New York Rangers vs. New York IslandersJan 28, 2026

FinalWednesday, Jan 28, 2026· UBS Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
NYR	1	1	0	2		NYR	7	6	3	16
NYI	2	3	0	5		NYI	14	14	8	36

: NYR 44NYI 62
: NYR 1.74NYI 3.37
PP goals: NYR 1NYI 2
Hits: NYR 31NYI 23
Blocks: NYR 11NYI 16
PIM: NYR 10NYI 6
: NYR 43%NYI 57%

Fantasy takeaways

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

New York Islanders beat New York Rangers 5–2

New York Islanders beat New York Rangers 5–2 at home. Simon Holmstrom (NYI) led the scoring with 1G 2A. NYR's first power-play unit (Trocheck, Zibanejad, Miller, Gavrikov and Lafrenière) scored 1 power-play goal on 5 attempts in 1:34 together.

Points
Simon Holmstrom had a goal and 2 assists (3 points) on 2 shots in 15:53.Holmstrom
Points
Jean-Gabriel Pageau had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 13:31.Pageau
Points
Ondrej Palat had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 11:53.Palat
PP1
NYR's first power-play unit (Trocheck, Zibanejad, Miller, Gavrikov and Lafrenière) scored 1 power-play goal on 5 attempts in 1:34 together.Trocheck Zibanejad Miller Gavrikov Lafrenière
New line
New look for NYI: Lee–Pageau–Holmstrom skated 11:17 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (45% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Lee Pageau Holmstrom
New line
New look for NYR: Raddysh–Othmann–Laba skated 11:40 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (47.4% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Raddysh Othmann Laba
Goalie
Spencer Martin (NYR) faced 36 shots and stopped 31 (.861), +12 against a season average of 24.5; the loss.Martin
New line
New look for NYI: Palat–Horvat–Heineman skated 10:47 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Palat Horvat Heineman

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)NYI attacks right (top on phones) →

NYI
NYR
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 106 of 106 attempts · NYI 62 · NYR 44

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

NYI
NYR
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

NYI 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 26% of the game, NYI 45%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

NYI

NYR

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

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

Matchup matrix

NYI 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	NYR	NYI
	43	54
	1.22	2.34
	1.21	2.25
	8	14
	7	2
	25	19
	−0.051	+0.051
	26%	45%

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

L1Zibanejad – Miller – Perreault
14:2355% CF
L2Raddysh – Othmann – Laba
11:4047% CF
L3Trocheck – Lafrenière – Cuylle
10:3335% CF
L4Carrick – Brodzinski – Rempe
8:0750% CF
D1Gavrikov – Schneider
18:4450% CF
D2Borgen – Robertson
15:5541% CF
D3Vaakanainen – Morrow
10:3353% CF

PP1Trocheck – Zibanejad – Miller – Gavrikov – Lafrenière
1:3483% CF
PP2Cuylle – Morrow – Othmann – Laba – Perreault
0:49
PK1FMiller – Cuylle
1:02
PK2FTrocheck – Zibanejad
0:36
PK1DGavrikov – Schneider
0:45
PK2DBorgen – Vaakanainen
0:36

Current NYR line combinations →

New York Islanders

L1Duclair – Drouin – Barzal
12:1754% CF
L2Lee – Pageau – Holmstrom
11:1745% CF
L3Palat – Horvat – Heineman
10:4750% CF
L4Cizikas – MacLean – Gatcomb
9:4582% CF
D1Pulock – Schaefer
15:2062% CF
D2Pelech – DeAngelo
13:2160% CF
D3Mayfield – Soucy
13:1141% CF

PP1Duclair – Horvat – Barzal – Heineman – Schaefer
2:22100% CF
PP2Lee – Duclair – Pulock – DeAngelo – Holmstrom
0:48100% CF
PK1FPageau – Holmstrom
0:57
PK2FCizikas – Horvat
0:31
PK1DPelech – Pulock
1:33
PK2DMayfield – Soucy
0:45

Current NYI line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

14:59
NYIOndrej PalatPP (Simon Holmstrom, Matthew Schaefer)snap0.17 xG
NYR: Zibanejad, Borgen, Gavrikov, RaddyshNYI: Palat, Horvat, Holmstrom, Heineman, Schaefer
NYR 0 – 1 NYI
16:10
NYISimon Holmstrom (Tony DeAngelo, Jean-Gabriel Pageau)tip-in0.07 xG
NYR: Zibanejad, Miller, Borgen, Robertson, PerreaultNYI: Lee, Pageau, Pelech, DeAngelo, Holmstrom
NYR 0 – 2 NYI
18:04
NYRMika ZibanejadPP (J.T. Miller, Vladislav Gavrikov)snap0.22 xG
NYR: Trocheck, Zibanejad, Miller, Gavrikov, LafrenièreNYI: Cizikas, Pelech, Horvat, Pulock
NYR 1 – 2 NYI

2nd period

13:12
NYIMathew BarzalPP (Simon Holmstrom, Bo Horvat)snap0.12 xG
NYR: Trocheck, Zibanejad, Borgen, VaakanainenNYI: Lee, Horvat, DeAngelo, Barzal, Holmstrom
NYR 1 – 3 NYI
13:59
NYIJean-Gabriel Pageau (Marc Gatcomb, Kyle MacLean)backhand0.22 xG
NYR: Raddysh, Robertson, Morrow, Othmann, LabaNYI: Pageau, Pulock, MacLean, Gatcomb, Schaefer
NYR 1 – 4 NYI
15:42
NYRTaylor Raddysh (Noah Laba, Will Borgen)wrist0.10 xG
NYR: Borgen, Raddysh, Robertson, Othmann, LabaNYI: Duclair, Drouin, Pulock, Barzal, Schaefer
NYR 2 – 4 NYI
19:12
NYIEmil Heineman (Adam Pelech, Ondrej Palat)snap0.27 xG
NYR: Trocheck, Borgen, Robertson, Lafrenière, CuylleNYI: Palat, Pelech, Horvat, Pulock, Heineman
NYR 2 – 5 NYI

