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Sat, Mar 2, 2013·TD Garden, Boston

Tampa Bay Lightning 2, Boston Bruins 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Tampa Bay Lightning win this game 56% of the time.

BOS winsTBL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
TBL250809222
BOS0729111327

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 5:32TBLSteven StamkosPPAssists: Teddy Purcell, Marc-Andre Bergeron · Wrist, 0.03 xG1–0
  2. P1 8:38TBLAlex KillornPPAssists: Teddy Purcell, Martin St. Louis · Backhand, 0.19 xG2–0
  3. P2 3:22BOSTyler SeguinPPAssists: Dougie Hamilton, David Krejci · Snap, 0.15 xG2–1
  4. P2 4:39BOSRich PeverleyAssists: Adam McQuaid, Daniel Paille · Snap, 0.06 xG2–2
  5. P3 17:44BOSBrad MarchandPPGWGAssists: Patrice Bergeron · Snap, 0.08 xG2–3
Penalties (17)
  1. P1 5:11BOSMilan Lucic: Interference2 min · PPG
  2. P1 5:45BOSGregory Campbell: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  3. P1 5:45TBLKeith Aulie: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  4. P1 7:46BOSAndrew Ference: Tripping2 min · PPG
  5. P1 8:57BOSAdam McQuaid: Fighting5 min
  6. P1 8:57TBLPierre-Cedric Labrie: Fighting5 min
  7. P1 10:45BOSDennis Seidenberg: Boarding2 min
  8. P1 13:12TBLKeith Aulie: Interference2 min
  9. P1 19:51BOSMilan Lucic: Boarding2 min
  10. P2 2:04TBLEric Brewer: Interference2 min · PPG
  11. P2 4:44TBLB.J. Crombeen: Elbowing5 min
  12. P2 4:44BOSGregory Campbell: Fighting5 min
  13. P2 6:29TBLVincent Lecavalier: Boarding2 min
  14. P2 9:28BOSJay Pandolfo: Boarding2 min
  15. P2 15:49BOSAndrew Ference: High sticking double minor4 min
  16. P3 10:46BOSDougie Hamilton: Holding the stick2 min
  17. P3 14:21TBLBrendan Mikkelson: High sticking double minor4 min · PPG

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.

TBL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0BOS
43% to win57% to win
← TBL attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Thompson won the faceoff against Kelly
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TBLBOS
22Shots on goal27
2.4Expected goals2.0
46Shot attempts54
20Faceoffs won37
8Power plays5
22Penalty minutes28
20Hits13
14Blocked shots11
4Giveaways7
2Takeaways2

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.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Forward lines

  1. bestSt. Louis – Killorn – Stamkos2:14

    xG 0.22–0.05 (82%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

  2. Crombeen – Thompson – Labrie4:33

    xG 0.04–0.03 (58%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  3. St. Louis – Lecavalier – Killorn2:05

    xG 0.00–0.22 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–1

  4. Purcell – Stamkos – Conacher4:11

    xG 0.03–0.67 (4%)attempts 1–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Lee – Aulie2:07

    xG 0.00–0.04 (0%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  2. Brewer – Aulie8:52

    xG 0.04–0.10 (31%)attempts 1–6goals 0–1

  3. Lee – Mikkelson5:15

    xG 0.03–0.21 (11%)attempts 4–8goals 0–0

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestBergeron – Marchand – Seguin8:21

    xG 0.77–0.14 (84%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

  2. Horton – Krejci – Lucic9:04

    xG 0.23–0.01 (97%)attempts 14–5goals 0–0

  3. Kelly – Paille – Peverley5:51

    xG 0.10–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 1–0

  4. Pandolfo – Campbell – Bourque4:21

    xG 0.00–0.20 (0%)attempts 0–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSeidenberg – Boychuk6:16

    xG 0.26–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–2goals 0–0

  2. Chara – Boychuk5:42

    xG 0.18–0.11 (63%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  3. Ference – McQuaid5:05

    xG 0.02–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 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.

BOS 2.0 xGTBL 2.4 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSTBL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 80/100 · #151 of 720 this seasonSwing 2.02 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 18% (winner's lowest chance)
TBL 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +44 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Tampa Bay Lightning win this game 56% of the time.

BOS winsTBL wins

Simulated goal difference (BOS − TBL), 10,000 replays

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