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Fri, Feb 12, 2016·BB&T Center, Sunrise

St. Louis Blues 5, Florida Panthers 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 56% of the time.

FLA winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
STL3131916528
FLA18111113332

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 5:05FLADerek MacKenzieAssists: Shawn Thornton · Wrist, 0.34 xG0–1
  2. P1 12:16STLDavid BackesAssists: Colton Parayko · Snap, 0.04 xG1–1
  3. P1 15:57STLJaden SchwartzAssists: Colton Parayko, Vladimir Tarasenko · Wrist, 0.33 xG2–1
  4. P1 19:41STLRobby FabbriPPAssists: Paul Stastny, Kevin Shattenkirk · Snap, 0.17 xG3–1
  5. P2 8:00STLVladimir TarasenkoGWGAssists: Jay Bouwmeester, Jaden Schwartz · Wrist, 0.32 xG4–1
  6. P2 10:44FLAAaron EkbladAssists: Jonathan Huberdeau, Jaromir Jagr · Slap, 0.03 xG4–2
  7. P3 10:47FLAJonathan HuberdeauAssists: Brian Campbell, Jaromir Jagr · Slap, 0.11 xG4–3
  8. P3 12:17STLAlexander SteenAssists: David Backes, Patrik Berglund · Backhand, 0.09 xG5–3
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 18:41FLAVincent Trocheck: Delaying game puck over glass2 min · PPG
  2. P2 0:37STLDavid Backes: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 2:36STLRobby Fabbri: Too many men on the ice2 min
  4. P2 17:34FLABrandon Pirri: Slashing2 min
  5. P2 17:34STLTroy Brouwer: Slashing2 min
  6. P3 12:21STLRobby Fabbri: Slashing2 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.

STL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

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P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0FLA
47% to win54% to win
← STL 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.

STLFLA
28Shots on goal32
2.8Expected goals2.6
41Shot attempts53
35Faceoffs won28
1Power plays3
8Penalty minutes4
29Hits31
7Blocked shots7
11Giveaways9
3Takeaways8

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.

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestLehtera – Tarasenko – Schwartz11:51

    xG 0.71–0.59 (55%)attempts 10–9goals 1–0

  2. Brouwer – Stastny – Fabbri8:31

    xG 0.09–0.16 (37%)attempts 4–5goals 0–2

  3. Upshall – Brodziak – Reaves8:31

    xG 0.03–0.17 (16%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  4. Steen – Backes – Berglund12:57

    xG 0.54–0.84 (39%)attempts 12–20goals 2–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBouwmeester – Shattenkirk16:58

    xG 1.02–0.80 (56%)attempts 17–15goals 2–1

  2. Bortuzzo – Edmundson11:58

    xG 0.19–0.14 (58%)attempts 8–7goals 0–1

  3. Gunnarsson – Parayko14:42

    xG 0.44–0.64 (41%)attempts 7–11goals 1–0

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestThornton – MacKenzie – Wilson10:11

    xG 0.72–0.19 (80%)attempts 10–6goals 1–1

  2. Jokinen – Smith – Trocheck12:39

    xG 0.64–0.29 (69%)attempts 14–6goals 0–0

  3. Pirri – Howden – Shaw8:53

    xG 0.19–0.14 (58%)attempts 5–7goals 0–0

  4. Jagr – Bjugstad – Huberdeau9:39

    xG 0.40–1.00 (29%)attempts 10–12goals 1–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestKampfer – Regner9:56

    xG 0.24–0.06 (79%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  2. Campbell – Petrovic16:01

    xG 0.75–0.66 (53%)attempts 14–12goals 1–1

  3. Kampfer – Kulikov2:56

    xG 0.07–0.03 (68%)attempts 2–2goals 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.

FLA 2.6 xGSTL 2.8 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

FLASTL

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 STL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 77/100 · #269 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.34 · 8 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 30% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50FLA 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +22 pts

Did the better team win?

Every shot replayed 10,000 times, scoring with its expected-goal probability.

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 56% of the time.

FLA winsSTL wins

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

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