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Fri, Feb 18, 2011·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Anaheim Ducks 1, Minnesota Wild 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 56% of the time.

MIN winsANA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ANA16013011130
MIN2921116526

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:30ANACorey PerryAssists: Bobby Ryan, Ryan Getzlaf · Tip-in, 0.05 xG1–0
  2. P1 5:01MINMikko KoivuAssists: Andrew Brunette, Antti Miettinen · Wrist, 0.09 xG1–1
  3. P1 15:07MINMatt CullenSHGWGAssists: Kyle Brodziak · Wrist, 0.07 xG1–2
  4. P2 13:32MINEric NystromPPAssists: John Madden · Wrist, 0.15 xG1–3
  5. P2 13:59MINKyle BrodziakAssists: Cal Clutterbuck, Nick Schultz · Wrist, 0.18 xG1–4
  6. P3 16:49MINMartin HavlatPPAssists: Kyle Brodziak, Pierre-Marc Bouchard · Wrist, 0.19 xG1–5
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 1:07MINMarek Zidlicky: Interference2 min
  2. P1 12:59MINMatt Cullen: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  3. P1 14:56MINBrent Burns: High sticking2 min
  4. P1 14:56MINBrent Burns: High sticking2 min
  5. P1 17:15ANABobby Ryan: Hooking2 min
  6. P2 9:52ANABrandon McMillan: Hooking2 min
  7. P2 11:38ANAMaxim Lapierre: High sticking2 min · PPG
  8. P3 10:34MINBrent Burns: Interference2 min
  9. P3 15:40ANATodd Marchant: Hooking2 min · PPG

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.

ANA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MIN
47% to win53% to win
← ANA attackMIN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Koivu won the faceoff against Koivu
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ANAMIN
30Shots on goal26
2.0Expected goals2.4
56Shot attempts44
30Faceoffs won25
5Power plays4
8Penalty minutes10
12Hits29
9Blocked shots12
4Giveaways1
1Takeaways8

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.

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. bestGetzlaf – Perry – Ryan10:24

    xG 0.53–0.11 (83%)attempts 16–6goals 1–0

  2. Parros – Lapierre – Chipchura3:02

    xG 0.14–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

  3. Marchant – McMillan – Sexton2:31

    xG 0.04–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

  4. Selanne – Koivu – Blake10:34

    xG 0.62–0.58 (52%)attempts 11–9goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBeauchemin – Visnovsky4:28

    xG 0.36–0.03 (91%)attempts 8–1goals 0–0

  2. Sutton – Sbisa9:35

    xG 0.35–0.17 (67%)attempts 13–5goals 0–0

  3. Beauchemin – Fowler10:12

    xG 0.44–0.32 (58%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. Brunette – Miettinen – Brodziak6:19

    xG 0.23–0.24 (49%)attempts 3–7goals 0–0

  2. Cullen – Havlat – Bouchard9:54

    xG 0.38–0.43 (46%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

  3. Brunette – Kobasew – Brodziak2:57

    xG 0.00–0.08 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

  4. Madden – Nystrom – Clutterbuck9:02

    xG 0.13–0.33 (28%)attempts 4–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSchultz – Burns14:44

    xG 0.73–0.37 (66%)attempts 11–9goals 1–0

  2. Zidlicky – Spurgeon2:11

    xG 0.00–0.07 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

  3. Barker – Spurgeon6:19

    xG 0.09–0.20 (30%)attempts 2–7goals 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.

MIN 2.4 xGANA 2.0 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINANA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 29/100 · #841 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.97 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 35% (winner's lowest chance)
ANA 100%5050%50MIN 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, Minnesota Wild win this game 56% of the time.

MIN winsANA wins

Simulated goal difference (MIN − ANA), 10,000 replays

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