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Thu, Mar 12, 2015·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
PHI0100609030028
STL0808017022135

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 Jakub Voracek stopped
  3. 3. STL Vladimir Tarasenko scored
  4. 4. PHI Wayne Simmonds stopped
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 5:24STLSteve Ott: Holding the stick2 min
  2. P1 8:37STLRobert Bortuzzo: Cross checking2 min
  3. P1 11:51PHINicklas Grossmann: Interference2 min
  4. P1 17:20STLBarret Jackman: Slashing2 min
  5. P2 13:56STLRyan Reaves: Interference2 min
  6. P2 18:28PHIAndrew MacDonald: Tripping2 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
46% to win54% to win
← PHI attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Stastny won the faceoff against Raffl
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHISTL
28Shots on goal35
2.1Expected goals2.6
63Shot attempts66
31Faceoffs won27
4Power plays2
4Penalty minutes8
18Hits26
16Blocked shots23
1Giveaways2
6Takeaways5

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. Simmonds – Read – Couturier11:45

    xG 0.30–0.32 (48%)attempts 13–8goals 0–0

  2. Giroux – Voracek – Schenn10:24

    xG 0.29–0.34 (46%)attempts 10–11goals 0–0

  3. Lecavalier – VandeVelde – Bellemare5:02

    xG 0.11–0.17 (39%)attempts 3–7goals 0–0

  4. White – Rinaldo – Raffl6:55

    xG 0.03–0.37 (7%)attempts 5–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Grossmann – MacDonald11:13

    xG 0.20–0.36 (36%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

  2. Streit – Schultz13:34

    xG 0.24–0.59 (28%)attempts 10–17goals 0–0

  3. Colaiacovo – Schenn14:22

    xG 0.08–0.50 (14%)attempts 8–17goals 0–0

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSteen – Stastny – Jaskin11:08

    xG 0.68–0.03 (96%)attempts 15–5goals 0–0

  2. Ott – Goc – Reaves6:03

    xG 0.20–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

  3. Backes – Porter – Oshie9:07

    xG 0.21–0.06 (79%)attempts 10–5goals 0–0

  4. Lehtera – Tarasenko – Schwartz9:14

    xG 0.59–0.44 (57%)attempts 11–15goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJackman – Bortuzzo12:27

    xG 0.73–0.33 (69%)attempts 18–8goals 0–0

  2. Gunnarsson – Pietrangelo13:49

    xG 0.48–0.27 (64%)attempts 13–15goals 0–0

  3. Bouwmeester – Lindbohm12:58

    xG 0.34–0.26 (57%)attempts 11–9goals 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 2.6 xGPHI 2.1 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

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 11/100 · #1077 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.89 · 0 goals in reachComeback index 48% (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).