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Wed, Feb 24, 2016·TD Garden, Boston

Pittsburgh Penguins 1, Boston Bruins 5

Expected result

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

BOS winsPIT wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PIT013115014142
BOS11018311529

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 16:00BOSDavid PastrnakUnassisted · Wrist, 0.27 xG0–1
  2. P2 3:12BOSDavid PastrnakGWGUnassisted · Wrist, 0.11 xG0–2
  3. P2 4:07PITTom KuhnhacklAssists: Oskar Sundqvist, Trevor Daley · Tip-in, 0.45 xG1–2
  4. P3 10:34BOSJimmy HayesAssists: Ryan Spooner, Adam McQuaid · Tip-in, 0.24 xG1–3
  5. P3 14:26BOSLandon FerraroAssists: Dennis Seidenberg · Snap, 0.13 xG1–4
  6. P3 15:27BOSBrad MarchandAssists: Torey Krug, Patrice Bergeron · Wrist, 0.10 xG1–5
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 16:00PITDerrick Pouliot: Penalty shot hooking on breakaway0 min
  2. P2 1:42PITScott Wilson: Fighting5 min
  3. P2 1:42BOSLandon Ferraro: Fighting5 min
  4. P2 13:49BOSLandon Ferraro: Hooking2 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.

PIT00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0BOS
47% to win54% to win
← PIT attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Bergeron won the faceoff against Crosby
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PITBOS
42Shots on goal29
3.4Expected goals2.5
77Shot attempts44
33Faceoffs won28
1Power plays0
5Penalty minutes7
20Hits25
11Blocked shots17
15Giveaways6
11Takeaways10

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.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Forward lines

  1. bestRust – Kuhnhackl – Sundqvist11:04

    xG 1.01–0.31 (77%)attempts 13–7goals 1–1

  2. Cullen – Kessel – Hagelin12:08

    xG 0.96–0.43 (69%)attempts 26–8goals 0–1

  3. Kunitz – Crosby – Hornqvist11:41

    xG 0.34–0.32 (51%)attempts 13–11goals 0–1

  4. Porter – Wilson – Sheary7:59

    xG 0.39–0.41 (48%)attempts 8–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCole – Pouliot14:20

    xG 1.00–0.53 (65%)attempts 13–8goals 1–0

  2. Daley – Dumoulin17:02

    xG 0.84–0.40 (68%)attempts 22–10goals 0–1

  3. Letang – Pouliot2:13

    xG 0.18–0.24 (43%)attempts 4–1goals 0–1

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestBergeron – Marchand – Connolly12:56

    xG 0.37–0.22 (62%)attempts 11–11goals 1–0

  2. Eriksson – Krejci – Pastrnak12:26

    xG 0.62–0.92 (40%)attempts 9–25goals 1–0

  3. Beleskey – Hayes – Spooner13:57

    xG 0.62–1.11 (36%)attempts 11–17goals 1–1

  4. Rinaldo – Ferraro – Kemppainen10:34

    xG 0.20–0.84 (20%)attempts 3–15goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. Chara – Miller3:41

    xG 0.10–0.07 (59%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  2. Seidenberg – Morrow3:33

    xG 0.05–0.04 (53%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  3. Seidenberg – Krug16:10

    xG 1.03–1.16 (47%)attempts 15–26goals 2–0

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.

BOS 2.5 xGPIT 3.4 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSPIT

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 26/100 · #935 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.83 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 53% (winner's lowest chance)
PIT 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +18 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.

BOS winsPIT wins

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

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