Nashville Predators vs. New York RangersOct 19, 2023

FinalThursday, Oct 19, 2023· Madison Square Garden

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
NSH	2	2	0	4		NSH	8	10	9	27
NYR	0	1	0	1		NYR	5	9	10	24

: NSH 46NYR 60
: NSH 3.86NYR 1.93
PP goals: NSH 2NYR 1
Hits: NSH 25NYR 33
Blocks: NSH 21NYR 10
PIM: NSH 8NYR 8
: NSH 46%NYR 54%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Nashville Predators beat New York Rangers 4–1

Nashville Predators beat New York Rangers 4–1 at NYR. Cole Smith (NSH) led the scoring with 2G 0A. NYR's first power-play unit (Kreider, Trocheck, Zibanejad, Panarin and Fox) scored 1 power-play goal on 15 attempts in 5:03 together.

Points
Cole Smith had two goals (2 points) on 2 shots in 15:43.Smith
Points
Filip Forsberg had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 6 shots in 18:37.Forsberg
Points
Tyson Barrie had 2 assists (2 points) on 1 shot in 18:10.Barrie
PP1
NYR's first power-play unit (Kreider, Trocheck, Zibanejad, Panarin and Fox) scored 1 power-play goal on 15 attempts in 5:03 together.Kreider Trocheck Zibanejad Panarin Fox
Usage
Cody Glass (NSH) played 1:46, −11:57 down on his 13:43 season average over 40 games.Glass
New line
New look for NSH: Nyquist–Sissons–Trenin skated 5:48 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (60% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Nyquist Sissons Trenin
Usage
Roman Josi (NSH) played 19:23, −5:19 down on his 24:42 season average over 81 games.Josi
New line
New look for NSH: McCarron–Sherwood–Smith skated 4:24 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (62.5% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.McCarron Sherwood 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

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

NYR
NSH
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 106 of 106 attempts · NYR 60 · NSH 46

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

NYR
NSH
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: NSH 44% of the game, NYR 26%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

NYR

NSH

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	NSH	NYR
	47	54
	3.61	1.34
	3.49	1.31
	14	6
	7	4
	12	8
	+0.001	−0.001
	44%	26%

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.

Nashville Predators

L1O'Reilly – Forsberg – Parssinen
9:4629% CF
L2Nyquist – Sissons – Trenin
5:4860% CF
L3McCarron – Sherwood – Smith
4:2463% CF
D1McDonagh – Carrier
13:2644% CF
D2Josi – Fabbro
13:2552% CF
D3Barrie – Lauzon
12:4539% CF

PP1Josi – Nyquist – O'Reilly – Forsberg – Sissons
0:58100% CF
PP2Josi – O'Reilly – Barrie – Forsberg – Evangelista
0:42100% CF
PK1FO'Reilly – Trenin
1:38
PK2FSissons – Smith
1:11
PK1DMcDonagh – Carrier
3:42
PK2DJosi – Lauzon
0:42

Current NSH line combinations →

New York Rangers

L1Kreider – Zibanejad – Kakko
12:0170% CF
L2Bonino – Goodrow – Vesey
8:0750% CF
L3Wheeler – Trocheck – Cuylle
7:1250% CF
L4Panarin – Chytil – Lafrenière
6:2345% CF
D1Trouba – Miller
13:4944% CF
D2Fox – Lindgren
11:1548% CF
D3Gustafsson – Schneider
8:1358% CF

PP1Kreider – Trocheck – Zibanejad – Panarin – Fox
5:03100% CF
PP2Gustafsson – Chytil – Miller – Kakko – Lafrenière
1:06
PK1FTrocheck – Goodrow
1:21
PK2FBonino – Vesey
1:15
PK1DTrouba – Miller
1:07
PK2DLindgren – Schneider
1:00

Current NYR line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

11:24
NSHCole Smith (Michael McCarron, Tyson Barrie)backhand0.26 xG
NSH: Barrie, McCarron, Lauzon, Sherwood, SmithNYR: Gustafsson, Panarin, Chytil, Schneider, Lafrenière
NSH 1 – 0 NYR
16:22
NSHCole Smithwrist0.21 xG
NSH: Josi, Nyquist, O'Reilly, Fabbro, SmithNYR: Gustafsson, Chytil, Miller, Kakko, Lafrenière
NSH 2 – 0 NYR

2nd period

3:32
NSHRyan O'ReillyPP (Luke Evangelista, Filip Forsberg)snap0.17 xG
NSH: Josi, O'Reilly, Barrie, Forsberg, EvangelistaNYR: Trocheck, Goodrow, Trouba, Lindgren
NSH 3 – 0 NYR
13:51
NSHFilip ForsbergPP (Tyson Barrie, Roman Josi)slap0.06 xG
NSH: Josi, O'Reilly, Barrie, Forsberg, EvangelistaNYR: Trocheck, Goodrow, Trouba, Lindgren
NSH 4 – 0 NYR
19:18
NYRAdam FoxPP (Mika Zibanejad, Artemi Panarin)deflected0.16 xG
NSH: McDonagh, Sissons, Carrier, ParssinenNYR: Kreider, Trocheck, Zibanejad, Panarin, Fox
NSH 4 – 1 NYR

