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Mon, Mar 25, 2013·Bridgestone Arena, Nashville

Edmonton Oilers 2, Nashville Predators 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Nashville Predators win this game 52% of the time.

NSH winsEDM wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
EDM1707112226
NSH11021204326

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 7:53EDMTaylor HallPPAssists: Corey Potter, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins · Tip-in, 0.13 xG1–0
  2. P1 11:51NSHSergei KostitsynAssists: Mike Fisher, Martin Erat · Snap, 0.16 xG1–1
  3. P2 4:31NSHKevin KleinAssists: Sergei Kostitsyn, Martin Erat · Wrist, 0.09 xG1–2
  4. P2 11:33NSHChris MuellerGWGAssists: Brandon Yip, Victor Bartley · Snap, 0.13 xG1–3
  5. P3 7:03EDMShawn HorcoffAssists: Ales Hemsky, Nick Schultz · Tip-in, 0.09 xG2–3
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 3:49EDMShawn Horcoff: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 7:42NSHPatric Hornqvist: Interference2 min · PPG
  3. P1 15:26NSHJonathon Blum: High sticking2 min
  4. P1 18:50EDMLadislav Smid: Interference2 min
  5. P3 8:15NSHJonathon Blum: Boarding2 min
  6. P3 11:04NSHDavid Legwand: Delaying game puck over glass2 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.

EDM00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0NSH
43% to win57% to win
← EDM attackNSH attack →
  1. P1 20:00Horcoff won the faceoff against Fisher
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

EDMNSH
26Shots on goal26
1.8Expected goals1.9
48Shot attempts43
28Faceoffs won36
4Power plays2
4Penalty minutes8
15Hits19
13Blocked shots15
7Giveaways6
7Takeaways6

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.

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestEberle – Hall – Nugent-Hopkins3:49

    xG 0.18–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  2. Belanger – Jones – Brown3:05

    xG 0.00–0.08 (0%)attempts 0–1goals 0–0

  3. Hall – Nugent-Hopkins – Yakupov2:16

    xG 0.06–0.15 (30%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  4. Smyth – Jones – Brown2:33

    xG 0.02–0.13 (11%)attempts 2–1goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Potter – Fistric11:24

    xG 0.23–0.31 (42%)attempts 10–7goals 0–1

  2. Smid – Petry16:24

    xG 0.34–0.49 (41%)attempts 9–11goals 0–1

  3. Schultz – Schultz14:39

    xG 0.25–0.61 (29%)attempts 9–15goals 1–1

Nashville Predators

Forward lines

  1. bestLegwand – Beck – Bourque12:32

    xG 0.54–0.13 (80%)attempts 14–6goals 0–0

  2. Yip – Mueller – Butler7:40

    xG 0.16–0.04 (80%)attempts 4–5goals 1–0

  3. Fisher – Erat – Kostitsyn10:16

    xG 0.51–0.41 (55%)attempts 7–10goals 2–1

  4. Clune – Hornqvist – Spaling7:54

    xG 0.22–0.20 (52%)attempts 8–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKlein – Bartley13:38

    xG 0.75–0.35 (68%)attempts 10–10goals 1–0

  2. Weber – Josi19:55

    xG 0.67–0.40 (63%)attempts 18–14goals 1–1

  3. Gill – Blum9:16

    xG 0.17–0.02 (89%)attempts 5–2goals 1–0

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.

NSH 1.9 xGEDM 1.8 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NSHEDM

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 45/100 · #397 of 720 this seasonSwing 1.45 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 36% (winner's lowest chance)
EDM 100%5050%50NSH 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +22 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Nashville Predators win this game 52% of the time.

NSH winsEDM wins

Simulated goal difference (NSH − EDM), 10,000 replays

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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).