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Sat, Mar 10, 2012·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Philadelphia Flyers 1, Toronto Maple Leafs 0 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 67% of the time.

TOR winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
PHI080906041127
TOR0609010040029

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. No goals in regulation or overtime.

Shootout

  1. 1. TOR Tyler Bozak stopped
  2. 2. PHI Wayne Simmonds stopped
  3. 3. TOR Mikhail Grabovski stopped
  4. 4. PHI Claude Giroux scored
  5. 5. TOR Phil Kessel stopped
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 4:48PHIAndreas Lilja: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 6:09TORDion Phaneuf: Slashing2 min
  3. P2 6:09PHIWayne Simmonds: Roughing2 min
  4. P2 6:09PHIWayne Simmonds: Fighting5 min
  5. P2 6:09TORJoey Crabb: Fighting5 min
  6. P2 13:03PHIScott Hartnell: Interference2 min
  7. P2 17:07PHIMatt Read: High sticking2 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.

PHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0TOR
45% to win55% to win
← PHI attackTOR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Grabovski won the faceoff against Schenn
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHITOR
27Shots on goal29
1.7Expected goals2.6
52Shot attempts71
18Faceoffs won29
0Power plays3
13Penalty minutes7
48Hits44
23Blocked shots9
15Giveaways17
9Takeaways9

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.

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestShelley – Wellwood – Schenn2:41

    xG 0.20–0.05 (80%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  2. Brière – Simmonds – Read9:29

    xG 0.18–0.12 (60%)attempts 4–9goals 0–0

  3. Hartnell – Giroux – Schenn4:10

    xG 0.08–0.02 (78%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  4. Jagr – Hartnell – Giroux10:53

    xG 0.35–0.46 (43%)attempts 11–15goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Lilja – Manning11:57

    xG 0.25–0.39 (40%)attempts 10–12goals 0–0

  2. Coburn – Grossmann16:58

    xG 0.30–0.49 (38%)attempts 12–19goals 0–0

  3. Carle – Gustafsson18:48

    xG 0.67–0.98 (41%)attempts 16–23goals 0–0

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestMacArthur – Grabovski – Kulemin15:50

    xG 0.65–0.26 (72%)attempts 24–10goals 0–0

  2. Steckel – Crabb – Ashton11:01

    xG 0.43–0.09 (82%)attempts 14–4goals 0–0

  3. Connolly – Kessel – Bozak12:06

    xG 0.40–0.25 (62%)attempts 11–10goals 0–0

  4. Lombardi – Rosehill – Frattin4:45

    xG 0.16–0.41 (28%)attempts 2–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSchenn – Gardiner11:36

    xG 0.68–0.32 (68%)attempts 14–13goals 0–0

  2. Gunnarsson – Gardiner4:22

    xG 0.26–0.02 (94%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  3. Phaneuf – Gunnarsson14:34

    xG 0.49–0.35 (58%)attempts 21–11goals 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 2.6 xGPHI 1.7 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORPHI

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 PHI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 9/100 · #1111 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.74 · 0 goals in reachComeback index 42% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3OTEnd

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 67% of the time.

TOR winsPHI wins

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

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