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Thu, Nov 18, 2010·TD Garden, Boston

Florida Panthers 0, Boston Bruins 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 64% of the time.

BOS winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA016013012041
BOS111015314440

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 15:37BOSMilan LucicGWGAssists: Nathan Horton, Patrice Bergeron · Snap, 0.06 xG0–1
  2. P3 14:42BOSMilan LucicAssists: Nathan Horton, Andrew Ference · Snap, 0.05 xG0–2
  3. P3 14:57BOSMilan LucicAssists: Nathan Horton, Patrice Bergeron · Wrist, 0.26 xG0–3
  4. P3 16:06BOSShawn ThorntonAssists: Daniel Paille · Tip-in, 0.15 xG0–4
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 3:59BOSBrad Marchand: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  2. P1 16:31FLADarcy Hordichuk: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 16:31BOSShawn Thornton: Fighting5 min
  4. P1 18:13BOSBlake Wheeler: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 1:23BOSMark Recchi: Interference2 min
  6. P2 3:47BOSPatrice Bergeron: Hooking2 min
  7. P2 9:08FLABryan McCabe: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  8. P3 0:27BOSZdeno Chara: Tripping2 min
  9. P3 5:08FLACory Stillman: Interference2 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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0BOS
47% to win53% to win
← FLA attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Campbell won the faceoff against Reasoner
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLABOS
41Shots on goal40
2.3Expected goals3.1
68Shot attempts63
32Faceoffs won29
5Power plays2
9Penalty minutes15
15Hits15
18Blocked shots12
3Giveaways3
3Takeaways2

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.

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestOlesz – Booth – Santorelli4:13

    xG 0.30–0.10 (75%)attempts 10–2goals 0–0

  2. Reinprecht – Hordichuk – Matthias2:42

    xG 0.10–0.02 (87%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  3. Reinprecht – Booth – Matthias2:09

    xG 0.03–0.10 (23%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

  4. Weiss – Booth – Frolik5:03

    xG 0.06–0.16 (28%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestWeaver – Garrison12:29

    xG 0.46–0.20 (69%)attempts 16–10goals 0–0

  2. McCabe – Wideman2:23

    xG 0.06–0.12 (35%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  3. Wideman – Garrison2:12

    xG 0.02–0.16 (10%)attempts 1–4goals 0–1

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestHorton – Bergeron – Lucic8:58

    xG 0.74–0.11 (87%)attempts 10–7goals 3–0

  2. Ryder – Campbell – Marchand7:07

    xG 0.58–0.26 (69%)attempts 12–12goals 0–0

  3. Thornton – Paille – Seguin5:11

    xG 0.19–0.31 (38%)attempts 4–5goals 1–0

  4. Recchi – Wheeler – Caron10:05

    xG 0.11–0.26 (29%)attempts 6–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSeidenberg – Stuart8:10

    xG 0.68–0.29 (70%)attempts 13–10goals 0–0

  2. Chara – Ference13:21

    xG 0.69–0.34 (67%)attempts 11–18goals 3–0

  3. Seidenberg – Hunwick6:09

    xG 0.43–0.17 (71%)attempts 7–8goals 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.

BOS 3.1 xGFLA 2.3 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 9/100 · #1076 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.75 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 51% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +17 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 64% of the time.

BOS winsFLA wins

Simulated goal difference (BOS − FLA), 10,000 replays

-7
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-1
0
+1
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+7

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