Ottawa Senators vs. Vancouver CanucksMar 9, 2026

FinalMonday, Mar 9, 2026· Rogers Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
OTT	0	1	1	2		OTT	8	9	7	24
VAN	0	0	0	0		VAN	4	9	3	16

: OTT 49VAN 38
: OTT 4.03VAN 1.40
PP goals: OTT 0VAN 0
Hits: OTT 22VAN 28
Blocks: OTT 9VAN 9
PIM: OTT 6VAN 6
: OTT 44%VAN 56%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Ottawa Senators beat Vancouver Canucks 2–0

Ottawa Senators beat Vancouver Canucks 2–0 at VAN. Brady Tkachuk (OTT) led the scoring with 1G 0A. New look for VAN: Douglas–O'Connor–Räty skated 5:23 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (66.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

New line
New look for VAN: Douglas–O'Connor–Räty skated 5:23 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (66.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Douglas O'Connor Räty
Luck
OTT scored 2 goals on 4.03 expected goals (49 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Liam Ohgren (VAN) played 16:54, +3:47 up on his 13:07 season average over 68 games.Ohgren
Usage
Elias Pettersson (VAN) played 15:26, −3:35 down on his 19:01 season average over 73 games.Pettersson
Usage
Lars Eller (OTT) played 7:53, −3:37 down on his 11:30 season average over 67 games.Eller
Usage
Tom Willander (VAN) played 20:10, +3:13 up on his 16:57 season average over 69 games.Willander
PP1
OTT's PP1 (Chabot, Batherson, Tkachuk, Cozens and Stützle) went scoreless in 4:08 of 5v4 time with 8 attempts.Chabot Batherson Tkachuk Cozens Stützle

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

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

VAN
OTT
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 87 of 87 attempts · VAN 38 · OTT 49

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

VAN
OTT
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: OTT 53% of the game, VAN 22%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

VAN

OTT

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

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

Matchup matrix

VAN 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	OTT	VAN
	42	34
	2.40	1.31
	2.28	1.26
	8	7
	4	4
	11	17
	−0.025	+0.025
	53%	22%

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.

Ottawa Senators

L1Cousins – Amadio – Pinto
8:4364% CF
L2Giroux – Batherson – Stützle
8:2971% CF
L3Tkachuk – Cozens – Greig
8:0350% CF
L4Eller – Foegele – Zetterlund
5:3820% CF
D1Chabot – Zub
14:3346% CF
D2Jensen – Matinpalo
12:1167% CF
D3Spence – Kleven
11:4458% CF

PP1Chabot – Batherson – Tkachuk – Cozens – Stützle
4:08100% CF
PP2Giroux – Foegele – Zetterlund – Pinto – Spence
2:02100% CF
PK1FAmadio – Greig
2:34
PK2FPinto – Stützle
1:55
PK1DKleven – Zub
1:38
PK2DJensen – Matinpalo
0:44

Current OTT line combinations →

Vancouver Canucks

L1DeBrusk – Pettersson – Hoglander
8:3441% CF
L2Blueger – Karlsson – Sasson
6:5063% CF
L3Boeser – Rossi – Ohgren
6:3850% CF
L4Douglas – O'Connor – Räty
5:2367% CF
D1Pettersson – Willander
13:4113% CF
D2Mancini – Buium
10:3240% CF
D3Hronek – Pettersson
10:1757% CF

PP1Boeser – DeBrusk – Hronek – Pettersson – Rossi
2:5350% CF
PP2Hronek – Karlsson – Hoglander – O'Connor – Buium
1:34
PK1FBlueger – Boeser
1:51
PK2FRäty – Ohgren
0:50
PK1DPettersson – Hronek
3:18
PK2DPettersson – Willander
1:06

Current VAN line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

10:11
OTTRidly Greig (Shane Pinto, Artem Zub)wrist0.20 xG
OTT: Giroux, Chabot, Pinto, Greig, ZubVAN: Hronek, Karlsson, Räty, Ohgren, Pettersson
OTT 1 – 0 VAN

3rd period

18:40
OTTBrady TkachukEN (Tim Stützle, Thomas Chabot)wrist0.80 xG
OTT: Giroux, Chabot, Tkachuk, Stützle, ZubVAN: Boeser, Hronek, Hoglander, O'Connor, Rossi, Buium
OTT 2 – 0 VAN

