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Thu, Mar 29, 2012·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Florida Panthers 2, Minnesota Wild 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 55% of the time.

MIN winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
FLA091811000227
MIN013042711325

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 13:27FLAScottie UpshallPPAssists: Tomas Fleischmann, Brian Campbell · Wrist, 0.11 xG1–0
  2. P3 1:03MINKyle BrodziakAssists: Cal Clutterbuck · Backhand, 0.01 xG1–1
  3. P3 13:16FLATomas FleischmannPPAssists: Jason Garrison, Brian Campbell · Wrist, 0.21 xG2–1
  4. P3 19:29MINErik ChristensenAssists: Tom Gilbert, Mikko Koivu · Wrist, 0.39 xG2–2
  5. OT 0:15MINMikko KoivuGWGAssists: Tom Gilbert, Clayton Stoner · Wrist, 0.13 xG2–3
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 9:53MINMikko Koivu: Hooking2 min
  2. P2 13:05MINKyle Brodziak: High sticking2 min · PPG
  3. P3 3:52MINStephane Veilleux: Holding the stick2 min
  4. P3 7:18FLADmitry Kulikov: Hooking2 min
  5. P3 11:35MINKyle Brodziak: Tripping2 min · PPG
  6. P3 11:44MINMikko Koivu: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  7. P3 11:47FLAKris Versteeg: 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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

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P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MIN
45% to win55% to win
← FLA attackMIN 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.

FLAMIN
27Shots on goal25
2.3Expected goals2.6
56Shot attempts43
37Faceoffs won28
5Power plays2
4Penalty minutes10
9Hits19
11Blocked shots13
2Giveaways3
2Takeaways4

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. bestWeiss – Fleischmann – Upshall12:59

    xG 0.39–0.12 (76%)attempts 12–7goals 0–0

  2. Sturm – Madden – Smithson7:18

    xG 0.23–0.11 (67%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  3. Kopecky – Goc – Bergenheim13:26

    xG 0.29–0.41 (41%)attempts 12–7goals 0–0

  4. Wolski – Versteeg – Matthias9:11

    xG 0.10–0.33 (23%)attempts 4–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestWeaver – Kulikov16:06

    xG 0.65–0.12 (84%)attempts 17–8goals 0–0

  2. Campbell – Garrison15:35

    xG 0.29–0.25 (54%)attempts 11–10goals 0–0

  3. Jovanovski – Gudbranson9:41

    xG 0.12–0.16 (42%)attempts 5–8goals 0–1

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestBrodziak – Clutterbuck – Powe9:53

    xG 0.40–0.14 (74%)attempts 13–7goals 1–0

  2. Heatley – Koivu – Setoguchi15:31

    xG 0.19–0.17 (53%)attempts 8–11goals 0–0

  3. Peters – Veilleux – Ortmeyer9:16

    xG 0.02–0.15 (10%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  4. Christensen – Johnson – Zucker9:24

    xG 0.45–0.72 (38%)attempts 6–13goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestScandella – Prosser16:54

    xG 0.46–0.23 (67%)attempts 16–7goals 1–0

  2. Gilbert – Stoner16:40

    xG 0.28–0.21 (56%)attempts 11–10goals 0–0

  3. Falk – Kampfer12:32

    xG 0.39–0.74 (34%)attempts 6–19goals 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 2.6 xGFLA 2.3 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINFLA

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 FLA. Dots are goals.

Excitement 87/100 · #132 of 1230 this seasonSwing 2.37 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 4% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +50 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 55% of the time.

MIN winsFLA wins

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

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