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SJS 2 6 ANA

San Jose Sharks at Anaheim Ducks

Final · Sep 20, 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 SJS's side, the same minutes at both ends: PP = SJS power play · PK = ANA power play · Leading = SJS ahead · ST = each club's own power play.

SJS attacks◀ all strengths
ANA 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: SJS attacks the left net, ANA 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 SJS's side and mirrored for ANA: “SJS PP” shows SJS's power-play attempts on the left and ANA'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
SJS ANA
bars share a scale within each row · the longer bar is the row's leader
Goalson the map
2 6
Expected goals
2.07 2.91
xG%share of xG
42% 58%
High-dangerattempts ≥ 0.20 xG
1 1
Shots on goal
23 32
Attempts
44 63
xG by period · whole game 1st0.31.02nd0.71.53rd1.10.4

The Ducks beat the Sharks 6–2 at home, and the chances agreed: ANA out-created SJS 2.9–2.1 in expected goals. ANA scored 6 on 2.9 expected.

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 SJS − ANA xG · bands = power plays · lines = goals
1ST2ND3RD+0.5−0.5+1−1+1.5−1.5+2−2SJS AHEAD ▲ANA AHEAD ▼
How to read this

One line: cumulative SJS minus ANA expected goals. Above zero SJS is ahead on chances, below zero ANA 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.

SJS
against for own net ice time
0.50.5110Brett LeasonF13:51+0.52Jimmy HuntingtonF15:37+0.34Ty DellandreaF18:01+0.22Nolan AllanD17:03+0.13Eric PohlkampD15:43+0.00Andre GasseauF13:29-0.05Sam DickinsonD19:50-0.10Carson WetschF14:18-0.13Patrick GilesF14:10-0.13Samuel HuoF6:51-0.28Donovan Houle-VilleneuveF8:24-0.43Roland McKeownD16:57-0.47Tye FelhaberF15:24-0.53Ethan CardwellF16:32-0.56Zack OstapchukF15:39-0.56Anthony VincentF8:20-0.57Libor HajekD17:12-0.63Leo Sahlin WalleniusD18:56-0.70
ANA
against for own net ice time
0.50.5111.51.50Leo CarlssonF14:15+0.96Nikita KlepovF12:54+0.89Alex KillornF14:58+0.52Stian SolbergD15:28+0.51Travis MitchellD18:01+0.48Drew HellesonD9:06+0.46Cutter GauthierF14:20+0.44Roger McQueenF13:40+0.42Sean FarrellF10:46+0.34Tristan LuneauD22:04+0.19Sam ColangeloF12:39+0.13Nikita NesterenkoF12:26+0.10Noah WarrenD17:49+0.07Jackson LaCombeD21:58-0.08Anton WahlbergF12:30-0.15Nico MyatovicF11:59-0.28Beckett SenneckeF14:22-0.36Mikael GranlundF15:05-0.59

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.

SJS
on ice power play penalty kill xGA xGF
FORWARD LINESL1Tye FelhaberEthan CardwellZack Ostapchuk12:26-0.80L2Patrick GilesAndre GasseauCarson Wetsch10:37-0.29L3Ty DellandreaJimmy HuntingtonBrett Leason10:25+0.36L4Samuel HuoAnthony VincentDonovan Houle-Villeneuve5:36-0.32DEFENCE PAIRSD1Nolan AllanEric Pohlkamp13:12-0.13D2Libor HajekLeo Sahlin Wallenius12:46-0.41D3Roland McKeownSam Dickinson12:10-0.241ST2ND3RD01.251.25
ANA
on ice power play penalty kill xGA xGF
FORWARD LINESL1Alex KillornSam ColangeloRoger McQueen11:47+0.34L2Mikael GranlundNico MyatovicBeckett Sennecke10:30-0.48L3Cutter GauthierLeo CarlssonNikita Klepov10:27+0.53L4Nikita NesterenkoSean FarrellAnton Wahlberg9:07+0.19DEFENCE PAIRSD1Tristan LuneauTravis Mitchell12:03+0.73D2Noah WarrenStian Solberg11:52+0.35D3Drew HellesonJackson LaCombe9:05+0.461ST2ND3RD011

Goals

xG = the chance, before it went in
TeamScorerPeriodTimexG
SJSEric Pohlkamp 1st1:37 0.05
SJSJimmy Huntington 2nd11:05 0.16
ANAJackson LaCombe 1st2:57 0.07
ANALeo Carlsson 1st6:07 0.19
ANABeckett Sennecke 2nd12:15 PP 0.10
ANABeckett Sennecke 2nd16:07 0.03
ANABeckett Sennecke 3rd8:10 0.17
ANATristan Luneau 3rd13:44 0.01