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Tue, Nov 3, 2015·TD Garden, Boston

Dallas Stars 5, Boston Bruins 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 63% of the time.

BOS winsDAL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
DAL162924519
BOS21509115339

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 5:46DALTyler SeguinAssists: Jason Spezza, Jamie Benn · Wrist, 0.06 xG1–0
  2. P1 7:14BOSColin MillerAssists: Torey Krug, Jimmy Hayes · Slap, 0.02 xG1–1
  3. P1 19:35BOSLoui ErikssonPPAssists: Torey Krug, Patrice Bergeron · Wrist, 0.38 xG1–2
  4. P2 4:37DALTyler SeguinPPAssists: John Klingberg, Jamie Benn · Slap, 0.05 xG2–2
  5. P2 17:18DALJyrki JokipakkaAssists: Valeri Nichushkin, Jordie Benn · Slap, 0.02 xG3–2
  6. P3 1:18DALTyler SeguinPPGWGAssists: Jason Spezza, John Klingberg · Snap, 0.11 xG4–2
  7. P3 9:13DALAlex GoligoskiPPAssists: Mattias Janmark, Colton Sceviour · Backhand, 0.07 xG5–2
  8. P3 17:45BOSLoui ErikssonAssists: Ryan Spooner · Wrist, 0.10 xG5–3
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 19:20DALJordie Benn: Holding2 min · PPG
  2. P1 0:00BOSMatt Beleskey: Cross checking2 min
  3. P2 4:31BOSBrett Connolly: Hooking2 min · PPG
  4. P2 5:13DALAlex Goligoski: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 13:20DALAntoine Roussel: Tripping2 min
  6. P3 1:06BOSTorey Krug: Delaying game puck over glass2 min · PPG
  7. P3 2:34DALCody Eakin: Interference2 min
  8. P3 8:13BOSBrad Marchand: Interference2 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.

DAL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0BOS
47% to win54% to win
← DAL attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Seguin won the faceoff against Bergeron
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DALBOS
19Shots on goal39
1.8Expected goals2.5
44Shot attempts77
27Faceoffs won39
4Power plays4
8Penalty minutes8
15Hits24
21Blocked shots11
8Giveaways8
7Takeaways9

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.

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. Sharp – Eakin – Janmark9:45

    xG 0.21–0.17 (56%)attempts 8–9goals 0–1

  2. Spezza – Benn – Seguin11:11

    xG 0.37–0.37 (50%)attempts 10–16goals 1–0

  3. Faksa – Shore – Nichushkin9:45

    xG 0.23–0.34 (40%)attempts 6–10goals 1–1

  4. Fiddler – Sceviour – Roussel7:20

    xG 0.01–0.27 (4%)attempts 2–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Benn – Jokipakka11:32

    xG 0.19–0.24 (44%)attempts 7–14goals 1–2

  2. Oduya – Demers17:11

    xG 0.26–0.31 (45%)attempts 9–20goals 0–0

  3. Goligoski – Klingberg16:20

    xG 0.58–0.75 (44%)attempts 17–22goals 0–0

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestEriksson – Krejci – Khokhlachev11:30

    xG 0.24–0.10 (71%)attempts 18–5goals 0–0

  2. Bergeron – Marchand – Connolly9:55

    xG 0.36–0.31 (54%)attempts 12–8goals 0–1

  3. Beleskey – Hayes – Spooner9:15

    xG 0.29–0.24 (54%)attempts 10–6goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestChara – Miller9:48

    xG 0.36–0.22 (62%)attempts 14–8goals 1–1

  2. Miller – Krug10:50

    xG 0.26–0.17 (61%)attempts 15–6goals 1–0

  3. Chara – McQuaid2:48

    xG 0.17–0.08 (67%)attempts 3–3goals 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 2.5 xGDAL 1.8 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSDAL

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 DAL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 71/100 · #331 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.60 · 8 goals in reachComeback index 24% (winner's lowest chance)
DAL 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +27 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 63% of the time.

BOS winsDAL wins

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

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