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Mon, Feb 20, 2017·Scottrade Center, St. Louis

Florida Panthers 2, St. Louis Blues 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 52% of the time.

STL winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA1808117233
STL01203112127

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 10:40FLAJonathan MarchessaultAssists: Nick Bjugstad · Wrist, 0.16 xG1–0
  2. P3 2:54STLKyle BrodziakAssists: Scottie Upshall, Ryan Reaves · Wrist, 0.21 xG1–1
  3. P3 19:55FLAVincent TrocheckGWGAssists: Mark Pysyk, Reilly Smith · Slap, 0.07 xG2–1
Penalties (3)
  1. P1 4:41FLAMike Matheson: Holding2 min
  2. P1 17:59STLPaul Stastny: Slashing2 min
  3. P2 8:26FLAAlexander Petrovic: Hooking2 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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
44% to win56% to win
← FLA attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Barkov won the faceoff against Berglund
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLASTL
33Shots on goal27
2.3Expected goals2.2
52Shot attempts44
28Faceoffs won33
1Power plays2
4Penalty minutes2
15Hits16
10Blocked shots11
3Giveaways4
9Takeaways5

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.

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestJokinen – Smith – Trocheck13:26

    xG 0.78–0.45 (63%)attempts 15–11goals 1–0

  2. Jagr – Huberdeau – Barkov15:27

    xG 0.72–0.50 (59%)attempts 18–9goals 0–0

  3. Thornton – MacKenzie – Sceviour4:19

    xG 0.05–0.06 (42%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

  4. Bjugstad – Sgarbossa – Marchessault11:44

    xG 0.17–0.76 (19%)attempts 7–10goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestYandle – Ekblad16:05

    xG 0.88–0.47 (65%)attempts 21–11goals 0–0

  2. Petrovic – Pysyk15:45

    xG 0.45–0.43 (51%)attempts 13–15goals 1–0

  3. Demers – Matheson16:16

    xG 0.59–0.85 (41%)attempts 11–12goals 1–1

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestBerglund – Paajarvi – Schwartz9:29

    xG 0.43–0.12 (78%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  2. Upshall – Brodziak – Reaves7:14

    xG 0.71–0.44 (62%)attempts 9–9goals 1–1

  3. Perron – Lehtera – Barbashev9:15

    xG 0.33–0.21 (61%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  4. Stastny – Tarasenko – Schwartz2:20

    xG 0.13–0.03 (81%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestEdmundson – Parayko15:29

    xG 0.92–0.43 (68%)attempts 17–8goals 1–0

  2. Shattenkirk – Bortuzzo11:08

    xG 0.32–0.24 (57%)attempts 8–5goals 0–0

  3. Bouwmeester – Pietrangelo18:23

    xG 0.51–0.93 (35%)attempts 11–25goals 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.

STL 2.2 xGFLA 2.3 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 31/100 · #806 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.15 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 43% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +51 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 52% of the time.

STL winsFLA wins

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

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