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Sat, Feb 8, 2014·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Vancouver Canucks 1, Toronto Maple Leafs 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 57% of the time.

TOR winsVAN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
VAN11206015133
TOR0805311324

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 19:38VANRyan KeslerAssists: Chris Higgins, Alexander Edler · Wrist, 0.04 xG1–0
  2. P3 7:23TORMason RaymondAssists: Nikolay Kulemin, Troy Bodie · Wrist, 0.02 xG1–1
  3. P3 10:03TORPhil KesselGWGAssists: Tyler Bozak, Tim Gleason · Wrist, 0.03 xG1–2
  4. P3 12:05TORJames van RiemsdykAssists: Phil Kessel, Tyler Bozak · Snap, 0.21 xG1–3
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 1:04VANZack Kassian: Too many men on the ice2 min
  2. P1 4:10VANKellan Lain: High sticking2 min
  3. P1 8:24VANAlexander Edler: Tripping2 min
  4. P1 8:24TORMason Raymond: Diving2 min
  5. P1 12:46TORNazem Kadri: High sticking2 min
  6. P2 18:50VANAlexandre Burrows: High sticking2 min
  7. P2 18:50TORPhil Kessel: Roughing2 min
  8. P2 18:50VANAlexandre Burrows: Roughing2 min
  9. P2 0:00TORDavid Clarkson: 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.

VAN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0TOR
48% to win52% to win
← VAN attackTOR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Kulemin won the faceoff against Kesler
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

VANTOR
33Shots on goal24
1.8Expected goals2.2
57Shot attempts62
29Faceoffs won35
2Power plays3
10Penalty minutes8
37Hits41
22Blocked shots11
6Giveaways16
6Takeaways8

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.

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestSedin – Burrows – Schroeder9:15

    xG 0.32–0.08 (80%)attempts 13–5goals 0–0

  2. Higgins – Kesler – Hansen14:54

    xG 0.28–0.45 (38%)attempts 15–16goals 1–1

  3. Richardson – Booth – Kassian7:37

    xG 0.04–0.45 (8%)attempts 3–12goals 0–1

  4. Sestito – Dalpe – Lain4:08

    xG 0.05–0.53 (9%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestEdler – Stanton2:20

    xG 0.11–0.01 (89%)attempts 3–3goals 1–0

  2. Stanton – Corrado9:30

    xG 0.05–0.22 (19%)attempts 5–13goals 0–0

  3. Hamhuis – Garrison16:39

    xG 0.40–0.58 (41%)attempts 14–19goals 0–1

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestLupul – Clarkson – Kadri9:19

    xG 0.54–0.12 (81%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

  2. Bodie – Raymond – Kulemin11:15

    xG 0.46–0.09 (84%)attempts 11–8goals 1–0

  3. Kessel – van Riemsdyk – Bozak12:54

    xG 0.52–0.16 (76%)attempts 19–8goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestFranson – Gardiner7:22

    xG 0.55–0.01 (97%)attempts 11–3goals 1–0

  2. Ranger – Rielly2:30

    xG 0.18–0.05 (80%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  3. Phaneuf – Gunnarsson11:39

    xG 0.44–0.32 (58%)attempts 13–16goals 1–0

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.

TOR 2.2 xGVAN 1.8 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORVAN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 34/100 · #743 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.19 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 22% (winner's lowest chance)
VAN 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +33 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 57% of the time.

TOR winsVAN wins

Simulated goal difference (TOR − VAN), 10,000 replays

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