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Sun, Oct 30, 2016·Madison Square Garden, New York

Tampa Bay Lightning 1, New York Rangers 6

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, New York Rangers win this game 74% of the time.

NYR winsTBL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
TBL010011111132
NYR01641526637

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 4:45NYRRick NashAssists: Nick Holden · Snap, 0.16 xG0–1
  2. P2 6:42NYRMichael GrabnerGWGAssists: Brady Skjei, Kevin Hayes · Snap, 0.06 xG0–2
  3. P2 7:04NYRJimmy VeseyAssists: Rick Nash · Snap, 0.08 xG0–3
  4. P2 18:10NYRJ.T. MillerAssists: Kevin Hayes, Dan Girardi · Wrist, 0.30 xG0–4
  5. P3 9:02NYRMichael GrabnerAssists: J.T. Miller, Ryan McDonagh · Snap, 0.13 xG0–5
  6. P3 14:47NYRMichael GrabnerAssists: Kevin Hayes, J.T. Miller · Wrist, 0.17 xG0–6
  7. P3 16:36TBLSteven StamkosPPAssists: Nikita Kucherov, Anton Stralman · Wrist, 0.17 xG1–6
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 12:03TBLAlex Killorn: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 13:59NYRJimmy Vesey: Holding2 min
  3. P1 17:09TBLSteven Stamkos: Interference2 min
  4. P1 18:35NYRMats Zuccarello: Clipping2 min
  5. P2 9:15TBLAlex Killorn: Roughing2 min
  6. P2 9:15TBLJonathan Drouin: Holding2 min
  7. P2 19:55TBLAlex Killorn: Tripping2 min
  8. P3 9:45NYRNick Holden: Holding2 min
  9. P3 15:21NYRBrandon Pirri: Cross checking2 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.

TBL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0NYR
44% to win56% to win
← TBL attackNYR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Hayes won the faceoff against Boyle
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TBLNYR
32Shots on goal37
2.8Expected goals4.2
60Shot attempts70
36Faceoffs won37
4Power plays5
10Penalty minutes8
22Hits22
17Blocked shots15
9Giveaways9
6Takeaways11

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.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Forward lines

  1. bestBoyle – Callahan – Paquette8:19

    xG 0.35–0.18 (66%)attempts 10–7goals 0–0

  2. Filppula – Killorn – Drouin8:44

    xG 0.36–0.42 (46%)attempts 10–11goals 0–1

  3. Johnson – Palat – Point10:38

    xG 0.36–0.73 (33%)attempts 8–12goals 0–3

  4. Stamkos – Kucherov – Namestnikov11:35

    xG 0.90–1.40 (39%)attempts 19–16goals 0–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestStralman – Nesterov8:00

    xG 0.90–0.59 (61%)attempts 14–8goals 0–0

  2. Stralman – Garrison7:02

    xG 0.34–0.55 (38%)attempts 7–7goals 0–2

  3. Garrison – Hedman4:34

    xG 0.13–0.40 (24%)attempts 4–7goals 0–1

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. bestGrabner – Hayes – Miller9:47

    xG 1.34–0.70 (66%)attempts 16–15goals 4–0

  2. Zuccarello – Zibanejad – Buchnevich12:57

    xG 0.98–0.54 (65%)attempts 19–10goals 0–0

  3. Nash – Stepan – Vesey8:54

    xG 0.45–0.19 (70%)attempts 7–11goals 2–0

  4. Pirri – Lindberg – Fast8:25

    xG 0.22–0.41 (35%)attempts 9–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStaal – Holden16:30

    xG 1.38–0.52 (72%)attempts 19–17goals 3–0

  2. Girardi – McDonagh12:41

    xG 1.39–1.03 (57%)attempts 18–20goals 2–0

  3. Klein – Skjei13:46

    xG 0.40–0.46 (47%)attempts 16–12goals 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.

NYR 4.2 xGTBL 2.8 xG
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Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRTBL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 13/100 · #1035 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.58 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
TBL 100%5050%50NYR 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, New York Rangers win this game 74% of the time.

NYR winsTBL wins

Simulated goal difference (NYR − TBL), 10,000 replays

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