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Fri, Feb 10, 2017·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Tampa Bay Lightning 1, Minnesota Wild 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 72% of the time.

MIN winsTBL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
TBL0917010010127
MIN01119013051238

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 14:31MINNino NiederreiterPPAssists: Mikael Granlund, Jason Pominville · Backhand, 0.28 xG0–1
  2. P2 17:16TBLBrayden PointAssists: Jason Garrison, Alex Killorn · Tip-in, 0.06 xG1–1

Shootout

  1. 1. MIN Jason Pominville stopped
  2. 2. TBL Brayden Point stopped
  3. 3. MIN Mikko Koivu scored
  4. 4. TBL Jonathan Drouin stopped
  5. 5. MIN Zach Parise stopped
  6. 6. TBL Nikita Kucherov stopped
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 7:27TBLAndrej Sustr: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 16:52TBLBrian Boyle: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 16:52MINMarco Scandella: Fighting5 min
  4. P1 17:29MINJason Zucker: Holding2 min
  5. P2 12:42TBLBrian Boyle: Tripping2 min · PPG
  6. P2 18:31MINJason Pominville: High sticking2 min
  7. P2 19:39TBLVictor Hedman: Holding2 min
  8. P3 18:53MINCharlie Coyle: Cross checking2 min
  9. P3 18:53TBLGabriel Dumont: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 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.

TBL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MIN
44% to win56% to win
← TBL attackMIN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Boyle won the faceoff against Haula
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TBLMIN
27Shots on goal38
1.8Expected goals3.0
63Shot attempts57
21Faceoffs won36
2Power plays3
13Penalty minutes11
16Hits17
9Blocked shots20
8Giveaways5
5Takeaways7

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. bestFilppula – Boyle – Kucherov2:08

    xG 0.19–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  2. Filppula – Boyle – Condra7:25

    xG 0.40–0.25 (62%)attempts 13–8goals 0–0

  3. Killorn – Drouin – Point8:38

    xG 0.27–0.17 (62%)attempts 13–8goals 0–0

  4. Kucherov – Namestnikov – Drouin2:08

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–0goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHedman – Dotchin14:21

    xG 0.66–0.28 (70%)attempts 18–9goals 0–0

  2. Coburn – Sustr11:45

    xG 0.24–0.17 (59%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

  3. Stralman – Garrison16:40

    xG 0.17–0.78 (18%)attempts 13–14goals 0–0

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. Staal – Coyle – Niederreiter11:10

    xG 0.21–0.16 (56%)attempts 7–13goals 0–1

  2. Koivu – Zucker – Granlund13:54

    xG 0.30–0.43 (41%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

  3. Pominville – Parise – Haula9:42

    xG 0.32–0.48 (40%)attempts 9–16goals 0–0

  4. Stewart – Schroeder – Graovac8:14

    xG 0.06–0.34 (15%)attempts 3–13goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSuter – Spurgeon16:56

    xG 0.67–0.42 (62%)attempts 18–12goals 0–0

  2. Scandella – Dumba9:38

    xG 0.51–0.29 (64%)attempts 8–13goals 0–0

  3. Scandella – Spurgeon2:49

    xG 0.07–0.04 (64%)attempts 1–3goals 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.

MIN 3.0 xGTBL 1.8 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINTBL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 38/100 · #722 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.31 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 51% (winner's lowest chance)
TBL 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +28 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 72% of the time.

MIN winsTBL wins

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

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