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Tue, Jan 16, 2018·Madison Square Garden, New York

Philadelphia Flyers 1, New York Rangers 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, New York Rangers win this game 57% of the time.

NYR winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PHI1709010126
NYR3821308529

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:06PHIJordan WealAssists: Radko Gudas, Wayne Simmonds · Tip-in, 0.24 xG1–0
  2. P1 6:30NYRRick NashAssists: Pavel Buchnevich · Snap, 0.13 xG1–1
  3. P1 16:50NYRJ.T. MillerPPGWGAssists: Ryan McDonagh, David Desharnais · Tip-in, 0.14 xG1–2
  4. P1 19:50NYRPaul CareySHAssists: Peter Holland · Wrist, 0.17 xG1–3
  5. P2 10:48NYRMichael GrabnerUnassisted · Wrist, 0.11 xG1–4
  6. P2 17:28NYRRick NashAssists: Marc Staal · Snap, 0.07 xG1–5
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 15:32PHIValtteri Filppula: Interference2 min · PPG
  2. P1 18:05NYRJesper Fast: Slashing2 min
  3. P2 8:28PHIJakub Voracek: Hooking2 min
  4. P2 13:50NYRBrady Skjei: Slashing2 min
  5. P2 18:33NYRJesper Fast: High sticking2 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 SOG0NYR
46% to win54% to win
← PHI attackNYR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Miller won the faceoff against Filppula
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHINYR
26Shots on goal29
2.2Expected goals2.5
51Shot attempts40
29Faceoffs won26
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
20Hits30
6Blocked shots13
9Giveaways12
6Takeaways17

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. bestSimmonds – Weal – Patrick11:12

    xG 0.88–0.02 (97%)attempts 10–2goals 1–0

  2. Giroux – Voracek – Couturier4:13

    xG 0.11–0.07 (61%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  3. Filppula – Raffl – Konecny4:56

    xG 0.18–0.14 (56%)attempts 6–3goals 0–0

  4. Filppula – Voracek – Raffl6:35

    xG 0.00–0.03 (0%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGostisbehere – Provorov16:35

    xG 0.77–0.16 (83%)attempts 18–8goals 0–0

  2. Manning – Gudas13:14

    xG 0.54–0.71 (43%)attempts 11–11goals 1–1

  3. MacDonald – Hagg16:01

    xG 0.32–0.64 (33%)attempts 9–9goals 0–0

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. Nash – Zibanejad – Buchnevich11:02

    xG 0.84–0.82 (51%)attempts 14–15goals 1–0

  2. Desharnais – