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Fri, Mar 1, 2013·Honda Center, Anaheim

Minnesota Wild 2, Anaheim Ducks 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 53% of the time.

ANA winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN08015210233
ANA21216011329

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:45ANARyan GetzlafAssists: Corey Perry, Kyle Palmieri · Tip-in, 0.10 xG0–1
  2. P1 11:21ANATeemu SelanneAssists: Luca Sbisa, Bobby Ryan · Backhand, 0.08 xG0–2
  3. P2 11:26ANAMatt BeleskeyGWGAssists: Daniel Winnik, Andrew Cogliano · Tip-in, 0.16 xG0–3
  4. P3 0:29MINKyle BrodziakUnassisted · Slap, 0.04 xG1–3
  5. P3 10:37MINDevin SetoguchiAssists: Mike Rupp, Ryan Suter · Slap, 0.03 xG2–3
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 15:00ANABobby Ryan: Holding2 min
  2. P1 17:28ANAMatt Beleskey: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 17:28MINClayton Stoner: Fighting5 min
  4. P2 4:54ANASaku Koivu: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 8:17MINZenon Konopka: Fighting5 min
  6. P2 8:17ANAPatrick Maroon: Fighting5 min
  7. P2 8:17MINZenon Konopka: Roughing2 min
  8. P3 16:43ANAFrancois Beauchemin: Tripping2 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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0ANA
43% to win57% to win
← MIN attackANA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Brodziak won the faceoff against Getzlaf
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINANA
33Shots on goal29
2.7Expected goals2.5
60Shot attempts48
32Faceoffs won24
3Power plays1
12Penalty minutes16
16Hits27
7Blocked shots18
13Giveaways6
2Takeaways6

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.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestKoivu – Parise – Coyle14:31

    xG 0.52–0.34 (60%)attempts 14–9goals 0–0

  2. Rupp – Konopka – Mitchell7:01

    xG 0.16–0.08 (67%)attempts 3–1goals 0–1

  3. Cullen – Setoguchi – Zucker11:09

    xG 0.34–0.65 (35%)attempts 6–14goals 0–1

  4. Heatley – Bouchard – Brodziak10:29

    xG 0.19–0.62 (23%)attempts 9–9goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestSuter – Spurgeon12:09

    xG 0.50–0.15 (77%)attempts 17–6goals 1–0

  2. Gilbert – Prosser4:05

    xG 0.21–0.10 (69%)attempts 5–3goals 0–1

  3. Prosser – Brodin7:27

    xG 0.32–0.36 (48%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. bestGetzlaf – Perry – Palmieri14:23

    xG 0.85–0.45 (66%)attempts 13–11goals 1–1

  2. Koivu – Winnik – Cogliano13:00

    xG 0.39–0.21 (65%)attempts 13–8goals 0–0

  3. Selanne – Ryan – Beleskey8:29

    xG 0.60–0.46 (56%)attempts 10–11goals 1–0

  4. Selanne – Ryan – Bonino2:55

    xG 0.07–0.08 (46%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestAllen – Lovejoy15:42

    xG 1.14–0.31 (78%)attempts 19–6goals 2–0

  2. Sbisa – Fowler16:43

    xG 0.76–0.88 (46%)attempts 15–21goals 1–1

  3. Lydman – Beauchemin15:05

    xG 0.27–0.48 (36%)attempts 7–11goals 0–1

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.

ANA 2.5 xGMIN 2.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

ANAMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 60/100 · #294 of 720 this seasonSwing 0.83 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 56% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50ANA 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +17 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 53% of the time.

ANA winsMIN wins

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

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