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Mon, Dec 23, 2013·BB&T Center, Sunrise

Tampa Bay Lightning 6, Florida Panthers 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Tampa Bay Lightning win this game 68% of the time.

FLA winsTBL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
TBL19316211636
FLA11101206129

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 18:56FLASean BergenheimPPAssists: Aleksander Barkov · Snap, 0.09 xG0–1
  2. P1 19:15TBLAlex KillornAssists: Valtteri Filppula, Victor Hedman · Tip-in, 0.12 xG1–1
  3. P2 3:22TBLTyler JohnsonGWGAssists: Victor Hedman, Martin St. Louis · Tip-in, 0.10 xG2–1
  4. P2 8:01TBLValtteri FilppulaPPAssists: Teddy Purcell, Martin St. Louis · Tip-in, 0.13 xG3–1
  5. P2 12:07TBLMartin St. LouisAssists: Ondrej Palat · Slap, 0.07 xG4–1
  6. P3 3:40TBLJT BrownAssists: Nikita Kucherov, Jean-Philippe Cote · Wrist, 0.25 xG5–1
  7. P3 13:36TBLJT BrownAssists: Nikita Kucherov, Matt Carle · Tip-in, 0.09 xG6–1
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 8:34FLADmitry Kulikov: Holding2 min
  2. P1 15:04TBLAlex Killorn: Hooking2 min
  3. P1 17:16TBLOndrej Palat: Hooking2 min · PPG
  4. P2 4:28TBLMatt Carle: Concealing puck2 min
  5. P2 6:48FLATom Gilbert: Hooking2 min · PPG
  6. P2 6:48FLAJonathan Huberdeau: Too many men on the ice2 min
  7. P2 13:04FLAAlexander Petrovic: 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.

TBL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

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P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0FLA
48% to win52% to win
← TBL attackFLA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Barkov won the faceoff against Thompson
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TBLFLA
36Shots on goal29
4.3Expected goals3.1
64Shot attempts37
27Faceoffs won32
4Power plays3
6Penalty minutes8
18Hits26
5Blocked shots12
5Giveaways6
7Takeaways10

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.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Forward lines

  1. bestSt. Louis – Johnson – Palat9:34

    xG 0.65–0.19 (77%)attempts 10–7goals 2–0

  2. Thompson – Kucherov – Brown11:41

    xG 1.03–0.84 (55%)attempts 16–5goals 2–0

  3. St. Louis – Crombeen – Pyatt3:16

    xG 0.07–0.13 (34%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  4. Filppula – Purcell – Killorn10:37

    xG 0.40–0.53 (43%)attempts 10–5goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBarberio – Hedman11:12

    xG 1.19–0.02 (98%)attempts 22–1goals 3–0

  2. Hedman – Sustr2:47

    xG 0.21–0.16 (57%)attempts 2–3goals 1–0

  3. Salo – Cote2:00

    xG 0.05–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–0goals 0–0

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestUpshall – Bjugstad – Huberdeau3:21

    xG 0.55–0.02 (96%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  2. Kopecky – Goc – Fleischmann4:56

    xG 0.25–0.09 (74%)attempts 7–1goals 0–0

  3. Kopecky – Goc – Matthias4:51

    xG 0.05–0.04 (56%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

  4. Boyes – Bergenheim – Bjugstad2:31

    xG 0.02–0.01 (62%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestWeaver – Kulikov11:54

    xG 0.92–0.60 (60%)attempts 9–12goals 0–3

  2. Campbell – Gilbert16:15

    xG 1.27–1.34 (49%)attempts 13–19goals 0–1

  3. Olsen – Petrovic13:01

    xG 0.11–0.71 (14%)attempts 4–13goals 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.

FLA 3.1 xGTBL 4.3 xG
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Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

FLATBL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 30/100 · #784 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.01 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 27% (winner's lowest chance)
TBL 100%5050%50FLA 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, Tampa Bay Lightning win this game 68% of the time.

FLA winsTBL wins

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

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