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Sat, Mar 18, 2017·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Chicago Blackhawks 2, Toronto Maple Leafs 1 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 61% of the time.

TOR winsCHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
CHI01311201113239
TOR180701001126

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 8:25TORAuston MatthewsAssists: William Nylander, Zach Hyman · Tip-in, 0.11 xG0–1
  2. P2 10:51CHIJohn HaydenAssists: Jonathan Toews, Brent Seabrook · Snap, 0.11 xG1–1
  3. OT 4:43CHIRyan HartmanGWGAssists: Artemi Panarin, Corey Crawford · Snap, 0.16 xG2–1
Penalties (1)
  1. P2 13:37CHIJohnny Oduya: 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.

CHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0TOR
44% to win56% to win
← CHI attackTOR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Toews won the faceoff against Boyle
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CHITOR
39Shots on goal26
2.9Expected goals3.4
66Shot attempts65
18Faceoffs won40
0Power plays1
2Penalty minutes0
25Hits39
18Blocked shots17
7Giveaways11
10Takeaways14

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.

Chicago Blackhawks

Forward lines

  1. bestToews – Panik – Hayden12:42

    xG 0.46–0.22 (68%)attempts 10–12goals 1–0

  2. Kruger – Jurco – Hartman10:23

    xG 0.81–0.61 (57%)attempts 17–7goals 0–1

  3. Toews – Kane – Panarin2:51

    xG 0.19–0.11 (63%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  4. Kane – Schmaltz – Panarin13:31

    xG 0.24–0.33 (43%)attempts 10–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCampbell – van Riemsdyk15:27

    xG 0.54–0.38 (59%)attempts 15–22goals 0–0

  2. Keith – Hjalmarsson20:41

    xG 0.73–0.80 (48%)attempts 23–13goals 0–0

  3. Oduya – Seabrook16:43

    xG 0.58–0.75 (44%)attempts 17–17goals 1–1

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestvan Riemsdyk – Bozak – Marner13:12

    xG 0.66–0.14 (82%)attempts 16–10goals 0–0

  2. Komarov – Kadri – Brown14:05

    xG 0.69–0.42 (62%)attempts 12–14goals 0–0

  3. Hyman – Nylander – Matthews12:47

    xG 0.64–0.83 (43%)attempts 11–16goals 1–1

  4. Boyle – Martin – Soshnikov9:27

    xG 0.12–0.58 (17%)attempts 6–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPolak – Hunwick10:13

    xG 0.63–0.22 (74%)attempts 10–7goals 0–0

  2. Gardiner – Zaitsev19:17

    xG 0.75–0.35 (68%)attempts 13–19goals 0–0

  3. Hunwick – Rielly2:44

    xG 0.00–0.15 (0%)attempts 1–2goals 0–1

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 3.4 xGCHI 2.9 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORCHI

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 CHI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 30/100 · #821 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.14 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 21% (winner's lowest chance)
CHI 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest 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, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 61% of the time.

TOR winsCHI wins

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

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