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Tue, Apr 1, 2014·Scottrade Center, St. Louis

Philadelphia Flyers 0, St. Louis Blues 1 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 61% of the time.

STL winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
PHI0100809040031
STL0110807022128

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. No goals in regulation or overtime.

Shootout

  1. 1. STL T.J. Oshie scored
  2. 2. PHI Vincent Lecavalier stopped
  3. 3. STL Alexander Steen stopped
  4. 4. PHI Claude Giroux stopped
  5. 5. STL Kevin Shattenkirk scored
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 14:43STLBarret Jackman: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  2. P2 1:28PHIAndrew MacDonald: Slashing2 min
  3. P2 1:28STLAlexander Steen: Cross checking2 min
  4. P2 5:24PHIAndrew MacDonald: Tripping2 min
  5. P3 1:58PHISean Couturier: Hooking2 min
  6. P3 15:03STLVladimir Sobotka: High sticking2 min
  7. P3 18:36PHIClaude Giroux: High sticking2 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.

PHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
48% to win52% to win
← PHI attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Giroux won the faceoff against Backes
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHISTL
31Shots on goal28
2.3Expected goals2.9
49Shot attempts66
21Faceoffs won34
2Power plays3
8Penalty minutes6
25Hits26
17Blocked shots12
3Giveaways4
7Takeaways11

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.

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestHartnell – Giroux – Voracek11:40

    xG 0.30–0.23 (56%)attempts 7–9goals 0–0

  2. Read – Couturier – Raffl7:51

    xG 0.30–0.28 (51%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

  3. Simmonds – Schenn – McGinn9:40

    xG 0.28–0.32 (47%)attempts 5–12goals 0–0

  4. Lecavalier – Hall – Rinaldo5:49

    xG 0.03–0.62 (5%)attempts 4–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStreit – Grossmann2:02

    xG 0.08–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  2. Coburn – MacDonald5:08

    xG 0.11–0.07 (62%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

  3. Streit – MacDonald14:01

    xG 0.47–0.52 (47%)attempts 13–13goals 0–0

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestRoy – Lapierre – Reaves6:32

    xG 0.40–0.15 (72%)attempts 9–6goals 0–0

  2. Ott – Berglund – Paajarvi9:20

    xG 0.13–0.11 (53%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  3. Morrow – Sobotka – Schwartz12:16

    xG 0.34–0.38 (47%)attempts 10–12goals 0–0

  4. Steen – Backes – Oshie10:04

    xG 0.30–0.40 (43%)attempts 13–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJackman – Polak14:05

    xG 0.87–0.31 (73%)attempts 11–11goals 0–0

  2. Colaiacovo – Shattenkirk12:44

    xG 0.54–0.37 (59%)attempts 15–10goals 0–0

  3. Bouwmeester – Pietrangelo16:42

    xG 0.54–0.61 (47%)attempts 20–12goals 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.

STL 2.9 xGPHI 2.3 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLPHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 12/100 · #1071 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.00 · 0 goals in reachComeback index 42% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3OTEnd

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 61% of the time.

STL winsPHI wins

Simulated goal difference (STL − PHI), 10,000 replays

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