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Sat, Dec 11, 2010·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Montréal Canadiens 1, Toronto Maple Leafs 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 80% of the time.

TOR winsMTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MTL0411009123
TOR21103110324

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 7:38TORPhil KesselAssists: Tyler Bozak, Tomas Kaberle · Backhand, 0.21 xG0–1
  2. P1 10:35TORTomas KaberleGWGAssists: Fredrik Sjostrom, Tim Brent · Wrist, 0.02 xG0–2
  3. P2 14:38MTLMichael CammalleriAssists: Tomas Plekanec, Andrei Kostitsyn · Wrist, 0.04 xG1–2
  4. P3 19:22TORKris VersteegENAssists: Fredrik Sjostrom · Wrist, 0.63 xG1–3
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 10:59TORClarke MacArthur: Roughing2 min
  2. P1 10:59MTLJaroslav Spacek: Roughing2 min
  3. P1 10:59TORClarke MacArthur: Roughing2 min
  4. P1 10:59MTLJaroslav Spacek: Roughing2 min
  5. P1 16:26MTLJeff Halpern: Interference2 min
  6. P1 18:30MTLJeff Halpern: Interference2 min
  7. P3 0:23MTLRoman Hamrlik: Roughing2 min
  8. P3 7:11TORTyler Bozak: 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.

MTL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MTLTOR
23Shots on goal24
1.4Expected goals3.1
56Shot attempts67
30Faceoffs won35
1Power plays3
10Penalty minutes6
33Hits29
25Blocked shots17
14Giveaways16
5Takeaways13

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.

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. bestGionta – Halpern – Pouliot5:50

    xG 0.17–0.06 (75%)attempts 7–4goals 0–0

  2. Cammalleri – Plekanec – Kostitsyn9:40

    xG 0.33–0.27 (55%)attempts 13–8goals 1–0

  3. Darche – Pouliot – Eller4:27

    xG 0.04–0.06 (42%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

  4. Gionta – Plekanec – Kostitsyn3:49

    xG 0.00–0.08 (0%)attempts 1–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHamrlik – Weber15:12

    xG 0.57–0.35 (62%)attempts 16–12goals 1–0

  2. Hamrlik – Spacek4:27

    xG 0.11–0.06 (64%)attempts 5–5goals 0–0

  3. Picard – Subban11:36

    xG 0.48–0.67 (42%)attempts 18–15goals 0–1

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestArmstrong – Kessel – Bozak13:34

    xG 0.71–0.46 (61%)attempts 13–13goals 1–1

  2. Mitchell – Versteeg – Kadri7:17

    xG 0.33–0.12 (73%)attempts 11–5goals 0–0

  3. Orr – Sjostrom – Brent2:02

    xG 0.02–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–0goals 1–0

  4. MacArthur – Grabovski – Kulemin12:46

    xG 0.36–0.36 (50%)attempts 12–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBeauchemin – Phaneuf20:30

    xG 0.79–0.58 (58%)attempts 18–28goals 0–0

  2. Kaberle – Schenn15:22

    xG 0.49–0.37 (57%)attempts 14–10goals 2–1

  3. Gunnarsson – Schenn2:05

    xG 0.05–0.05 (50%)attempts 1–2goals 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 xGMTL 1.4 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORMTL

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 MTL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 18/100 · #975 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.90 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 52% (winner's lowest chance)
MTL 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +16 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 80% of the time.

TOR winsMTL wins

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

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-1
0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).