Vancouver Canucks vs. Chicago BlackhawksOct 17, 2025

Final / SOFriday, Oct 17, 2025· United Center

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Goals	1	2	3	OT	SO	T		Shots	1	2	3	OT	T
VAN	0	2	0	0	1	3		VAN	13	4	12	3	32
CHI	2	0	0	0	0	2		CHI	15	10	7	1	33

: VAN 65CHI 56
: VAN 3.27CHI 2.47
PP goals: VAN 1CHI 1
Hits: VAN 26CHI 19
Blocks: VAN 10CHI 10
PIM: VAN 8CHI 12
: VAN 42%CHI 58%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Vancouver Canucks edge Chicago Blackhawks 3–2 (SO)

Vancouver Canucks beat Chicago Blackhawks 3–2 in a shootout at CHI. Jake DeBrusk (VAN) led the scoring with 1G 0A. VAN's first power-play unit (Boeser, DeBrusk, Garland, Pettersson and Hughes) scored 1 power-play goal on 16 attempts in 6:20 together.

PP1
VAN's first power-play unit (Boeser, DeBrusk, Garland, Pettersson and Hughes) scored 1 power-play goal on 16 attempts in 6:20 together.Boeser DeBrusk Garland Pettersson Hughes
Usage
Artyom Levshunov (CHI) played 13:47, −5:53 down on his 19:40 season average over 67 games.Levshunov
Usage
Conor Garland (VAN) played 23:19, +6:13 up on his 17:06 season average over 70 games.Garland
New line
New look for VAN: Blueger–Sherwood–O'Connor skated 7:42 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (16.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Blueger Sherwood O'Connor
Usage
Jake DeBrusk (VAN) played 21:32, +4:43 up on his 16:49 season average over 80 games.DeBrusk
Usage
Linus Karlsson (VAN) played 7:55, −4:39 down on his 12:34 season average over 78 games.Karlsson
Usage
Ryan Greene (CHI) played 10:15, −6:34 down on his 16:49 season average over 80 games.Greene
Usage
Filip Chytil (VAN) played 20:40, +6:11 up on his 14:29 season average over 11 games.Chytil

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

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

CHI
VAN
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 121 of 121 attempts · CHI 56 · VAN 65

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

CHI
VAN
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: VAN 42% of the game, CHI 32%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

CHI

VAN

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

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

Matchup matrix

CHI 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	VAN	CHI
	42	54
	1.43	2.35
	1.37	2.24
	12	17
	1	8
	13	18
	−0.067	+0.067
	42%	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.

Vancouver Canucks

L1Boeser – DeBrusk – Chytil
11:1750% CF
L2Kane – Garland – Pettersson
7:5440% CF
L3Blueger – Sherwood – O'Connor
7:4217% CF
L4Karlsson – Bains – Sasson
6:0457% CF
D1Myers – Pettersson
13:2944% CF
D2Hronek – Pettersson
9:1245% CF
D3Hughes – Mancini
8:5945% CF

PP1Boeser – DeBrusk – Garland – Pettersson – Hughes
6:2094% CF
PP2Kane – Boeser – Chytil – Sherwood – Hughes
0:47100% CF
PK1FBlueger – Garland
1:19
PK2FDeBrusk – Sherwood
0:33
PK1DMyers – Pettersson
1:24
PK2DHronek – Pettersson
0:33

Current VAN line combinations →

Chicago Blackhawks

L1Dickinson – Donato – Mikheyev
9:4479% CF
L2Teravainen – Bertuzzi – Nazar
6:5271% CF
L3Burakovsky – Dach – Bedard
5:0140% CF
D1Murphy – Vlasic
6:3873% CF
D2Grzelcyk – Levshunov
6:0575% CF
D3Kaiser – Rinzel
5:5965% CF

PP1Teravainen – Bertuzzi – Nazar – Rinzel – Bedard
1:5767% CF
PP2Burakovsky – Donato – Dach – Greene – Levshunov
0:4033% CF
PK1FDickinson – Mikheyev
5:21
PK2FTeravainen – Nazar
1:09
PK1DMurphy – Vlasic
4:46
PK2DCrevier – Kaiser
1:07

Current CHI line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

12:41
CHIRyan DonatoPP (Andre Burakovsky, Artyom Levshunov)tip-in0.18 xG
VAN: Pettersson, Garland, Hronek, PetterssonCHI: Burakovsky, Donato, Dach, Greene, Levshunov
VAN 0 – 1 CHI
19:14
CHITyler Bertuzzi (Sam Rinzel)wrist0.48 xG
VAN: Blueger, Hronek, Sherwood, Hughes, O'ConnorCHI: Burakovsky, Bertuzzi, Kaiser, Rinzel, Bedard
VAN 0 – 2 CHI

2nd period

6:49
VANJake DeBruskPP (Conor Garland, Quinn Hughes)wrist0.12 xG
VAN: Boeser, DeBrusk, Garland, Pettersson, HughesCHI: Murphy, Dickinson, Vlasic, Mikheyev
VAN 1 – 2 CHI
13:42
VANMax Sasson (Filip Hronek, Linus Karlsson)wrist0.27 xG
VAN: Hronek, Karlsson, Bains, Pettersson, SassonCHI: Burakovsky, Dickinson, Donato, Kaiser, Levshunov
VAN 2 – 2 CHI

Decided in the shootout: VAN 3 – 2 CHI.

