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Tue, Oct 20, 2015·CONSOL Energy Center, Pittsburgh

Florida Panthers 2, Pittsburgh Penguins 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Pittsburgh Penguins win this game 71% of the time.

PIT winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
FLA0501621101233
PIT1160121512335

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 11:00PITSidney CrosbyPPAssists: Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang · Snap, 0.12 xG0–1
  2. P3 3:17PITPhil KesselAssists: Rob Scuderi, Sidney Crosby · Wrist, 0.33 xG0–2
  3. P3 11:04FLAQuinton HowdenAssists: Connor Brickley, Erik Gudbranson · Wrist, 0.14 xG1–2
  4. P3 13:57FLADerek MacKenzieAssists: Connor Brickley, Quinton Howden · Snap, 0.13 xG2–2
  5. OT 1:21PITEvgeni MalkinPPGWGAssists: Kris Letang, Sidney Crosby · Slap, 0.14 xG2–3
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 10:07FLANick Bjugstad: Hooking2 min · PPG
  2. P1 15:01FLAWillie Mitchell: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 16:24PITNick Bonino: Hooking2 min
  4. P3 4:26PITSergei Plotnikov: Hooking2 min
  5. P3 19:35FLAJonathan Huberdeau: Cross checking2 min · PPG

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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0PIT
47% to win54% to win
← FLA attackPIT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Barkov won the faceoff against Crosby
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLAPIT
33Shots on goal35
2.6Expected goals4.0
56Shot attempts59
34Faceoffs won40
2Power plays3
6Penalty minutes4
31Hits31
14Blocked shots11
6Giveaways8
0Takeaways5

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.

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestJagr – Huberdeau – Barkov14:38

    xG 0.91–0.18 (84%)attempts 13–7goals 0–0

  2. MacKenzie – Brickley – Howden8:02

    xG 0.68–0.36 (66%)attempts 9–8goals 2–0

  3. Jokinen – Bolland – Smith5:58

    xG 0.18–0.00 (100%)attempts 12–1goals 0–0

  4. Smith – Pirri – Bjugstad4:57

    xG 0.13–0.55 (19%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCampbell – Ekblad15:08

    xG 0.68–0.37 (65%)attempts 23–7goals 1–0

  2. Mitchell – Gudbranson17:11

    xG 0.59–0.40 (60%)attempts 12–14goals 1–0

  3. Kulikov – Petrovic15:49

    xG 0.42–1.02 (29%)attempts 9–13goals 0–0

Pittsburgh Penguins

Forward lines

  1. bestBonino – Rust – Plotnikov11:43

    xG 0.73–0.18 (80%)attempts 7–8goals 0–0

  2. Kunitz – Crosby – Kessel14:51

    xG 1.06–0.95 (53%)attempts 18–12goals 1–1

  3. Cullen – Porter – Farnham4:58

    xG 0.06–0.15 (27%)attempts 1–7goals 0–0

  4. Malkin – Hornqvist – Perron12:39

    xG 0.49–0.63 (44%)attempts 10–15goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestScuderi – Maatta14:27

    xG 1.19–0.53 (69%)attempts 10–18goals 1–0

  2. Letang – Cole16:51

    xG 0.95–0.77 (55%)attempts 19–16goals 0–2

  3. Lovejoy – Dumoulin17:58

    xG 0.45–0.76 (37%)attempts 11–11goals 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.

PIT 4.0 xGFLA 2.6 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

PITFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 69/100 · #369 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.65 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 48% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50PIT 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +37 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Pittsburgh Penguins win this game 71% of the time.

PIT winsFLA wins

Simulated goal difference (PIT − FLA), 10,000 replays

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