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Mon, Mar 25, 2013·TD Garden, Boston

Toronto Maple Leafs 2, Boston Bruins 3 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 70% of the time.

BOS winsTOR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
TOR062808031225
BOS0911216022329

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 2:04TORJoffrey LupulPPAssists: Jake Gardiner, Mikhail Grabovski · Snap, 0.11 xG1–0
  2. P2 8:01TORNikolay KuleminAssists: Nazem Kadri · Snap, 0.09 xG2–0
  3. P2 9:49BOSMilan LucicAssists: Rich Peverley, Jordan Caron · Wrist, 0.21 xG2–1
  4. P3 10:36BOSPatrice BergeronAssists: Dougie Hamilton, Brad Marchand · Backhand, 0.06 xG2–2

Shootout

  1. 1. BOS Tyler Seguin scored
  2. 2. TOR Tyler Bozak scored
  3. 3. BOS Patrice Bergeron scored
  4. 4. TOR Nazem Kadri stopped
  5. 5. BOS Brad Marchand stopped
  6. 6. TOR Nikolay Kulemin stopped
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 17:19TORColton Orr: Boarding2 min
  2. P2 0:27BOSAaron Johnson: Interference2 min · PPG
  3. P2 16:37BOSDennis Seidenberg: Slashing2 min
  4. P3 0:30BOSPatrice Bergeron: Hooking2 min
  5. P3 13:08TORDion Phaneuf: Roughing2 min
  6. P3 13:08BOSAndrew Ference: Roughing2 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.

TOR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TORBOS
25Shots on goal29
1.7Expected goals2.7
38Shot attempts69
26Faceoffs won44
3Power plays1
4Penalty minutes8
22Hits25
19Blocked shots8
8Giveaways8
5Takeaways4

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.

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. Orr – McClement – McLaren7:36

    xG 0.02–0.04 (28%)attempts 1–9goals 0–0

  2. Lupul – Kulemin – Kadri13:56

    xG 0.49–0.53 (48%)attempts 8–12goals 1–0

  3. Kessel – van Riemsdyk – Bozak12:01

    xG 0.28–0.50 (36%)attempts 10–14goals 0–1

  4. MacArthur – Grabovski – Hamilton9:05

    xG 0.24–0.60 (29%)attempts 6–9goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Kostka – Gardiner13:42

    xG 0.35–0.43 (45%)attempts 8–18goals 0–0

  2. Phaneuf – Gunnarsson19:15

    xG 0.52–0.81 (39%)attempts 11–20goals 1–0

  3. Franson – Fraser13:06

    xG 0.07–0.71 (9%)attempts 4–12goals 0–1

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestHorton – Krejci – Marchand8:45

    xG 0.44–0.06 (89%)attempts 8–4goals 0–0

  2. Paille – Bergeron – Seguin11:15

    xG 0.76–0.40 (65%)attempts 14–7goals 0–1

  3. Peverley – Lucic – Caron5:53

    xG 0.34–0.21 (61%)attempts 5–5goals 1–0

  4. Horton – Krejci – Lucic5:51

    xG 0.21–0.13 (61%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestFerence – Johnson11:38

    xG 0.67–0.33 (67%)attempts 10–6goals 1–1

  2. Chara – Seidenberg2:43

    xG 0.19–0.01 (93%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  3. Seidenberg – Bartkowski12:21

    xG 0.29–0.16 (64%)attempts 16–5goals 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 2.7 xGTOR 1.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSTOR

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 TOR. Dots are goals.

Excitement 74/100 · #198 of 720 this seasonSwing 1.82 · 4 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 16% (winner's lowest chance)
TOR 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +30 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 70% of the time.

BOS winsTOR wins

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

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