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Thu, Oct 17, 2013·Tampa Bay Times Forum, Tampa

Minnesota Wild 1, Tampa Bay Lightning 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Tampa Bay Lightning win this game 76% of the time.

TBL winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN01101312126
TBL11007213330

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 14:02TBLTyler JohnsonPPAssists: Valtteri Filppula, Richard Panik · Wrist, 0.06 xG0–1
  2. P3 11:05MINMikko KoivuAssists: Nino Niederreiter, Ryan Suter · Wrist, 0.05 xG1–1
  3. P3 14:56TBLSteven StamkosGWGAssists: Matt Carle, Radko Gudas · Wrist, 0.16 xG1–2
  4. P3 19:42TBLSami SaloENUnassisted · Wrist, 0.47 xG1–3
Penalties (12)
  1. P1 12:19MINJason Pominville: Tripping2 min · PPG
  2. P1 19:06MINMarco Scandella: Interference2 min
  3. P2 1:59MINJared Spurgeon: Boarding2 min
  4. P2 5:22TBLBrett Connolly: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 10:39TBLSteven Stamkos: Holding the stick2 min
  6. P2 11:06MINJared Spurgeon: Interference2 min
  7. P3 6:06MINNino Niederreiter: Hooking2 min
  8. P3 12:41MINMatt Cooke: High sticking2 min
  9. P3 12:41MINMatt Cooke: High sticking2 min
  10. P3 13:57TBLAlex Killorn: Tripping2 min
  11. P3 0:00TBLB.J. Crombeen: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  12. P3 0:00MINZenon Konopka: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 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 SOG0TBL
48% to win52% to win
← MIN attackTBL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Brodziak won the faceoff against Johnson
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINTBL
26Shots on goal30
1.9Expected goals3.4
46Shot attempts52
24Faceoffs won28
2Power plays7
16Penalty minutes8
16Hits21
9Blocked shots12
4Giveaways13
11Takeaways11

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 – Niederreiter11:18

    xG 1.07–0.61 (64%)attempts 20–12goals 1–0

  2. Cooke – Brodziak – Fontaine7:00

    xG 0.05–0.04 (59%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

  3. Veilleux – Konopka – Mitchell5:47

    xG 0.02–0.02 (52%)attempts 1–4goals 0–0

  4. Heatley – Pominville – Granlund10:41

    xG 0.39–0.51 (43%)attempts 8–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestScandella – Spurgeon11:41

    xG 0.76–0.52 (59%)attempts 11–12goals 0–0

  2. Suter – Brodin16:11

    xG 0.38–0.39 (49%)attempts 13–15goals 0–0

  3. Stoner – Dumba8:33

    xG 0.18–0.30 (37%)attempts 5–5goals 0–0

Tampa Bay Lightning

Forward lines

  1. bestPurcell – Johnson – Palat9:43

    xG 0.35–0.06 (86%)attempts 7–3goals 0–0

  2. Crombeen – Thompson – Connolly6:24

    xG 0.01–0.11 (11%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  3. St. Louis – Malone – Stamkos10:25

    xG 0.30–0.42 (41%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

  4. Filppula – Killorn – Panik8:22

    xG 0.28–0.63 (31%)attempts 6–11goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestHedman – Gudas3:25

    xG 0.15–0.02 (86%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  2. Salo – Hedman10:56

    xG 0.43–0.38 (53%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

  3. Salo – Brewer2:00

    xG 0.02–0.02 (48%)attempts 1–1goals 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.

TBL 3.4 xGMIN 1.9 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TBLMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 40/100 · #677 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.39 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 49% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50TBL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +39 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 76% of the time.

TBL winsMIN wins

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

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