Minnesota Wild vs. New York RangersFeb 21, 2019

FinalThursday, Feb 21, 2019· Madison Square Garden

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
MIN	1	1	2	4		MIN	10	13	12	35
NYR	0	1	0	1		NYR	8	14	12	34

: MIN 65NYR 59
: MIN 5.20NYR 3.20
PP goals: MIN 1NYR 1
Hits: MIN 24NYR 27
Blocks: MIN 16NYR 15
PIM: MIN 6NYR 2
: MIN 55%NYR 45%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Minnesota Wild beat New York Rangers 4–1

Minnesota Wild beat New York Rangers 4–1 at NYR. Zach Parise (MIN) led the scoring with 1G 1A. MIN's first power-play unit (Staal, Spurgeon, Zucker, Hunt and Donato) scored 1 power-play goal on 3 attempts in 1:07 together.

Points
Zach Parise had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 14:16.Parise
Points
Eric Staal had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 17:50.Staal
Points
Ryan Donato had 2 assists (2 points) on 3 shots in 16:58.Donato
PP1
MIN's first power-play unit (Staal, Spurgeon, Zucker, Hunt and Donato) scored 1 power-play goal on 3 attempts in 1:07 together.Staal Spurgeon Zucker Hunt Donato
PP1
NYR's first power-play unit (Strome, Namestnikov, Vesey, Buchnevich and DeAngelo) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 2:09 together.Strome Namestnikov Vesey Buchnevich DeAngelo
Usage
Adam McQuaid (NYR) played 5:22, −10:37 down on his 15:59 season average over 49 games.McQuaid
New line
New look for MIN: Donato–Eriksson Ek–Kunin skated 11:39 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (65.4% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Donato Eriksson Ek Kunin
Luck
NYR scored 1 goal on 3.20 expected goals (59 attempts), well short of its chances.

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

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

NYR
MIN
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 124 of 124 attempts · NYR 59 · MIN 65

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

NYR
MIN
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: MIN 32% of the game, NYR 33%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

NYR

MIN

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	MIN	NYR
	70	56
	3.36	3.02
	3.00	2.96
	13	16
	7	8
	23	24
	+0.073	−0.073
	32%	33%

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.

Minnesota Wild

L1Staal – Zucker – Greenway
13:4552% CF
L2Donato – Eriksson Ek – Kunin
11:3965% CF
L3Parise – Granlund – Aberg
10:3745% CF
L4Fehr – Foligno – Brown
7:5769% CF
D1Suter – Spurgeon
21:3862% CF
D2Pateryn – Brodin
17:2053% CF
D3Bitetto – Hunt
9:5550% CF

PP1Staal – Spurgeon – Zucker – Hunt – Donato
1:07100% CF
PP2Suter – Parise – Granlund – Aberg – Kunin
0:45
PK1FFehr – Foligno
1:22
PK2FEriksson Ek – Kunin
1:19
PK1DPateryn – Brodin
1:50
PK2DSuter – Spurgeon
1:40

Current MIN line combinations →

New York Rangers

L1Fast – Strome – Namestnikov
11:2855% CF
L2Kreider – Zuccarello – Zibanejad
11:2148% CF
L3Brickley – Andersson – Chytil
10:0539% CF
L4Hayes – Vesey – Buchnevich
6:3350% CF
D1Staal – Pionk
9:3250% CF
D2McQuaid – Skjei
5:2257% CF
D3Shattenkirk – DeAngelo
5:0643% CF

PP1Strome – Namestnikov – Vesey – Buchnevich – DeAngelo
2:09100% CF
PP2Shattenkirk – Kreider – Zuccarello – Hayes – Zibanejad
1:280% CF
PK1FZuccarello – Vesey
0:38
PK2FZibanejad – Namestnikov
0:30
PK1DStaal – Pionk
1:06
PK2DShattenkirk – Skjei
0:46

Current NYR 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.

