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Tue, Dec 29, 2015·BB&T Center, Sunrise

Montréal Canadiens 1, Florida Panthers 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 70% of the time.

FLA winsMTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MTL11208010130
FLA1131918330

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 12:39MTLMax PaciorettyPPAssists: P.K. Subban, Alex Galchenyuk · Wrist, 0.13 xG1–0
  2. P1 16:28FLAAleksander BarkovPPAssists: Dmitry Kulikov, Aaron Ekblad · Snap, 0.08 xG1–1
  3. P2 1:16FLAJaromir JagrGWGAssists: Jonathan Huberdeau, Aleksander Barkov · Wrist, 0.12 xG1–2
  4. P3 8:53FLAAleksander BarkovAssists: Erik Gudbranson, Jonathan Huberdeau · Backhand, 0.12 xG1–3
Penalties (12)
  1. P1 0:50MTLTomas Fleischmann: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 6:57MTLTorrey Mitchell: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 6:57FLADerek MacKenzie: Embellishment2 min
  4. P1 11:24FLADmitry Kulikov: Broken stick2 min · PPG
  5. P1 14:29MTLLars Eller: Holding2 min · PPG
  6. P1 17:39FLADerek MacKenzie: Fighting5 min
  7. P1 17:39MTLP.K. Subban: Fighting5 min
  8. P2 14:57MTLJeff Petry: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  9. P2 17:18FLAReilly Smith: Holding2 min
  10. P3 7:43FLALogan Shaw: High sticking2 min
  11. P3 7:56MTLP.K. Subban: Tripping2 min
  12. P3 18:47MTLP.K. Subban: 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.

MTL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

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P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0FLA
47% to win54% to win
← MTL attackFLA attack →
  1. Press play, or drag along the timeline.
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MTLFLA
30Shots on goal30
1.9Expected goals3.1
40Shot attempts49
38Faceoffs won26
3Power plays5
17Penalty minutes13
28Hits32
6Blocked shots2
6Giveaways3
3Takeaways5

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.

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. bestPlekanec – Pacioretty – Andrighetto4:24

    xG 0.16–0.07 (70%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  2. Fleischmann – Desharnais – Weise2:24

    xG 0.02–0.04 (34%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  3. Mitchell – Byron – Flynn6:34

    xG 0.10–0.13 (43%)attempts 5–2goals 0–1

  4. Plekanec – Fleischmann – Andrighetto7:29

    xG 0.19–0.33 (37%)attempts 4–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Pateryn – Barberio9:46

    xG 0.04–0.17 (18%)attempts 2–7goals 0–0

  2. Markov – Beaulieu2:28

    xG 0.01–0.21 (5%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

  3. Subban – Beaulieu14:02

    xG 0.43–0.73 (37%)attempts 13–13goals 0–0

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestJagr – Huberdeau – Barkov11:48

    xG 1.34–0.17 (89%)attempts 20–7goals 1–0

  2. Jokinen – Smith – Trocheck11:00

    xG 0.47–0.23 (67%)attempts 9–6goals 0–0

  3. MacKenzie – Pirri – Shaw4:05

    xG 0.14–0.01 (96%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

  4. MacKenzie – Brickley – Howden2:30

    xG 0.09–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMitchell – Petrovic13:45

    xG 0.75–0.15 (83%)attempts 18–4goals 0–0

  2. Campbell – Gudbranson15:04

    xG 0.87–0.33 (73%)attempts 12–10goals 0–0

  3. Kulikov – Ekblad10:35

    xG 0.60–0.24 (71%)attempts 10–10goals 1–0

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.

FLA 3.1 xGMTL 1.9 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

FLAMTL

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 MTL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 34/100 · #849 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.19 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 31% (winner's lowest chance)
MTL 100%5050%50FLA 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest 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, Florida Panthers win this game 70% of the time.

FLA winsMTL wins

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

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
+2
+3
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+5
+6
+7

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