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Thu, Oct 6, 2011·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Montréal Canadiens 0, Toronto Maple Leafs 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Montréal Canadiens win this game 59% of the time.

TOR winsMTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MTL01404014032
TOR041816218

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 0:33TORMatthew LombardiSHGWGAssists: Mike Brown, Dion Phaneuf · Wrist, 0.06 xG0–1
  2. P3 4:42TORDion PhaneufAssists: Phil Kessel, Joffrey Lupul · Slap, 0.03 xG0–2
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 15:53TORJohn-Michael Liles: Cross checking2 min
  2. P1 19:29TORLuke Schenn: Boarding2 min
  3. P2 6:47MTLJosh Gorges: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 9:19TORTyler Bozak: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  5. P2 17:48MTLAndrei Kostitsyn: Hooking2 min
  6. P2 18:30MTLAndreas Engqvist: Too many men on the ice2 min
  7. P3 0:48MTLScott Gomez: Tripping2 min
  8. P3 5:42TORColby Armstrong: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  9. P3 19:24TORLuke Schenn: Holding2 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
45% to win55% to win
← MTL attackTOR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Gomez won the faceoff against Grabovski
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MTLTOR
32Shots on goal18
2.5Expected goals2.0
61Shot attempts48
29Faceoffs won32
5Power plays4
8Penalty minutes10
10Hits15
12Blocked shots20
10Giveaways12
4Takeaways8

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. bestCammalleri – Plekanec – Kostitsyn7:21

    xG 0.69–0.01 (99%)attempts 10–2goals 0–0

  2. Cole – Darche – Desharnais6:56

    xG 0.45–0.09 (84%)attempts 7–3goals 0–0

  3. Gomez – Gionta – Pacioretty10:56

    xG 0.48–0.33 (60%)attempts 20–8goals 0–0

  4. Cole – Cammalleri – Plekanec3:43

    xG 0.14–0.05 (75%)attempts 4–3goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestGill – Subban7:16

    xG 0.63–0.05 (92%)attempts 13–3goals 0–1

  2. Gorges – Campoli6:06

    xG 0.40–0.06 (88%)attempts 6–3goals 0–0

  3. Gorges – Subban3:11

    xG 0.18–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestArmstrong – Steckel – Dupuis6:46

    xG 0.26–0.18 (59%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  2. Lombardi – Rosehill – Brown3:56

    xG 0.03–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

  3. Grabovski – Kulemin – Frattin10:04

    xG 0.25–0.42 (37%)attempts 9–13goals 0–0

  4. Lupul – Kessel – Bozak10:56

    xG 0.20–1.02 (17%)attempts 8–21goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. Komisarek – Gardiner9:04

    xG 0.07–0.22 (24%)attempts 4–8goals 0–0

  2. Phaneuf – Gunnarsson10:26

    xG 0.27–0.49 (36%)attempts 11–6goals 1–0

  3. Liles – Schenn14:05

    xG 0.32–0.58 (35%)attempts 11–17goals 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 2.0 xGMTL 2.5 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

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 9/100 · #1113 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.73 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 52% (winner's lowest chance)
MTL 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +20 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Montréal Canadiens win this game 59% of the time.

TOR winsMTL wins

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

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