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Mon, Nov 23, 2015·BB&T Center, Sunrise

Los Angeles Kings 3, Florida Panthers 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 62% of the time.

FLA winsLAK wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
LAK1181717332
FLA04115015134

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 7:47LAKTyler ToffoliAssists: Milan Lucic, Jeff Carter · Wrist, 0.09 xG1–0
  2. P2 5:07FLAAleksander BarkovPPAssists: Jaromir Jagr, Jonathan Huberdeau · Snap, 0.10 xG1–1
  3. P2 17:16LAKAlec MartinezGWGAssists: Jordan Nolan, Kyle Clifford · Backhand, 0.07 xG2–1
  4. P3 1:05LAKMarian GaborikAssists: Anze Kopitar, Tanner Pearson · Wrist, 0.17 xG3–1
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 10:32FLAQuinton Howden: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 13:49FLAWillie Mitchell: High sticking2 min
  3. P1 17:13LAKMarian Gaborik: Tripping2 min
  4. P1 17:54FLAAaron Ekblad: Hooking2 min
  5. P2 4:47LAKJake Muzzin: Hooking2 min · PPG
  6. P2 11:19LAKJake Muzzin: Roughing2 min
  7. P2 17:57FLAJonathan Huberdeau: Holding2 min
  8. P3 5:16LAKBrayden McNabb: Hooking2 min
  9. P3 11:37LAKChristian Ehrhoff: 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.

LAK00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0FLA
47% to win54% to win
← LAK attackFLA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Carter won the faceoff against Bjugstad
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

LAKFLA
32Shots on goal34
2.4Expected goals3.1
47Shot attempts51
27Faceoffs won34
4Power plays5
10Penalty minutes8
37Hits29
7Blocked shots9
2Giveaways5
7Takeaways4

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.

Los Angeles Kings

Forward lines

  1. bestGaborik – Kopitar – Pearson9:48

    xG 0.62–0.29 (68%)attempts 10–5goals 1–0

  2. Carter – Lucic – Toffoli10:06

    xG 0.27–0.12 (69%)attempts 9–3goals 1–0

  3. Brown – Andreoff – Shore8:10

    xG 0.54–0.51 (51%)attempts 9–10goals 0–0

  4. Lewis – Clifford – Nolan5:21

    xG 0.07–0.28 (20%)attempts 2–5goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestEhrhoff – McBain9:24

    xG 0.81–0.21 (79%)attempts 11–6goals 0–0

  2. Doughty – McNabb16:59

    xG 0.78–0.67 (54%)attempts 17–12goals 2–0

  3. Muzzin – Martinez13:25

    xG 0.25–0.71 (26%)attempts 7–13goals 1–0

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestJokinen – Pirri – Bjugstad10:33

    xG 0.70–0.24 (75%)attempts 14–7goals 0–0

  2. Smith – Howden – Trocheck3:11

    xG 0.05–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  3. Jagr – Huberdeau – Barkov10:10

    xG 0.46–0.59 (44%)attempts 9–7goals 0–1

  4. Thornton – MacKenzie – Howden6:16

    xG 0.05–0.19 (20%)attempts 2–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKampfer – Petrovic9:22

    xG 0.53–0.25 (68%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  2. Mitchell – Gudbranson14:23

    xG 0.49–0.48 (51%)attempts 8–13goals 0–1

  3. Campbell – Ekblad14:01

    xG 0.55–0.79 (41%)attempts 13–10goals 0–1

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.

FLA 3.1 xGLAK 2.4 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

FLALAK

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 39/100 · #757 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.34 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 44% (winner's lowest chance)
LAK 100%5050%50FLA 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, Florida Panthers win this game 62% of the time.

FLA winsLAK wins

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

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