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Sat, Oct 30, 2010·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

New York Rangers 2, Toronto Maple Leafs 0

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 70% of the time.

TOR winsNYR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
NYR1611206224
TOR0901809036

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 13:12NYRBrian BoyleGWGAssists: Brandon Prust, Dan Girardi · Backhand, 0.02 xG1–0
  2. P2 18:35NYRRyan CallahanUnassisted · Wrist, 0.36 xG2–0
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 1:48NYRBrandon Prust: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 1:48TORMike Komisarek: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 11:03NYRBrandon Prust: Roughing2 min
  4. P1 18:15NYRSteve Eminger: Interference2 min
  5. P1 19:44NYRBrandon Dubinsky: Slashing2 min
  6. P2 18:35TORPhil Kessel: Penalty shot hooking on breakaway0 min
  7. P3 1:55TORLuca Caputi: Elbowing2 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.

NYR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0TOR
47% to win53% to win
← NYR attackTOR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Grabovski won the faceoff against Boyle
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

NYRTOR
24Shots on goal36
1.9Expected goals3.1
35Shot attempts92
22Faceoffs won29
1Power plays3
11Penalty minutes7
18Hits16
35Blocked shots6
15Giveaways14
8Takeaways7

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 York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. Boogaard – Stepan – Grachev2:03

    xG 0.00–0.01 (0%)attempts 0–2goals 0–0

  2. Fedotenko – Avery – Stepan2:35

    xG 0.00–0.03 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

  3. Dubinsky – Callahan – Anisimov9:13

    xG 0.22–0.24 (47%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

  4. Fedotenko – Avery – Boyle7:35

    xG 0.10–0.13 (42%)attempts 3–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Staal – Girardi2:55

    xG 0.09–0.05 (64%)attempts 2–5goals 0–0

  2. Girardi – Del Zotto13:24

    xG 0.34–0.37 (48%)attempts 5–19goals 0–0

  3. Girardi – Gilroy2:03

    xG 0.03–0.07 (27%)attempts 1–5goals 0–0

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestKessel – Caputi – Bozak4:48

    xG 0.95–0.33 (74%)attempts 12–5goals 0–0

  2. MacArthur – Versteeg – Grabovski9:18

    xG 0.48–0.12 (79%)attempts 15–4goals 0–0

  3. Versteeg – Kessel – Bozak5:32

    xG 0.30–0.03 (91%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  4. MacArthur – Grabovski – Kulemin5:30

    xG 0.21–0.05 (80%)attempts 11–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKomisarek – Gunnarsson10:02

    xG 0.92–0.45 (67%)attempts 17–6goals 0–0

  2. Beauchemin – Phaneuf13:52

    xG 0.96–0.51 (65%)attempts 26–5goals 0–0

  3. Gunnarsson – Schenn2:07

    xG 0.20–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 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.

TOR 3.1 xGNYR 1.9 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORNYR

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 0/100 · #1225 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.57 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 47% (winner's lowest chance)
NYR 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +18 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 70% of the time.

TOR winsNYR wins

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

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