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Thu, Nov 7, 2013·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Montréal Canadiens 1, Ottawa Senators 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Montréal Canadiens win this game 61% of the time.

OTT winsMTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MTL19014011134
OTT1726111424

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 12:32MTLAndrei MarkovPPAssists: P.K. Subban, Tomas Plekanec · Slap, 0.03 xG1–0
  2. P1 13:00OTTBobby RyanAssists: Clarke MacArthur, Eric Gryba · Wrist, 0.04 xG1–1
  3. P2 11:31OTTMarc MethotGWGUnassisted · Slap, 0.20 xG1–2
  4. P2 12:08OTTMark BorowieckiAssists: Clarke MacArthur, Bobby Ryan · Snap, 0.02 xG1–3
  5. P3 18:51OTTKyle TurrisENAssists: Bobby Ryan · Wrist, 0.60 xG1–4
Penalties (14)
  1. P1 1:21MTLBrendan Gallagher: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 1:21OTTZack Smith: Roughing2 min
  3. P1 7:22MTLBrendan Gallagher: Tripping2 min
  4. P1 12:01OTTJason Spezza: Cross checking2 min · PPG
  5. P1 18:01MTLBrendan Gallagher: Tripping2 min
  6. P2 5:20OTTClarke MacArthur: Holding2 min
  7. P2 9:28MTLFrancis Bouillon: Roughing2 min
  8. P2 9:28OTTClarke MacArthur: Roughing2 min
  9. P2 12:59OTTMika Zibanejad: Interference2 min
  10. P2 16:02OTTErik Karlsson: Tripping2 min
  11. P2 16:51MTLBrendan Gallagher: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  12. P3 9:40OTTCory Conacher: Too many men on the ice2 min
  13. P3 11:30MTLRene Bourque: Holding the stick2 min
  14. P3 14:50MTLMichael Bournival: High sticking2 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.

MTL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0OTT
48% to win52% to win
← MTL attackOTT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Turris won the faceoff against Plekanec
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MTLOTT
34Shots on goal24
3.0Expected goals2.4
68Shot attempts54
23Faceoffs won38
5Power plays5
14Penalty minutes14
20Hits38
22Blocked shots18
8Giveaways9
6Takeaways7

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.

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. bestEller – Gallagher – Galchenyuk8:49

    xG 0.49–0.13 (79%)attempts 16–8goals 0–1

  2. Gionta – Plekanec – Pacioretty8:04

    xG 0.33–0.06 (85%)attempts 12–6goals 0–0

  3. Bourque – Desharnais – Bournival11:01

    xG 0.19–0.35 (35%)attempts 12–5goals 0–0

  4. Parros – Moen – White2:26

    xG 0.00–0.17 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestMarkov – Subban13:11

    xG 0.56–0.13 (81%)attempts 20–10goals 0–1

  2. Gorges – Diaz7:13

    xG 0.20–0.06 (76%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  3. Bouillon – Subban2:41

    xG 0.08–0.02 (75%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestSpezza – Michalek – Conacher5:43

    xG 0.30–0.14 (68%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

  2. Neil – Greening – Smith3:26

    xG 0.09–0.04 (70%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  3. Spezza – Greening – Zibanejad3:13

    xG 0.03–0.21 (11%)attempts 3–7goals 0–0

  4. Neil – Michalek – Smith4:04

    xG 0.02–0.22 (9%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMethot – Gryba2:06

    xG 0.18–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–1goals 1–0

  2. Karlsson – Cowen10:41

    xG 0.42–0.36 (54%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

  3. Methot – Borowiecki10:50

    xG 0.34–0.39 (46%)attempts 7–15goals 2–0

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 2.4 xGMTL 3.0 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTMTL

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 MTL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 28/100 · #823 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.93 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 36% (winner's lowest chance)
MTL 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +24 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Montréal Canadiens win this game 61% of the time.

OTT winsMTL wins

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

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