New Jersey Devils vs. St. Louis BluesJan 2, 2018

Final / SOTuesday, Jan 2, 2018· Scottrade Center

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New Jersey DevilsNJD

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St. Louis BluesSTL

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Goals	1	2	3	OT	2OT	SO	T		Shots	1	2	3	OT	2OT	T
NJD	0	1	1	0	0	0	2		NJD	5	9	7	5	0	26
STL	1	1	0	0	0	1	3		STL	14	6	6	3	0	29

: NJD 53STL 60
: NJD 2.89STL 3.34
PP goals: NJD 1STL 0
Hits: NJD 20STL 19
Blocks: NJD 13STL 13
PIM: NJD 8STL 4
: NJD 48%STL 52%

Fantasy takeaways

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

St. Louis Blues edge New Jersey Devils 3–2 (SO)

St. Louis Blues beat New Jersey Devils 3–2 in a shootout at home. Nico Hischier (NJD) led the scoring with 1G 0A. NJD's first power-play unit (Boyle, Zajac, Palmieri, Hall and Butcher) scored 1 power-play goal on 5 attempts in 1:15 together.

PP1
NJD's first power-play unit (Boyle, Zajac, Palmieri, Hall and Butcher) scored 1 power-play goal on 5 attempts in 1:15 together.Boyle Zajac Palmieri Hall Butcher
New line
New look for STL: Paajarvi–Jaskin–Barbashev skated 5:03 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (46.2% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Paajarvi Jaskin Barbashev
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Scottie Upshall (STL) played 15:06, +4:19 up on his 10:47 season average over 62 games.Upshall
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Will Butcher (NJD) played 12:08, −3:59 down on his 16:07 season average over 80 games.Butcher
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Andy Greene (NJD) played 26:32, +5:29 up on his 21:03 season average over 80 games.Greene
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Dmitrij Jaskin (STL) played 7:23, −5:08 down on his 12:31 season average over 75 games.Jaskin
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Colton Parayko (STL) played 27:09, +4:35 up on his 22:34 season average over 81 games.Parayko
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John Moore (NJD) played 23:56, +3:58 up on his 19:58 season average over 80 games.Moore

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

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

STL
NJD
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 113 of 113 attempts · STL 60 · NJD 53

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

STL
NJD
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: NJD 20% of the game, STL 41%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

STL

NJD

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	NJD	STL
	44	52
	1.21	2.73
	1.19	2.69
	6	13
	2	8
	10	17
	−0.040	+0.041
	20%	41%

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.

New Jersey Devils

L1Zajac – Johansson – Palmieri
11:1439% CF
L2Hall – Bratt – Hischier
11:0750% CF
L3Noesen – Wood – Zacha
9:4041% CF
L4Boyle – Gibbons – Coleman
9:0547% CF
D1Greene – Santini
15:4621% CF
D2Moore – Vatanen
14:1754% CF
D3Lovejoy – Butcher
7:1350% CF

PP1Boyle – Zajac – Palmieri – Hall – Butcher
1:15100% CF
PP2Johansson – Vatanen – Wood – Bratt – Hischier
0:51100% CF
PK1FZajac – Gibbons
1:47
PK2FColeman – Zacha
0:48
PK1DGreene – Santini
4:40
PK2DLovejoy – Moore
1:48

Current NJD line combinations →

St. Louis Blues

L1Steen – Brodziak – Berglund
12:2463% CF
L2Upshall – Schenn – Tarasenko
11:3159% CF
L3Stastny – Sobotka – Thompson
8:1553% CF
L4Paajarvi – Jaskin – Barbashev
5:0346% CF
D1Edmundson – Parayko
17:1761% CF
D2Bouwmeester – Pietrangelo
15:2153% CF
D3Gunnarsson – Bortuzzo
11:2153% CF

PP1Stastny – Schenn – Tarasenko – Parayko – Thompson
3:3788% CF
PP2Steen – Sobotka – Berglund – Pietrangelo – Barbashev
2:3367% CF
PK1FSteen – Stastny
0:29
PK2FBrodziak – Berglund
0:22
PK1DBouwmeester – Pietrangelo
0:59
PK2DEdmundson – Parayko
0:37

Current STL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

12:48
STLVladimir Tarasenko (Scottie Upshall)wrist0.08 xG
NJD: Moore, Vatanen, Noesen, Wood, ZachaSTL: Upshall, Bortuzzo, Pietrangelo, Schenn, Tarasenko
NJD 0 – 1 STL

