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Mon, Jan 16, 2012·BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise

Boston Bruins 3, Florida Panthers 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 53% of the time.

FLA winsBOS wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
BOS16115012022335
FLA012212011051240

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:20BOSPatrice BergeronAssists: Benoit Pouliot, Tyler Seguin · Snap, 0.02 xG1–0
  2. P2 8:28FLAJason GarrisonAssists: Mike Weaver, Matt Bradley · Slap, 0.01 xG1–1
  3. P2 14:40BOSPatrice BergeronPPAssists: Tyler Seguin · Tip-in, 0.33 xG2–1
  4. P2 15:54FLAShawn MatthiasAssists: Tomas Kopecky, Stephen Weiss · Wrist, 0.12 xG2–2

Shootout

  1. 1. FLA Marcel Goc stopped
  2. 2. BOS Benoit Pouliot stopped
  3. 3. FLA Dmitry Kulikov stopped
  4. 4. BOS Tyler Seguin stopped
  5. 5. FLA Stephen Weiss scored
  6. 6. BOS Patrice Bergeron scored
  7. 7. FLA Mikael Samuelsson stopped
  8. 8. BOS David Krejci scored
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 2:43BOSDennis Seidenberg: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 17:09BOSDaniel Paille: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 17:09FLAEd Jovanovski: Fighting5 min
  4. P2 12:42FLATomas Fleischmann: Hooking2 min · PPG
  5. P2 13:46FLAShawn Matthias: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  6. P2 17:08BOSZdeno Chara: Hooking2 min
  7. OT 0:36BOSPatrice Bergeron: 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

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P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0FLA
45% to win55% to win
← BOS attackFLA attack →
  1. Press play, or drag along the timeline.
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

BOSFLA
35Shots on goal40
2.9Expected goals2.7
52Shot attempts59
26Faceoffs won32
2Power plays3
11Penalty minutes9
27Hits27
9Blocked shots7
3Giveaways11
6Takeaways8

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. bestKelly – Hamill – Caron7:49

    xG 0.53–0.45 (54%)attempts 5–7goals 0–1

  2. Horton – Krejci – Lucic13:43

    xG 0.42–0.36 (54%)attempts 11–12goals 0–0

  3. Thornton – Campbell – Paille9:05

    xG 0.13–0.22 (37%)attempts 4–6goals 0–0

  4. Bergeron – Pouliot – Seguin11:40

    xG 0.29–0.50 (37%)attempts 12–8goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSeidenberg – Boychuk5:56

    xG 0.33–0.10 (76%)attempts 6–4goals 1–0

  2. Corvo – Ference11:16

    xG 0.64–0.52 (55%)attempts 9–9goals 0–1

  3. Ference – Boychuk2:04

    xG 0.03–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–0goals 0–0

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestWeiss – Fleischmann – Versteeg12:43

    xG 0.68–0.33 (67%)attempts 11–12goals 0–0

  2. Bradley – Barch – Santorelli8:47

    xG 0.50–0.50 (50%)attempts 6–9goals 0–0

  3. Madden – Matthias – Repik11:36

    xG 0.41–0.45 (48%)attempts 11–7goals 0–1

  4. Samuelsson – Kopecky – Goc12:52

    xG 0.32–0.50 (39%)attempts 12–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCampbell – Garrison12:19

    xG 0.64–0.26 (71%)attempts 12–10goals 0–0

  2. Jovanovski – Gudbranson4:45

    xG 0.39–0.06 (86%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  3. Campbell – Gudbranson3:58

    xG 0.11–0.06 (66%)attempts 4–4goals 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.

FLA 2.7 xGBOS 2.9 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

FLABOS

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 57/100 · #504 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.72 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 42% (winner's lowest chance)
BOS 100%5050%50FLA 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +26 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 53% of the time.

FLA winsBOS wins

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

-7
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-1
0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).