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Tue, Mar 27, 2012·Centre Bell, Montreal

Florida Panthers 3, Montréal Canadiens 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Montréal Canadiens win this game 60% of the time.

MTL winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
FLA111013111011336
MTL1121408050229

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 13:04FLAWojtek WolskiUnassisted · Wrist, 0.05 xG1–0
  2. P1 14:00MTLErik ColePPAssists: Max Pacioretty, David Desharnais · Wrist, 0.31 xG1–1
  3. P2 18:57MTLLouis LeblancAssists: Frédéric St-Denis · Backhand, 0.11 xG1–2
  4. P3 12:48FLAMikael SamuelssonAssists: Erik Gudbranson, Marcel Goc · Wrist, 0.01 xG2–2

Shootout

  1. 1. MTL David Desharnais stopped
  2. 2. FLA Wojtek Wolski scored
  3. 3. MTL Tomas Plekanec stopped
  4. 4. FLA Mikael Samuelsson stopped
  5. 5. MTL Louis Leblanc stopped
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 13:31FLAStephen Weiss: Holding2 min · PPG
  2. P2 7:26MTLLouis Leblanc: High sticking2 min
  3. P2 10:33MTLAlexei Emelin: Hooking2 min
  4. P3 2:04FLAErik Gudbranson: Fighting5 min
  5. P3 2:04MTLRyan White: Fighting5 min
  6. P3 9:34FLATomas Kopecky: Tripping2 min
  7. P3 14:02MTLLars Eller: Delaying game puck over glass2 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 SOG0MTL
45% to win55% to win
← FLA attackMTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Weiss won the faceoff against Desharnais
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLAMTL
36Shots on goal29
2.4Expected goals3.0
70Shot attempts48
35Faceoffs won22
3Power plays2
9Penalty minutes11
17Hits42
11Blocked shots20
7Giveaways13
3Takeaways8

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. bestWolski – Versteeg – Matthias14:15

    xG 0.52–0.10 (84%)attempts 18–6goals 1–0

  2. Samuelsson – Goc – Bergenheim7:44

    xG 0.41–0.03 (94%)attempts 11–6goals 1–0

  3. Sturm – Smithson – Upshall4:29

    xG 0.42–0.14 (74%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  4. Weiss – Fleischmann – Upshall3:04

    xG 0.01–0.12 (8%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestWeaver – Kulikov13:49

    xG 0.81–0.16 (84%)attempts 18–9goals 1–0

  2. Jovanovski – Gudbranson10:55

    xG 0.57–0.09 (87%)attempts 12–6goals 0–0

  3. Campbell – Garrison17:11

    xG 0.22–1.65 (12%)attempts 21–15goals 0–1

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. bestCole – Desharnais – Pacioretty15:52

    xG 1.43–0.42 (77%)attempts 15–19goals 0–0

  2. Blunden – White – Eller8:34

    xG 0.06–0.14 (31%)attempts 4–10goals 0–1

  3. Nokelainen – Staubitz – Palushaj5:06

    xG 0.18–0.36 (33%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  4. Plekanec – Bourque – Leblanc14:07

    xG 0.14–0.44 (24%)attempts 8–16goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestGorges – Subban18:29

    xG 1.45–0.59 (71%)attempts 16–24goals 0–0

  2. Campoli – St-Denis13:15

    xG 0.10–0.28 (26%)attempts 7–13goals 0–0

  3. Markov – Emelin14:45

    xG 0.17–0.80 (18%)attempts 8–17goals 0–2

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.

MTL 3.0 xGFLA 2.4 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MTLFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 62/100 · #437 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.84 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 13% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50MTL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +32 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 60% of the time.

MTL winsFLA wins

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

-7
-6
-5
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-3
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-1
0
+1
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).