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Sat, Nov 9, 2013·PNC Arena, Raleigh

Minnesota Wild 3, Carolina Hurricanes 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 53% of the time.

CAR winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
MIN11311006013330
CAR11111005031229

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:33MINJason PominvilleAssists: Ryan Suter · Wrist, 0.21 xG1–0
  2. P1 4:53CARRyan MurphyAssists: Drayson Bowman, Justin Peters · Wrist, 0.01 xG1–1
  3. P2 7:14CARJiri TlustyAssists: Alexander Semin, Brett Bellemore · Backhand, 0.12 xG1–2
  4. P2 11:22MINJustin FontaineAssists: Marco Scandella, Jared Spurgeon · Deflected, 0.09 xG2–2

Shootout

  1. 1. MIN Zach Parise scored
  2. 2. CAR Riley Nash stopped
  3. 3. MIN Mikko Koivu scored
  4. 4. CAR Chris Terry scored
  5. 5. MIN Jason Pominville scored
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 0:38MINRyan Suter: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 7:19CARJiri Tlusty: Hooking2 min
  3. P1 12:26CARJiri Tlusty: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 9:18CARAndrej Sekera: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 14:07CARAndrej Sekera: Interference2 min
  6. P3 0:11MINJustin Fontaine: High sticking2 min
  7. OT 3:53MINMikael Granlund: Hooking2 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 SOG0CAR
48% to win52% to win
← MIN attackCAR 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.

MINCAR
30Shots on goal29
2.5Expected goals2.4
60Shot attempts64
24Faceoffs won36
4Power plays3
6Penalty minutes8
13Hits24
14Blocked shots18
9Giveaways13
8Takeaways10

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. bestCooke – Brodziak – Fontaine10:26

    xG 0.57–0.28 (67%)attempts 14–7goals 1–1

  2. Pominville – Granlund – Niederreiter8:00

    xG 0.29–0.03 (90%)attempts 7–3goals 1–0

  3. Heatley – Konopka – Mitchell7:35

    xG 0.37–0.22 (63%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

  4. Koivu – Parise – Coyle10:46

    xG 0.30–0.37 (44%)attempts 6–8goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrodin – Dumba4:40

    xG 0.35–0.13 (73%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  2. Suter – Brodin16:46

    xG 0.62–0.52 (54%)attempts 17–14goals 1–0

  3. Suter – Prosser5:06

    xG 0.00–0.04 (0%)attempts 2–5goals 0–0

Carolina Hurricanes

Forward lines

  1. bestDwyer – Gerbe – Staal10:05

    xG 0.88–0.46 (65%)attempts 16–9goals 0–0

  2. Semin – Staal – Tlusty13:22

    xG 0.36–0.17 (68%)attempts 10–13goals 1–0

  3. Ruutu – Terry – Nash7:17

    xG 0.06–0.29 (16%)attempts 7–8goals 0–1

  4. Dvorak – Malhotra – Bowman8:53

    xG 0.15–0.42 (26%)attempts 5–10goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHainsey – Bellemore14:21

    xG 0.40–0.10 (80%)attempts 11–7goals 1–0

  2. Sekera – Faulk17:02

    xG 0.58–0.36 (62%)attempts 20–13goals 0–0

  3. Harrison – Murphy11:33

    xG 0.11–1.12 (9%)attempts 7–24goals 1–1

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.

CAR 2.4 xGMIN 2.5 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

CARMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 45/100 · #625 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.44 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 26% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50CAR 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest 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, Minnesota Wild win this game 53% of the time.

CAR winsMIN wins

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

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
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+6
+7

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