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Sun, Mar 19, 2017·MTS Centre, Winnipeg

Minnesota Wild 4, Winnipeg Jets 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 67% of the time.

WPG winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN014421013448
WPG371519521

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:47WPGAndrew CoppAssists: Adam Lowry, Joel Armia · Wrist, 0.19 xG0–1
  2. P1 5:36WPGAdam LowryPPAssists: Mathieu Perreault, Blake Wheeler · Snap, 0.19 xG0–2
  3. P1 16:47WPGBen ChiarotAssists: Bryan Little · Backhand, 0.23 xG0–3
  4. P2 4:38WPGDustin ByfuglienAssists: Blake Wheeler, Mathieu Perreault · Backhand, 0.09 xG0–4
  5. P2 9:23MINCharlie CoyleAssists: Zach Parise · Snap, 0.10 xG1–4
  6. P2 15:08MINMikael GranlundPPAssists: Mikko Koivu, Jonas Brodin · Wrist, 0.22 xG2–4
  7. P2 15:47MINChris StewartAssists: Jared Spurgeon, Jason Zucker · Backhand, 0.24 xG3–4
  8. P2 19:47MINChris StewartAssists: Erik Haula, Tyler Graovac · Wrist, 0.24 xG4–4
  9. P3 12:43WPGJosh MorrisseyGWGAssists: Brian Strait, Mark Scheifele · Slap, 0.03 xG4–5
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 2:26MINChris Stewart: Fighting5 min · PPG
  2. P1 2:26WPGChris Thorburn: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 5:14MINGustav Olofsson: High sticking2 min
  4. P1 5:59MINMartin Hanzal: Tripping2 min
  5. P1 15:49WPGMathieu Perreault: Interference2 min
  6. P1 16:40MINCharlie Coyle: Hooking2 min
  7. P2 5:49MINEric Staal: Tripping2 min
  8. P2 13:41WPGAndrew Copp: Interference2 min · PPG
  9. P3 17:53WPGDustin Byfuglien: Closing hand on puck2 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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0WPG
44% to win56% to win
← MIN attackWPG attack →
  1. P1 20:00Hanzal won the faceoff against Lowry
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINWPG
48Shots on goal21
3.9Expected goals2.8
86Shot attempts50
37Faceoffs won33
3Power plays4
13Penalty minutes11
14Hits25
18Blocked shots24
9Giveaways10
4Takeaways9

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.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestStaal – Parise – Coyle10:33

    xG 0.92–0.18 (84%)attempts 24–9goals 1–0

  2. Stewart – Haula – Graovac5:36

    xG 0.38–0.12 (76%)attempts 5–4goals 1–0

  3. Koivu – Zucker – Granlund11:23

    xG 0.57–0.37 (61%)attempts 14–11goals 0–2

  4. Hanzal – White – Niederreiter8:28

    xG 0.20–0.19 (52%)attempts 10–1goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestSuter – Spurgeon18:49

    xG 1.26–0.38 (77%)attempts 28–10goals 1–0

  2. Brodin – Olofsson10:14

    xG 0.95–0.25 (79%)attempts 16–8goals 2–2

  3. Scandella – Dumba10:21

    xG 0.71–0.33 (68%)attempts 18–9goals 0–1

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestWheeler – Perreault – Scheifele13:17

    xG 0.65–0.44 (59%)attempts 19–12goals 1–0

  2. Lowry – Armia – Copp12:33

    xG 0.20–0.53 (28%)attempts 3–19goals 1–1

  3. Little – Ehlers – Laine10:53

    xG 0.31–0.96 (24%)attempts 6–22goals 0–0

  4. Thorburn – Dano – Petan3:16

    xG 0.08–0.78 (9%)attempts 2–6goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Stuart – Chiarot10:35

    xG 0.08–0.77 (9%)attempts 3–15goals 0–2

  2. Byfuglien – Melchiori19:41

    xG 0.33–1.05 (24%)attempts 14–25goals 1–1

  3. Strait – Morrissey12:47

    xG 0.48–1.24 (28%)attempts 10–23goals 1–0

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.

WPG 2.8 xGMIN 3.9 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

WPGMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 90/100 · #106 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.48 · 8 goals in reach · 4-goal lead cutComeback index 53% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50WPG 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +39 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 67% of the time.

WPG winsMIN wins

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

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