Ottawa Senators vs. Minnesota WildDec 13, 2025

FinalSaturday, Dec 13, 2025· Grand Casino Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
OTT	0	1	1	2		OTT	8	18	10	36
MIN	0	2	1	3		MIN	5	16	4	25

: OTT 76MIN 42
: OTT 4.11MIN 2.81
PP goals: OTT 2MIN 1
Hits: OTT 30MIN 21
Blocks: OTT 7MIN 19
PIM: OTT 13MIN 15
: OTT 56%MIN 44%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Minnesota Wild edge Ottawa Senators 3–2

Minnesota Wild beat Ottawa Senators 3–2 at home. Dylan Cozens (OTT) led the scoring with 1G 1A. OTT's first power-play unit (Batherson, Tkachuk, Cozens, Sanderson and Stützle) scored 2 power-play goals on 14 attempts in 3:38 together.

Points
Dylan Cozens had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 5 shots in 18:49.Cozens
Points
Tim Stützle had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 23:15.Stützle
Points
Marcus Johansson had 2 assists (2 points) on 1 shot in 17:44.Johansson
PP1
OTT's first power-play unit (Batherson, Tkachuk, Cozens, Sanderson and Stützle) scored 2 power-play goals on 14 attempts in 3:38 together.Batherson Tkachuk Cozens Sanderson Stützle
Usage
Daemon Hunt (MIN) played 20:46, +8:36 up on his 12:10 season average over 31 games.Hunt
Goalie
Jesper Wallstedt (MIN) faced 36 shots and stopped 34 (.944), +7 against a season average of 29.1; the win.Wallstedt
Luck
OTT scored 2 goals on 4.10 expected goals (76 attempts), well short of its chances.
New line
New look for MIN: Hartman–Aube-Kubel–Trenin skated 5:21 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (28.6% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Hartman Aube-Kubel Trenin

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)MIN attacks right (top on phones) →

MIN
OTT
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 118 of 118 attempts · MIN 42 · OTT 76

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

MIN
OTT
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

MIN 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 46% of the game, MIN 18%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

MIN

OTT

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

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

Matchup matrix

MIN 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	MIN
	72	40
	2.56	2.49
	2.49	2.31
	12	11
	2	5
	18	20
	+0.051	−0.051
	46%	18%

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

L1Zetterlund – Tkachuk – Stützle
10:5484% CF
L2Giroux – Amadio – Greig
10:2750% CF
L3Perron – Batherson – Cozens
9:2965% CF
L4Cousins – MacDermid – Halliday
2:3050% CF
D1Sanderson – Zub
12:1679% CF
D2Jensen – Matinpalo
9:5643% CF
D3Spence – Kleven
7:5492% CF

PP1Batherson – Tkachuk – Cozens – Sanderson – Stützle
3:38100% CF
PP2Giroux – Perron – Zetterlund – Spence – Halliday
0:52100% CF
PK1FGiroux – Stützle
2:10
PK2FAmadio – Greig
1:42
PK1DSanderson – Zub
3:12
PK2DJensen – Matinpalo
1:13

Current OTT line combinations →

Minnesota Wild

L1Johansson – Eriksson Ek – Boldy
10:1436% CF
L2Tarasenko – Kaprizov – Yurov
8:5424% CF
L3Hartman – Aube-Kubel – Trenin
5:2129% CF
L4Pitlick – Jones – Sturm
3:2067% CF
D1Hunt – Faber
15:2429% CF
D2Bogosian – Spurgeon
12:2847% CF
D3Kiersted – Jiricek
9:1242% CF

PP1Tarasenko – Eriksson Ek – Kaprizov – Boldy – Faber
2:5167% CF
PP2Spurgeon – Johansson – Hartman – Jiricek – Yurov
2:13100% CF
PK1FEriksson Ek – Boldy
1:58
PK2FTrenin – Sturm
0:35
PK1DSpurgeon – Faber
1:54
PK2DBogosian – Kiersted
0:51

Current MIN line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

3:54
MINTyler Pitlick (Jared Spurgeon, Nico Sturm)tip-in0.09 xG
OTT: Amadio, Zetterlund, Greig, Sanderson, ZubMIN: Bogosian, Spurgeon, Pitlick, Jones, Sturm
OTT 0 – 1 MIN
16:02
MINRyan HartmanPP (Marcus Johansson, Danila Yurov)snap0.23 xG
OTT: Jensen, Amadio, Greig, MatinpaloMIN: Spurgeon, Johansson, Hartman, Jiricek, Yurov
OTT 0 – 2 MIN
19:37
OTTTim StützlePP (Dylan Cozens, Drake Batherson)other0.25 xG
OTT: Batherson, Tkachuk, Cozens, Sanderson, StützleMIN: Spurgeon, Sturm, Faber, Jiricek
OTT 1 – 2 MIN

