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Wed, Feb 18, 2015·Honda Center, Anaheim

Tampa Bay Lightning 4, Anaheim Ducks 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Tampa Bay Lightning win this game 54% of the time.

ANA winsTBL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
TBL0842004432
ANA1705013125

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:17ANAPatrick MaroonAssists: Rickard Rakell, Kyle Palmieri · Tip-in, 0.24 xG0–1
  2. P2 4:31TBLAnton StralmanAssists: Brian Boyle, Jonathan Drouin · Tip-in, 0.21 xG1–1
  3. P2 5:55TBLTyler JohnsonGWGAssists: Ondrej Palat, Jason Garrison · Wrist, 0.30 xG2–1
  4. P2 18:05TBLNikita KucherovAssists: Anton Stralman, Ondrej Palat · Deflected, 0.15 xG3–1
  5. P2 19:39TBLSteven StamkosAssists: Alex Killorn, Andrej Sustr · Wrist, 0.12 xG4–1
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 4:51ANARene Bourque: Roughing2 min
  2. P1 7:42TBLMark Barberio: Holding2 min
  3. P3 6:00ANADevante Smith-Pelly: Roughing2 min
  4. P3 14:11ANAPatrick Maroon: Slashing2 min
  5. P3 14:34TBLTyler Johnson: 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.

TBL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0ANA
46% to win54% to win
← TBL attackANA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Filppula won the faceoff against Rakell
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TBLANA
32Shots on goal25
3.0Expected goals2.8
52Shot attempts62
30Faceoffs won33
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
25Hits26
17Blocked shots11
11Giveaways6
8Takeaways4

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. bestBoyle – Brown – Drouin10:21

    xG 0.62–0.09 (87%)attempts 12–6goals 1–0

  2. Callahan – Killorn – Stamkos12:47

    xG 0.81–0.33 (71%)attempts 16–8goals 1–0

  3. Johnson – Palat – Kucherov9:50

    xG 0.56–0.27 (67%)attempts 8–6goals 2–0

  4. Filppula – Connolly – Paquette11:51

    xG 0.21–0.97 (18%)attempts 7–16goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestStralman – Barberio14:30

    xG 1.04–0.32 (77%)attempts 17–12goals 2–0

  2. Garrison – Nesterov14:08

    xG 0.78–0.44 (64%)attempts 14–10goals 1–0

  3. Barberio – Sustr2:21

    xG 0.07–0.02 (75%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. bestKesler – Cogliano – Silfverberg9:46

    xG 0.64–0.08 (88%)attempts 12–6goals 0–0

  2. Maroon – Palmieri – Rakell11:23

    xG 1.01–0.60 (62%)attempts 13–14goals 1–1

  3. Thompson – Smith-Pelly – Etem6:51

    xG 0.08–0.29 (20%)attempts 6–7goals 0–1

  4. Getzlaf – Perry – Bourque12:23

    xG 0.48–0.82 (37%)attempts 13–12goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrewer – Lovejoy5:10

    xG 0.35–0.13 (73%)attempts 10–2goals 0–0

  2. Stoner – Manson8:28

    xG 0.27–0.17 (62%)attempts 12–4goals 0–1

  3. Stoner – Lovejoy8:51

    xG 0.22–0.24 (48%)attempts 5–7goals 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.

ANA 2.8 xGTBL 3.0 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

ANATBL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 30/100 · #831 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.01 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 27% (winner's lowest chance)
TBL 100%5050%50ANA 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +21 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 54% of the time.

ANA winsTBL wins

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

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