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Sat, Feb 1, 2014·TD Garden, Boston

Edmonton Oilers 0, Boston Bruins 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 88% of the time.

BOS winsEDM wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
EDM02010010022
BOS09113319441

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 2:06BOSDavid KrejciPPGWGAssists: Jarome Iginla, Milan Lucic · Slap, 0.05 xG0–1
  2. P3 6:43BOSDougie HamiltonAssists: Zdeno Chara, Carl Soderberg · Wrap-around, 0.14 xG0–2
  3. P3 13:05BOSCarl SoderbergAssists: Chris Kelly, Matt Bartkowski · Wrist, 0.05 xG0–3
  4. P3 15:42BOSTorey KrugPPAssists: Zdeno Chara, Jarome Iginla · Snap, 0.12 xG0–4
Penalties (13)
  1. P1 3:20BOSShawn Thornton: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 3:20EDMLuke Gazdic: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 7:15BOSChris Kelly: Hooking2 min
  4. P1 9:30EDMRyan Smyth: Hooking2 min
  5. P1 12:08EDMJeff Petry: Hooking2 min
  6. P1 12:08EDMJeff Petry: Roughing2 min
  7. P1 12:08BOSGregory Campbell: Roughing2 min
  8. P2 0:26EDMBen Scrivens: Tripping2 min · PPG
  9. P2 11:00BOSDavid Krejci: Holding2 min
  10. P2 15:03BOSChris Kelly: High sticking2 min
  11. P2 15:44EDMJordan Eberle: Interference2 min
  12. P3 8:52BOSMatt Bartkowski: Hooking2 min
  13. P3 14:40EDMDavid Perron: Roughing2 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.

EDM00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0BOS
48% to win52% to win
← EDM attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Nugent-Hopkins won the faceoff against Bergeron
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

EDMBOS
22Shots on goal41
1.3Expected goals3.9
40Shot attempts74
22Faceoffs won27
4Power plays5
17Penalty minutes15
19Hits23
16Blocked shots6
11Giveaways4
4Takeaways8

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.

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestHendricks – Hemsky – Gordon7:45

    xG 0.21–0.14 (60%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

  2. Smyth – Jones – Gazdic2:08

    xG 0.03–0.08 (28%)attempts 1–4goals 0–0

  3. Eberle – Hall – Nugent-Hopkins12:42

    xG 0.23–0.81 (22%)attempts 8–15goals 0–0

  4. Gagner – Perron – Yakupov7:13

    xG 0.04–0.73 (5%)attempts 2–11goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Schultz – Marincin2:38

    xG 0.05–0.07 (40%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  2. Ference – Fraser8:06

    xG 0.29–0.38 (43%)attempts 5–10goals 0–0

  3. Petry – Marincin11:37

    xG 0.30–0.42 (42%)attempts 10–10goals 0–0

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestIginla – Krejci – Lucic11:40

    xG 1.16–0.33 (78%)attempts 18–9goals 0–0

  2. Bergeron – Marchand – Smith9:29

    xG 0.55–0.19 (74%)attempts 13–6goals 0–0

  3. Kelly – Eriksson – Soderberg8:45

    xG 0.23–0.16 (59%)attempts 10–5goals 1–0

  4. Thornton – Campbell – Paille6:13

    xG 0.10–0.08 (55%)attempts 2–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBoychuk – Bartkowski11:46

    xG 1.20–0.21 (85%)attempts 21–6goals 1–0

  2. Chara – Hamilton13:55

    xG 0.58–0.32 (65%)attempts 13–10goals 0–0

  3. Boychuk – Krug2:11

    xG 0.15–0.02 (88%)attempts 1–2goals 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.

BOS 3.9 xGEDM 1.3 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSEDM

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 7/100 · #1100 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.66 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 50% (winner's lowest chance)
EDM 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +23 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 88% of the time.

BOS winsEDM wins

Simulated goal difference (BOS − EDM), 10,000 replays

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