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Tue, Jan 13, 2015·TD Garden, Boston

Tampa Bay Lightning 3, Boston Bruins 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 69% of the time.

BOS winsTBL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
TBL181615319
BOS1929116434

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 9:23TBLSteven StamkosAssists: Ondrej Palat, Nikita Kucherov · Tip-in, 0.30 xG1–0
  2. P1 16:42BOSBrad MarchandAssists: Carl Soderberg, Torey Krug · Snap, 0.05 xG1–1
  3. P2 10:55TBLSteven StamkosAssists: Ondrej Palat, Nikita Nesterov · Wrist, 0.06 xG2–1
  4. P2 15:24BOSDavid PastrnakAssists: Milan Lucic, Kevan Miller · Wrist, 0.11 xG2–2
  5. P2 19:06BOSMilan LucicAssists: David Krejci, Dennis Seidenberg · Backhand, 0.09 xG2–3
  6. P3 1:30BOSDavid PastrnakGWGAssists: Torey Krug, David Krejci · Wrap-around, 0.13 xG2–4
  7. P3 14:18TBLRyan CallahanAssists: Alex Killorn, Mark Barberio · Tip-in, 0.20 xG3–4
Penalties (17)
  1. P1 2:42BOSBrad Marchand: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  2. P1 6:11TBLBrian Boyle: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 2:46BOSBrad Marchand: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 6:39BOSCarl Soderberg: Hooking2 min
  5. P3 3:56TBLSteven Stamkos: Delaying game2 min
  6. P3 4:03BOSZdeno Chara: Boarding2 min
  7. P3 4:03BOSZdeno Chara: Roughing2 min
  8. P3 4:03BOSZdeno Chara: Roughing2 min
  9. P3 4:03TBLCedric Paquette: Roughing2 min
  10. P3 9:34TBLJT Brown: Roughing2 min
  11. P3 9:34TBLJT Brown: Roughing2 min
  12. P3 9:34BOSDavid Krejci: Roughing2 min
  13. P3 19:58BOSZdeno Chara: Roughing2 min
  14. P3 19:58BOSZdeno Chara: Roughing2 min
  15. P3 19:58TBLCedric Paquette: Roughing2 min
  16. P3 19:58TBLCedric Paquette: Roughing2 min
  17. P3 19:58BOSBrad Marchand: Misconduct10 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

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0BOS
46% to win54% to win
← TBL attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Campbell won the faceoff against Boyle
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TBLBOS
19Shots on goal34
1.8Expected goals2.7
34Shot attempts60
25Faceoffs won30
5Power plays3
14Penalty minutes28
24Hits18
10Blocked shots9
11Giveaways12
9Takeaways14

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. bestFilppula – Callahan – Killorn11:08

    xG 0.50–0.28 (64%)attempts 11–8goals 1–2

  2. Morrow – Boyle – Brown6:19

    xG 0.00–0.09 (0%)attempts 0–5goals 0–0

  3. Namestnikov – Paquette – Drouin3:55

    xG 0.08–0.22 (27%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  4. Stamkos – Palat – Kucherov11:30

    xG 0.48–0.93 (34%)attempts 7–15goals 2–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCarle – Barberio10:20

    xG 0.62–0.40 (61%)attempts 7–9goals 1–1

  2. Carle – Stralman2:25

    xG 0.02–0.05 (23%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

  3. Garrison – Sustr10:32

    xG 0.17–0.23 (42%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestBergeron – Marchand – Smith4:47

    xG 0.35–0.00 (100%)attempts 8–0goals 0–0

  2. Krejci – Lucic – Pastrnak6:46

    xG 0.51–0.18 (74%)attempts 13–4goals 2–0

  3. Krejci – Marchand – Pastrnak5:42

    xG 0.22–0.10 (69%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

  4. Eriksson – Soderberg – Smith6:06

    xG 0.13–0.03 (84%)attempts 7–1goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestChara – Hamilton11:51

    xG 1.02–0.10 (91%)attempts 18–3goals 0–1

  2. Hamilton – Krug2:59

    xG 0.04–0.01 (75%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  3. McQuaid – Krug3:34

    xG 0.04–0.15 (22%)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 2.7 xGTBL 1.8 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSTBL

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 TBL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 62/100 · #419 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.72 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 30% (winner's lowest chance)
TBL 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +26 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 69% of the time.

BOS winsTBL wins

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

-7
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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).