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Sun, Feb 19, 2017·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Philadelphia Flyers 3, Vancouver Canucks 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 69% of the time.

VAN winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PHI1921108328
VAN082606220

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 5:45PHIWayne SimmondsPPAssists: Shayne Gostisbehere, Ivan Provorov · Wrist, 0.23 xG1–0
  2. P2 1:11PHIJakub VoracekAssists: Sean Couturier, Shayne Gostisbehere · Wrist, 0.33 xG2–0
  3. P2 2:38PHIBrayden SchennPPGWGAssists: Shayne Gostisbehere · Wrist, 0.11 xG3–0
  4. P2 3:43VANMarkus GranlundAssists: Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin · Deflected, 0.08 xG3–1
  5. P2 12:42VANJannik HansenAssists: Bo Horvat, Ben Hutton · Wrist, 0.13 xG3–2
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 2:08VANMichael Chaput: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 5:03VANAlexandre Burrows: Hooking2 min · PPG
  3. P1 11:48PHIMichael Del Zotto: Cross checking2 min
  4. P1 16:15PHIMark Streit: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 2:16VANNikita Tryamkin: Interference2 min · PPG
  6. P2 5:41PHIRoman Lyubimov: Tripping2 min
  7. P3 2:55PHIMark Streit: Tripping2 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.

PHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0VAN
44% to win56% to win
← PHI attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Giroux won the faceoff against Horvat
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIVAN
28Shots on goal20
3.3Expected goals2.2
55Shot attempts56
29Faceoffs won31
3Power plays4
8Penalty minutes6
27Hits18
24Blocked shots18
3Giveaways8
3Takeaways6

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.

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestVoracek – Weise – Couturier12:07

    xG 0.74–0.10 (88%)attempts 17–5goals 1–0

  2. Read – Cousins – Raffl7:46

    xG 0.59–0.65 (47%)attempts 12–12goals 0–1

  3. VandeVelde – Bellemare – Lyubimov4:06

    xG 0.02–0.21 (8%)attempts 2–6goals 0–1

  4. Giroux – Simmonds – Schenn11:51

    xG 0.38–0.58 (40%)attempts 8–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStreit – Gostisbehere11:56

    xG 0.69–0.36 (66%)attempts 12–7goals 1–0

  2. Del Zotto – Gudas14:03

    xG 0.52–0.34 (60%)attempts 19–9goals 0–0

  3. Manning – Provorov13:09

    xG 0.59–0.62 (49%)attempts 10–18goals 0–1

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestSedin – Sedin – Granlund8:41

    xG 0.38–0.18 (68%)attempts 6–9goals 1–0

  2. Hansen – Granlund – Horvat2:50

    xG 0.28–0.12 (70%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  3. Chaput – Boucher – Gaunce3:30

    xG 0.34–0.23 (60%)attempts 8–4goals 0–0

  4. Burrows – Hansen – Horvat7:25

    xG 0.04–0.10 (31%)attempts 5–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSbisa – Tanev13:24

    xG 0.75–0.21 (78%)attempts 14–10goals 1–0

  2. Edler – Hutton2:14

    xG 0.07–0.18 (28%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  3. Hutton – Tryamkin11:20

    xG 0.28–0.58 (33%)attempts 12–11goals 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.

VAN 2.2 xGPHI 3.3 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANPHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 61/100 · #429 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.32 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 43% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +18 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 69% of the time.

VAN winsPHI wins

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

-7
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-1
0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).