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Thu, Dec 19, 2013·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Florida Panthers 4, Ottawa Senators 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 66% of the time.

OTT winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA19112214435
OTT214010010234

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 5:39FLAJimmy HayesAssists: Shawn Matthias, Krys Barch · Wrist, 0.12 xG1–0
  2. P1 9:17OTTChris NeilAssists: Clarke MacArthur, Marc Methot · Wrist, 0.38 xG1–1
  3. P1 19:31OTTJason SpezzaPPAssists: Erik Karlsson, Craig Anderson · Wrist, 0.17 xG1–2
  4. P2 17:11FLAAleksander BarkovAssists: Tom Gilbert, Brian Campbell · Tip-in, 0.15 xG2–2
  5. P3 17:28FLATom GilbertPPGWGAssists: Tomas Fleischmann, Marcel Goc · Slap, 0.04 xG3–2
  6. P3 18:19FLATomas KopeckySHUnassisted · Wrist, 0.06 xG4–2
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 16:21OTTColin Greening: Boarding2 min
  2. P1 18:47FLATomas Kopecky: Tripping2 min · PPG
  3. P1 0:00FLAJonathan Huberdeau: Slashing2 min
  4. P1 0:00OTTErik Condra: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 7:41OTTErik Karlsson: Holding2 min
  6. P3 10:20FLAErik Gudbranson: Tripping2 min
  7. P3 15:30OTTJean-Gabriel Pageau: High sticking2 min · PPG
  8. P3 17:45FLAMike Weaver: Tripping2 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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLAOTT
35Shots on goal34
2.3Expected goals3.2
64Shot attempts59
32Faceoffs won39
3Power plays3
8Penalty minutes8
28Hits33
10Blocked shots17
11Giveaways13
12Takeaways7

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.

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestBarch – Matthias – Hayes5:43

    xG 0.14–0.07 (69%)attempts 5–4goals 1–0

  2. Kopecky – Goc – Fleischmann10:07

    xG 0.29–0.28 (51%)attempts 13–10goals 0–0

  3. Upshall – Bjugstad – Huberdeau12:06

    xG 0.34–0.40 (46%)attempts 10–12goals 0–0

  4. Boyes – Bergenheim – Barkov10:36

    xG 0.36–0.73 (33%)attempts 10–11goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestOlsen – Gudbranson11:47

    xG 0.49–0.39 (56%)attempts 13–7goals 0–0

  2. Weaver – Kulikov13:10

    xG 0.63–0.57 (52%)attempts 24–12goals 1–0

  3. Kulikov – Gudbranson2:28

    xG 0.04–0.02 (70%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestMacArthur – Ryan – Turris12:15

    xG 0.69–0.37 (65%)attempts 10–15goals 0–0

  2. Spezza – Michalek – Smith7:28

    xG 0.57–0.27 (68%)attempts 10–6goals 0–1

  3. Greening – Condra – Pageau2:52

    xG 0.09–0.01 (89%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  4. Neil – Greening – Smith2:50

    xG 0.08–0.04 (66%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCowen – Ceci2:31

    xG 0.37–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

  2. Phillips – Karlsson2:57

    xG 0.29–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

  3. Corvo – Methot11:53

    xG 0.56–0.34 (62%)attempts 11–14goals 0–1

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.

OTT 3.2 xGFLA 2.3 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTFLA

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 FLA. Dots are goals.

Excitement 50/100 · #550 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.59 · 6 goals in reachComeback index 24% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +38 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 66% of the time.

OTT winsFLA wins

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

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