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Tue, Feb 12, 2013·BB&T Center, Sunrise

Washington Capitals 6, Florida Panthers 5 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Washington Capitals win this game 52% of the time.

FLA winsWSH wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
WSH162122912629
FLA214291900532

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:26WSHMike RibeiroPPAssists: Tomas Kundratek · Slap, 0.10 xG1–0
  2. P1 10:18FLATomas FleischmannAssists: Filip Kuba · Snap, 0.13 xG1–1
  3. P1 13:09FLAShawn MatthiasAssists: Marcel Goc, Dmitry Kulikov · Slap, 0.07 xG1–2
  4. P2 5:33WSHKarl AlznerAssists: Eric Fehr, Joel Ward · Slap, 0.03 xG2–2
  5. P2 8:47FLAJonathan HuberdeauAssists: Peter Mueller, Erik Gudbranson · Tip-in, 0.05 xG2–3
  6. P2 10:21WSHMatt HendricksAssists: Alex Ovechkin, Mike Ribeiro · Backhand, 0.08 xG3–3
  7. P2 18:26FLAJonathan HuberdeauAssists: Peter Mueller, Drew Shore · Backhand, 0.13 xG3–4
  8. P3 6:25FLADrew ShoreAssists: Jack Skille · Tip-in, 0.23 xG3–5
  9. P3 14:53WSHEric FehrAssists: Mike Green, Joel Ward · Tip-in, 0.09 xG4–5
  10. P3 17:11WSHAlex OvechkinPPAssists: Mike Ribeiro, Nicklas Backstrom · Slap, 0.05 xG5–5
  11. OT 0:32WSHTroy BrouwerGWGAssists: Nicklas Backstrom · Tip-in, 0.26 xG6–5
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 3:31WSHAlex Ovechkin: Roughing2 min
  2. P1 3:31FLAKris Versteeg: Cross checking2 min · PPG
  3. P1 3:31FLAKris Versteeg: Roughing2 min
  4. P1 6:42WSHJeff Schultz: Holding2 min
  5. P1 10:37WSHBraden Holtby: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  6. P1 18:02WSHJohn Erskine: Holding2 min
  7. P2 11:41FLADrew Shore: High sticking2 min
  8. P3 9:21WSHMatt Hendricks: Slashing2 min
  9. P3 17:07FLAJonathan Huberdeau: Slashing2 min · PPG
  10. P3 18:15WSHMathieu Perreault: 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.

WSH00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0FLA
43% to win57% to win
← WSH attackFLA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Goc won the faceoff against Backstrom
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

WSHFLA
29Shots on goal32
2.6Expected goals2.4
57Shot attempts49
44Faceoffs won24
3Power plays5
12Penalty minutes8
31Hits24
9Blocked shots14
1Giveaways3
5Takeaways6

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.

Washington Capitals

Forward lines

  1. bestWolski – Brouwer – Backstrom13:20

    xG 0.94–0.21 (82%)attempts 16–7goals 0–0

  2. Ribeiro – Hendricks – Ovechkin11:00

    xG 0.42–0.24 (64%)attempts 13–7goals 1–0

  3. Ward – Fehr – Perreault8:09

    xG 0.34–0.21 (62%)attempts 10–7goals 2–1

  4. Hendricks – Crabb – Beagle2:15

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–1goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGreen – Alzner16:55

    xG 0.41–0.18 (70%)attempts 15–9goals 1–0

  2. Erskine – Green3:16

    xG 0.09–0.27 (26%)attempts 3–4goals 0–1

  3. Schultz – Kundratek9:42

    xG 0.12–0.37 (25%)attempts 5–9goals 0–2

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. Parros – Skille – Matthias2:53

    xG 0.04–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 0–0

  2. Kovalev – Kopecky – Goc5:47

    xG 0.06–0.07 (47%)attempts 3–5goals 0–0

  3. Mueller – Shore – Huberdeau11:13

    xG 0.45–0.58 (43%)attempts 12–16goals 2–1

  4. Kopecky – Weiss – Fleischmann3:37

    xG 0.02–0.16 (10%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStrachan – Gudbranson10:37

    xG 0.41–0.24 (63%)attempts 12–8goals 2–2

  2. Kuba – Campbell13:25

    xG 0.49–0.55 (47%)attempts 9–14goals 1–1

  3. Weaver – Kulikov16:58

    xG 0.66–0.79 (46%)attempts 12–19goals 2–0

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 2.4 xGWSH 2.6 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

FLAWSH

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 WSH. Dots are goals.

Excitement 100/100 · #2 of 720 this seasonSwing 3.33 · 11 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 1% (winner's lowest chance)
WSH 100%5050%50FLA 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +43 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Washington Capitals win this game 52% of the time.

FLA winsWSH wins

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

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