Box score

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

Nashville Predators

NSH skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Juuso Parssinen C	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.24	0	0	2	19:08	—	—	31	52
Filip Forsberg L	L1	1	1	2	0	6	0.27	2	1	0	18:37	—	—	27	43
Ryan O'Reilly C	L1	1	0	1	+1	1	0.71	2	2	2	18:10	—	—	39	67
Colton Sissons C	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	18:44	—	—	46	70
Yakov Trenin C	L2	0	0	0	0	5	0.77	3	0	0	17:55	—	—	58	83
Gustav Nyquist R	L2	0	0	0	+1	4	0.36	3	0	0	16:35	—	—	63	78
Cole Smith R	L3	2	0	2	+2	2	0.47	1	1	2	15:43	—	—	46	76
Kiefer Sherwood L	L3	0	0	0	+1	2	0.54	2	1	0	12:28	—	—	55	85
Michael McCarron C	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.08	2	0	0	9:36	—	—	47	88
Alexandre Carrier D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.16	0	5	0	22:37	—	—	41	87
Ryan McDonagh D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	2	0	22:33	—	—	44	77
Roman Josi D	D2	0	1	1	+1	3	0.10	2	3	0	19:23	—	—	52	59
Dante Fabbro D	D2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	0	2	2	17:35	—	—	55	74
Tyson Barrie D	D3	0	2	2	+1	1	0.02	0	2	0	18:10	—	—	46	63
Jeremy Lauzon D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.01	3	1	0	18:05	—	—	40	73
Tommy Novak C	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	13:47	—	—	63	75
Luke Evangelista R	—	0	1	1	0	1	0.12	0	0	0	12:36	—	—	47	66
Cody Glass C	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	1:46	—	—	—	—

NSH goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Juuse Saros(start)	W	24	23	1	.958	1.93	59:33

New York Rangers

NYR skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mika Zibanejad C	L1	0	1	1	0	3	0.37	1	0	0	20:48	—	—	65	29
Chris Kreider L	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.18	0	0	0	20:46	—	—	67	41
Kaapo Kakko R	L1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.14	0	0	0	16:42	—	—	61	28
Barclay Goodrow C	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	10:41	—	—	46	24
Jimmy Vesey L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	2	0	0	10:41	—	—	50	40
Nick Bonino C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.19	0	2	0	9:53	—	—	46	40
Vincent Trocheck C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	4	0	0	22:17	—	—	44	19
Will Cuylle L	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	8	0	0	13:15	—	—	50	24
Blake Wheeler R	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.02	1	0	0	12:48	—	—	53	30
Artemi Panarin L	L4	0	1	1	-1	4	0.47	0	0	2	18:54	—	—	41	22
Alexis Lafrenière L	L4	0	0	0	-2	0	0.00	2	0	0	12:45	—	—	55	29
Filip Chytil C	L4	0	0	0	-2	2	0.04	0	0	0	12:27	—	—	57	29
K'Andre Miller D	D1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.01	2	1	0	20:23	—	—	42	3
Jacob Trouba D	D1	0	0	0	0	2	0.13	6	4	2	17:32	—	—	48	22
Adam Fox D	D2	1	0	1	0	2	0.22	0	1	4	25:17	—	—	55	34
Ryan Lindgren D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	1	0	18:42	—	—	54	36
Erik Gustafsson D	D3	0	0	0	-2	2	0.06	0	0	0	18:58	—	—	58	28
Braden Schneider D	D3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.08	2	1	0	14:17	—	—	65	32

NYR goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Igor Shesterkin(start)	L	18	14	4	.778	2.59	33:51
Jonathan Quick	—	9	9	0	.1000	1.27	26:07

Goal anatomy

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

Cole Smith (NSH) 1st 11:24 · assists Michael McCarron, Tyson Barrie · Forecheck turnover · 21.4 mph shot.

Cole Smith · 1st 11:24 · NSH

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 21.4 mph
Distance: 51 ft

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Cole Smith · 1st 16:22 · NSH

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: loose
Odd man: 2-on-0
Passes: 0
Shot: 69.2 mph
Distance: 28 ft
Entry to goal: 1.7 s

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Ryan O'Reilly · 2nd 3:32 · NSH PP

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 4
Shot: 62.5 mph
Distance: 18 ft
Type: one-timer

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Filip Forsberg · 2nd 13:51 · NSH PP

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 3-on-2
Passes: 1
Shot: 46.0 mph
Distance: 34 ft
Entry to goal: 5.2 s

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Adam Fox · 2nd 19:18 · NYR PP

Play: deflection
Passes: 2 (royal road)
Shot: 24.7 mph
Distance: 15 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.