New York Islanders vs. San Jose SharksMar 7, 2026

Final / OTSaturday, Mar 7, 2026· SAP Center at San Jose

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Goals	1	2	3	OT	T		Shots	1	2	3	OT	T
NYI	1	0	0	1	2		NYI	8	10	14	2	34
SJS	0	1	0	0	1		SJS	8	10	9	4	31

: NYI 68SJS 57
: NYI 2.57SJS 2.65
PP goals: NYI 0SJS 0
Hits: NYI 28SJS 27
Blocks: NYI 12SJS 21
PIM: NYI 4SJS 6
: NYI 55%SJS 45%

Fantasy takeaways

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

New York Islanders edge San Jose Sharks 2–1 (OT)

New York Islanders beat San Jose Sharks 2–1 in overtime at SJS. Bo Horvat (NYI) led the scoring with 1G 0A. New look for NYI: Horvat–Barzal–Heineman skated 14:03 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (67.6% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

New line
New look for NYI: Horvat–Barzal–Heineman skated 14:03 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (67.6% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Horvat Barzal Heineman
New line
New look for SJS: Wennberg–Gaudette–Sherwood skated 11:31 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (26.9% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Wennberg Gaudette Sherwood
New line
New look for NYI: Cizikas–Duclair–Gatcomb skated 6:38 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (76.9% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Cizikas Duclair Gatcomb
New line
New look for NYI: Schenn–Palat–Ritchie skated 10:13 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (28.6% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Schenn Palat Ritchie
Usage
Matthew Schaefer (NYI) played 29:01, +4:23 up on his 24:38 season average over 81 games.Schaefer
Usage
Mathew Barzal (NYI) played 24:23, +3:46 up on his 20:37 season average over 80 games.Barzal
Luck
SJS scored 1 goal on 2.65 expected goals (57 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Will Smith (SJS) played 21:57, +3:49 up on his 18:08 season average over 68 games.Smith

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)SJS attacks right (top on phones) →

SJS
NYI
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 125 of 125 attempts · SJS 57 · NYI 68

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

SJS
NYI
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

SJS 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 42% of the game, SJS 27%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

SJS

NYI

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

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

Matchup matrix

SJS 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	SJS
	73	53
	2.65	2.57
	2.58	2.51
	13	19
	1	6
	24	19
	+0.032	−0.032
	42%	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.

New York Islanders

L1Horvat – Barzal – Heineman
14:0368% CF
L2Lee – Pageau – Holmstrom
10:1557% CF
L3Schenn – Palat – Ritchie
10:1329% CF
L4Cizikas – Duclair – Gatcomb
6:3877% CF
D1Pelech – DeAngelo
14:4162% CF
D2Pulock – Schaefer
14:1074% CF
D3Mayfield – Soucy
9:4052% CF

PP1Schenn – Horvat – Barzal – Ritchie – Schaefer
3:51100% CF
PP2Lee – Palat – DeAngelo – Holmstrom – Heineman
1:26
PK1FPageau – Holmstrom
2:05
PK2FCizikas – Horvat
1:18
PK1DPelech – Pulock
1:17
PK2DMayfield – Soucy
0:42

Current NYI line combinations →

San Jose Sharks

L1Smith – Celebrini – Graf
14:1361% CF
L2Wennberg – Gaudette – Sherwood
11:3127% CF
L3Toffoli – Eklund – Misa
9:5145% CF
L4Reaves – Goodrow – Ostapchuk
4:3018% CF
D1Orlov – Klingberg
15:2361% CF
D2Ferraro – Mukhamadullin
15:1120% CF
D3Desharnais – Dickinson
13:0334% CF

PP1Orlov – Toffoli – Wennberg – Smith – Celebrini
2:45100% CF
PP2Klingberg – Gaudette – Sherwood – Eklund – Misa
0:39
PK1FGoodrow – Ostapchuk
3:01
PK2FWennberg – Graf
1:18
PK1DDesharnais – Ferraro
4:43
PK2DMukhamadullin – Dickinson
0:40

