	0	7:12	—	—	67	68
Nick Foligno L	L4	0	0	0	0	0.04	6	1	2	17:37	—	—	44	74
Erik Haula L	L4	0	0	0	2	0.47	3	2	0	15:39	—	—	46	76
Trent Frederic C	L4	0	0	0	1	0.13	2	1	0	12:18	—	—	32	58
Charlie McAvoy D	D1	0	0	0	2	0.09	5	2	2	28:02	—	—	43	62
Derek Forbort D	D1	0	0	0	0	0.01	1	3	0	19:32	—	—	42	48
Mike Reilly D	D2	0	0	0	1	0.08	0	0	0	21:24	—	—	46	61
Connor Clifton D	D2	0	0	0	3	0.08	2	1	0	18:19	—	—	42	48
Matt Grzelcyk D	D3	0	0	0	1	0.00	0	1	0	16:12	—	—	52	76
Brandon Carlo D	D3	0	0	0	2	0.02	0	0	0	15:58	—	—	60	80

BOS goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jeremy Swayman(start)	O	32	31	1	.969	2.39	65:00

Vancouver Canucks

VAN skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Bo Horvat C	L1	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	1	0	20:03	—	—	42	40
Jason Dickinson C	L1	0	0	0	2	0.32	5	2	0	17:04	—	—	38	34
Nils Hoglander L	L1	0	0	0	1	0.00	0	1	0	15:16	—	—	39	32
J.T. Miller C	L2	0	1	1	2	0.28	4	0	2	21:10	—	—	68	47
Brock Boeser R	L2	1	0	1	4	0.28	0	0	0	20:09	—	—	70	57
Tanner Pearson L	L2	0	0	0	4	0.24	0	1	2	19:23	—	—	70	55
Elias Pettersson C	L3	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	17:48	—	—	61	38
Vasily Podkolzin R	L3	0	0	0	2	0.11	0	1	0	16:24	—	—	60	31
Conor Garland R	L3	0	0	0	4	0.14	1	0	0	15:51	—	—	55	28
Tyler Motte C	L4	0	0	0	1	0.36	3	0	0	8:10	—	—	44	29
Alex Chiasson R	L4	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	7:46	—	—	50	29
Juho Lammikko C	L4	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	2	6:59	—	—	43	8
Tyler Myers D	D1	0	0	0	2	0.06	1	3	2	28:08	—	—	51	42
Luke Schenn D	D1	0	0	0	2	0.03	3	1	0	20:59	—	—	52	58
Quinn Hughes D	D2	0	1	1	4	0.33	0	1	0	28:32	—	—	66	56
Travis Hamonic D	D2	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	2	0	12:06	—	—	54	37
Tucker Poolman D	D3	0	0	0	0	0.01	1	2	0	18:25	—	—	56	30
Kyle Burroughs D	D3	0	0	0	3	0.22	0	0	0	13:28	—	—	38	16

VAN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Thatcher Demko(start)	W	36	35	1	.972	3.45	64:45

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.