New York Islanders vs. New York RangersJan 29, 2026

FinalThursday, Jan 29, 2026· Madison Square Garden

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
NYI	0	2	0	2		NYI	6	5	10	21
NYR	0	0	1	1		NYR	6	8	7	21

: NYI 47NYR 49
: NYI 2.21NYR 1.47
PP goals: NYI 0NYR 1
Hits: NYI 16NYR 31
Blocks: NYI 17NYR 10
PIM: NYI 8NYR 8
: NYI 38%NYR 63%

Fantasy takeaways

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

New York Islanders edge New York Rangers 2–1

New York Islanders beat New York Rangers 2–1 at NYR. Mika Zibanejad (NYR) led the scoring with 1G 0A. NYR's first power-play unit (Trocheck, Zibanejad, Miller, Gavrikov and Lafrenière) scored 1 power-play goal on 3 attempts in 2:52 together.

PP1
NYR's first power-play unit (Trocheck, Zibanejad, Miller, Gavrikov and Lafrenière) scored 1 power-play goal on 3 attempts in 2:52 together.Trocheck Zibanejad Miller Gavrikov Lafrenière
Usage
Maxim Shabanov (NYI) played 7:59, −5:50 down on his 13:49 season average over 43 games.Shabanov
New line
New look for NYI: MacLean–Gatcomb–Shabanov skated 7:14 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.MacLean Gatcomb Shabanov
New line
New look for NYR: Carrick–Berard–Rempe skated 7:05 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (53.3% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Carrick Berard Rempe
Usage
Vladislav Gavrikov (NYR) played 26:55, +3:14 up on his 23:41 season average over 81 games.Gavrikov
Luck
Anders Lee (NYI) generated 0.98 xG on 2 attempts without scoring; the chances were there.Lee
Cats
Will Cuylle (NYR) threw 6 hits and blocked 1 shot, a night for hits leagues.Cuylle
Cats
Adam Pelech (NYI) blocked 5 shots in 21:19.Pelech

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

← NYI attacks left (bottom on phones)NYR attacks right (top on phones) →

NYR
NYI
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 96 of 96 attempts · NYR 49 · NYI 47

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

NYR
NYI
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

NYR pressure
NYI pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: NYI 14% of the game, NYR 32%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

NYR

NYI

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

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

Matchup matrix

NYR 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	NYI	NYR
	53	49
	1.56	1.49
	1.53	1.48
	4	8
	1	1
	20	16
	−0.050	+0.050
	14%	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.

New York Islanders

L1Palat – Horvat – Heineman
11:2739% CF
L2Duclair – Drouin – Barzal
10:5350% CF
L3Lee – Pageau – Holmstrom
8:4688% CF
L4MacLean – Gatcomb – Shabanov
7:1450% CF
D1Pulock – Schaefer
13:2536% CF
D2Pelech – DeAngelo
13:1848% CF
D3Mayfield – Soucy
10:2267% CF

PP1Lee – Duclair – Drouin – DeAngelo – Barzal
2:000% CF
PP2Palat – Horvat – Holmstrom – Heineman – Schaefer
1:43
PK1FHorvat – Heineman
2:39
PK2FPageau – Holmstrom
2:29
PK1DPelech – Pulock
2:13
PK2DMayfield – Soucy
1:25

Current NYI line combinations →

New York Rangers

L1Zibanejad – Miller – Perreault
12:5463% CF
L2Trocheck – Lafrenière – Cuylle
10:3153% CF
L3Raddysh – Othmann – Laba
8:2135% CF
L4Carrick – Berard – Rempe
7:0553% CF
D1Gavrikov – Schneider
14:5062% CF
D2Borgen – Robertson
13:3724% CF
D3Vaakanainen – Morrow
9:4152% CF

PP1Trocheck – Zibanejad – Miller – Gavrikov – Lafrenière
2:52100% CF
PP2Cuylle – Morrow – Othmann – Laba – Perreault
2:12100% CF
PK1FZibanejad – Miller
1:00
PK2FTrocheck – Laba
0:43
PK1DGavrikov – Schneider
2:30
PK2DBorgen – Robertson
1:14

Current NYR line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

17:18
NYICarson Soucy (Maxim Shabanov, Scott Mayfield)snap0.03 xG
NYI: Mayfield, Soucy, MacLean, Gatcomb, ShabanovNYR: Gavrikov, Raddysh, Schneider, Othmann, Laba
NYI 1 – 0 NYR
18:53
NYIMatthew Schaefer (Bo Horvat)wrist0.06 xG
NYI: Lee, Horvat, Pulock, Holmstrom, SchaeferNYR: Trocheck, Borgen, Robertson, Cuylle, Perreault
NYI 2 – 0 NYR

