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Thu, Mar 3, 2016·Pepsi Center, Denver

Florida Panthers 2, Colorado Avalanche 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 81% of the time.

COL winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA1917024240
COL2131508326

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 5:45COLGabriel LandeskogPPAssists: Tyson Barrie, Calvin Pickard · Wrist, 0.14 xG0–1
  2. P1 9:42FLAErik GudbransonAssists: Aleksander Barkov, Jaromir Jagr · Wrist, 0.07 xG1–1
  3. P1 13:50COLMikkel BoedkerAssists: Tyson Barrie, Gabriel Landeskog · Wrist, 0.11 xG1–2
  4. P2 4:55COLMatt DucheneGWGAssists: Jarome Iginla · Wrist, 0.11 xG1–3
  5. P2 12:42FLABrian CampbellAssists: Jussi Jokinen, Reilly Smith · Wrist, 0.03 xG2–3
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 5:24FLAAlexander Petrovic: Hooking2 min · PPG
  2. P1 7:38COLErik Johnson: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 16:06FLAJaromir Jagr: Holding2 min
  4. P2 13:47COLGabriel Landeskog: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 16:25FLASteven Kampfer: Interference2 min
  6. P2 0:00COLTyson Barrie: Hooking2 min
  7. P3 13:12FLAAlexander Petrovic: Penalty shot hooking on breakaway0 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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0COL
47% to win54% to win
← FLA attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Barkov won the faceoff against MacKinnon
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLACOL
40Shots on goal26
3.4Expected goals1.6
74Shot attempts34
24Faceoffs won25
3Power plays3
6Penalty minutes6
14Hits23
5Blocked shots19
2Giveaways4
7Takeaways8

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.

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestWilson – Bjugstad – Shaw6:23

    xG 0.57–0.16 (78%)attempts 10–5goals 0–1

  2. Jokinen – Smith – Trocheck12:06

    xG 0.63–0.35 (65%)attempts 19–8goals 1–1

  3. Bjugstad – Howden – Shaw3:12

    xG 0.02–0.11 (14%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  4. Jagr – Rau – Barkov11:01

    xG 0.23–0.33 (41%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCampbell – Gudbranson13:33

    xG 0.53–0.15 (78%)attempts 17–5goals 1–1

  2. Campbell – Ekblad2:46

    xG 0.23–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  3. Kindl – Petrovic4:54

    xG 0.22–0.22 (50%)attempts 9–5goals 0–0

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. Iginla – Duchene – Grigorenko8:58

    xG 0.26–0.23 (53%)attempts 6–10goals 1–0

  2. Boedker – Landeskog – MacKinnon13:07

    xG 0.41–0.54 (43%)attempts 8–14goals 1–1

  3. Mitchell – McLeod – Skille8:14

    xG 0.08–0.30 (20%)attempts 5–8goals 0–0

  4. Comeau – Soderberg – Matthias9:44

    xG 0.12–0.34 (25%)attempts 4–13goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBeauchemin – Johnson12:29

    xG 0.55–0.38 (59%)attempts 9–11goals 1–1

  2. Beauchemin – Barrie2:15

    xG 0.05–0.01 (76%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  3. Beauchemin – Bigras2:01

    xG 0.01–0.13 (5%)attempts 1–4goals 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.

COL 1.6 xGFLA 3.4 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 39/100 · #758 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.32 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 53% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +19 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 81% of the time.

COL winsFLA wins

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

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