NHL Recaps: Monday, Apr 29, 2024

2 games: what happened that matters for your fantasy team, built from the play-by-play and shift charts.

Game recaps

Final

PlayoffsFull report

Tampa Bay Lightning

Florida Panthers

Florida Panthers rout Tampa Bay Lightning 6–1

Florida Panthers beat Tampa Bay Lightning 6–1 at home. Carter Verhaeghe (FLA) led the scoring with 2G 1A. New look for FLA: Reinhart–Luostarinen–Lundell skated 7:57 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (30.8% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

•Aleksander Barkov had two goals and an assist (3 points) on 4 shots in 21:24.
•Carter Verhaeghe had two goals and an assist (3 points) on 8 shots in 21:15.
•Niko Mikkola had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 19:25.

Full report: shot map, shifts, lines, box score →

Dallas Stars beat Vegas Golden Knights 4–2

Dallas Stars beat Vegas Golden Knights 4–2 at VGK. Wyatt Johnston (DAL) led the scoring with 1G 0A. DAL's first power-play unit (Duchene, Seguin, Heiskanen, Stankoven and Johnston) scored 1 power-play goal on 9 attempts in 2:29 together.

•DAL's first power-play unit (Duchene, Seguin, Heiskanen, Stankoven and Johnston) scored 1 power-play goal on 9 attempts in 2:29 together.
•New look for VGK: Karlsson–Amadio–Howden skated 8:52 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (85% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.
•Jason Robertson (DAL) played 15:16, −4:43 down on his 19:59 season average over 18 games.

Full report: shot map, shifts, lines, box score →

Goal of the night

The hardest tracked shot of the night: Victor Hedman for TBL @ FLA, 78.2 mph. Full game report →

Victor Hedman (TBL @ FLA): Point shot, 4 passes, 78.2 mph shot.

Top performers

Player	Game	G	A	P	SOG	Hits	Blk	TOI	PP
Carter Verhaeghe FLA	vs TBL	2	1	3	8	0	0	21:15	—
Aleksander Barkov FLA	vs TBL	2	1	3	4	3	2	21:24	—
Niko Mikkola FLA	vs TBL	1	1	2	1	2	3	19:25	—
Matthew Tkachuk FLA	vs TBL	0	2	2	6	0	1	21:08	—
Jonathan Marchessault VGK	vs DAL	0	1	1	7	2	0	19:20	—
Ivan Barbashev VGK	vs DAL	0	1	1	1	8	1	14:05	—
Steven Stamkos TBL	at FLA	0	0	0	1	8	0	20:25	—
Oliver Ekman-Larsson FLA	vs TBL	0	0	0	1	7	1	14:45	—

Line changes

New look for FLA: Reinhart–Luostarinen–Lundell skated 7:57 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (30.8% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →
New look for VGK: Karlsson–Amadio–Howden skated 8:52 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (85% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →

Goalie notes

Goalie	Game	Dec	SA	GA	SV%
Andrei Vasilevskiy TBL	at FLA	L	37	4	.892
Jake Oettinger DAL	at VGK	W	34	2	.941
Sergei Bobrovsky FLA	vs TBL	W	32	1	.969
Logan Thompson VGK	vs DAL	L	31	3	.903

Next up: tonight's starting goalies, today's line combinations and today's games. Takeaways are generated from the numbers with fixed rules; nothing is written by a language model.