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
Mika Zibanejad C	L1	1	0	1	-1	2	0.34	0	0	0	21:39	—	—	46	77
J.T. Miller C	L1	0	1	1	-1	1	0.28	6	0	0	19:46	—	—	54	82
Gabe Perreault R	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.27	0	1	0	16:17	—	—	57	82
Noah Laba C	L2	0	1	1	0	0	0.06	4	1	0	14:25	—	—	45	19
Brennan Othmann L	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	4	0	0	13:48	—	—	47	20
Taylor Raddysh R	L2	1	0	1	0	1	0.10	1	0	0	13:28	—	—	45	19
Vincent Trocheck C	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.04	0	1	2	15:50	—	—	38	14
Will Cuylle L	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.03	4	0	0	14:18	—	—	35	11
Alexis Lafrenière L	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.25	0	0	2	13:27	—	—	35	11
Jonny Brodzinski C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.05	0	1	0	10:10	—	—	39	25
Sam Carrick C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	2	0	4	9:50	—	—	50	33
Matt Rempe C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	4	0	2	9:49	—	—	41	28
Vladislav Gavrikov D	D1	0	1	1	0	2	0.17	0	1	0	24:44	—	—	48	40
Braden Schneider D	D1	0	0	0	0	3	0.07	3	1	0	22:52	—	—	52	51
Matthew Robertson D	D2	0	0	0	-2	1	0.03	1	2	0	22:14	—	—	35	29
Will Borgen D	D2	0	1	1	-1	0	0.00	1	2	0	20:38	—	—	40	45
Urho Vaakanainen D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	1	1	0	13:54	—	—	50	29
Scott Morrow D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.02	0	0	0	13:23	—	—	45	17

NYR goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Spencer Martin(start)	L	36	31	5	.861	3.37	60:00

New York Islanders

NYI skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mathew Barzal C	L1	1	0	1	-1	5	0.23	0	3	0	20:09	—	—	52	54
Anthony Duclair L	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.20	0	1	0	16:40	—	—	52	55
Jonathan Drouin L	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.10	0	0	2	16:23	—	—	54	63
Simon Holmstrom R	L2	1	2	3	+1	2	0.21	0	0	0	15:53	—	—	45	64
Anders Lee L	L2	0	0	0	+1	5	0.39	1	2	0	15:39	—	—	46	63
Jean-Gabriel Pageau C	L2	1	1	2	+2	3	0.32	3	1	0	13:31	—	—	52	78
Emil Heineman L	L3	1	0	1	+1	4	0.49	4	0	0	17:10	—	—	47	56
Bo Horvat C	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.30	0	0	4	17:07	—	—	53	60
Ondrej Palat L	L3	1	1	2	+1	2	0.24	2	1	0	11:53	—	—	50	47
Casey Cizikas C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	13:07	—	—	69	54
Kyle MacLean C	L4	0	1	1	+1	0	0.11	2	1	0	12:12	—	—	81	93
Marc Gatcomb C	L4	0	1	1	+1	1	0.17	3	1	0	11:03	—	—	87	92
Matthew Schaefer D	D1	0	1	1	0	3	0.32	2	3	0	24:36	—	—	64	55
Ryan Pulock D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.06	0	0	0	19:53	—	—	63	68
Tony DeAngelo D	D2	0	1	1	+1	3	0.16	0	0	0	19:39	—	—	64	68
Adam Pelech D	D2	0	1	1	+2	2	0.01	0	1	0	17:29	—	—	54	87
Scott Mayfield D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	3	1	0	17:05	—	—	48	63
Carson Soucy D	D3	0	0	0	0	2	0.05	2	1	0	16:38	—	—	32	47

NYI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
David Rittich(start)	W	16	14	2	.875	1.74	59:22

Goal anatomy

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

Ondrej Palat (NYI PP) 1st 14:59 · assists Simon Holmstrom, Matthew Schaefer · Forecheck turnover · 36.9 mph shot.

Ondrej Palat · 1st 14:59 · NYI PP

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 36.9 mph
Distance: 15 ft
Type: one-timer

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Mika Zibanejad · 1st 18:04 · NYR PP

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 51.0 mph
Distance: 15 ft
Type: one-timer

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Simon Holmstrom · 1st 16:10 · NYI

Play: deflection
Passes: 1
Shot: 19.4 mph
Distance: 8 ft

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Mathew Barzal · 2nd 13:12 · NYI PP

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 65.6 mph
Distance: 27 ft
Type: one-timer

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Jean-Gabriel Pageau · 2nd 13:59 · NYI

Play: rebound
Entry: loose
Odd man: 2-on-1
Passes: 0
Shot: 12.1 mph
Distance: 7 ft
Entry to goal: 7.8 s
Type: rebound

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Taylor Raddysh · 2nd 15:42 · NYR

Play: dump-and-chase
Entry: dump
Odd man: 3-on-2
Passes: 0
Shot: 3.6 mph
Distance: 5 ft
Entry to goal: 7.6 s

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Emil Heineman · 2nd 19:12 · NYI

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 51.3 mph
Distance: 20 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.