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Thu, Feb 16, 2012·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Winnipeg Jets 4, Minnesota Wild 3 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 60% of the time.

MIN winsWPG wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
WPG1811116022427
MIN1613114021325

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 7:50MINDevin SetoguchiAssists: Mikko Koivu, Dany Heatley · Tip-in, 0.13 xG0–1
  2. P1 18:47WPGEvander KaneAssists: Blake Wheeler, Dustin Byfuglien · Wrist, 0.15 xG1–1
  3. P2 3:00WPGEvander KaneAssists: Kyle Wellwood, Alexander Burmistrov · Deflected, 0.05 xG2–1
  4. P2 12:15MINDevin SetoguchiPPAssists: Nate Prosser, Marco Scandella · Wrist, 0.02 xG2–2
  5. P3 1:03MINMikko KoivuAssists: Jared Spurgeon, Devin Setoguchi · Wrist, 0.33 xG2–3
  6. P3 3:03WPGAlexander BurmistrovAssists: Dustin Byfuglien, Evander Kane · Wrist, 0.10 xG3–3

Shootout

  1. 1. MIN Matt Cullen stopped
  2. 2. WPG Blake Wheeler scored
  3. 3. MIN Mikko Koivu stopped
  4. 4. WPG Kyle Wellwood stopped
  5. 5. MIN Erik Christensen scored
  6. 6. WPG Bryan Little stopped
  7. 7. MIN Dany Heatley stopped
  8. 8. WPG Evander Kane scored
Penalties (12)
  1. P1 0:25MINMikko Koivu: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 11:17WPGChris Thorburn: High sticking2 min
  3. P2 10:32WPGTim Stapleton: High sticking2 min · PPG
  4. P2 13:08MINWarren Peters: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  5. P2 13:08WPGDustin Byfuglien: Roughing2 min
  6. P2 14:41WPGTim Stapleton: Too many men on the ice2 min
  7. P3 6:15MINMike Lundin: Interference2 min
  8. P3 8:48MINCal Clutterbuck: Roughing2 min
  9. P3 8:48WPGJim Slater: Roughing2 min
  10. P3 8:48WPGTanner Glass: Fighting5 min
  11. P3 8:48MINDarroll Powe: Fighting5 min
  12. P3 8:48MINCal Clutterbuck: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 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.

WPG00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MIN
45% to win55% to win
← WPG attackMIN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Little won the faceoff against Koivu
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

WPGMIN
27Shots on goal25
1.5Expected goals2.0
50Shot attempts48
29Faceoffs won36
3Power plays3
15Penalty minutes15
14Hits19
17Blocked shots15
6Giveaways7
3Takeaways14

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.

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestWellwood – Kane – Burmistrov10:04

    xG 0.46–0.13 (78%)attempts 16–4goals 2–1

  2. Antropov – Miettinen – Stapleton5:54

    xG 0.32–0.05 (87%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

  3. Ladd – Wheeler – Little11:53

    xG 0.12–0.12 (49%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  4. Thorburn – Slater – Glass7:33

    xG 0.02–0.83 (2%)attempts 4–8goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestHainsey – Oduya15:04

    xG 0.41–0.16 (72%)attempts 11–10goals 0–0

  2. Enstrom – Byfuglien16:33

    xG 0.36–0.24 (60%)attempts 13–9goals 1–1

  3. Stuart – Jones9:02

    xG 0.32–0.26 (55%)attempts 12–7goals 2–0

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestHeatley – Koivu – Setoguchi13:33

    xG 1.11–0.28 (80%)attempts 17–8goals 2–1

  2. Peters – Kassian – Powe4:00

    xG 0.01–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  3. Cullen – Brodziak – Johnson11:24

    xG 0.22–0.24 (48%)attempts 5–13goals 0–0

  4. Christensen – Clutterbuck – Almond6:18

    xG 0.07–0.50 (12%)attempts 3–8goals 0–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestScandella – Spurgeon13:31

    xG 1.11–0.18 (86%)attempts 14–8goals 1–1

  2. Zanon – Lundin6:23

    xG 0.22–0.07 (77%)attempts 7–4goals 1–0

  3. Zanon – Spurgeon2:38

    xG 0.04–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–0goals 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 2.0 xGWPG 1.5 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINWPG

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 WPG. Dots are goals.

Excitement 86/100 · #138 of 1230 this seasonSwing 2.33 · 6 goals in reachComeback index 19% (winner's lowest chance)
WPG 100%5050%50MIN 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, Minnesota Wild win this game 60% of the time.

MIN winsWPG wins

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

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