GRIT & GF

Monday, January 5, 2026

Minnesota Wild

Los Angeles Kings

Expected goals, MIN–LAK
3.5–3.3
all situations, empty nets out
LAK share of xG
48.6%
50% is even
Shots on goal
35–33
MIN–LAK
Pre-game model
–
no projection stored

The story

The Kings beat the Wild 4-2 in a game the chances had about even, 3.4 expected goals to 3.6. Adrian Kempe had 11 shot attempts. Samuel Helenius played 12:09, about 6 minutes more than his average this season.

  • Adrian Kempe had 11 shot attempts. Six reached the net and one went in. He came in averaging 6.6 attempts a game. It finished 4-2 for the Kings.

  • Samuel Helenius played 12:09, about 6 minutes more than his average this season. He has 1 point in 14 games this season. It finished 4-2 for the Kings.

Shot attempts

Running count of unblocked attempts (shots on goal plus misses). Dots are goals. Hover to read any moment.

MINLAK

Where the shots came from

6 goals from 97 unblocked attempts. Shots from a team's own half are left off.

GoalShot or miss
← MIN shootingLAK shooting →

Minnesota Wild

SkaterTOIGASOGixGHitsBlkxGF%
Quinn Hughes D29:590040.120145
Kirill Kaprizov L25:060050.520029
Brock Faber D22:580110.050530
Joel Eriksson Ek C21:010050.710132
Matt Boldy L20:580030.242129
Mats Zuccarello R20:520050.400315
Jared Spurgeon D19:291110.041240
Jonas Brodin D17:300110.060247
Vladimir Tarasenko R15:500030.151151
Ryan Hartman R15:431010.280161
Yakov Trenin C13:450010.125154
Marcus Foligno L12:570010.254246
Marcus Johansson L12:290010.152125
Jake Middleton D12:070010.031033
Danila Yurov R11:180010.322130
Nico Sturm C11:160100.003029
Matt Kiersted D8:310000.000027
Vinnie Hinostroza C8:290010.1010100

Los Angeles Kings

SkaterTOIGASOGixGHitsBlkxGF%
Mikey Anderson D24:360030.185176
Drew Doughty D22:540050.460174
Quinton Byfield R22:180110.020271
Joel Edmundson D21:340010.011039
Kevin Fiala L18:051031.090030
Cody Ceci D17:170000.000471
Brandt Clarke D17:050010.030343
Alex Laferriere R16:570130.471179
Warren Foegele L16:461050.671071
Adrian Kempe R16:421061.190075
Brian Dumoulin D16:200210.000270
Corey Perry R15:570000.000139
Andrei Kuzmenko L13:331110.480069
Alex Turcotte C13:210100.000154
Samuel Helenius C12:090010.141059
Jeff Malott L10:000120.131075
Joel Armia R9:140000.000049
Anze Kopitar C4:540000.160064

The minute-by-minute expected goals flow is part of Pro

The game measured in chance quality, minute by minute, which shows when it tilted and toward whom.