3rd period

5:45
OTTDylan CozensPP (Brady Tkachuk, Tim Stützle)wrist0.12 xG
OTT: Batherson, Tkachuk, Cozens, Sanderson, StützleMIN: Spurgeon, Eriksson Ek, Boldy, Faber
OTT 2 – 2 MIN
19:36
MINJoel Eriksson Ek (Marcus Johansson)snap0.02 xG
OTT: Perron, Amadio, Greig, Kleven, ZubMIN: Bogosian, Spurgeon, Johansson, Eriksson Ek, Boldy
OTT 2 – 3 MIN

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
Tim Stützle C	L1	1	1	2	0	3	0.44	4	0	2	23:15	—	—	80	79
Brady Tkachuk L	L1	0	1	1	0	5	0.62	4	0	0	19:51	—	—	82	69
Fabian Zetterlund L	L1	0	0	0	-1	7	0.66	4	0	0	15:28	—	—	82	79
Michael Amadio R	L2	0	0	0	-2	1	0.35	0	0	0	19:09	—	—	38	34
Claude Giroux R	L2	0	0	0	0	4	0.16	2	1	0	17:02	—	—	43	45
Ridly Greig C	L2	0	0	0	-2	1	0.01	2	1	7	15:53	—	—	46	51
Drake Batherson R	L3	0	1	1	0	1	0.28	2	0	0	19:58	—	—	68	47
Dylan Cozens C	L3	1	1	2	0	5	0.79	0	0	0	18:49	—	—	69	35
David Perron L	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.29	1	0	2	14:28	—	—	66	43
Stephen Halliday C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	5:59	—	—	29	2
Nick Cousins C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.08	2	0	0	5:20	—	—	50	24
Kurtis MacDermid L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	2:50	—	—	50	0
Jake Sanderson D	D1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.19	1	2	0	27:46	—	—	68	54
Artem Zub D	D1	0	0	0	-2	0	0.09	3	0	0	24:54	—	—	71	59
Nick Jensen D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	0	1	0	14:19	—	—	50	28
Nikolas Matinpalo D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	13:48	—	—	50	25
Tyler Kleven D	D3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.05	1	0	2	17:20	—	—	74	77
Jordan Spence D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.07	0	1	0	16:54	—	—	69	64

OTT goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Leevi Meriläinen(start)	L	25	22	3	.880	2.49	58:59

Minnesota Wild

MIN skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Matt Boldy L	L1	0	0	0	+1	3	0.09	0	2	0	22:36	—	—	36	20
Joel Eriksson Ek C	L1	1	0	1	+1	2	0.03	2	1	4	20:10	—	—	35	25
Marcus Johansson L	L1	0	2	2	+1	1	0.04	1	0	0	17:44	—	—	32	21
Kirill Kaprizov L	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.41	0	0	2	23:17	—	—	36	67
Vladimir Tarasenko R	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.17	1	1	0	16:59	—	—	23	53
Danila Yurov R	L2	0	1	1	0	4	0.58	0	0	0	14:53	—	—	22	46
Ryan Hartman R	L3	1	0	1	0	2	0.31	1	3	5	13:53	—	—	30	46
Yakov Trenin C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.13	6	1	0	11:57	—	—	32	54
Nicolas Aube-Kubel R	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.57	2	0	0	9:56	—	—	46	73
Nico Sturm C	L4	0	1	1	+1	1	0.04	0	0	0	10:38	—	—	64	82
Tyler Pitlick C	L4	1	0	1	+1	1	0.24	2	0	0	6:40	—	—	63	84
Ben Jones C	L4	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	5	0	0	5:57	—	—	56	78
Brock Faber D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	0	2	0	28:01	—	—	24	35
Daemon Hunt D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	2	20:46	—	—	25	42
Jared Spurgeon D	D2	0	1	1	+2	1	0.04	0	4	0	22:17	—	—	39	50
Zach Bogosian D	D2	0	0	0	+2	1	0.12	0	1	0	19:02	—	—	47	69
David Jiricek D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	2	2	14:35	—	—	41	49
Matt Kiersted D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	0	1	0	12:24	—	—	43	51

MIN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jesper Wallstedt(start)	W	36	34	2	.944	4.11	60:00

Goal anatomy

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

Tyler Pitlick (MIN) 2nd 3:54 · assists Jared Spurgeon, Nico Sturm · Deflection · 18.7 mph shot.

Tyler Pitlick · 2nd 3:54 · MIN

Play: deflection
Passes: 1
Shot: 18.7 mph
Distance: 12 ft

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Ryan Hartman · 2nd 16:02 · MIN PP

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 2 (royal road)
Shot: 17.7 mph
Distance: 8 ft

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Tim Stützle · 2nd 19:37 · OTT PP

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 3 (royal road)
Shot: 17.0 mph
Distance: 30 ft

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Dylan Cozens · 3rd 5:45 · OTT PP

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 4-on-3
Passes: 3 (royal road)
Shot: 60.1 mph
Distance: 33 ft
Entry to goal: 3.8 s

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Joel Eriksson Ek · 3rd 19:36 · MIN

Play: turnover-forecheck
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 2 (royal road)
Shot: 65.1 mph
Distance: 35 ft
Entry to goal: 7.7 s
Type: one-timer

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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.