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WPG 2 5 EDM

Winnipeg Jets at Edmonton Oilers

Final · Sep 19, 2026
2026-27 · preseason

Exhibition game. Split squads and tryouts, an audition rather than a game plan, and one game of anything is noise. None of it feeds the site's ratings, season tables or game predictions — preseason is kept out of every model here by construction.

Adjusts with rink filters

Strength and score are read from WPG's side, the same minutes at both ends: PP = WPG power play · PK = EDM power play · Leading = WPG ahead · ST = each club's own power play.

WPG attacks◀ all strengths
EDM attacksall strengths ▶
× goal on net missed· blocked hover any attempt for the shooter, its xG and everything the model saw
How to read this map

One rink, both teams: WPG attacks the left net, EDM the right. Every attempt is a Gaussian bump of height = its model xG. The controls switch the surface (xG heatmapvs league) and the markers; vs league compares this game against a typical NHL team-game under the same filter (2025-26 regular season, 1312 games), so a 5v5 view is measured against league 5v5.

A strength or score filter is read from WPG's side and mirrored for EDM: “WPG PP” shows WPG's power-play attempts on the left and EDM's shorthanded attempts on the right — the same minutes of the game at both ends. Empty-net attempts are excluded unless you include them. The Player control narrows the map and the rows beneath it to the attempts by either club while one player was on the ice (for a goalie, while he was in net); his own attempts wear a blue ring. vs league switches off while a player is picked — the league baseline is a whole team-game, which one player's slice is not. Hover any attempt for the shooter, the result, its xG, and the inputs behind it: clock, strength, score, shot type, distance, angle, handedness, rush/rebound, what happened just before, and the goalie or the blocker.

What each side produced

all strengths · preseason
WPG EDM
bars share a scale within each row · the longer bar is the row's leader
Goalson the map
2 4
Expected goals
2.86 2.48
xG%share of xG
54% 46%
High-dangerattempts ≥ 0.20 xG
2 1
Shots on goal
21 27
Attempts
46 60
xG by period · whole game 1st0.71.22nd1.40.83rd0.80.5

The Oilers beat the Jets 5–2 at home in a game the chances called about even, WPG 2.9 to EDM 2.5 in expected goals. At 5v5: WPG 2.7, EDM 2.3.

Counts come from the shot table behind the map: empty-net attempts and the shootout are excluded, so the goals here can trail the official final by an empty-netter or the shootout's deciding goal. Same numbers as the post-game cards.

As the game went

cumulative WPG − EDM xG · bands = power plays · lines = goals
1ST2ND3RD+0.5−0.5+1−1WPG AHEAD ▲EDM AHEAD ▼
How to read this

One line: cumulative WPG minus EDM expected goals. Above zero WPG is ahead on chances, below zero EDM is. Shaded bands are power plays in the side's colour; vertical lines are goals.

Skaters

on-ice xG · sorted by net · one game
How to read this

Every skater, sorted by net on-ice expected goals: on-ice xG against to the left of zero, for to the right, his own attempts as the solid bar, a hash at the net. The slim track under the name is ice time.

WPG
against for own net ice time
0.50.5111.51.50Lukas GustafssonD18:09+0.77Isaak PhillipsD16:38+0.73Henry ThrunD20:06+0.69Brad LambertF17:57+0.66Isak RosenF17:59+0.66Viggo BjörckF20:18+0.61Lucas WahlinF12:52+0.48Tyrel BauerD16:17+0.33Jacob JulienF13:08+0.21Colby BarlowF13:57+0.20Danil ZhilkinF13:50-0.16Noah GregorF14:24-0.17Nikita ChibrikovF14:40-0.19Kevin HeF12:36-0.25Parker FordF15:00-0.31Brayden YagerF14:43-0.31Jack St. IvanyD22:45-0.86Haydn FleuryD23:42-1.04
EDM
against for own net ice time
0.50.5111.51.5220Connor McDavidF19:13+1.65Evan BouchardD25:09+1.61Leon DraisaitlF19:11+1.61Ryan SheaD22:31+1.58Vasily PodkolzinF18:16+1.24Max JonesF11:36-0.15Seth GriffithF11:34-0.21Owen MichaelsF14:29-0.21Isaac HowardF13:23-0.29William NichollF11:20-0.29Colton DachF16:55-0.81Spencer StastneyD18:03-0.90Josh SamanskiF12:00-0.93Ty EmbersonD21:37-1.03Alex FormentonF16:47-1.05Joshua BrownD14:34-1.05Riley StillmanD17:34-1.07Mathieu JosephF15:36-1.44

Lines & pairs

most-used 5v5 units · when they played · on-ice xG
How to read this

The forward lines and defence pairs that actually played together most at 5v5, each with when it was on the ice across the game clock (period and power-play bands behind the strip) and on-ice xG against/for while the whole unit was out.

WPG
on ice power play penalty kill xGA xGF
FORWARD LINESL1Isak RosenBrad LambertViggo Björck16:09+0.66L2Parker FordBrayden YagerKevin He10:56-0.25L3Colby BarlowJacob JulienLucas Wahlin9:56+0.48L4Noah GregorNikita ChibrikovDanil Zhilkin9:49-0.12DEFENCE PAIRSD1Haydn FleuryJack St. Ivany21:34-0.98D2Henry ThrunTyrel Bauer13:42+0.38D3Isaak PhillipsLukas Gustafsson13:00+0.601ST2ND3RD01.51.5
EDM
on ice power play penalty kill xGA xGF
FORWARD LINESL1Leon DraisaitlConnor McDavidVasily Podkolzin15:13+1.36L2Mathieu JosephAlex FormentonColton Dach11:09-0.72L3Seth GriffithWilliam NichollOwen Michaels9:22-0.27L4Max JonesIsaac HowardJosh Samanski8:58-0.34DEFENCE PAIRSD1Ryan SheaEvan Bouchard19:52+1.62D2Ty EmbersonSpencer Stastney14:46-0.78D3Joshua BrownRiley Stillman11:36-0.871ST2ND3RD022

Goals

xG = the chance, before it went in
TeamScorerPeriodTimexG
WPGParker Ford 1st1:58 0.11
WPGJacob Julien 3rd15:53 0.40
EDMRyan Shea 1st6:52 0.17
EDMConnor McDavid 1st9:31 0.05
EDMLeon Draisaitl 2nd12:08 PP 0.03
EDMAlex Formenton 2nd13:51 0.16
EDMColton Dach 3rd18:53 EN 0.32