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Thu, Oct 24, 2013·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Carolina Hurricanes 1, Minnesota Wild 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 68% of the time.

MIN winsCAR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CAR0911207128
MIN21006111327

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 8:21MINNino NiederreiterPPAssists: Mikael Granlund, Mathew Dumba · Wrist, 0.19 xG0–1
  2. P1 11:55MINZach PariseGWGAssists: Jared Spurgeon, Ryan Suter · Deflected, 0.25 xG0–2
  3. P2 6:01CARAlexander SeminPPAssists: Eric Staal, Andrej Sekera · Slap, 0.05 xG1–2
  4. P3 19:34MINDany HeatleyENAssists: Matt Cooke, Nate Prosser · Wrist, 0.62 xG1–3
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 1:52CARBrett Bellemore: Roughing2 min
  2. P1 8:03CARAlexander Semin: Interference2 min · PPG
  3. P1 16:44MINMarco Scandella: Holding2 min
  4. P2 0:27MINMikael Granlund: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 4:02MINDany Heatley: Slashing2 min · PPG
  6. P2 7:22CARTuomo Ruutu: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  7. P2 19:45MINTorrey Mitchell: Boarding2 min
  8. P3 5:01MINStephane Veilleux: Cross checking2 min
  9. P3 10:49CAREric Staal: Tripping2 min
  10. P3 18:22CARRadek Dvorak: High sticking2 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.

CAR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MIN
48% to win52% to win
← CAR attackMIN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Staal won the faceoff against Koivu
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CARMIN
28Shots on goal27
1.7Expected goals2.6
53Shot attempts53
23Faceoffs won36
5Power plays5
10Penalty minutes10
24Hits11
13Blocked shots14
2Giveaways6
4Takeaways5

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.

Carolina Hurricanes

Forward lines

  1. bestDvorak – Gerbe – Staal9:18

    xG 0.29–0.04 (89%)attempts 8–2goals 0–0

  2. Ruutu – Nash – Skinner5:00

    xG 0.20–0.17 (54%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  3. Semin – Staal – Tlusty9:56

    xG 0.13–0.26 (32%)attempts 11–11goals 0–0

  4. Ruutu – Nash – Bowman5:26

    xG 0.05–0.37 (12%)attempts 4–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHainsey – Bellemore13:49

    xG 0.73–0.39 (65%)attempts 16–10goals 0–0

  2. Sekera – Faulk10:44

    xG 0.21–0.08 (72%)attempts 11–8goals 0–0

  3. Harrison – Murphy13:02

    xG 0.29–0.78 (27%)attempts 11–21goals 0–1

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestCooke – Brodziak – Niederreiter4:41

    xG 0.13–0.00 (100%)attempts 7–1goals 0–0

  2. Cooke – Brodziak – Mitchell2:48

    xG 0.05–0.02 (74%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  3. Veilleux – Konopka – Mitchell5:08

    xG 0.06–0.07 (47%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  4. Pominville – Granlund – Niederreiter2:48

    xG 0.03–0.05 (34%)attempts 1–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSuter – Spurgeon14:59

    xG 0.64–0.27 (71%)attempts 13–14goals 1–0

  2. Stoner – Prosser2:27

    xG 0.07–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–0goals 0–0

  3. Suter – Stoner2:02

    xG 0.01–0.02 (44%)attempts 3–2goals 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.

MIN 2.6 xGCAR 1.7 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINCAR

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 18/100 · #968 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.91 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 51% (winner's lowest chance)
CAR 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +20 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 68% of the time.

MIN winsCAR wins

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

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