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Fri, Oct 15, 2010·Madison Square Garden, New York

Toronto Maple Leafs 4, New York Rangers 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 61% of the time.

NYR winsTOR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
TOR0163140612438
NYR170521002324

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

Every goal, with the change it made to the home team's win probability.

  1. P1 7:58NYRMichal RozsivalAssists: Sean Avery, Ruslan Fedotenko · Wrist, 0.02 xG0–1
  2. P2 2:04TORClarke MacArthurAssists: Nikolay Kulemin, Luke Schenn · Tip-in, 0.09 xG1–1
  3. P2 4:57TORMike KomisarekAssists: Phil Kessel · Wrist, 0.04 xG2–1
  4. P2 7:50TORPhil KesselAssists: Tyler Bozak · Snap, 0.16 xG3–1
  5. P3 2:10NYRBrian BoyleAssists: Derek Boogaard, Steve Eminger · Wrist, 0.07 xG3–2
  6. P3 6:19NYRBrian BoyleAssists: Sean Avery, Michael Del Zotto · Snap, 0.06 xG3–3
  7. OT 3:08TORPhil KesselPPGWGAssists: Tyler Bozak, Tomas Kaberle · Wrist, 0.11 xG4–3
Penalties (16)
  1. P1 1:54TORKris Versteeg: Interference2 min
  2. P1 9:00TORClarke MacArthur: Slashing2 min
  3. P1 12:44NYRBrandon Prust: Fighting5 min
  4. P1 12:44TORMike Brown: Fighting5 min
  5. P1 17:58NYRSteve Eminger: Roughing2 min
  6. P1 0:00NYRChris Drury: Cross checking2 min
  7. P2 2:33TORColby Armstrong: Boarding2 min
  8. P2 7:23NYRMichael Del Zotto: Interference2 min
  9. P2 7:23TORMike Brown: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  10. P2 9:56NYRSean Avery: Roughing2 min
  11. P3 2:39TORColton Orr: Roughing2 min
  12. P3 3:49NYRRuslan Fedotenko: Roughing2 min
  13. P3 3:49NYRSean Avery: Slashing2 min
  14. P3 9:54TORMike Komisarek: Cross checking2 min
  15. P3 16:56NYRDan Girardi: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  16. OT 2:48NYRMarc Staal: Interference2 min · PPG

Replay

Watch the game unfold on the ice: every shot, hit, turnover and faceoff appears as it happened, then fades. Drag the timeline to jump; goals are marked on it.

TOR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0NYR
47% to win53% to win
← TOR attackNYR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Drury won the faceoff against Grabovski
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TORNYR
38Shots on goal24
4.3Expected goals3.6
61Shot attempts52
32Faceoffs won19
7Power plays5
17Penalty minutes21
29Hits41
7Blocked shots12
6Giveaways11
5Takeaways7

Line combinations that worked

Model-based

Each team's forward lines and defence pairs at 5-on-5 (two minutes or more together), best first by expected goals for minus against.

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestMacArthur – Grabovski – Kulemin9:17

    xG 1.21–0.36 (77%)attempts 16–5goals 1–0

  2. Versteeg – Kessel – Bozak10:24

    xG 0.68–0.69 (50%)attempts 9–12goals 1–1

  3. Sjostrom – Armstrong – Brent9:45

    xG 0.42–0.50 (46%)attempts 9–10goals 0–0

  4. Zigomanis – Orr – Brown2:44

    xG 0.09–0.25 (27%)attempts 1–4goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBeauchemin – Phaneuf9:57

    xG 0.82–0.35 (70%)attempts 14–7goals 0–0

  2. Beauchemin – Komisarek4:42

    xG 0.64–0.16 (80%)attempts 7–3goals 0–0

  3. Komisarek – Gunnarsson2:20

    xG 0.17–0.16 (51%)attempts 2–4goals 0–1

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. bestFedotenko – Frolov – Stepan2:37

    xG 0.18–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  2. Boogaard – Boyle – Prust2:30

    xG 0.17–0.14 (55%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  3. Fedotenko – Avery – Stepan3:20

    xG 0.26–0.26 (50%)attempts 6–4goals 1–0

  4. Drury – Gaborik – Frolov3:29

    xG 0.16–0.18 (47%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGirardi – Del Zotto8:59

    xG 0.59–0.49 (55%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

  2. Eminger – Gilroy8:42

    xG 0.27–0.39 (40%)attempts 5–9goals 0–0

  3. Rozsival – Staal12:57

    xG 0.72–1.38 (34%)attempts 13–14goals 1–0

How the game flowed

Model-based

Chance quality for each side, minute by minute, with pressure underneath.

Expected goals flow

Running total of expected goals for each team. Steep climbs are spells of pressure; dots are goals. Shaded bands mark power plays (team colour), 4-on-4 or 3-on-3 (grey) and empty nets.

NYR 3.6 xGTOR 4.3 xG
012345P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRTOR

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

NYR's chance of winning through the game. Above the middle line NYR is favoured, below it TOR. Dots are goals.

Excitement 90/100 · #104 of 1230 this seasonSwing 2.25 · 7 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 29% (winner's lowest chance)
TOR 100%5050%50NYR 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +31 pts

Did the better team win?

Every shot replayed 10,000 times, scoring with its expected-goal probability.

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 61% of the time.

NYR winsTOR wins

Simulated goal difference (NYR − TOR), 10,000 replays

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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).