2nd period

12:36
NJDNico Hischier (Sami Vatanen, Jesper Bratt)tip-in0.06 xG
NJD: Moore, Vatanen, Hall, Bratt, HischierSTL: Upshall, Bouwmeester, Pietrangelo, Schenn, Tarasenko
NJD 1 – 1 STL
18:08
STLVladimir Sobotka (Tage Thompson, Paul Stastny)tip-in0.09 xG
NJD: Zajac, Lovejoy, Johansson, Palmieri, ButcherSTL: Stastny, Sobotka, Edmundson, Parayko, Thompson
NJD 1 – 2 STL

3rd period

1:17
NJDTaylor HallPP (Kyle Palmieri, Will Butcher)wrist0.06 xG
NJD: Boyle, Zajac, Palmieri, Hall, ButcherSTL: Bouwmeester, Stastny, Sobotka, Pietrangelo
NJD 2 – 2 STL

Decided in the shootout: NJD 2 – 3 STL.

Box score

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

New Jersey Devils

NJD skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Travis Zajac C	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.32	0	1	0	19:34	—	—	43	45
Kyle Palmieri C	L1	0	1	1	-1	4	0.64	1	0	0	16:10	—	—	45	45
Marcus Johansson L	L1	0	0	0	-1	3	0.38	1	0	0	15:32	—	—	39	39
Jesper Bratt L	L2	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	0	0	0	17:29	—	—	58	33
Taylor Hall L	L2	1	0	1	+1	2	0.22	1	1	0	16:42	—	—	57	32
Nico Hischier C	L2	1	0	1	+1	4	0.32	1	0	0	15:31	—	—	53	32
Pavel Zacha C	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	0	0	13:50	—	—	42	27
Stefan Noesen R	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	0	0	0	11:37	—	—	40	32
Miles Wood L	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.17	2	0	0	11:36	—	—	38	26
Blake Coleman L	L4	0	0	0	0	4	0.33	2	2	0	16:29	—	—	50	25
Brian Gibbons C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	1	1	2	15:34	—	—	43	11
Brian Boyle C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.26	1	0	0	13:39	—	—	48	14
Andy Greene D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	1	6	0	26:32	—	—	32	23
Steven Santini D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	3	1	0	22:36	—	—	26	8
John Moore D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.08	2	0	0	23:56	—	—	53	35
Sami Vatanen D	D2	0	1	1	0	0	0.02	2	0	4	22:26	—	—	59	42
Ben Lovejoy D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	1	2	15:39	—	—	58	43
Will Butcher D	D3	0	1	1	-1	1	0.11	1	0	0	12:08	—	—	56	35

NJD goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Keith Kinkaid(start)	O	29	27	2	.931	3.34	65:00

St. Louis Blues

STL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Patrik Berglund C	L1	0	0	0	0	5	0.37	3	1	0	19:43	—	—	61	91
Alexander Steen L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.12	2	0	2	19:08	—	—	59	88
Kyle Brodziak C	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.18	0	0	0	17:27	—	—	63	91
Brayden Schenn C	L2	0	0	0	0	5	0.68	1	1	0	23:15	—	—	53	66
Vladimir Tarasenko R	L2	1	0	1	0	1	0.36	1	0	0	21:31	—	—	55	64
Scottie Upshall R	L2	0	1	1	0	1	0.09	0	0	2	15:06	—	—	58	67
Paul Stastny C	L3	0	1	1	+1	2	0.25	1	0	0	18:45	—	—	56	72
Vladimir Sobotka C	L3	1	0	1	+1	2	0.20	1	0	0	16:36	—	—	53	70
Tage Thompson C	L3	0	1	1	+1	4	0.30	0	1	0	14:16	—	—	53	76
Ivan Barbashev L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.27	1	0	0	11:43	—	—	42	48
Magnus Paajarvi L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	1	0	0	10:32	—	—	50	51
Dmitrij Jaskin R	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	1	0	7:23	—	—	38	39
Colton Parayko D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.14	3	5	0	27:09	—	—	56	69
Joel Edmundson D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.10	2	0	0	19:32	—	—	61	73
Alex Pietrangelo D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.21	0	1	0	24:13	—	—	57	74
Jay Bouwmeester D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	1	0	18:07	—	—	44	66
Robert Bortuzzo D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	1	0	14:59	—	—	54	67
Carl Gunnarsson D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.05	0	1	0	13:26	—	—	48	66

STL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Carter Hutton(start)	W	26	24	2	.923	2.89	65:00

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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.