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Sun, Mar 15, 2015·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Philadelphia Flyers 1, Ottawa Senators 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 73% of the time.

OTT winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
PHI0711208010128
OTT0811008021228

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 5:19OTTJean-Gabriel PageauAssists: Mark Borowiecki, Erik Condra · Wrist, 0.38 xG0–1
  2. P2 12:12PHIJakub VoracekUnassisted · Slap, 0.03 xG1–1

Shootout

  1. 1. OTT Kyle Turris stopped
  2. 2. PHI Jakub Voracek stopped
  3. 3. OTT Mika Zibanejad stopped
  4. 4. PHI Wayne Simmonds stopped
  5. 5. OTT Bobby Ryan scored
  6. 6. PHI Claude Giroux stopped
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 10:21OTTMika Zibanejad: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 1:20PHIJakub Voracek: Too many men on the ice2 min
  3. P2 9:07OTTAlex Chiasson: Hooking2 min
  4. P2 12:27PHIMichael Raffl: Holding2 min
  5. P2 19:26PHIAndrew MacDonald: Holding2 min
  6. P3 9:35OTTPatrick Wiercioch: Interference2 min
  7. P3 9:35PHIZac Rinaldo: Holding2 min
  8. P3 12:06OTTErik Karlsson: Delaying game puck over glass2 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 SOG0OTT
46% to win54% to win
← PHI attackOTT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Turris won the faceoff against Giroux
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIOTT
28Shots on goal28
1.9Expected goals3.2
51Shot attempts59
27Faceoffs won36
3Power plays3
8Penalty minutes8
33Hits30
17Blocked shots19
8Giveaways14
3Takeaways10

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. bestSimmonds – Read – Couturier9:09

    xG 0.28–0.04 (87%)attempts 4–7goals 0–0

  2. Giroux – Voracek – Schenn12:29

    xG 0.49–0.28 (64%)attempts 17–11goals 0–0

  3. White – Rinaldo – Raffl6:22

    xG 0.00–0.22 (0%)attempts 2–6goals 0–0

  4. Lecavalier – VandeVelde – Bellemare7:44

    xG 0.12–0.83 (13%)attempts 4–9goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestColaiacovo – Schenn11:40

    xG 0.35–0.13 (72%)attempts 12–7goals 0–0

  2. Streit – Colaiacovo2:06

    xG 0.02–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  3. Grossmann – MacDonald13:11

    xG 0.52–0.99 (35%)attempts 12–14goals 0–1

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestCondra – Pageau – Lazar10:26

    xG 1.03–0.10 (91%)attempts 10–9goals 1–0

  2. Legwand – Chiasson – Puempel6:23

    xG 0.16–0.03 (82%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  3. Michalek – Turris – Stone10:21

    xG 0.46–0.39 (54%)attempts 13–10goals 0–0

  4. Ryan – Hoffman – Zibanejad11:58

    xG 0.03–0.31 (8%)attempts 7–6goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBorowiecki – Cowen9:05

    xG 0.97–0.03 (97%)attempts 10–2goals 1–0

  2. Methot – Karlsson15:00

    xG 0.34–0.20 (63%)attempts 13–12goals 0–0

  3. Methot – Ceci3:13

    xG 0.08–0.04 (66%)attempts 1–4goals 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.

OTT 3.2 xGPHI 1.9 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTPHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 40/100 · #694 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.36 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 46% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +23 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 73% of the time.

OTT winsPHI wins

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

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