Current SJS line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

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
Mathew Barzal C	L1	0	1	1	0	3	0.18	2	1	0	24:23	—	—	66	54
Bo Horvat C	L1	1	0	1	+1	6	0.70	1	2	0	23:17	—	—	68	61
Emil Heineman L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.17	2	0	0	17:50	—	—	69	56
Simon Holmstrom R	L2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.22	0	0	0	17:04	—	—	58	47
Jean-Gabriel Pageau C	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.08	2	0	0	16:23	—	—	54	45
Anders Lee L	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.26	4	0	0	14:39	—	—	62	50
Brayden Schenn C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.18	1	1	0	17:26	—	—	32	36
Calum Ritchie C	L3	0	1	1	0	2	0.11	1	0	0	15:56	—	—	27	26
Ondrej Palat L	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	2	0	0	14:42	—	—	31	35
Casey Cizikas C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.10	2	0	0	9:52	—	—	79	56
Anthony Duclair L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.17	0	0	0	8:52	—	—	77	68
Marc Gatcomb C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	2	0	0	8:41	—	—	75	64
Adam Pelech D	D1	0	0	0	0	4	0.15	4	3	2	23:38	—	—	54	51
Tony DeAngelo D	D1	1	0	1	+1	2	0.09	0	0	0	22:09	—	—	56	52
Matthew Schaefer D	D2	0	1	1	+1	3	0.09	0	1	2	29:01	—	—	60	40
Ryan Pulock D	D2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.03	1	3	0	21:06	—	—	75	67
Carson Soucy D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	4	0	0	14:38	—	—	48	44
Scott Mayfield D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	0	1	0	12:34	—	—	52	48

NYI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Ilya Sorokin(start)	W	31	30	1	.968	2.65	64:20

San Jose Sharks

SJS skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Macklin Celebrini C	L1	1	0	1	0	4	0.47	1	1	0	23:10	—	—	67	58
Will Smith C	L1	0	1	1	+1	5	0.49	0	0	0	21:57	—	—	59	55
Collin Graf R	L1	0	0	0	0	5	0.60	2	1	2	18:54	—	—	63	57
Alexander Wennberg C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	1	3	0	21:39	—	—	27	45
Kiefer Sherwood L	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	3	3	2	16:32	—	—	36	47
Adam Gaudette R	L2	0	0	0	0	3	0.17	1	1	0	13:51	—	—	27	37
William Eklund L	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.15	0	2	0	17:08	—	—	48	58
Michael Misa C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.32	0	0	0	14:23	—	—	46	56
Tyler Toffoli C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	1	0	0	14:15	—	—	40	53
Barclay Goodrow C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	3	2	0	10:23	—	—	13	18
Zack Ostapchuk C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	2	0	0	9:03	—	—	18	21
Ryan Reaves R	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.08	1	0	0	6:20	—	—	20	18
Dmitry Orlov D	D1	0	0	0	0	2	0.09	4	1	2	22:23	—	—	64	64
John Klingberg D	D1	0	1	1	0	2	0.10	1	0	0	19:28	—	—	62	52
Mario Ferraro D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.08	1	3	0	22:57	—	—	28	34
Shakir Mukhamadullin D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	2	0	19:39	—	—	26	43
Vincent Desharnais D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	4	0	0	20:38	—	—	41	47
Sam Dickinson D	D3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.02	2	2	0	17:31	—	—	34	39

SJS goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Yaroslav Askarov(start)	O	34	32	2	.941	2.57	64:20

Goal anatomy

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

Tony DeAngelo (NYI) 1st 11:37 · assists Calum Ritchie · Rush · carried in · 50.1 mph shot · 5.5 s from entry to goal.

Tony DeAngelo · 1st 11:37 · NYI

Play: rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 1
Shot: 50.1 mph
Distance: 42 ft
Entry to goal: 5.5 s

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Macklin Celebrini · 2nd 0:33 · SJS

Play: cycle
Passes: 0
Shot: 22.9 mph
Distance: 40 ft

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Bo Horvat · OT 4:20 · NYI

Play: rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 1
Shot: 24.9 mph
Distance: 10 ft
Entry to goal: 2.0 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.

New York Islanders vs. San Jose SharksMar 7, 2026

Fantasy takeaways

New York Islanders edge San Jose Sharks 2–1 (OT)

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Head-to-head matchups

Matchup matrix

Sequence card

Lines used

New York Islanders

San Jose Sharks

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

OT period

Box score

New York Islanders

San Jose Sharks

Goal anatomy

Tony DeAngelo · 1st 11:37 · NYI

Macklin Celebrini · 2nd 0:33 · SJS

Bo Horvat · OT 4:20 · NYI