Skip to content
Ice Lab

Tue, Nov 19, 2013·Centre Bell, Montreal

Minnesota Wild 2, Montréal Canadiens 6

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Montréal Canadiens win this game 53% of the time.

MTL winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN0708212227
MTL0941128628

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 2:57MTLMax PaciorettyAssists: David Desharnais, P.K. Subban · Tip-in, 0.12 xG0–1
  2. P2 10:06MTLMax PaciorettyAssists: David Desharnais, Brendan Gallagher · Wrist, 0.10 xG0–2
  3. P2 13:36MTLMax PaciorettyPPGWGAssists: Brendan Gallagher, P.K. Subban · Tip-in, 0.14 xG0–3
  4. P2 16:16MTLMichael BournivalAssists: Travis Moen · Wrist, 0.09 xG0–4
  5. P3 4:42MTLDaniel BrièreAssists: Brian Gionta, Tomas Plekanec · Wrist, 0.08 xG0–5
  6. P3 5:30MINNino NiederreiterAssists: Kyle Brodziak, Matt Cooke · Wrist, 0.28 xG1–5
  7. P3 7:59MTLAlex GalchenyukPPAssists: Andrei Markov, Brandon Prust · Wrist, 0.05 xG1–6
  8. P3 19:58MINDany HeatleyPPAssists: Ryan Suter, Jonas Brodin · Wrist, 0.23 xG2–6
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 7:50MINJared Spurgeon: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 11:01MTLBrandon Prust: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 11:01MINZenon Konopka: Fighting5 min
  4. P2 3:14MTLAlexei Emelin: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 5:42MINJared Spurgeon: Tripping2 min
  6. P2 12:35MINClayton Stoner: Interference2 min · PPG
  7. P3 7:35MINKyle Brodziak: Hooking2 min · PPG
  8. P3 13:00MTLBrendan Gallagher: Tripping2 min
  9. P3 16:20MINMarco Scandella: Hooking2 min
  10. P3 18:11MTLDaniel Brière: Holding2 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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MTL
48% to win52% to win
← MIN attackMTL attack →
  1. Press play, or drag along the timeline.
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINMTL
27Shots on goal28
2.2Expected goals2.4
56Shot attempts52
35Faceoffs won28
3Power plays5
15Penalty minutes11
15Hits21
12Blocked shots23
2Giveaways12
2Takeaways4

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 – Coyle14:12

    xG 0.61–0.15 (81%)attempts 15–8goals 0–0

  2. Pominville – Granlund – Niederreiter9:27

    xG 0.13–0.18 (42%)attempts 8–6goals 0–1

  3. Cooke – Brodziak – Fontaine6:58

    xG 0.08–0.26 (25%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

  4. Heatley – Konopka – Fontaine2:23

    xG 0.00–0.29 (0%)attempts 0–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStoner – Prosser12:40

    xG 0.78–0.27 (75%)attempts 16–11goals 1–0

  2. Scandella – Spurgeon10:22

    xG 0.54–0.28 (66%)attempts 10–9goals 0–0

  3. Suter – Spurgeon4:56

    xG 0.27–0.02 (92%)attempts 9–1goals 0–0

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. bestDesharnais – Pacioretty – Gallagher10:29

    xG 0.45–0.26 (64%)attempts 12–10goals 2–0

  2. Moen – White – Bournival6:05

    xG 0.22–0.31 (42%)attempts 6–8goals 1–0

  3. Brière – Gionta – Plekanec11:22

    xG 0.21–0.39 (35%)attempts 9–8goals 1–0

  4. Prust – Eller – Galchenyuk11:00

    xG 0.38–0.71 (35%)attempts 10–11goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBouillon – Diaz12:39

    xG 0.31–0.11 (73%)attempts 12–5goals 0–0

  2. Markov – Subban13:54

    xG 0.60–0.71 (46%)attempts 11–13goals 3–1

  3. Bouillon – Emelin2:06

    xG 0.02–0.24 (8%)attempts 1–8goals 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.

MTL 2.4 xGMIN 2.2 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MTLMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 22/100 · #910 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.57 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 51% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50MTL 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, Montréal Canadiens win this game 53% of the time.

MTL winsMIN wins

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

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

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