3rd period

2:48
NYRMika ZibanejadPP (Vladislav Gavrikov, J.T. Miller)slap0.08 xG
NYI: Soucy, Horvat, Heineman, SchaeferNYR: Trocheck, Zibanejad, Miller, Gavrikov, Lafrenière
NYI 2 – 1 NYR

Box score

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

New York Islanders

NYI skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Bo Horvat C	L1	0	1	1	+1	2	0.12	1	2	0	19:55	—	—	48	79
Emil Heineman L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.16	2	1	0	18:37	—	—	46	77
Ondrej Palat L	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.20	1	0	0	14:43	—	—	38	70
Mathew Barzal C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.06	0	0	2	18:25	—	—	46	17
Jonathan Drouin L	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	14:52	—	—	52	15
Anthony Duclair L	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	13:58	—	—	48	13
Simon Holmstrom R	L3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	0	1	0	18:31	—	—	73	79
Jean-Gabriel Pageau C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.13	3	0	0	16:01	—	—	73	74
Anders Lee L	L3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.98	1	0	0	15:08	—	—	77	96
Marc Gatcomb C	L4	0	0	0	+1	1	0.02	5	1	2	9:32	—	—	55	61
Kyle MacLean C	L4	0	0	0	+1	1	0.13	1	0	0	8:37	—	—	52	54
Maxim Shabanov R	L4	0	1	1	+1	2	0.13	0	0	0	7:59	—	—	48	47
Matthew Schaefer D	D1	1	0	1	+1	2	0.06	0	0	0	23:25	—	—	50	39
Ryan Pulock D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.07	0	4	2	21:15	—	—	36	31
Adam Pelech D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	1	5	0	21:19	—	—	45	40
Tony DeAngelo D	D2	0	0	0	0	4	0.05	0	2	2	20:09	—	—	59	47
Scott Mayfield D	D3	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	1	1	0	15:33	—	—	65	80
Carson Soucy D	D3	1	0	1	+1	2	0.06	0	0	0	14:39	—	—	67	88

NYI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Ilya Sorokin(start)	W	21	20	1	.952	1.47	60:00

New York Rangers

NYR skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mika Zibanejad C	L1	1	0	1	0	5	0.18	0	0	0	23:50	—	—	60	65
J.T. Miller C	L1	0	1	1	0	2	0.36	1	1	2	22:08	—	—	57	57
Gabe Perreault R	L1	0	0	0	-1	5	0.38	0	0	0	18:22	—	—	58	62
Vincent Trocheck C	L2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.01	3	0	2	20:19	—	—	47	26
Alexis Lafrenière L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.08	1	1	0	17:54	—	—	58	45
Will Cuylle L	L2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	6	1	2	17:15	—	—	46	30
Noah Laba C	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	0	0	13:55	—	—	27	3
Brennan Othmann L	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	5	0	0	11:02	—	—	35	5
Taylor Raddysh R	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	0	0	10:35	—	—	30	4
Sam Carrick C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	2	0	9:22	—	—	52	63
Brett Berard L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.04	2	0	0	8:45	—	—	47	62
Matt Rempe C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.21	3	0	0	7:45	—	—	53	63
Vladislav Gavrikov D	D1	0	1	1	-1	2	0.02	3	1	0	26:55	—	—	58	54
Braden Schneider D	D1	0	0	0	-1	4	0.13	1	0	0	20:38	—	—	64	68
Matthew Robertson D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	1	0	19:37	—	—	32	27
Will Borgen D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	4	2	0	18:07	—	—	22	19
Scott Morrow D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	0	0	0	14:47	—	—	50	50
Urho Vaakanainen D	D3	0	0	0	0	2	0.05	0	1	2	13:34	—	—	55	60

NYR goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jonathan Quick(start)	L	21	19	2	.905	1.30	58:51

Goal anatomy

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

Carson Soucy (NYI) 2nd 17:18 · assists Maxim Shabanov, Scott Mayfield · Forecheck turnover · 31.7 mph shot.

Carson Soucy · 2nd 17:18 · NYI

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 3 (royal road)
Shot: 31.7 mph
Distance: 29 ft

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Matthew Schaefer · 2nd 18:53 · NYI

Play: turnover-forecheck
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 2 (royal road)
Shot: 83.8 mph
Distance: 34 ft
Entry to goal: 9.2 s

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Mika Zibanejad · 3rd 2:48 · NYR PP

Play: dump-and-chase
Entry: dump
Odd man: 3-on-2
Passes: 2 (royal road)
Shot: 85.5 mph
Distance: 39 ft
Entry to goal: 7.8 s
Type: one-timer

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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.