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Thu, Dec 8, 2011·TD Garden, Boston

Florida Panthers 2, Boston Bruins 0

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 55% of the time.

BOS winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA08012210230
BOS012014014040

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P3 17:28FLATomas KopeckyGWGAssists: Shawn Matthias, Dmitry Kulikov · Wrist, 0.22 xG1–0
  2. P3 19:18FLAKris VersteegENAssists: Tomas Fleischmann, Brian Campbell · Wrist, 0.72 xG2–0
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 2:17BOSShawn Thornton: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 2:17FLAKrys Barch: Charging2 min
  3. P1 2:17FLAKrys Barch: Fighting5 min
  4. P1 9:31FLAMike Santorelli: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 2:51BOSBrad Marchand: Elbowing2 min
  6. P2 6:29FLABrian Campbell: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  7. P2 10:27FLAKrys Barch: Holding2 min
  8. P2 14:30FLAJack Skille: Fighting5 min
  9. P2 14:30BOSJohnny Boychuk: Fighting5 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
45% to win55% to win
← FLA attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Matthias won the faceoff against Krejci
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLABOS
30Shots on goal40
2.7Expected goals2.5
45Shot attempts70
24Faceoffs won28
1Power plays4
18Penalty minutes12
19Hits16
16Blocked shots10
4Giveaways6
4Takeaways3

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. bestKopecky – Bergenheim – Matthias8:06

    xG 0.38–0.12 (75%)attempts 7–4goals 1–0

  2. Sturm – Samuelsson – Skille2:08

    xG 0.26–0.01 (96%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  3. Barch – Samuelsson – Kennedy4:24

    xG 0.20–0.07 (75%)attempts 1–5goals 0–0

  4. Sturm – Santorelli – Skille7:07

    xG 0.21–0.25 (45%)attempts 6–13goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCampbell – Gudbranson3:26

    xG 0.39–0.00 (100%)attempts 7–2goals 0–0

  2. Campbell – Garrison16:17

    xG 0.91–0.58 (61%)attempts 17–15goals 0–0

  3. Weaver – Garrison2:06

    xG 0.00–0.04 (0%)attempts 0–2goals 0–0

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestKelly – Peverley – Pouliot9:43

    xG 0.45–0.20 (69%)attempts 10–3goals 0–0

  2. Bergeron – Marchand – Seguin10:58

    xG 0.49–0.31 (61%)attempts 14–9goals 0–0

  3. Horton – Krejci – Lucic13:58

    xG 0.59–0.64 (48%)attempts 18–11goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestCorvo – Seidenberg14:19

    xG 0.56–0.46 (55%)attempts 21–12goals 0–1

  2. Chara – McQuaid2:42

    xG 0.11–0.03 (78%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

  3. Chara – Boychuk10:32

    xG 0.51–0.45 (53%)attempts 13–9goals 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.

BOS 2.5 xGFLA 2.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

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 11/100 · #1075 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.86 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 42% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +46 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 55% of the time.

BOS winsFLA wins

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

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