Boston Bruins vs. Tampa Bay LightningApr 4, 2026

FinalSaturday, Apr 4, 2026· Benchmark International Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
BOS	0	1	0	1		BOS	8	11	3	22
TBL	0	0	3	3		TBL	8	5	10	23

: BOS 59TBL 47
: BOS 2.45TBL 3.32
PP goals: BOS 0TBL 0
Hits: BOS 11TBL 20
Blocks: BOS 14TBL 13
PIM: BOS 2TBL 8
: BOS 69%TBL 31%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Tampa Bay Lightning beat Boston Bruins 3–1

Tampa Bay Lightning beat Boston Bruins 3–1 at home. Charle-Edouard D'Astous (TBL) led the scoring with 1G 0A. New look for BOS: Lindholm–Eyssimont–Geekie skated 9:31 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

New line
New look for BOS: Lindholm–Eyssimont–Geekie skated 9:31 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Lindholm Eyssimont Geekie
Usage
Nikita Kucherov (TBL) played 16:58, −3:25 down on his 20:23 season average over 75 games.Kucherov
Usage
Oliver Bjorkstrand (TBL) played 10:19, −3:22 down on his 13:41 season average over 79 games.Bjorkstrand
Usage
Nick Paul (TBL) played 9:08, −4:38 down on his 13:46 season average over 50 games.Paul
Usage
Emil Lilleberg (TBL) played 21:25, +4:12 up on his 17:13 season average over 49 games.Lilleberg
Usage
Fraser Minten (BOS) played 19:04, +3:34 up on his 15:30 season average over 81 games.Minten
PP1
BOS's PP1 (Pastrnak, Arvidsson, Zacha, McAvoy and Mittelstadt) went scoreless in 3:18 of 5v4 time with 2 attempts.Pastrnak Arvidsson Zacha McAvoy Mittelstadt

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)TBL attacks right (top on phones) →

TBL
BOS
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 106 of 106 attempts · TBL 47 · BOS 59

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

TBL
BOS
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

TBL 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 34% of the game, TBL 32%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

TBL

BOS

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

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

Matchup matrix

TBL 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	BOS	TBL
	59	47
	2.43	2.70
	2.27	2.42
	12	11
	4	0
	16	19
	+0.144	−0.144
	34%	32%

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

L1Pastrnak – Khusnutdinov – Minten
11:3627% CF
L2Arvidsson – Zacha – Mittelstadt
10:4272% CF
L3Lindholm – Eyssimont – Geekie
9:3150% CF
L4Kuraly – Jeannot – Kastelic
8:4144% CF
D1Zadorov – Peeke
15:4039% CF
D2McAvoy – Aspirot
14:4654% CF
D3Lindholm – Harris
11:3160% CF

PP1Pastrnak – Arvidsson – Zacha – McAvoy – Mittelstadt
3:1867% CF
PP2Lindholm – Lindholm – Geekie – Khusnutdinov – Minten
2:32100% CF
PK1FKuraly – Kastelic
1:07
PK2FJeannot – Khusnutdinov
0:34
PK1DLindholm – McAvoy
1:23
PK2DZadorov – Peeke
0:35

Current BOS line combinations →

Tampa Bay Lightning

L1Gourde – Girgensons – Holmberg
10:1647% CF
L2Kucherov – Guentzel – Point
7:1121% CF
L3Bjorkstrand – Cirelli – Goncalves
4:1422% CF
L4Perry – Paul – Chaffee
2:4575% CF
D1Raddysh – Moser
16:0934% CF
D2D'Astous – Lilleberg
16:0352% CF
D3McDonagh – Cernak
11:2956% CF

PP1Kucherov – Guentzel – Bjorkstrand – Point – Raddysh
1:25
PP2Perry – Kucherov – Paul – D'Astous – Goncalves
0:35100% CF
PK1FGuentzel – Cirelli
3:51
PK2FGourde – Girgensons
3:32
PK1DMoser – Lilleberg
3:40
PK2DMcDonagh – Cernak
3:09

Current TBL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

6:47
BOSCasey Mittelstadt (Viktor Arvidsson, Pavel Zacha)snap0.31 xG
BOS: Arvidsson, Zacha, McAvoy, Mittelstadt, AspirotTBL: Kucherov, Guentzel, Paul, Raddysh, Moser
BOS 1 – 0 TBL

3rd period

2:13
TBLCharle-Edouard D'Astous (Oliver Bjorkstrand)snap0.50 xG
BOS: Zadorov, Arvidsson, Zacha, Peeke, MittelstadtTBL: Guentzel, Bjorkstrand, Cirelli, D'Astous, Lilleberg
BOS 1 – 1 TBL
14:29
TBLDarren Raddysh (J.J. Moser)snap0.02 xG
BOS: Lindholm, Arvidsson, McAvoy, Mittelstadt, AspirotTBL: Kucherov, Raddysh, Cirelli, Goncalves, Moser
BOS 1 – 2 TBL
18:27
TBLNikita KucherovEN (Jake Guentzel, Ryan McDonagh)snap0.79 xG
BOS: Lindholm, Pastrnak, Arvidsson, Zacha, McAvoy, GeekieTBL: McDonagh, Kucherov, Guentzel, Cernak, Cirelli
BOS 1 – 3 TBL