Box score

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

Vancouver Canucks

VAN skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Brock Boeser R	L1	0	0	0	0	3	0.20	2	0	0	23:27	—	—	50	44
Jake DeBrusk L	L1	1	0	1	0	10	1.01	2	1	0	21:32	—	—	52	65
Filip Chytil C	L1	0	0	0	0	3	0.12	0	0	0	20:40	—	—	50	44
Conor Garland R	L2	0	1	1	0	3	0.21	3	1	0	23:19	—	—	52	54
Elias Pettersson C	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.54	1	1	0	21:34	—	—	50	53
Evander Kane L	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.12	1	1	2	14:45	—	—	35	34
Kiefer Sherwood L	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.06	4	0	4	15:02	—	—	12	1
Teddy Blueger C	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	3	2	0	12:57	—	—	14	1
Drew O'Connor L	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.06	0	0	0	12:50	—	—	37	19
Max Sasson C	L4	1	0	1	+1	1	0.28	0	0	0	8:17	—	—	50	64
Arshdeep Bains L	L4	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	0	0	0	7:56	—	—	55	66
Linus Karlsson C	L4	0	1	1	+1	1	0.03	2	0	0	7:55	—	—	63	91
Marcus Pettersson D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.09	1	1	0	20:46	—	—	53	53
Tyler Myers D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	1	2	19:13	—	—	44	43
Filip Hronek D	D2	0	1	1	0	1	0.15	2	1	0	22:31	—	—	29	29
Elias Pettersson D	D2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.01	2	0	0	12:39	—	—	46	65
Quinn Hughes D	D3	0	1	1	-1	3	0.29	0	0	0	30:08	—	—	37	21
Victor Mancini D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.10	1	1	0	12:17	—	—	54	56

VAN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Kevin Lankinen(start)	W	33	31	2	.939	2.47	65:00

Chicago Blackhawks

CHI skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Ilya Mikheyev R	L1	0	0	0	0	5	0.28	2	1	0	20:43	—	—	59	62
Jason Dickinson C	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.06	1	2	0	19:46	—	—	63	48
Ryan Donato C	L1	1	0	1	-1	3	0.25	1	1	2	14:24	—	—	57	53
Tyler Bertuzzi L	L2	1	0	1	+1	6	0.66	3	0	2	19:02	—	—	79	90
Frank Nazar C	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	2	18:49	—	—	50	57
Teuvo Teravainen C	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.16	1	0	0	16:18	—	—	46	57
Connor Bedard C	L3	0	0	0	+1	4	0.32	1	0	4	25:01	—	—	44	61
Andre Burakovsky L	L3	0	1	1	0	0	0.08	0	0	0	16:18	—	—	53	63
Colton Dach C	L3	0	0	0	0	4	0.15	3	0	0	8:41	—	—	47	50
Alex Vlasic D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	1	0	24:47	—	—	58	54
Connor Murphy D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	1	1	0	15:38	—	—	67	67
Matt Grzelcyk D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.05	0	1	0	14:59	—	—	64	64
Artyom Levshunov D	D2	0	1	1	-1	1	0.00	1	0	0	13:47	—	—	50	32
Sam Rinzel D	D3	0	1	1	+1	2	0.04	0	2	0	20:56	—	—	70	82
Wyatt Kaiser D	D3	0	0	0	0	2	0.17	1	1	0	19:35	—	—	52	66
Louis Crevier D	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.21	1	0	0	12:46	—	—	32	38
Lukas Reichel L	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	2	10:42	—	—	69	88
Ryan Greene C	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	1	0	0	10:15	—	—	50	50

CHI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Spencer Knight(start)	O	32	30	2	.938	3.27	65:00

Goal anatomy

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

Ryan Donato (CHI PP) 1st 12:41 · assists Andre Burakovsky, Artyom Levshunov · Deflection · 10.9 mph shot.

Ryan Donato · 1st 12:41 · CHI PP

Play: deflection
Passes: 3 (royal road)
Shot: 10.9 mph
Distance: 2 ft
Type: rebound

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Jake DeBrusk · 2nd 6:49 · VAN PP

Play: rebound
Entry: carry
Odd man: 5-on-2
Passes: 0
Shot: 5.2 mph
Distance: 3 ft
Entry to goal: 8.6 s
Type: rebound

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Tyler Bertuzzi · 1st 19:14 · CHI

Play: rebound
Passes: 0
Shot: 23.8 mph
Distance: 7 ft
Type: rebound

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Max Sasson · 2nd 13:42 · VAN

Play: rebound
Passes: 0
Shot: 25.3 mph
Distance: 3 ft
Type: one-timer, rebound

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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.