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Thu, Jan 21, 2016·CONSOL Energy Center, Pittsburgh

Philadelphia Flyers 3, Pittsburgh Penguins 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Pittsburgh Penguins win this game 67% of the time.

PIT winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PHI21109112332
PIT09317119445

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 10:17PHIBrayden SchennPPAssists: Wayne Simmonds, Shayne Gostisbehere · Wrist, 0.31 xG1–0
  2. P1 15:51PHIJakub VoracekPPAssists: Claude Giroux, Shayne Gostisbehere · Wrist, 0.10 xG2–0
  3. P2 1:40PITTrevor DaleyPPAssists: Olli Maatta, Chris Kunitz · Wrist, 0.07 xG2–1
  4. P2 7:29PITSidney CrosbyAssists: Chris Kunitz, Patric Hornqvist · Wrist, 0.04 xG2–2
  5. P2 14:06PITPhil KesselPPAssists: Sidney Crosby, Patric Hornqvist · Wrist, 0.22 xG2–3
  6. P3 6:20PITPhil KesselGWGAssists: Carl Hagelin, Ben Lovejoy · Wrist, 0.16 xG2–4
  7. P3 16:35PHIClaude GirouxPPAssists: Jakub Voracek, Brayden Schenn · Wrist, 0.04 xG3–4
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 9:38PITIan Cole: Interference2 min · PPG
  2. P1 15:39PITTrevor Daley: Hooking2 min · PPG
  3. P1 19:45PHIRyan White: Slashing2 min · PPG
  4. P2 9:59PITEvgeni Malkin: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 12:57PHIChris VandeVelde: Hooking2 min · PPG
  6. P2 15:48PHIMichael Raffl: Hooking2 min
  7. P2 16:46PITSidney Crosby: Cross checking2 min
  8. P2 19:55PITPhil Kessel: Too many men on the ice2 min
  9. P3 2:30PHIRadko Gudas: Tripping2 min
  10. P3 15:41PITBrian Dumoulin: Delaying game puck over glass2 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.

PHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIPIT
32Shots on goal45
2.7Expected goals3.8
56Shot attempts75
35Faceoffs won40
6Power plays4
8Penalty minutes12
33Hits25
20Blocked shots14
4Giveaways13
1Takeaways4

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.

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestUmberger – Read – Laughton5:59

    xG 0.40–0.27 (60%)attempts 6–9goals 0–0

  2. Gagner – Schenn – Raffl8:03

    xG 0.26–0.28 (48%)attempts 6–6goals 0–1

  3. Gagner – Read – Raffl2:15

    xG 0.12–0.17 (41%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  4. VandeVelde – White – Bellemare8:30

    xG 0.16–0.69 (19%)attempts 4–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStreit – Del Zotto3:01

    xG 0.28–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  2. Gostisbehere – Medvedev11:43

    xG 0.35–0.50 (41%)attempts 10–9goals 0–0

  3. Streit – Schultz10:05

    xG 0.18–0.44 (29%)attempts 7–14goals 0–0

Pittsburgh Penguins

Forward lines

  1. bestKunitz – Crosby – Hornqvist11:17

    xG 1.13–0.21 (84%)attempts 22–5goals 1–0

  2. Malkin – Kessel – Hagelin12:08

    xG 0.88–0.43 (67%)attempts 19–9goals 1–0

  3. Cullen – Crosby – Hornqvist2:27

    xG 0.08–0.02 (78%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  4. Cullen – Porter – Sheary4:08

    xG 0.00–0.08 (0%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLetang – Maatta14:21

    xG 1.31–0.20 (87%)attempts 24–7goals 1–0

  2. Daley – Letang2:02

    xG 0.13–0.04 (77%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  3. Lovejoy – Dumoulin11:54

    xG 0.35–0.27 (57%)attempts 11–7goals 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.

PIT 3.8 xGPHI 2.7 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

PITPHI

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 PHI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 77/100 · #263 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.80 · 7 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 14% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50PIT 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +24 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 67% of the time.

PIT winsPHI wins

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

-7
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-1
0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).