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	0	0	-1	1	0.18	0	1	0	21:43	—	—	55	59
Fraser Minten C	L1	0	0	0	0	3	0.17	0	0	2	19:04	—	—	36	43
Marat Khusnutdinov C	L1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	16:57	—	—	36	50
Casey Mittelstadt C	L2	1	0	1	-1	1	0.31	1	0	0	16:18	—	—	69	50
Pavel Zacha C	L2	0	1	1	-1	1	0.04	0	0	0	16:05	—	—	70	51
Viktor Arvidsson L	L2	0	1	1	-2	3	0.53	0	1	0	15:57	—	—	71	53
Morgan Geekie C	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.18	0	1	0	17:29	—	—	54	49
Elias Lindholm C	L3	0	0	0	-2	2	0.30	1	3	0	16:16	—	—	50	45
Michael Eyssimont C	L3	0	0	0	0	3	0.04	1	1	0	12:00	—	—	53	37
Sean Kuraly C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	1	0	0	12:04	—	—	53	38
Tanner Jeannot L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	2	0	11:28	—	—	40	23
Mark Kastelic C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	1	0	0	11:01	—	—	44	30
Nikita Zadorov D	D1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.11	0	0	0	20:19	—	—	50	25
Andrew Peeke D	D1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	1	0	17:52	—	—	43	24
Charlie McAvoy D	D2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.13	1	3	0	24:19	—	—	64	66
Jonathan Aspirot D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.19	0	0	0	16:37	—	—	54	65
Hampus Lindholm D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.14	1	1	0	19:01	—	—	63	56
Jordan Harris D	D3	0	0	0	0	2	0.10	0	0	0	14:14	—	—	64	56

BOS goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jeremy Swayman(start)	L	22	20	2	.909	2.54	59:16

Tampa Bay Lightning

TBL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Yanni Gourde C	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.08	3	1	0	17:04	—	—	46	58
Zemgus Girgensons C	L1	0	0	0	0	0	0.18	4	1	0	14:46	—	—	47	62
Pontus Holmberg R	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.28	0	0	2	13:20	—	—	44	56
Jake Guentzel C	L2	0	1	1	+1	1	0.03	0	1	0	21:05	—	—	27	48
Nikita Kucherov R	L2	1	0	1	+1	3	0.84	0	0	0	16:58	—	—	27	9
Brayden Point C	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.14	0	2	0	16:56	—	—	32	33
Anthony Cirelli C	L3	0	0	0	+3	1	0.02	0	1	0	17:01	—	—	38	73
Gage Goncalves C	L3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	0	0	14:14	—	—	41	41
Oliver Bjorkstrand R	L3	0	1	1	+1	3	0.34	0	0	0	10:19	—	—	64	86
Corey Perry R	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.08	0	0	0	13:54	—	—	60	53
Mitchell Chaffee R	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	9:39	—	—	75	73
Nick Paul L	L4	0	0	0	-1	4	0.41	4	0	0	9:08	—	—	65	41
J.J. Moser D	D1	0	1	1	0	0	0.02	0	0	0	21:42	—	—	34	23
Darren Raddysh D	D1	1	0	1	0	1	0.02	1	3	2	20:41	—	—	32	22
Emil Lilleberg D	D2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.05	5	0	0	21:25	—	—	53	66
Charle-Edouard D'Astous D	D2	1	0	1	+1	3	0.80	2	0	4	19:13	—	—	47	63
Erik Cernak D	D3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.02	0	1	0	17:27	—	—	56	75
Ryan McDonagh D	D3	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	0	3	0	17:08	—	—	56	75

TBL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy(start)	W	22	21	1	.955	2.45	60:00

Goal anatomy

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

Casey Mittelstadt (BOS) 2nd 6:47 · assists Viktor Arvidsson, Pavel Zacha · Forecheck turnover · 52.0 mph shot.

Casey Mittelstadt · 2nd 6:47 · BOS

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 52.0 mph
Distance: 14 ft

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Charle-Edouard D'Astous · 3rd 2:13 · TBL

Play: rebound
Entry: carry
Odd man: 3-on-2
Passes: 1
Shot: 33.4 mph
Distance: 12 ft
Entry to goal: 5.6 s
Type: rebound

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Darren Raddysh · 3rd 14:29 · TBL

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 3-on-2
Passes: 0
Shot: 43.1 mph
Distance: 30 ft
Entry to goal: 2.6 s

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Nikita Kucherov · 3rd 18:27 · TBL EN

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 1-on-0
Passes: 1
Shot: 54.6 mph
Distance: 38 ft
Entry to goal: 1.5 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.