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Mon, Feb 6, 2017·Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia

St. Louis Blues 2, Philadelphia Flyers 0

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 65% of the time.

PHI winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
STL0111114216
PHI01104011026

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 15:22STLPaul StastnyGWGAssists: Kevin Shattenkirk, Alexander Steen · Tip-in, 0.06 xG1–0
  2. P3 2:10STLKenny AgostinoAssists: David Perron, Jori Lehtera · Snap, 0.19 xG2–0
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 6:08STLRyan Reaves: Slashing2 min
  2. P1 12:09STLJaden Schwartz: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 8:43PHIRadko Gudas: Roughing2 min
  4. P2 8:43STLDavid Perron: Roughing2 min
  5. P2 11:06PHIAndrew MacDonald: High sticking double minor4 min
  6. P3 11:51STLRyan Reaves: Tripping2 min
  7. P3 17:22STLColton Parayko: Roughing2 min
  8. P3 17:22STLColton Parayko: Roughing2 min
  9. P3 17:22PHIRadko Gudas: Roughing2 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

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0PHI
44% to win56% to win
← STL attackPHI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Couturier won the faceoff against Pietrangelo
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLPHI
16Shots on goal26
1.6Expected goals2.3
39Shot attempts60
19Faceoffs won29
2Power plays4
12Penalty minutes8
33Hits26
22Blocked shots16
5Giveaways6
6Takeaways2

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. bestPerron – Lehtera – Agostino10:20

    xG 0.68–0.20 (77%)attempts 13–6goals 1–0

  2. Upshall – Reaves – Barbashev6:16

    xG 0.07–0.32 (18%)attempts 4–8goals 0–0

  3. Steen – Stastny – Tarasenko11:54

    xG 0.16–0.60 (21%)attempts 4–16goals 1–0

  4. Berglund – Schwartz – Jaskin9:36

    xG 0.06–0.60 (9%)attempts 2–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBouwmeester – Pietrangelo17:06

    xG 0.61–0.52 (54%)attempts 16–17goals 0–0

  2. Shattenkirk – Gunnarsson9:58

    xG 0.17–0.20 (46%)attempts 6–9goals 1–0

  3. Edmundson – Parayko13:44

    xG 0.40–1.02 (28%)attempts 9–18goals 0–0

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestGiroux – Voracek – Raffl11:44

    xG 0.75–0.31 (71%)attempts 13–10goals 0–0

  2. Simmonds – Cousins – Couturier11:51

    xG 0.50–0.17 (74%)attempts 13–5goals 0–0

  3. Weise – Schenn – Konecny6:11

    xG 0.41–0.43 (49%)attempts 8–7goals 0–0

  4. VandeVelde – Bellemare – Lyubimov6:32

    xG 0.05–0.11 (33%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestManning – Gudas13:12

    xG 1.03–0.37 (74%)attempts 17–10goals 0–0

  2. MacDonald – Provorov14:39

    xG 0.33–0.43 (44%)attempts 14–7goals 0–1

  3. Streit – Schultz10:43

    xG 0.31–0.41 (43%)attempts 6–14goals 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.

PHI 2.3 xGSTL 1.6 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

PHISTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 8/100 · #1115 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.70 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 43% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50PHI 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, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 65% of the time.

PHI winsSTL wins

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

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