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Sun, Oct 24, 2010·Madison Square Garden, New York

New Jersey Devils 1, New York Rangers 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, New York Rangers win this game 71% of the time.

NYR winsNJD wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
NJD01006112128
NYR01721215334

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 1:26NYRMichal RozsivalAssists: Ruslan Fedotenko, Sean Avery · Slap, 0.11 xG0–1
  2. P2 12:22NYRRyan CallahanPPGWGAssists: Brandon Dubinsky, Michal Rozsival · Tip-in, 0.16 xG0–2
  3. P3 14:08NJDIlya KovalchukAssists: Dainius Zubrus, Matthew Corrente · Wrist, 0.14 xG1–2
  4. P3 19:59NYRBrandon DubinskyENAssists: Ryan Callahan · Wrist, 0.44 xG1–3
Penalties (11)
  1. P1 4:40NJDJamie Langenbrunner: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 9:46NJDJason Arnott: Hooking2 min
  3. P1 15:35NYRErik Christensen: Holding2 min
  4. P1 19:10NYRSean Avery: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 4:16NYRMichal Rozsival: Hooking2 min
  6. P2 6:07NJDJamie Langenbrunner: Holding2 min
  7. P2 11:11NJDIlya Kovalchuk: Interference2 min · PPG
  8. P2 14:05NJDJamie Langenbrunner: Roughing2 min
  9. P3 1:01NJDOlivier Magnan: Interference2 min
  10. P3 6:26NYRMichal Rozsival: Roughing2 min
  11. P3 15:50NJDJacob Josefson: Hooking2 min

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.

NJD00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

NJDNYR
28Shots on goal34
3.3Expected goals4.8
65Shot attempts56
35Faceoffs won31
4Power plays7
14Penalty minutes8
37Hits35
12Blocked shots21
4Giveaways3
5Takeaways11

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.

New Jersey Devils

Forward lines

  1. bestLangenbrunner – Kovalchuk – Josefson5:46

    xG 0.45–0.17 (72%)attempts 5–5goals 0–0

  2. Zubrus – Parise – Zajac7:46

    xG 0.49–0.25 (66%)attempts 16–4goals 0–0

  3. Arnott – Elias – Clarkson5:16

    xG 0.15–0.08 (66%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  4. Langenbrunner – Kovalchuk – Pelley2:15

    xG 0.07–0.14 (35%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMagnan – Greene7:41

    xG 0.48–0.41 (54%)attempts 9–7goals 0–1

  2. Greene – Taormina2:03

    xG 0.11–0.05 (67%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  3. Tallinder – Taormina2:34

    xG 0.17–0.18 (49%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. bestFrolov – Christensen – Prust9:06

    xG 1.02–0.58 (64%)attempts 14–11goals 0–0

  2. Fedotenko – Avery – Stepan6:55

    xG 0.54–0.14 (79%)attempts 7–4goals 0–0

  3. Avery – Prust – Stepan2:25

    xG 0.05–0.34 (13%)attempts 1–3goals 0–1

  4. Dubinsky – Callahan – Anisimov9:22

    xG 0.17–0.50 (25%)attempts 2–13goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStaal – Girardi2:07

    xG 0.56–0.01 (99%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  2. Eminger – Gilroy5:59

    xG 0.26–0.10 (73%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  3. Girardi – Del Zotto13:44

    xG 0.48–0.88 (35%)attempts 9–17goals 0–0

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 4.8 xGNJD 3.3 xG
012345P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRNJD

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 NJD. Dots are goals.

Excitement 19/100 · #948 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.99 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 49% (winner's lowest chance)
NJD 100%5050%50NYR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +19 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, New York Rangers win this game 71% of the time.

NYR winsNJD wins

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

-7
-6
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-3
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-1
0
+1
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+7

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