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Tue, Feb 7, 2017·Madison Square Garden, New York

Anaheim Ducks 1, New York Rangers 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Anaheim Ducks win this game 54% of the time.

NYR winsANA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ANA016116012144
NYR161727420

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:01NYROscar LindbergAssists: Pavel Buchnevich, Marc Staal · Wrist, 0.14 xG0–1
  2. P2 1:06NYRMats ZuccarelloGWGAssists: Chris Kreider, Brady Skjei · Snap, 0.04 xG0–2
  3. P2 6:14ANAJakob SilfverbergAssists: Andrew Cogliano · Snap, 0.13 xG1–2
  4. P3 3:45NYRMichael GrabnerAssists: J.T. Miller, Brady Skjei · Wrist, 0.11 xG1–3
  5. P3 19:41NYRMichael GrabnerENAssists: J.T. Miller, Kevin Hayes · Wrist, 0.69 xG1–4
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 6:06ANALogan Shaw: Hooking2 min
  2. P2 16:38NYRBrady Skjei: High sticking double minor4 min
  3. P3 2:48ANAJoseph Cramarossa: Roughing2 min
  4. P3 2:48NYRJimmy Vesey: Roughing2 min
  5. P3 5:23NYRChris Kreider: Holding2 min
  6. P3 9:53NYRKevin Hayes: Delaying game puck over glass2 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.

ANA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ANANYR
44Shots on goal20
2.7Expected goals2.4
83Shot attempts40
28Faceoffs won25
4Power plays1
4Penalty minutes10
21Hits12
9Blocked shots23
9Giveaways12
4Takeaways8

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.

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. bestKesler – Cogliano – Silfverberg10:01

    xG 0.44–0.09 (84%)attempts 17–3goals 1–1

  2. Vermette – Ritchie – Kase7:28

    xG 0.29–0.18 (62%)attempts 12–5goals 0–0

  3. Thompson – Cramarossa – Shaw5:30

    xG 0.08–0.10 (46%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

  4. Getzlaf – Perry – Rakell11:50

    xG 0.34–0.54 (38%)attempts 15–12goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLindholm – Montour11:42

    xG 0.44–0.21 (67%)attempts 16–5goals 0–0

  2. Bieksa – Fowler15:05

    xG 0.70–0.58 (55%)attempts 26–17goals 1–2

  3. Manson – Theodore11:43

    xG 0.50–0.43 (54%)attempts 14–7goals 0–0

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. Grabner – Hayes – Miller8:54

    xG 0.32–0.27 (54%)attempts 7–12goals 0–0

  2. Lindberg – Fast – Buchnevich8:23

    xG 0.33–0.31 (52%)attempts 6–7goals 1–1

  3. Nash – Stepan – Vesey9:36

    xG 0.18–0.26 (40%)attempts 8–13goals 0–0

  4. Kreider – Zuccarello – Zibanejad8:31

    xG 0.28–0.42 (40%)attempts 7–12goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. Girardi – McDonagh15:47

    xG 0.44–0.51 (46%)attempts 16–19goals 0–0

  2. Staal – Holden13:39

    xG 0.41–0.51 (44%)attempts 7–21goals 0–0

  3. Klein – Skjei13:12

    xG 0.25–0.44 (37%)attempts 6–12goals 1–1

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 2.4 xGANA 2.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRANA

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 ANA. Dots are goals.

Excitement 24/100 · #892 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.75 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 56% (winner's lowest chance)
ANA 100%5050%50NYR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +14 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Anaheim Ducks win this game 54% of the time.

NYR winsANA wins

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

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