Florida Panthers vs. Vancouver CanucksDec 14, 2023

FinalThursday, Dec 14, 2023· Rogers Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
FLA	0	0	0	0		FLA	15	6	15	36
VAN	2	2	0	4		VAN	9	8	1	18

: FLA 66VAN 46
: FLA 2.68VAN 4.08
PP goals: FLA 0VAN 1
Hits: FLA 31VAN 35
Blocks: FLA 11VAN 17
PIM: FLA 6VAN 6
: FLA 49%VAN 51%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Vancouver Canucks rout Florida Panthers 4–0

Vancouver Canucks beat Florida Panthers 4–0 at home. Dakota Joshua (VAN) led the scoring with 2G 0A. VAN's first power-play unit (Miller, Boeser, Pettersson, Hughes and Kuzmenko) scored 1 power-play goal on 5 attempts in 2:46 together.

Points
Dakota Joshua had two goals (2 points) on 3 shots in 15:44.Joshua
PP1
VAN's first power-play unit (Miller, Boeser, Pettersson, Hughes and Kuzmenko) scored 1 power-play goal on 5 attempts in 2:46 together.Miller Boeser Pettersson Hughes Kuzmenko
Luck
FLA scored 0 goals on 2.68 expected goals (66 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Aaron Ekblad (FLA) played 12:29, −8:33 down on his 21:02 season average over 50 games.Ekblad
Goalie
Thatcher Demko (VAN) faced 36 shots and stopped 36 (.1000), +7 against a season average of 29.3; the win.Demko
New line
New look for FLA: Cousins–Lomberg–Luostarinen skated 5:06 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (0% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Cousins Lomberg Luostarinen
New line
New look for VAN: Di Giuseppe–Suter–Kuzmenko skated 8:47 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (53.3% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Di Giuseppe Suter Kuzmenko
Usage
J.T. Miller (VAN) played 15:30, −4:02 down on his 19:32 season average over 80 games.Miller

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

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

VAN
FLA
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 112 of 112 attempts · VAN 46 · FLA 66

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

VAN
FLA
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: FLA 36% of the game, VAN 31%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

VAN

FLA

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	FLA	VAN
	72	44
	2.89	2.98
	2.60	2.76
	20	12
	5	4
	16	8
	+0.008	−0.008
	36%	31%

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.

Florida Panthers

L1Barkov – Reinhart – Rodrigues
12:0445% CF
L2Verhaeghe – Bennett – Tkachuk
10:0171% CF
L3Cousins – Lomberg – Luostarinen
5:060% CF
D1Montour – Mikkola
11:2653% CF
D2Ekblad – Forsling
9:3363% CF
D3Ekman-Larsson – Kulikov
3:3083% CF

PP1Ekman-Larsson – Verhaeghe – Barkov – Reinhart – Tkachuk
3:5267% CF
PP2Cousins – Bennett – Montour – Rodrigues – Luostarinen
1:16
PK1FStenlund – Lorentz
0:33
PK2FBennett – Tkachuk
0:29
PK1DEkman-Larsson – Forsling
1:06
PK2DMikkola – Balinskis
0:33

Current FLA line combinations →

Vancouver Canucks

L1Lafferty – Pettersson – Mikheyev
11:0245% CF
L2Blueger – Joshua – Garland
9:5150% CF
L3Miller – Boeser – Hoglander
9:5133% CF
L4Di Giuseppe – Suter – Kuzmenko
8:4753% CF
D1Myers – Zadorov
17:5731% CF
D2Hronek – Hughes
14:4137% CF
D3Cole – Juulsen
13:4748% CF

PP1Miller – Boeser – Pettersson – Hughes – Kuzmenko
2:46100% CF
PP2Lafferty – Garland – Hronek – Suter – Mikheyev
0:44100% CF
PK1FBlueger – Joshua
2:09
PK2FDi Giuseppe – Suter
1:27
PK1DCole – Hronek
1:49
PK2DMyers – Zadorov
1:30

Current VAN line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

4:03
VANAndrei Kuzmenko (Conor Garland)wrist0.14 xG
FLA: Kulikov, Cousins, Mikkola, Lomberg, LuostarinenVAN: Cole, Juulsen, Garland, Suter, Kuzmenko
FLA 0 – 1 VAN
13:52
VANDakota Joshua (Teddy Blueger)backhand0.05 xG
FLA: Ekman-Larsson, Stenlund, Lorentz, Luostarinen, BalinskisVAN: Blueger, Joshua, Garland, Hronek, Hughes
FLA 0 – 2 VAN

2nd period

10:08
VANDakota Joshuawrist0.34 xG
FLA: Verhaeghe, Bennett, Montour, Mikkola, TkachukVAN: Blueger, Joshua, Garland, Hronek, Hughes
FLA 0 – 3 VAN
15:41
VANBrock BoeserPP (J.T. Miller, Elias Pettersson)backhand0.56 xG
FLA: Kulikov, Reinhart, MikkolaVAN: Miller, Boeser, Pettersson, Hughes, Kuzmenko
FLA 0 – 4 VAN