Minnesota Wild

MIN skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Eric Staal C	L1	0	2	2	+2	2	0.13	0	0	0	17:50	—	—	53	45
Jason Zucker L	L1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.08	0	1	0	16:30	—	—	56	63
Jordan Greenway L	L1	1	0	1	+1	2	2.00	2	3	2	15:33	—	—	44	31
Luke Kunin C	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.23	1	0	0	17:21	—	—	57	43
Ryan Donato C	L2	0	2	2	+1	3	0.25	1	0	4	16:58	—	—	61	57
Joel Eriksson Ek C	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.09	6	1	0	16:31	—	—	59	49
Mikael Granlund C	L3	1	0	1	+1	2	0.28	0	2	0	14:43	—	—	50	41
Zach Parise L	L3	1	1	2	+2	2	0.18	0	1	0	14:16	—	—	50	36
Pontus Aberg L	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	0	0	0	13:10	—	—	40	22
Marcus Foligno L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.10	1	0	0	11:52	—	—	71	87
Eric Fehr C	L4	0	0	0	0	5	0.74	1	0	0	11:13	—	—	60	76
JT Brown R	L4	0	0	0	+1	0	0.26	1	0	0	10:19	—	—	72	88
Jared Spurgeon D	D1	1	0	1	+1	3	0.34	0	3	0	26:24	—	—	62	50
Ryan Suter D	D1	0	0	0	+1	0	0.09	1	1	0	26:11	—	—	60	40
Greg Pateryn D	D2	0	1	1	+1	2	0.04	4	2	0	21:26	—	—	51	76
Jonas Brodin D	D2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.10	1	2	0	20:24	—	—	51	75
Brad Hunt D	D3	0	0	0	+1	3	0.20	0	0	0	13:41	—	—	48	22
Anthony Bitetto D	D3	0	0	0	+1	2	0.07	5	0	0	11:09	—	—	52	18

MIN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Devan Dubnyk(start)	W	34	33	1	.971	3.20	60:00

New York Rangers

NYR skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Vladislav Namestnikov C	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.02	2	3	0	15:59	—	—	52	71
Ryan Strome C	L1	0	1	1	-1	1	0.42	0	1	0	15:07	—	—	54	76
Jesper Fast R	L1	0	0	0	-2	1	0.20	3	1	0	13:30	—	—	54	71
Chris Kreider L	L2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.06	1	0	0	20:32	—	—	46	37
Mika Zibanejad C	L2	0	0	0	-1	2	0.10	3	1	0	20:13	—	—	44	41
Mats Zuccarello R	L2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.12	2	0	0	19:41	—	—	45	44
Connor Brickley L	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.16	4	0	0	11:32	—	—	36	42
Filip Chytil C	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.28	1	0	0	11:16	—	—	38	42
Lias Andersson C	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.06	1	0	0	10:41	—	—	38	42
Kevin Hayes R	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.14	1	0	0	16:15	—	—	44	45
Jimmy Vesey L	L4	0	0	0	0	5	0.53	0	1	0	15:32	—	—	44	72
Pavel Buchnevich L	L4	1	0	1	0	3	0.29	3	0	0	15:03	—	—	41	39
Marc Staal D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	1	2	0	22:01	—	—	36	47
Neal Pionk D	D1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.41	2	1	0	21:31	—	—	54	61
Brady Skjei D	D2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.18	0	3	0	22:14	—	—	52	40
Adam McQuaid D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	1	2	5:22	—	—	57	60
Tony DeAngelo D	D3	0	1	1	-1	3	0.12	0	0	0	23:08	—	—	41	39
Kevin Shattenkirk D	D3	0	0	0	-2	2	0.10	1	1	0	20:19	—	—	39	46

NYR goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Henrik Lundqvist(start)	L	34	31	3	.912	3.37	58:12

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.

Minnesota Wild vs. New York RangersFeb 21, 2019

Fantasy takeaways

Minnesota Wild beat New York Rangers 4–1

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Sequence card

Lines used

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New York Rangers

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

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