Vegas Golden Knights vs. Vancouver CanucksApr 3, 2018

Final / SOTuesday, Apr 3, 2018· Rogers Arena

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Vancouver CanucksVAN

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Goals	1	2	3	OT	SO	T		Shots	1	2	3	OT	T
VGK	1	2	1	0	1	5		VGK	11	16	6	6	39
VAN	1	0	3	0	0	4		VAN	6	6	10	3	25

: VGK 69VAN 50
: VGK 3.61VAN 2.05
PP goals: VGK 1VAN 1
Hits: VGK 18VAN 16
Blocks: VGK 15VAN 16
PIM: VGK 4VAN 8
: VGK 37%VAN 63%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Vegas Golden Knights edge Vancouver Canucks 5–4 (SO)

Vegas Golden Knights beat Vancouver Canucks 5–4 in a shootout at VAN. William Karlsson (VGK) led the scoring with 1G 2A. VAN's first power-play unit (Sedin, Sedin, Edler, Gagner and Horvat) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 2:22 together.

Points
William Karlsson had a goal and 2 assists (3 points) on 2 shots in 21:24.Karlsson
Points
Brandon Pirri had two goals (2 points) on 7 shots in 18:31.Pirri
Points
Nikolay Goldobin had two goals (2 points) on 3 shots in 14:31.Goldobin
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Brandon Sutter had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 19:12.Sutter
Points
Alex Tuch had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 19:03.Tuch
Points
Colin Miller had 2 assists (2 points) on 4 shots in 18:15.Miller
PP1
VAN's first power-play unit (Sedin, Sedin, Edler, Gagner and Horvat) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 2:22 together.Sedin Sedin Edler Gagner Horvat
New line
New look for VGK: Pirri–Karlsson–Tuch skated 13:00 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (61.5% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Pirri Karlsson Tuch

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

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

VAN
VGK
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 119 of 119 attempts · VAN 50 · VGK 69

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

VAN
VGK
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: VGK 35% of the game, VAN 27%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

VAN

VGK

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	VGK	VAN
	64	47
	2.77	1.70
	2.64	1.66
	13	8
	5	2
	14	14
	−0.102	+0.102
	35%	27%

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.

Vegas Golden Knights

L1Pirri – Karlsson – Tuch
13:0062% CF
L2Neal – Tatar – Eakin
12:5150% CF
L3Reaves – Bellemare – Nosek
9:0469% CF
L4Lindberg – Carrier – Carpenter
6:5854% CF
D1McNabb – Schmidt
18:0155% CF
D2Engelland – Theodore
16:4348% CF
D3Miller – Hunt
10:2865% CF

PP1Neal – Tatar – Eakin – Miller – Hunt
1:37100% CF
PP2Pirri – Karlsson – Theodore – Carpenter – Tuch
0:57100% CF
PK1FBellemare – Nosek
1:16
PK2FEakin – Karlsson
1:05
PK1DEngelland – McNabb
2:06
PK2DSchmidt – Theodore
0:40

Current VGK line combinations →

Vancouver Canucks

L1Sedin – Sedin – Gagner
13:0362% CF
L2Leipsic – Horvat – Gaudette
7:2127% CF
L3Sutter – Virtanen – Goldobin
5:1443% CF
L4Jokinen – Dowd – Gaunce
2:1620% CF
D1Del Zotto – Pouliot
16:4850% CF
D2Edler – Stecher
14:4052% CF
D3Biega – Sautner
9:5429% CF

PP1Sedin – Sedin – Edler – Gagner – Horvat
2:22100% CF
PP2Pouliot – Leipsic – Virtanen – Goldobin – Gaudette
0:40
PK1FSutter – Dowd
1:08
PK2FGaunce – Horvat
0:56
PK1DEdler – Stecher
1:37
PK2DBiega – Pouliot
0:23

Current VAN line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

4:28
VGKBrandon Pirri (Colin Miller)wrist0.01 xG
VGK: McNabb, Pirri, Karlsson, Miller, TuchVAN: Jokinen, Edler, Horvat, Goldobin, Stecher
VGK 1 – 0 VAN
19:39
VANNikolay Goldobin (Brandon Sutter)wrist0.13 xG
VGK: Neal, McNabb, Tatar, Eakin, SchmidtVAN: Edler, Sutter, Virtanen, Goldobin, Stecher
VGK 1 – 1 VAN

2nd period

3:27
VGKBrandon Pirri (Alex Tuch, William Karlsson)slap0.04 xG
VGK: McNabb, Pirri, Karlsson, Schmidt, TuchVAN: Sedin, Sedin, Edler, Gagner, Pouliot
VGK 2 – 1 VAN
7:19
VGKTomas Tatar (Shea Theodore, William Karlsson)deflected0.14 xG
VGK: Engelland, Neal, Tatar, Karlsson, TheodoreVAN: Sedin, Biega, Gagner, Gaunce, Sautner
VGK 3 – 1 VAN