Box score

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

Ottawa Senators

OTT skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Shane Pinto C	L1	0	1	1	+1	2	0.07	1	1	0	19:01	—	—	62	72
Michael Amadio R	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.35	0	1	0	18:28	—	—	61	60
Nick Cousins C	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.10	3	0	0	12:54	—	—	70	75
Tim Stützle C	L2	0	1	1	+1	2	0.54	2	0	0	19:46	—	—	54	68
Drake Batherson R	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.20	2	0	0	15:50	—	—	50	42
Claude Giroux R	L2	0	0	0	+2	0	0.07	1	0	0	15:01	—	—	63	70
Ridly Greig C	L3	1	0	1	+1	2	0.32	1	0	0	18:45	—	—	52	71
Dylan Cozens C	L3	0	0	0	0	4	0.44	4	0	0	15:39	—	—	50	70
Brady Tkachuk L	L3	1	0	1	+1	4	1.57	1	0	0	15:16	—	—	59	76
Warren Foegele L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.20	2	0	2	12:11	—	—	39	23
Fabian Zetterlund L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.05	0	0	0	10:00	—	—	36	23
Lars Eller C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	7:53	—	—	50	38
Thomas Chabot D	D1	0	1	1	+2	0	0.00	0	1	4	24:29	—	—	44	57
Artem Zub D	D1	0	1	1	+2	0	0.03	0	0	0	21:07	—	—	52	56
Nick Jensen D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	1	2	0	17:45	—	—	62	75
Nikolas Matinpalo D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	0	0	0	13:52	—	—	67	75
Tyler Kleven D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	3	3	0	18:51	—	—	64	72
Jordan Spence D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	1	1	0	17:12	—	—	57	72

OTT goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
James Reimer(start)	W	16	16	0	.1000	1.40	60:00

Vancouver Canucks

VAN skaters
Skater	Line	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Jake DeBrusk L	L1	0	0	0.05	1	1	0	15:37	—	—	46	40
Elias Pettersson C	L1	0	1	0.08	2	1	2	15:26	—	—	42	45
Nils Hoglander L	L1	-1	2	0.29	2	0	0	14:26	—	—	50	48
Teddy Blueger C	L2	0	1	0.00	2	1	0	18:44	—	—	42	28
Linus Karlsson C	L2	-1	0	0.04	1	0	2	13:55	—	—	53	38
Max Sasson C	L2	0	1	0.16	0	0	0	12:18	—	—	42	23
Brock Boeser R	L3	-1	1	0.01	1	0	0	19:44	—	—	50	49
Liam Ohgren L	L3	-1	2	0.14	0	0	0	16:54	—	—	28	13
Marco Rossi C	L3	-1	1	0.09	1	1	0	16:10	—	—	50	50
Drew O'Connor L	L4	-1	1	0.10	2	0	0	16:54	—	—	40	40
Aatu Räty C	L4	-1	1	0.03	3	0	0	10:25	—	—	36	18
Curtis Douglas C	L4	0	0	0.00	4	0	0	6:52	—	—	75	29
Marcus Pettersson D	D1	0	0	0.04	2	1	2	22:10	—	—	17	11
Tom Willander D	D1	0	0	0.10	0	2	0	20:10	—	—	21	26
Zeev Buium D	D2	-1	2	0.03	1	0	0	20:55	—	—	65	62
Victor Mancini D	D2	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	13:24	—	—	33	16
Filip Hronek D	D3	-2	3	0.26	1	1	0	26:01	—	—	74	59
Elias Pettersson D	D3	-1	0	0.00	4	0	0	14:19	—	—	44	29

VAN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Kevin Lankinen(start)	L	23	22	1	.957	3.22	57:36

Goal anatomy

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

Ridly Greig (OTT) 2nd 10:11 · assists Shane Pinto, Artem Zub · Forecheck turnover · passed in · 4-on-2 at the blue line · 30.6 mph shot · 8.1 s from entry to goal.

Ridly Greig · 2nd 10:11 · OTT

Play: turnover-forecheck
Entry: pass
Odd man: 4-on-2
Passes: 0
Shot: 30.6 mph
Distance: 12 ft
Entry to goal: 8.1 s

Watch on NHL.com → · Tracking-derived via NHL EDGE

Brady Tkachuk · 3rd 18:40 · OTT EN

Play: rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 60.6 mph
Distance: 51 ft
Entry to goal: 1.0 s

Watch on NHL.com → · Tracking-derived via NHL EDGE

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.