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Sat, Nov 28, 2015·CONSOL Energy Center, Pittsburgh

Edmonton Oilers 3, Pittsburgh Penguins 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Pittsburgh Penguins win this game 66% of the time.

PIT winsEDM wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
EDM21309011032336
PIT014211011050241

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:02EDMLeon DraisaitlAssists: Taylor Hall, Teddy Purcell · Wrist, 0.33 xG1–0
  2. P1 7:30EDMLauri KorpikoskiPPAssists: Andrej Sekera, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins · Tip-in, 0.21 xG2–0
  3. P2 0:48PITEvgeni MalkinUnassisted · Backhand, 0.06 xG2–1
  4. P2 3:29PITEvgeni MalkinPPAssists: Kris Letang, Sidney Crosby · Slap, 0.07 xG2–2

Shootout

  1. 1. EDM Matt Hendricks scored
  2. 2. PIT David Perron stopped
  3. 3. EDM Jordan Eberle scored
  4. 4. PIT Sidney Crosby stopped
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 7:25PITRob Scuderi: Tripping2 min · PPG
  2. P1 17:29EDMBenoit Pouliot: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 3:23EDMMark Fayne: Hooking2 min · PPG
  4. P2 10:52PITAdam Clendening: Slashing2 min
  5. P2 17:36EDMTaylor Hall: High sticking2 min
  6. P2 18:40EDMJustin Schultz: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  7. P3 4:56PITKris Letang: Penalty shot tripping on breakaway0 min
  8. P3 7:28PITPascal Dupuis: Interference2 min
  9. OT 2:45PITSidney Crosby: Holding2 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.

EDM00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

EDMPIT
36Shots on goal41
3.5Expected goals4.7
59Shot attempts76
41Faceoffs won40
4Power plays4
8Penalty minutes8
31Hits36
17Blocked shots12
5Giveaways10
2Takeaways5

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.

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestPurcell – Hall – Draisaitl13:19

    xG 0.98–0.48 (67%)attempts 14–16goals 1–0

  2. Korpikoski – Letestu – Pakarinen3:54

    xG 0.12–0.04 (76%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  3. Korpikoski – Letestu – Eberle6:13

    xG 0.14–0.10 (58%)attempts 4–8goals 0–0

  4. Pouliot – Eberle – Nugent-Hopkins4:56

    xG 0.04–0.10 (28%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Schultz – Davidson14:45

    xG 0.46–0.57 (44%)attempts 17–13goals 0–0

  2. Fayne – Klefbom15:15

    xG 0.27–0.78 (26%)attempts 10–15goals 0–1

  3. Sekera – Nurse16:37

    xG 0.30–0.86 (26%)attempts 8–24goals 0–0

Pittsburgh Penguins

Forward lines

  1. bestKunitz – Bonino – Bennett12:03

    xG 0.52–0.22 (71%)attempts 17–5goals 0–0

  2. Cullen – Fehr – Plotnikov7:12

    xG 0.24–0.09 (74%)attempts 3–8goals 0–0

  3. Dupuis – Crosby – Hornqvist10:56

    xG 0.40–0.35 (53%)attempts 13–9goals 0–0

  4. Malkin – Kessel – Perron14:08

    xG 1.04–1.12 (48%)attempts 18–17goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestScuderi – Letang16:24

    xG 1.46–0.10 (94%)attempts 30–6goals 0–0

  2. Lovejoy – Dumoulin15:04

    xG 0.71–0.30 (71%)attempts 18–13goals 1–0

  3. Letang – Lovejoy2:17

    xG 0.16–0.02 (90%)attempts 2–1goals 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 4.7 xGEDM 3.5 xG
012345P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

PITEDM

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 EDM. Dots are goals.

Excitement 67/100 · #392 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.63 · 4 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 44% (winner's lowest chance)
EDM 100%5050%50PIT 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, Pittsburgh Penguins win this game 66% of the time.

PIT winsEDM wins

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

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