Game

Wild at Blue Jackets

Wild 5, Blue Jackets 2 · first star Zach Werenski (2 G, 0 A).

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

Minnesota Wild 5 at Columbus Blue Jackets 2

Wild MIN

5 FINAL 2

Blue Jackets CBJ

Thursday, December 18, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Nationwide Arena, Columbus

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Wild	0	2	3	5	28
Blue Jackets	1	1	0	2	29

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Wild attack left, Blue Jackets attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so a mark in a team's own end would be an attempt logged from there (none in this game); 2 empty-net goals are drawn as diamonds. Boxscore shots on goal: MIN 28, CBJ 29.

MIN in red CBJ in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Wild 28 shots on goal (5 goals, 17 missed, 14 blocked) attacking left; Blue Jackets 29 shots on goal (2 goals, 13 missed, 22 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	MIN SOG	MIN G	MIN ATT	CBJ SOG	CBJ G	CBJ ATT
1st	9	0	25	5	1	15
2nd	8	2	15	14	1	32
3rd	11	3	19	10	0	17
Total	28	5	59	29	2	64

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	MIN SOG	MIN G	CBJ SOG	CBJ G
Even strength	26	4	25	2
Power play	2	1	4	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0
Into an empty net	2	2	0	0

Attempt share by period

Blue Jackets took 52.0% of the shot attempts, and 50.0% of the 110 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 Blue Jackets and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Wild hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Wild at Blue Jackets
Period	CBJ CF%	CBJ FF%
1st	37.5	34.8
2nd	68.1	64.9
3rd	47.2	37.0
Game	52.0	48.3

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

Scoring summary

1st period

15:20 Zach Werenski (12) Charlie Coyle (16), Cole Sillinger (12) · slap 0–1

2nd period

13:30 Ryan Hartman (7) PP Kirill Kaprizov (18), Brock Faber (13) · tip-in 1–1
16:15 Vladimir Tarasenko (6) Yakov Trenin (7), Danila Yurov (8) · wrist 2–1
17:39 Zach Werenski (13) Unassisted · wrist 2–2

3rd period

11:50 Joel Eriksson Ek (8) Yakov Trenin (8), Matt Boldy (20) · tip-in 3–2
18:08 Kirill Kaprizov (22) EN Matt Boldy (21), Joel Eriksson Ek (18) · wrist 4–2
18:46 Matt Boldy (20) EN Kirill Kaprizov (19) · backhand 5–2

Three stars

Zach Werenski CBJ · D #8 · 2 G, 0 A
Jesper Wallstedt MIN · G #30 · 0 GA, .931 SV%
Joel Eriksson Ek MIN · C #14 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	02:14	MIN	Nicolas Aube-Kubel	high sticking	2	Sean Monahan
2nd	11:53	CBJ	Zachary Aston-Reese	slashing	2	Nicolas Aube-Kubel
3rd	19:04	MIN	Tyler Pitlick	tripping	2	Denton Mateychuk

Boxscore

Minnesota Wild

Wild skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Kirill Kaprizov #97	L	1	2	3	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	23:44
Matt Boldy #12	L	1	2	3	+2	3	0	2	0	0.0	21:25
Joel Eriksson Ek #14	C	1	1	2	+2	2	1	0	0	37.5	18:37
Yakov Trenin #13	C	0	2	2	+2	1	6	0	0	33.3	17:32
Ryan Hartman #38	R	1	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	38.5	14:44
Vladimir Tarasenko #91	R	1	0	1	+1	3	2	0	0	0.0	15:33
Danila Yurov #22	R	0	1	1	+1	1	1	1	0	50.0	16:12
Brock Faber #7	D	0	1	1	0	4	0	1	0	0.0	30:57
Ben Jones #39	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	1	0	25.0	07:02
Nico Sturm #78	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	37.5	10:02
Tyler Pitlick #19	C	0	0	0	-1	2	2	1	2	0.0	08:10
Marcus Foligno #17	L	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0.0	14:32
Nicolas Aube-Kubel #16	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0.0	10:39
Carson Lambos #71	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	10:16
David Jiricek #55	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	2	0	0.0	09:04
Jared Spurgeon #46	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	2	0	0.0	18:56
Matt Kiersted #26	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	4	0	0.0	17:37
Quinn Hughes #43	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	32:02

Wild goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jesper Wallstedt #30	W	29	27	2	.931	23/25	4/4	60:00

Columbus Blue Jackets

Blue Jackets skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Zach Werenski #8	D	2	0	2	0	8	0	2	0	0.0	28:30
Charlie Coyle #3	C	0	1	1	-1	0	3	1	0	65.0	18:28
Cole Sillinger #4	C	0	1	1	0	1	3	0	0	100.0	17:14
Adam Fantilli #19	C	0	0	0	-1	3	2	0	0	68.4	18:00
Boone Jenner #38	C	0	0	0	+1	4	3	2	0	0.0	19:38
Isac Lundeström #21	C	0	0	0	-2	2	1	0	0	50.0	09:40
Kent Johnson #91	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	08:44
Sean Monahan #23	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	64.7	16:30
Dmitri Voronkov #10	L	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	15:25
Miles Wood #11	L	0	0	0	0	3	3	1	0	0.0	16:05
Zachary Aston-Reese #27	L	0	0	0	-2	0	3	1	2	66.7	08:50
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	15:58
Kirill Marchenko #86	R	0	0	0	-1	3	1	1	0	0.0	15:50
Brendan Smith #7	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	10:24
Damon Severson #78	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	17:16
Dante Fabbro #15	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	14:57
Denton Mateychuk #5	D	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0	0.0	24:20
Ivan Provorov #9	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	23:13

Blue Jackets goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jet Greaves #73	L	26	23	3	.885	22/24	1/2	59:21

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.