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Thu, Mar 16, 2017·Barclays Center, Brooklyn

Winnipeg Jets 4, New York Islanders 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 55% of the time.

NYI winsWPG wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
WPG2721308428
NYI11108110229

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:38NYIAdam PelechAssists: John Tavares, Nick Leddy · Wrist, 0.03 xG0–1
  2. P1 9:22WPGBryan LittleAssists: Nikolaj Ehlers, Ben Chiarot · Snap, 0.25 xG1–1
  3. P1 18:35WPGBryan LittlePPAssists: Nic Petan, Nikolaj Ehlers · Slap, 0.04 xG2–1
  4. P2 3:24WPGMathieu PerreaultGWGAssists: Blake Wheeler, Mark Scheifele · Wrist, 0.03 xG3–1
  5. P2 11:31WPGAdam LowryAssists: Joel Armia, Mark Stuart · Wrist, 0.19 xG4–1
  6. P3 1:02NYIAnders LeeUnassisted · Wrist, 0.09 xG4–2
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 2:34WPGBen Chiarot: Slashing2 min
  2. P1 11:19WPGAdam Lowry: Hooking2 min
  3. P1 17:18NYIThomas Hickey: Hooking2 min · PPG
  4. P2 8:47NYIDennis Seidenberg: Holding the stick2 min
  5. P2 17:17WPGPatrik Laine: High sticking2 min
  6. P3 3:32NYIAnders Lee: Slashing2 min
  7. P3 6:41WPGChris Thorburn: Interference2 min
  8. P3 16:56NYIJoshua Ho-Sang: Interference2 min
  9. P3 19:45NYIAlan Quine: Too many men on the ice2 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.

WPG00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0NYI
44% to win56% to win
← WPG attackNYI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Scheifele won the faceoff against Nelson
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

WPGNYI
28Shots on goal29
3.3Expected goals3.0
52Shot attempts60
21Faceoffs won25
5Power plays4
8Penalty minutes10
34Hits20
20Blocked shots10
13Giveaways11
10Takeaways7

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.

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestWheeler – Perreault – Scheifele9:34

    xG 0.59–0.26 (70%)attempts 8–11goals 1–0

  2. Lowry – Armia – Copp7:47

    xG 0.53–0.32 (62%)attempts 10–7goals 1–1

  3. Thorburn – Dano – Petan6:51

    xG 0.14–0.22 (38%)attempts 4–6goals 0–0

  4. Little – Ehlers – Laine10:30

    xG 0.34–0.91 (27%)attempts 8–10goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestStuart – Chiarot9:43

    xG 0.56–0.13 (81%)attempts 13–6goals 1–0

  2. Byfuglien – Melchiori14:17

    xG 0.59–0.58 (50%)attempts 9–15goals 0–1

  3. Postma – Morrissey16:42

    xG 0.86–1.05 (45%)attempts 14–19goals 1–1

New York Islanders

Forward lines

  1. bestNelson – Strome – Ho-Sang3:46

    xG 0.43–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–0goals 0–0

  2. Chimera – Kulemin – Nelson3:30

    xG 0.26–0.08 (77%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  3. Bailey – Tavares – Lee8:28

    xG 0.44–0.45 (50%)attempts 9–7goals 2–1

  4. Ladd – Strome – Ho-Sang4:53

    xG 0.12–0.13 (48%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHamonic – de Haan4:50

    xG 0.59–0.21 (74%)attempts 8–4goals 1–0

  2. Leddy – Pelech16:03

    xG 0.42–0.44 (49%)attempts 16–8goals 1–0

  3. Seidenberg – de Haan7:28

    xG 0.49–0.75 (40%)attempts 9–11goals 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.

NYI 3.0 xGWPG 3.3 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYIWPG

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 43/100 · #648 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.12 · 6 goals in reachComeback index 29% (winner's lowest chance)
WPG 100%5050%50NYI 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +17 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 55% of the time.

NYI winsWPG wins

Simulated goal difference (NYI − WPG), 10,000 replays

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