Vancouver Canucks vs. Boston BruinsDec 20, 2025

Final / SOSaturday, Dec 20, 2025· TD Garden

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Goals	1	2	3	OT	SO	T		Shots	1	2	3	OT	T
VAN	1	1	2	0	1	5		VAN	4	9	8	2	23
BOS	1	2	1	0	0	4		BOS	13	17	7	6	43

: VAN 47BOS 74
: VAN 1.87BOS 4.26
PP goals: VAN 1BOS 1
Hits: VAN 29BOS 20
Blocks: VAN 15BOS 11
PIM: VAN 8BOS 10
: VAN 39%BOS 61%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Vancouver Canucks edge Boston Bruins 5–4 (SO)

Vancouver Canucks beat Boston Bruins 5–4 in a shootout at BOS. Linus Karlsson (VAN) led the scoring with 2G 1A. BOS's first power-play unit (Lindholm, Pastrnak, Zacha, McAvoy and Geekie) scored 1 power-play goal on 8 attempts in 3:00 together.

Points
Linus Karlsson had two goals and an assist (3 points) on 3 shots in 13:01.Karlsson
Points
Liam Ohgren had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 12:21.Ohgren
Points
Morgan Geekie had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 4 shots in 18:39.Geekie
PP1
BOS's first power-play unit (Lindholm, Pastrnak, Zacha, McAvoy and Geekie) scored 1 power-play goal on 8 attempts in 3:00 together.Lindholm Pastrnak Zacha McAvoy Geekie
New line
New look for VAN: Sherwood–O'Connor–Räty skated 6:12 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (40% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Sherwood O'Connor Räty
Goalie
Kevin Lankinen (VAN) faced 43 shots and stopped 39 (.907), +16 against a season average of 27.3; the win.Lankinen
New line
New look for BOS: Lindholm–Pastrnak–Mittelstadt skated 6:40 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (75% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Lindholm Pastrnak Mittelstadt
New line
New look for VAN: Kane–DeBrusk–Kampf skated 5:38 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (45.5% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Kane DeBrusk Kampf

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)BOS attacks right (top on phones) →

BOS
VAN
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 121 of 121 attempts · BOS 74 · VAN 47

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

BOS
VAN
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

BOS 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 11% of the game, BOS 49%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

BOS

VAN

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

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

Matchup matrix

BOS 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	BOS
	42	67
	1.50	2.62
	1.49	2.51
	7	13
	4	1
	20	17
	−0.072	+0.072
	11%	49%

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

L1Sherwood – O'Connor – Räty
6:1240% CF
L2Kane – DeBrusk – Kampf
5:3845% CF
L3Boeser – Garland – Rossi
5:1111% CF
L4Karlsson – Ohgren – Sasson
4:2780% CF
D1Pettersson – Hronek
14:1538% CF
D2Myers – Buium
11:4330% CF
D3Pettersson – Willander
9:1477% CF

PP1Boeser – DeBrusk – Garland – Rossi – Buium
3:20100% CF
PP2Kane – Hronek – Sherwood – Karlsson – Willander
2:44100% CF
PK1FBoeser – O'Connor
1:18
PK2FSherwood – Räty
0:41
PK1DPettersson – Hronek
1:11
PK2DMyers – Pettersson
0:46

Current VAN line combinations →

Boston Bruins

L1Jeannot – Kastelic – Minten
10:5862% CF
L2Lindholm – Pastrnak – Mittelstadt
6:4075% CF
L3Kuraly – Eyssimont – Viel
6:0645% CF
L4Zacha – Geekie – Khusnutdinov
4:4871% CF
D1Lindholm – Peeke
15:2762% CF
D2Zadorov – McAvoy
14:1457% CF
D3Soderstrom – Lohrei
10:2555% CF

PP1Lindholm – Pastrnak – Zacha – McAvoy – Geekie
3:00100% CF
PP2Lindholm – Eyssimont – Mittelstadt – Khusnutdinov – Lohrei
1:250% CF
PK1FKuraly – Kastelic
2:16
PK2FJeannot – Minten
1:50
PK1DZadorov – McAvoy
1:48
PK2DLindholm – Peeke
0:54

Current BOS line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

Decided in the shootout: VAN 5 – 4 BOS.

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
Kiefer Sherwood L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.26	5	2	0	18:59	—	—	42	54
Drew O'Connor L	L1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	0	0	10:30	—	—	40	10
Aatu Räty C	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.02	8	0	0	9:48	—	—	47	44
Evander Kane L	L2	0	1	1	0	2	0.07	2	0	2	19:39	—	—	29	19
Jake DeBrusk L	L2	0	1	1	0	3	0.24	1	0	0	17:58	—	—	43	43
David Kampf C	L2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	0	2	14:16	—	—	48	40
Marco Rossi C	L3	0	1	1	0	0	0.00	0	3	0	23:53	—	—	17	8
Brock Boeser R	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.03	0	0	0	19:22	—	—	30	37
Conor Garland R	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	1	0	0	15:46	—	—	23	7
Linus Karlsson C	L4	2	1	3	+1	3	0.34	3	1	0	13:01	—	—	50	50
Liam Ohgren L	L4	1	1	2	+2	3	0.39	3	0	0	12:21	—	—	64	79
Max Sasson C	L4	1	0	1	+1	1	0.24	0	0	0	10:14	—	—	61	85
Filip Hronek D	D1	0	1	1	+1	4	0.06	2	0	0	27:41	—	—	39	46
Marcus Pettersson D	D1	0	1	1	+1	1	0.02	0	3	2	22:00	—	—	34	22
Zeev Buium D	D2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.12	0	2	0	21:18	—	—	31	39
Tyler Myers D	D2	0	0	0	-3	1	0.00	0	2	2	19:33	—	—	28	13
Tom Willander D	D3	0	0	0	+2	0	0.01	0	1	0	17:06	—	—	55	70
Elias Pettersson D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	2	1	0	14:46	—	—	55	56

