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Sat, Dec 4, 2010·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Boston Bruins 2, Toronto Maple Leafs 3 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 81% of the time.

TOR winsBOS wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
BOS1501219011227
TOR112014112022340

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:48BOSNathan HortonUnassisted · Snap, 0.07 xG1–0
  2. P1 15:53TORCarl GunnarssonAssists: Tyler Bozak, Nazem Kadri · Wrist, 0.09 xG1–1
  3. P3 6:08BOSGregory CampbellAssists: Tyler Seguin, Johnny Boychuk · Snap, 0.05 xG2–1
  4. P3 19:18TORKris VersteegPPAssists: Clarke MacArthur, Tomas Kaberle · Wrist, 0.58 xG2–2

Shootout

  1. 1. TOR Nazem Kadri scored
  2. 2. BOS Tyler Seguin scored
  3. 3. TOR Nikolay Kulemin stopped
  4. 4. BOS David Krejci stopped
  5. 5. TOR Phil Kessel scored
  6. 6. BOS Michael Ryder stopped
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 8:40TORJay Rosehill: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 8:40TORJay Rosehill: Boarding2 min
  3. P1 8:40BOSShawn Thornton: Fighting5 min
  4. P1 8:40BOSShawn Thornton: Roughing2 min
  5. P1 16:53BOSGregory Campbell: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  6. P2 1:30TORClarke MacArthur: Hooking2 min
  7. P2 15:28BOSMilan Lucic: Hooking2 min
  8. P3 9:12TORMike Komisarek: Kneeing2 min
  9. P3 17:30BOSPatrice Bergeron: Holding2 min · PPG
  10. OT 4:36BOSJohnny Boychuk: 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.

BOS00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

BOSTOR
27Shots on goal40
2.4Expected goals4.6
62Shot attempts74
27Faceoffs won27
2Power plays4
15Penalty minutes11
22Hits26
17Blocked shots21
19Giveaways20
14Takeaways18

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.

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestHorton – Krejci – Lucic10:36

    xG 0.57–0.19 (75%)attempts 11–5goals 1–0

  2. Recchi – Bergeron – Wheeler10:57

    xG 0.68–0.54 (56%)attempts 13–7goals 0–0

  3. Savard – Ryder – Seguin8:53

    xG 0.27–0.30 (48%)attempts 8–11goals 0–0

  4. Thornton – Campbell – Marchand9:31

    xG 0.22–0.88 (20%)attempts 13–16goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSeidenberg – Boychuk10:30

    xG 0.70–0.24 (74%)attempts 14–8goals 1–0

  2. Seidenberg – Stuart6:55

    xG 0.32–0.09 (78%)attempts 7–3goals 0–0

  3. Boychuk – Stuart2:23

    xG 0.16–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 1–0

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestSjostrom – Bozak – Kadri4:25

    xG 0.31–0.03 (92%)attempts 8–4goals 0–0

  2. MacArthur – Grabovski – Kulemin12:46

    xG 0.41–0.34 (55%)attempts 15–10goals 0–1

  3. Armstrong – Versteeg – Kessel16:14

    xG 1.12–1.05 (51%)attempts 19–22goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKaberle – Schenn14:58

    xG 1.12–0.36 (76%)attempts 19–13goals 0–0

  2. Gunnarsson – Schenn2:27

    xG 0.09–0.25 (25%)attempts 3–8goals 0–1

  3. Komisarek – Gunnarsson10:24

    xG 0.54–0.72 (43%)attempts 12–13goals 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.

TOR 4.6 xGBOS 2.4 xG
012345P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORBOS

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 BOS. Dots are goals.

Excitement 78/100 · #240 of 1230 this seasonSwing 2.10 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 4% (winner's lowest chance)
BOS 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +44 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 81% of the time.

TOR winsBOS wins

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

-7
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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).