New York Rangers vs. Boston BruinsMar 4, 2023

FinalSaturday, Mar 4, 2023· TD Garden

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
NYR	0	1	1	2		NYR	10	13	3	26
BOS	1	1	2	4		BOS	6	9	9	24

: NYR 44BOS 56
: NYR 1.49BOS 2.64
PP goals: NYR 1BOS 0
Hits: NYR 24BOS 25
Blocks: NYR 16BOS 9
PIM: NYR 11BOS 11
: NYR 43%BOS 57%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Boston Bruins beat New York Rangers 4–2

Boston Bruins beat New York Rangers 4–2 at home. Alexis Lafrenière (NYR) led the scoring with 2G 0A. Ben Harpur (NYR) played 21:53, +8:01 up on his 13:52 season average over 41 games.

Points
Alexis Lafrenière had two goals (2 points) on 4 shots in 13:28.Lafrenière
Points
Charlie Coyle had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 14:54.Coyle
Usage
Ben Harpur (NYR) played 21:53, +8:01 up on his 13:52 season average over 41 games.Harpur
Usage
Niko Mikkola (NYR) played 22:40, +5:18 up on his 17:22 season average over 80 games.Mikkola
Usage
Braden Schneider (NYR) played 22:58, +7:20 up on his 15:38 season average over 80 games.Schneider
New line
New look for BOS: Coyle–Bertuzzi–Frederic skated 6:44 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (62.5% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Coyle Bertuzzi Frederic
Usage
Kaapo Kakko (NYR) played 11:21, −4:00 down on his 15:21 season average over 81 games.Kakko
Usage
Dmitry Orlov (BOS) played 19:03, −3:33 down on his 22:36 season average over 65 games.Orlov

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

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

BOS
NYR
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 100 of 100 attempts · BOS 56 · NYR 44

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

BOS
NYR
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: NYR 14% of the game, BOS 43%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

BOS

NYR

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	NYR	BOS
	41	49
	1.00	2.00
	0.97	1.98
	5	8
	2	5
	23	17
	−0.060	+0.060
	14%	43%

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 Rangers

L1Kane – Trocheck – Panarin
13:5546% CF
L2Kreider – Tarasenko – Zibanejad
10:0736% CF
L3Chytil – Kakko – Lafrenière
4:42100% CF
D1Mikkola – Fox
9:1859% CF
D2Trouba – Harpur
8:2129% CF

PP1Kane – Kreider – Zibanejad – Panarin – Fox
3:1760% CF
PP2Tarasenko – Trocheck – Trouba – Chytil – Lafrenière
2:1780% CF
PK1FKreider – Zibanejad
3:01
PK2FGoodrow – Vesey
1:12
PK1DMikkola – Fox
1:52
PK2DHarpur – Schneider
1:34

Current NYR line combinations →

Boston Bruins

L1Bergeron – Marchand – DeBrusk
10:2861% CF
L2Krejci – Pastrnak – Zacha
8:2956% CF
L3Coyle – Bertuzzi – Frederic
6:4463% CF
L4Hathaway – Nosek – Greer
3:1650% CF
D1Orlov – McAvoy
12:1481% CF
D2Lindholm – Carlo
12:0947% CF
D3Forbort – Clifton
10:2839% CF

PP1Bergeron – Marchand – Pastrnak – DeBrusk – McAvoy
3:5690% CF
PP2Krejci – Orlov – Lindholm – Bertuzzi – Zacha
1:42100% CF
PK1FCoyle – Nosek
1:49
PK2FBergeron – Marchand
1:28
PK1DLindholm – McAvoy
2:14
PK2DForbort – Carlo
2:01

Current BOS 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 Rangers

NYR skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Vincent Trocheck C	L1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.15	1	1	0	22:14	—	—	41	33
Patrick Kane R	L1	0	0	0	-2	2	0.13	0	0	0	21:44	—	—	48	34
Artemi Panarin L	L1	0	0	0	-3	0	0.07	1	0	0	21:15	—	—	41	32
Mika Zibanejad C	L2	0	0	0	-2	0	0.00	1	1	0	20:57	—	—	33	16
Chris Kreider L	L2	0	0	0	-1	2	0.04	3	0	0	20:22	—	—	48	35
Vladimir Tarasenko R	L2	0	1	1	-1	0	0.15	1	0	0	15:36	—	—	37	20
Alexis Lafrenière L	L3	2	0	2	0	4	0.40	1	0	0	13:28	—	—	69	46
Filip Chytil C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0	0	2	11:52	—	—	64	12
Kaapo Kakko R	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.01	0	0	0	11:21	—	—	50	25
Adam Fox D	D1	0	0	0	-2	1	0.05	1	2	2	24:09	—	—	61	44
Niko Mikkola D	D1	0	1	1	-1	4	0.13	2	1	0	22:40	—	—	50	30
Jacob Trouba D	D2	0	1	1	-1	2	0.06	2	6	2	22:50	—	—	28	13
Ben Harpur D	D2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.00	2	3	0	21:53	—	—	46	51
Braden Schneider D	—	0	0	0	0	3	0.18	3	2	0	22:58	—	—	38	32
Barclay Goodrow C	—	0	0	0	-1	1	0.00	5	0	0	11:41	—	—	47	41
Jimmy Vesey L	—	0	0	0	0	2	0.12	1	0	5	10:19	—	—	50	55

NYR goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Igor Shesterkin(start)	L	24	20	4	.833	2.64	58:41

Boston Bruins

BOS skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Brad Marchand L	L1	0	1	1	+1	2	0.14	1	0	2	21:38	—	—	63	67
Patrice Bergeron C	L1	1	0	1	+1	3	0.45	1	0	0	20:09	—	—	61	68
Jake DeBrusk L	L1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.36	1	0	0	18:28	—	—	60	70
David Pastrnak R	L2	1	0	1	0	3	0.28	3	0	0	19:19	—	—	54	55
David Krejci C	L2	0	1	1	0	2	0.22	0	0	0	16:46	—	—	59	59
Pavel Zacha C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.15	2	0	0	15:17	—	—	61	53
Tyler Bertuzzi L	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.13	0	0	2	16:31	—	—	57	85
Charlie Coyle C	L3	1	1	2	+2	1	0.23	1	1	0	14:54	—	—	50	87
Trent Frederic C	L3	0	1	1	+1	0	0.01	3	0	0	10:58	—	—	47	83
Tomas Nosek L	L4	1	0	1	+1	3	0.28	1	0	2	10:30	—	—	38	66
Garnet Hathaway R	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	3	0	10:03	—	—	25	58
A.J. Greer L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	3:52	—	—	33	28
Charlie McAvoy D	D1	0	1	1	+2	2	0.12	2	1	0	23:36	—	—	74	92
Dmitry Orlov D	D1	0	1	1	+2	2	0.12	0	1	0	19:03	—	—	77	91
Hampus Lindholm D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	23:07	—	—	48	46
Brandon Carlo D	D2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.09	2	0	0	19:25	—	—	48	48
Connor Clifton D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	4	2	0	15:28	—	—	32	52
Derek Forbort D	D3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.03	0	1	5	15:09	—	—	40	46

BOS goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Linus Ullmark(start)	W	26	24	2	.923	1.49	59:55

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 Rangers vs. Boston BruinsMar 4, 2023

Fantasy takeaways

Boston Bruins beat New York Rangers 4–2

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Sequence card

Lines used

New York Rangers

Boston Bruins

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

New York Rangers

Boston Bruins