Box score

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

Florida Panthers

FLA skaters
Skater	Line	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Aleksander Barkov C	L1	0	4	0.17	0	0	0	19:43	—	—	59	61
Sam Reinhart C	L1	0	1	0.03	1	1	0	19:02	—	—	46	39
Evan Rodrigues C	L1	0	2	0.07	3	0	0	18:12	—	—	48	39
Matthew Tkachuk L	L2	-1	2	0.36	2	1	0	20:25	—	—	74	66
Sam Bennett C	L2	-1	1	0.22	1	1	0	17:41	—	—	76	65
Carter Verhaeghe C	L2	-1	6	0.46	0	1	0	17:07	—	—	76	67
Nick Cousins C	L3	-1	3	0.28	2	0	0	13:58	—	—	55	28
Eetu Luostarinen C	L3	-2	0	0.19	1	0	0	13:56	—	—	44	21
Ryan Lomberg L	L3	-1	0	0.00	3	0	0	13:49	—	—	58	38
Brandon Montour D	D1	-1	2	0.05	2	2	2	22:18	—	—	52	26
Niko Mikkola D	D1	-2	2	0.12	4	1	0	17:51	—	—	41	20
Gustav Forsling D	D2	0	2	0.06	0	3	0	23:32	—	—	69	69
Aaron Ekblad D	D2	0	1	0.00	2	0	0	12:29	—	—	64	74
Oliver Ekman-Larsson D	D3	-1	2	0.10	0	1	0	17:35	—	—	78	68
Dmitry Kulikov D	D3	-1	1	0.03	0	0	2	13:33	—	—	60	53
Kevin Stenlund C	—	-1	1	0.23	1	0	2	12:42	—	—	57	49
Steven Lorentz C	—	-1	4	0.25	8	0	0	12:08	—	—	59	59
Uvis Balinskis D	—	-1	2	0.07	1	0	0	8:23	—	—	67	66

FLA goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Sergei Bobrovsky(start)	L	17	13	4	.765	3.85	39:42
Anthony Stolarz	—	1	1	0	.1000	0.23	20:00

Vancouver Canucks

VAN skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Elias Pettersson C	L1	0	1	1	0	2	0.77	1	1	0	17:08	—	—	44	57
Ilya Mikheyev R	L1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	14:41	—	—	50	67
Sam Lafferty C	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.15	2	0	0	14:12	—	—	39	43
Dakota Joshua C	L2	2	0	2	+2	3	0.53	6	3	0	15:44	—	—	31	59
Teddy Blueger C	L2	0	1	1	+2	1	0.12	3	0	0	15:23	—	—	33	61
Conor Garland R	L2	0	1	1	+3	2	0.81	0	0	0	13:03	—	—	55	87
Brock Boeser R	L3	1	0	1	0	3	1.02	1	0	0	15:48	—	—	27	35
J.T. Miller C	L3	0	1	1	0	1	0.25	1	0	2	15:30	—	—	35	36
Nils Hoglander L	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	1	0	12:00	—	—	29	36
Andrei Kuzmenko L	L4	1	0	1	+1	1	0.23	0	0	0	15:11	—	—	46	38
Pius Suter C	L4	0	0	0	+1	0	0.06	3	1	0	15:01	—	—	39	34
Phillip Di Giuseppe L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	3	0	0	13:34	—	—	35	18
Nikita Zadorov D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	3	2	21:18	—	—	33	40
Tyler Myers D	D1	0	0	0	0	2	0.04	1	3	0	20:27	—	—	31	40
Quinn Hughes D	D2	0	0	0	+2	2	0.02	0	1	2	19:43	—	—	37	43
Filip Hronek D	D2	0	0	0	+2	0	0.05	0	1	0	19:10	—	—	33	42
Ian Cole D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.01	3	2	0	19:35	—	—	44	64
Noah Juulsen D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.02	3	1	0	16:32	—	—	50	64

VAN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Thatcher Demko(start)	W	36	36	0	.1000	2.68	60:00

Goal anatomy

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

Andrei Kuzmenko (VAN) 1st 4:03 · assists Conor Garland · Rush · loose puck · 56.4 mph shot · 3.4 s from entry to goal.

Andrei Kuzmenko · 1st 4:03 · VAN

Play: rush
Entry: loose
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 56.4 mph
Distance: 14 ft
Entry to goal: 3.4 s

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Dakota Joshua · 1st 13:52 · VAN

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 18.6 mph
Distance: 6 ft

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Dakota Joshua · 2nd 10:08 · VAN

Play: rush
Entry: loose
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 53.2 mph
Distance: 14 ft
Entry to goal: 5.2 s

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Brock Boeser · 2nd 15:41 · VAN PP

Play: cycle
Passes: 3 (royal road)
Shot: 2.0 mph
Distance: 2 ft

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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.