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Sat, Mar 23, 2013·Scotiabank Place, Ottawa

Tampa Bay Lightning 3, Ottawa Senators 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 70% of the time.

OTT winsTBL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
TBL08014310332
OTT41507110532

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 12:49OTTJakob SilfverbergAssists: Marc Methot · Tip-in, 0.14 xG0–1
  2. P1 14:29OTTEric GrybaAssists: Kyle Turris, Marc Methot · Slap, 0.07 xG0–2
  3. P1 17:01OTTGuillaume LatendresseAssists: Jakob Silfverberg, Mika Zibanejad · Wrist, 0.11 xG0–3
  4. P1 19:50OTTDaniel AlfredssonPPGWGAssists: Patrick Wiercioch, Sergei Gonchar · Wrist, 0.10 xG0–4
  5. P3 11:37TBLTyler JohnsonAssists: Eric Brewer, Richard Panik · Tip-in, 0.15 xG1–4
  6. P3 13:53TBLTyler JohnsonAssists: Matt Carle · Wrist, 0.11 xG2–4
  7. P3 18:01TBLTeddy PurcellAssists: Victor Hedman, Sami Salo · Wrist, 0.03 xG3–4
  8. P3 19:39OTTDaniel AlfredssonENAssists: Kyle Turris, Colin Greening · Wrist, 0.70 xG3–5
Penalties (14)
  1. P1 14:40OTTMatt Kassian: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 14:40TBLB.J. Crombeen: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 17:31OTTEric Gryba: Interference2 min
  4. P1 18:40TBLAlex Killorn: Hooking2 min · PPG
  5. P1 0:00OTTChris Neil: Misconduct10 min
  6. P1 0:00TBLRichard Panik: Boarding2 min
  7. P1 0:00OTTChris Neil: Roughing2 min
  8. P1 0:00OTTChris Neil: Roughing2 min
  9. P2 9:54TBLB.J. Crombeen: Instigator2 min
  10. P2 9:54TBLB.J. Crombeen: Fighting5 min
  11. P2 9:54TBLB.J. Crombeen: Misconduct10 min
  12. P2 9:54OTTMarc Methot: Fighting5 min
  13. P2 17:59OTTPeter Regin: Hooking2 min
  14. P3 4:25OTTPatrick Wiercioch: 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.

TBL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0OTT
43% to win57% to win
← TBL attackOTT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Zibanejad won the faceoff against Thompson
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TBLOTT
32Shots on goal32
2.4Expected goals3.5
56Shot attempts55
27Faceoffs won22
4Power plays2
26Penalty minutes30
42Hits32
13Blocked shots18
9Giveaways7
6Takeaways8

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. bestPyatt – Purcell – Killorn3:09

    xG 0.25–0.03 (90%)attempts 5–1goals 1–0

  2. St. Louis – Pyatt – Killorn4:21

    xG 0.23–0.10 (70%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  3. Crombeen – Thompson – Tyrell3:50

    xG 0.12–0.07 (62%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

  4. Johnson – Panik – Palat8:02

    xG 0.22–0.30 (42%)attempts 7–7goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrewer – Carle12:43

    xG 0.78–0.09 (90%)attempts 17–7goals 2–0

  2. Aulie – Gudas10:12

    xG 0.33–0.20 (62%)attempts 7–6goals 0–0

  3. Carle – Gudas4:24

    xG 0.19–0.09 (67%)attempts 8–4goals 0–0

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestAlfredsson – Greening – Turris13:00

    xG 0.61–0.37 (62%)attempts 14–12goals 0–0

  2. Neil – Smith – Dziurzynski8:37

    xG 0.21–0.10 (68%)attempts 9–6goals 0–0

  3. Latendresse – Silfverberg – Zibanejad7:55

    xG 0.46–0.39 (54%)attempts 5–8goals 2–1

  4. Condra – Smith – Dziurzynski2:10

    xG 0.01–0.04 (27%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMethot – Gryba14:54

    xG 0.96–0.33 (74%)attempts 18–9goals 3–1

  2. Phillips – Gryba2:11

    xG 0.00–0.10 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

  3. Phillips – Lundin11:34

    xG 0.18–0.44 (30%)attempts 9–9goals 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.

OTT 3.5 xGTBL 2.4 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTTBL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 84/100 · #124 of 720 this seasonSwing 0.58 · 7 goals in reach · 3-goal lead cutComeback index 56% (winner's lowest chance)
TBL 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +19 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 70% of the time.

OTT winsTBL wins

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

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