VAN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Kevin Lankinen(start)	W	43	39	4	.907	4.26	65:00

Boston Bruins

BOS skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Fraser Minten C	L1	0	1	1	-1	1	0.15	1	2	0	15:42	—	—	65	66
Tanner Jeannot L	L1	1	0	1	-1	1	0.13	3	1	0	14:48	—	—	64	66
Mark Kastelic C	L1	0	1	1	-1	4	0.19	4	2	0	14:28	—	—	54	52
David Pastrnak R	L2	0	0	0	0	4	0.54	2	0	0	21:23	—	—	60	91
Elias Lindholm C	L2	0	1	1	0	3	0.41	0	1	0	20:29	—	—	58	90
Casey Mittelstadt C	L2	0	1	1	0	2	0.07	0	0	0	16:45	—	—	76	67
Sean Kuraly C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	11:12	—	—	40	19
Michael Eyssimont C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.07	1	0	2	9:28	—	—	65	52
Jeffrey Viel L	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	2	7:22	—	—	33	3
Morgan Geekie C	L4	1	1	2	+1	4	1.14	2	0	0	18:39	—	—	73	72
Pavel Zacha C	L4	1	0	1	+1	2	0.47	0	0	0	18:35	—	—	71	50
Marat Khusnutdinov C	L4	0	1	1	0	0	0.13	0	1	0	15:23	—	—	65	55
Hampus Lindholm D	D1	0	0	0	-1	6	0.24	0	1	2	23:51	—	—	65	66
Andrew Peeke D	D1	1	0	1	-1	4	0.07	3	1	2	22:17	—	—	64	64
Charlie McAvoy D	D2	0	1	1	-1	4	0.41	0	1	2	24:59	—	—	59	38
Nikita Zadorov D	D2	0	1	1	+1	2	0.03	1	1	0	24:17	—	—	63	52
Mason Lohrei D	D3	0	0	0	+1	4	0.23	1	0	0	14:42	—	—	59	82
Victor Soderstrom D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	0	0	0	11:36	—	—	57	83

BOS goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jeremy Swayman(start)	O	23	19	4	.826	1.87	64:54

Goal anatomy

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

Morgan Geekie (BOS PP) 1st 8:23 · assists Charlie McAvoy, Elias Lindholm · Cycle · 69.6 mph shot.

Morgan Geekie · 1st 8:23 · BOS PP

Play: cycle
Passes: 4
Shot: 69.6 mph
Distance: 39 ft
Type: one-timer

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Max Sasson · 1st 19:45 · VAN

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 57.2 mph
Distance: 15 ft

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Linus Karlsson · 2nd 4:22 · VAN PP

Play: rebound
Entry: dump
Odd man: 3-on-0
Passes: 0
Shot: 20.9 mph
Distance: 4 ft
Entry to goal: 3.6 s
Type: rebound

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Tanner Jeannot · 2nd 12:05 · BOS

Play: dump-and-chase
Entry: dump
Odd man: 3-on-2
Passes: 0
Shot: 60.9 mph
Distance: 8 ft
Entry to goal: 7.9 s
Type: one-timer

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Pavel Zacha · 2nd 9:41 · BOS

Play: rebound
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 3 (royal road)
Shot: 23.0 mph
Distance: 7 ft
Entry to goal: 4.3 s
Type: rebound

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Linus Karlsson · 3rd 3:53 · VAN

Play: rush
Entry: loose
Odd man: No
Passes: 1
Shot: 64.1 mph
Distance: 35 ft
Entry to goal: 2.7 s

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Liam Ohgren · 3rd 7:34 · VAN

Play: deflection
Passes: 4
Shot: 30.4 mph
Distance: 11 ft
Type: deflection

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Andrew Peeke · 3rd 16:16 · BOS

Play: turnover-forecheck
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 1
Shot: 24.6 mph
Distance: 62 ft
Entry to goal: 8.9 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.

Vancouver Canucks vs. Boston BruinsDec 20, 2025

Fantasy takeaways

Vancouver Canucks edge Boston Bruins 5–4 (SO)

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Head-to-head matchups

Matchup matrix

Sequence card

Lines used

Vancouver Canucks

Boston Bruins

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

Vancouver Canucks

Boston Bruins

Goal anatomy

Morgan Geekie · 1st 8:23 · BOS PP

Max Sasson · 1st 19:45 · VAN

Linus Karlsson · 2nd 4:22 · VAN PP

Tanner Jeannot · 2nd 12:05 · BOS

Pavel Zacha · 2nd 9:41 · BOS

Linus Karlsson · 3rd 3:53 · VAN

Liam Ohgren · 3rd 7:34 · VAN

Andrew Peeke · 3rd 16:16 · BOS