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Fri, Feb 22, 2013·CONSOL Energy Center, Pittsburgh

Florida Panthers 1, Pittsburgh Penguins 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Pittsburgh Penguins win this game 76% of the time.

PIT winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA03110010123
PIT012115213340

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 8:25FLAMike WeaverAssists: Brian Campbell · Tip-in, 0.11 xG1–0
  2. P2 10:41PITChris KunitzPPAssists: James Neal, Evgeni Malkin · Tip-in, 0.36 xG1–1
  3. P3 7:49PITMatt NiskanenGWGAssists: Kris Letang · Slap, 0.02 xG1–2
  4. P3 15:15PITDustin JeffreyAssists: Matt Cooke, Tyler Kennedy · Wrist, 0.15 xG1–3
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 8:46FLAJonathan Huberdeau: Holding2 min
  2. P1 11:53PITMarc-Andre Fleury: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 16:24FLAPeter Mueller: Tripping2 min
  4. P2 9:23FLAJerred Smithson: Hooking2 min · PPG
  5. P3 1:15PITTyler Kennedy: Slashing2 min
  6. P3 5:25FLATomas Kopecky: Slashing2 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 SOG0PIT
43% to win57% to win
← FLA attackPIT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Malkin won the faceoff against Goc
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLAPIT
23Shots on goal40
2.2Expected goals3.7
44Shot attempts60
26Faceoffs won26
2Power plays4
8Penalty minutes4
11Hits20
10Blocked shots11
1Giveaways11
3Takeaways5

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. bestKovalev – Smithson – Santorelli4:26

    xG 0.34–0.11 (76%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  2. Mueller – Shore – Huberdeau8:48

    xG 0.64–0.42 (60%)attempts 11–6goals 0–1

  3. Kopecky – Weiss – Fleischmann7:50

    xG 0.09–0.23 (28%)attempts 7–5goals 0–0

  4. Goc – Skille – Matthias7:52

    xG 0.11–0.51 (18%)attempts 2–16goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKulikov – Gudbranson13:37

    xG 0.61–0.53 (54%)attempts 9–10goals 0–1

  2. Campbell – Kulikov2:52

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

  3. Campbell – Weaver14:11

    xG 0.54–0.57 (49%)attempts 10–15goals 1–1

Pittsburgh Penguins

Forward lines

  1. bestDupuis – Kunitz – Crosby7:33

    xG 0.43–0.05 (90%)attempts 12–4goals 0–0

  2. Kunitz – Malkin – Crosby2:09

    xG 0.11–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  3. Cooke – Dupuis – Jeffrey3:29

    xG 0.16–0.09 (65%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  4. Adams – Glass – Crosby2:14

    xG 0.04–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestOrpik – Engelland2:41

    xG 0.28–0.00 (100%)attempts 7–1goals 1–0

  2. Orpik – Letang3:59

    xG 0.21–0.03 (86%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  3. Letang – Despres5:35

    xG 0.25–0.13 (65%)attempts 13–2goals 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.

PIT 3.7 xGFLA 2.2 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

PITFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 47/100 · #385 of 720 this seasonSwing 1.49 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 33% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50PIT 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest 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, Pittsburgh Penguins win this game 76% of the time.

PIT winsFLA wins

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

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