Game

Blue Jackets at Stars

Blue Jackets 5, Stars 1 · first star Elvis Merzlikins (0 GA, .957 SV%).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Columbus Blue Jackets 5 at Dallas Stars 1

Blue Jackets CBJ

5 FINAL 1

Stars DAL

Tuesday, October 21, 2025 · 8:00 PM ET · American Airlines Center, Dallas

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Blue Jackets	2	0	3	5	29
Stars	0	1	0	1	23

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Blue Jackets attack left, Stars attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 6 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: CBJ 29, DAL 23.

CBJ in red DAL in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Blue Jackets 29 shots on goal (5 goals, 16 missed, 14 blocked) attacking left; Stars 23 shots on goal (1 goal, 15 missed, 8 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CBJ SOG	CBJ G	CBJ ATT	DAL SOG	DAL G	DAL ATT
1st	14	2	23	5	0	16
2nd	6	0	17	13	1	20
3rd	9	3	19	5	0	10
Total	29	5	59	23	1	46

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CBJ SOG	CBJ G	DAL SOG	DAL G
Even strength	26	3	18	1
Power play	3	2	5	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Blue Jackets took 56.2% of the shot attempts, and 57.6% of the 85 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Stars and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Blue Jackets hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Blue Jackets at Stars
Period	DAL CF%	DAL FF%
1st	41.0	40.6
2nd	54.0	64.0
3rd	34.5	34.6
Game	43.8	45.8

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

04:33 Adam Fantilli (2) Boone Jenner (4), Kent Johnson (1) · snap 1–0
18:42 Boone Jenner (2) PP Charlie Coyle (3), Damon Severson (2) · deflected 2–0

2nd period

11:58 Tyler Seguin (2) Colin Blackwell (1), Adam Erne (1) · deflected 2–1

3rd period

07:21 Denton Mateychuk (1) Egor Chinakhov (1), Zachary Aston-Reese (2) · snap 3–1
14:26 Dmitri Voronkov (3) PP Sean Monahan (1), Kirill Marchenko (2) · snap 4–1
17:00 Kent Johnson (2) EN Adam Fantilli (3) · wrist 5–1

Three stars

Elvis Merzlikins CBJ · G #90 · 0 GA, .957 SV%
Boone Jenner CBJ · C #38 · 1 G, 1 A
Tyler Seguin DAL · C #91 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	14:40	CBJ	Cole Sillinger	holding	2	Radek Faksa
1st	17:11	DAL	Mavrik Bourque	interference	2	Boone Jenner
2nd	03:47	CBJ	Ivan Provorov	holding	2	Jason Robertson
3rd	13:45	DAL	Colin Blackwell	holding the stick	2	Dmitri Voronkov

Boxscore

Columbus Blue Jackets

Blue Jackets skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Adam Fantilli #19	C	1	1	2	+1	3	3	0	0	50.0	13:40
Boone Jenner #38	C	1	1	2	+1	2	3	0	0	37.5	14:40
Kent Johnson #91	C	1	1	2	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	13:18
Dmitri Voronkov #10	L	1	0	1	0	3	5	0	0	0.0	15:27
Denton Mateychuk #5	D	1	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	20:10
Charlie Coyle #3	C	0	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	50.0	16:55
Sean Monahan #23	C	0	1	1	0	1	2	0	0	46.7	17:15
Zachary Aston-Reese #27	L	0	1	1	+1	0	6	1	0	0.0	13:01
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	0	1	1	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	10:16
Kirill Marchenko #86	R	0	1	1	0	3	3	0	0	0.0	17:02
Damon Severson #78	D	0	1	1	+2	0	2	0	0	0.0	22:21
Cole Sillinger #4	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	0.0	16:11
Isac Lundeström #21	C	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	22.2	13:17
Mathieu Olivier #24	R	0	0	0	0	2	5	1	0	0.0	16:24
Dante Fabbro #15	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	18:18
Ivan Provorov #9	D	0	0	0	+2	3	0	1	2	0.0	23:43
Jake Christiansen #2	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	12:06
Zach Werenski #8	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	21:56

Blue Jackets goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Elvis Merzlikins #90	W	23	22	1	.957	17/18	5/5	60:00

Dallas Stars

Stars skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tyler Seguin #91	C	1	0	1	-1	2	0	0	0	50.0	17:20
Colin Blackwell #15	C	0	1	1	+1	1	3	0	2	0.0	14:10
Adam Erne #73	L	0	1	1	+1	1	3	1	0	0.0	11:24
Justin Hryckowian #49	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:04
Mavrik Bourque #22	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	2	0.0	18:00
Radek Faksa #12	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	80.0	10:12
Roope Hintz #24	C	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	72.7	17:14
Sam Steel #18	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	60.0	18:46
Wyatt Johnston #53	C	0	0	0	-2	3	0	0	0	57.1	19:37
Jason Robertson #21	L	0	0	0	-2	3	0	1	0	0.0	20:13
Mikko Rantanen #96	R	0	0	0	-2	1	2	0	0	0.0	18:41
Nathan Bastian #11	R	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0.0	08:33
Alexander Petrovic #28	D	0	0	0	-2	4	1	0	0	0.0	18:00
Esa Lindell #23	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	2	0	0.0	20:59
Ilya Lyubushkin #46	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	2	0	0.0	15:38
Lian Bichsel #6	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	17:06
Miro Heiskanen #4	D	0	0	0	-1	4	1	1	0	0.0	23:32
Thomas Harley #55	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	4	0	0.0	20:03

Stars goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jake Oettinger #29	L	28	24	4	.857	23/25	1/3	58:16

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.