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Thu, Mar 9, 2017·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Philadelphia Flyers 2, Toronto Maple Leafs 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 51% of the time.

TOR winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PHI17011120238
TOR18114211433

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 6:09PHIWayne SimmondsPPAssists: Shayne Gostisbehere, Claude Giroux · Slap, 0.55 xG1–0
  2. P1 13:57TORWilliam NylanderPPAssists: Jake Gardiner, Connor Brown · Wrist, 0.02 xG1–1
  3. P2 9:28TORTyler BozakUnassisted · Snap, 0.17 xG1–2
  4. P3 13:44TORMitch MarnerPPGWGAssists: Morgan Rielly, Tyler Bozak · Snap, 0.04 xG1–3
  5. P3 17:32PHIShayne GostisbehereAssists: Valtteri Filppula, Jakub Voracek · Slap, 0.02 xG2–3
  6. P3 19:00TORNazem KadriENUnassisted · Wrist, 0.60 xG2–4
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 5:30TORMitch Marner: Tripping2 min · PPG
  2. P1 12:31PHIRadko Gudas: Interference2 min · PPG
  3. P3 9:53TORNikita Zaitsev: Interference2 min
  4. P3 13:35PHIBrayden Schenn: Tripping2 min · PPG
  5. P3 14:20TORConnor Brown: 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 SOG0TOR
44% to win56% to win
← PHI attackTOR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Matthews won the faceoff against Filppula
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHITOR
38Shots on goal33
3.0Expected goals3.0
68Shot attempts59
38Faceoffs won28
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
17Hits13
14Blocked shots18
12Giveaways6
5Takeaways14

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. bestRead – Cousins – Couturier7:41

    xG 0.11–0.04 (74%)attempts 9–3goals 0–0

  2. Read – Couturier – Konecny3:12

    xG 0.08–0.06 (56%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  3. Filppula – Voracek – Schenn13:35

    xG 0.56–0.57 (49%)attempts 17–16goals 0–0

  4. VandeVelde – Bellemare – Konecny5:50

    xG 0.13–0.29 (31%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestManning – Gudas2:23

    xG 0.17–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 0–0

  2. Del Zotto – Gudas13:51

    xG 0.52–0.52 (50%)attempts 18–12goals 0–0

  3. Manning – Gostisbehere11:58

    xG 0.14–0.31 (31%)attempts 7–14goals 0–0

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestKomarov – Kadri – Brown10:29

    xG 0.77–0.39 (66%)attempts 15–10goals 0–0

  2. van Riemsdyk – Bozak – Marner10:55

    xG 0.43–0.29 (60%)attempts 7–14goals 1–0

  3. Boyle – Martin – Soshnikov7:30

    xG 0.33–0.20 (62%)attempts 12–4goals 0–0

  4. Hyman – Nylander – Matthews10:17

    xG 0.42–0.32 (57%)attempts 10–15goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestRielly – Zaitsev16:57

    xG 0.92–0.73 (56%)attempts 19–15goals 0–0

  2. Gardiner – Marchenko11:06

    xG 0.36–0.21 (63%)attempts 10–9goals 0–0

  3. Polak – Hunwick13:39

    xG 0.23–0.15 (60%)attempts 13–14goals 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.

TOR 3.0 xGPHI 3.0 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORPHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 42/100 · #667 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.91 · 6 goals in reachComeback index 40% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +25 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 51% of the time.

TOR winsPHI wins

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

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