3rd period

2:17
VGKWilliam KarlssonPP (Alex Tuch, Colin Miller)wrist0.14 xG
VGK: Neal, Karlsson, Miller, Theodore, TuchVAN: Biega, Sutter, Del Zotto
VGK 4 – 1 VAN
4:06
VANBo HorvatPP (Alexander Edler, Daniel Sedin)wrist0.16 xG
VGK: Eakin, Karlsson, Miller, SchmidtVAN: Sedin, Sedin, Edler, Gagner, Horvat
VGK 4 – 2 VAN
8:21
VANBrandon Sutter (Brendan Gaunce, Jussi Jokinen)backhand0.07 xG
VGK: Neal, Tatar, Eakin, Miller, HuntVAN: Jokinen, Sutter, Del Zotto, Gaunce, Stecher
VGK 4 – 3 VAN
10:53
VANNikolay Goldobin (Alex Biega, Ashton Sautner)deflected0.05 xG
VGK: Engelland, Lindberg, Miller, Carrier, CarpenterVAN: Biega, Sautner, Horvat, Virtanen, Goldobin
VGK 4 – 4 VAN

Decided in the shootout: VGK 5 – 4 VAN.

Box score

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

Vegas Golden Knights

VGK skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
William Karlsson C	L1	1	2	3	+3	2	0.57	1	2	0	21:24	—	—	62	70
Alex Tuch R	L1	0	2	2	+2	2	0.36	1	0	0	19:03	—	—	63	67
Brandon Pirri C	L1	2	0	2	+2	7	0.14	1	0	0	18:31	—	—	63	71
James Neal L	L2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.18	0	0	0	19:36	—	—	52	74
Cody Eakin C	L2	0	0	0	-2	1	0.23	1	0	0	18:50	—	—	48	68
Tomas Tatar L	L2	1	0	1	-1	1	0.19	0	0	2	18:03	—	—	50	75
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	0	0	0	13:51	—	—	65	45
Tomas Nosek L	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.19	2	0	0	13:36	—	—	64	53
Ryan Reaves R	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	1	0	0	12:28	—	—	50	36
Ryan Carpenter C	L4	0	0	0	-1	4	0.54	1	0	0	14:26	—	—	63	66
Oscar Lindberg L	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.10	2	0	0	10:21	—	—	55	61
William Carrier L	L4	0	0	0	-1	2	0.15	4	0	0	9:39	—	—	50	50
Nate Schmidt D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	4	0	23:22	—	—	57	69
Brayden McNabb D	D1	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	2	3	0	22:50	—	—	56	63
Shea Theodore D	D2	0	1	1	+1	6	0.55	0	2	0	23:13	—	—	50	53
Deryk Engelland D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	3	0	22:29	—	—	52	48
Colin Miller D	D3	0	2	2	-1	4	0.31	1	0	2	18:15	—	—	66	68
Brad Hunt D	D3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.06	0	1	0	14:05	—	—	70	77

VGK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Malcolm Subban(start)	W	25	21	4	.840	2.05	65:00

Vancouver Canucks

VAN skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Sam Gagner C	L1	0	0	0	-2	3	0.17	1	0	0	19:25	—	—	52	62
Daniel Sedin L	L1	0	1	1	-2	2	0.34	0	0	0	18:42	—	—	52	60
Henrik Sedin C	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.14	1	1	0	17:21	—	—	57	71
Bo Horvat C	L2	1	0	1	0	2	0.29	0	2	0	20:19	—	—	39	27
Brendan Leipsic L	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.09	0	1	0	16:34	—	—	25	7
Adam Gaudette R	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	14:32	—	—	27	9
Brandon Sutter C	L3	1	1	2	+2	3	0.22	0	1	0	19:12	—	—	43	45
Nikolay Goldobin R	L3	2	0	2	+1	3	0.25	0	1	0	14:31	—	—	56	75
Jake Virtanen R	L3	0	0	0	+2	2	0.20	4	0	2	14:16	—	—	53	45
Jussi Jokinen L	L4	0	1	1	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	12:10	—	—	37	25
Brendan Gaunce C	L4	0	1	1	0	1	0.07	1	0	0	10:52	—	—	40	28
Nic Dowd C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	7:31	—	—	33	16
Michael Del Zotto D	D1	0	0	0	+1	0	0.06	3	0	2	21:54	—	—	50	34
Derrick Pouliot D	D1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	2	0	19:17	—	—	47	28
Alexander Edler D	D2	0	1	1	-1	2	0.14	1	2	2	28:22	—	—	46	62
Troy Stecher D	D2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.04	1	3	2	24:27	—	—	46	55
Ashton Sautner D	D3	0	1	1	0	2	0.03	2	1	0	15:17	—	—	30	17
Alex Biega D	D3	0	1	1	0	0	0.00	2	1	0	15:02	—	—	26	21

VAN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jacob Markstrom(start)	O	39	35	4	.897	3.61	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.