New Jersey Devils at St. Louis Blues

Jan 2, 2018 · Scottrade Center

Team	Goals	Shots
New Jersey Devils	2	26
St. Louis Blues	3	29

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time	Team	Goal	Assists	Score
1st Period
12:48	STL	Vladimir Tarasenko (17)	Scottie Upshall (9)	0 - 1
2nd Period
12:36	NJD	Nico Hischier (8)	Sami Vatanen (7), Jesper Bratt (15)	1 - 1
18:08	STL	Vladimir Sobotka (8)	Tage Thompson (1), Paul Stastny (19)	1 - 2
3rd Period
01:17	NJD	Taylor Hall (13) PP	Kyle Palmieri (8), Will Butcher (22)	2 - 2
Shootout
	STL	Brayden Schenn	Shootout winner	2 - 3

Penalties

Time	Team	Player	Penalty	Min
1st Period
07:35	NJD	Brian Gibbons	High sticking	2
10:05	STL	Scottie Upshall	Tripping	2
14:06	NJD	Ben Lovejoy	Interference	2
2nd Period
00:23	NJD	Sami Vatanen	Hooking	2
3rd Period
01:08	STL	Alexander Steen	Tripping	2
08:33	NJD	Sami Vatanen	Tripping	2

Shot attempts

Team	Attempts (Corsi)	Unblocked (Fenwick)	On goal	Goals	Expected goals	5-on-5 CF%
New Jersey Devils	53	40	26	2	3.1	46.3
St. Louis Blues	60	47	29	2	2.9	53.8

How the game went

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while St. Louis Blues had taken more, and below it and blue while New Jersey Devils had.

Expected goals

New Jersey Devils: 3.1 expected, 2 scored · St. Louis Blues: 2.9 expected, 2 scored

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

Where the attempts came from

New Jersey Devils

St. Louis Blues

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward line	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Travis Zajac · Marcus Johansson · Kyle Palmieri	11:14	38.9	37.3	0-1
Taylor Hall · Jesper Bratt · Nico Hischier	11:07	50.0	43.5	1-0
Stefan Noesen · Miles Wood · Pavel Zacha	9:40	41.2	25.0	0-1
Brian Boyle · Brian Gibbons · Blake Coleman	9:05	47.1	17.9	0-0

Defence pair	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Andy Greene · Steven Santini	15:39	20.8	10.0	0-0
John Moore · Sami Vatanen	14:16	53.6	33.8	1-1
Ben Lovejoy · Will Butcher	6:58	50.0	32.3	0-1

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

#	Skater	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits	TOI	xG	CF-CA	xGF-xGA
13	Nico Hischier	C	1	0	1	1	0	4	1	15:31	0.32	10-9	0.22-0.27
71	Taylor Hall	L	1	0	1	1	0	2	1	16:42	0.41	12-9	0.21-0.26
4	Will Butcher	D	0	1	1	-1	0	1	1	12:08	0.10	9-7	0.22-0.31
21	Kyle Palmieri	C	0	1	1	-1	0	4	1	16:10	0.56	9-11	0.64-0.53
45	Sami Vatanen	D	0	1	1	0	4	0	2	22:26	0.01	19-13	0.46-0.79
63	Jesper Bratt	L	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	17:29		11-8	0.22-0.26
4	Andy Greene	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	26:32	0.03	11-23	0.49-0.71
11	Brian Boyle	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	13:39	0.21	10-11	0.11-0.54
11	Stefan Noesen	R	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	11:37	0.02	8-12	0.16-0.45
11	Miles Wood	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	2	11:36	0.09	8-13	0.17-0.56
14	Travis Zajac	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	19:34	0.27	9-12	0.64-0.53
16	Steven Santini	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	22:36	0.04	7-20	0.10-0.73
18	Pavel Zacha	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	13:50		8-11	0.16-0.52
20	Blake Coleman	L	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	16:29	0.45	10-10	0.44-0.51
21	Ben Lovejoy	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	1	15:39		11-8	0.56-0.31
27	John Moore	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	23:56	0.07	17-15	0.44-0.87
29	Brian Gibbons	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	15:34	0.01	9-12	0.11-0.63
90	Marcus Johansson	L	0	0	0	-1	0	3	1	15:32	0.50	7-11	0.31-0.53

#	Goalie	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	TOI	xGA	Saved above xG
30	Keith Kinkaid	29	27	2	65:00	2.97	+0.97

St. Louis Blues

Lines and pairings

Forward line	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Alexander Steen · Kyle Brodziak · Patrik Berglund	12:24	62.5	87.7	0-0
Scottie Upshall · Brayden Schenn · Vladimir Tarasenko	11:31	59.1	68.8	1-1
Paul Stastny · Vladimir Sobotka · Tage Thompson	8:15	53.3	64.9	1-0
Magnus Paajarvi · Dmitrij Jaskin · Ivan Barbashev	5:03	46.2	36.7	0-0

Defence pair	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Joel Edmundson · Colton Parayko	17:17	60.7	60.1	1-0
Jay Bouwmeester · Alex Pietrangelo	15:21	52.6	60.4	0-1
Carl Gunnarsson · Robert Bortuzzo	11:21	52.6	64.1	0-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

#	Skater	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits	TOI	xG	CF-CA	xGF-xGA
17	Vladimir Sobotka	C	1	0	1	1	0	2	1	16:36	0.20	8-7	0.32-0.17
91	Vladimir Tarasenko	R	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	21:31	0.36	17-14	0.89-0.72
9	Scottie Upshall	R	0	1	1	0	2	1	0	15:06	0.10	14-10	0.74-0.36
26	Paul Stastny	C	0	1	1	1	0	2	1	18:45	0.17	10-8	0.34-0.17
72	Tage Thompson	C	0	1	1	1	0	4	0	14:16	0.29	10-9	0.43-0.20
4	Carl Gunnarsson	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	13:26	0.11	10-11	0.31-0.21
6	Joel Edmundson	D	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	19:32	0.05	20-13	0.92-0.61
7	Alex Pietrangelo	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	24:13	0.18	13-10	0.64-0.26
10	Patrik Berglund	C	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	19:43	0.34	11-7	0.56-0.07
10	Brayden Schenn	C	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	23:15	0.55	16-14	0.87-0.69
19	Jay Bouwmeester	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	18:07		10-13	0.37-0.30
20	Alexander Steen	L	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	19:08	0.11	10-7	0.47-0.07
28	Kyle Brodziak	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	17:27	0.12	12-7	0.56-0.07
41	Robert Bortuzzo	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	14:59		15-13	0.59-0.25
49	Ivan Barbashev	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	11:43	0.18	8-11	0.21-0.54
55	Colton Parayko	D	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	27:09	0.13	18-14	0.91-0.64
56	Magnus Paajarvi	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	10:32	0.02	7-7	0.09-0.15
93	Dmitrij Jaskin	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	07:23		6-10	0.09-0.21

#	Goalie	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	TOI	xGA	Saved above xG
40	Carter Hutton	26	24	2	65:00	3.15	+1.15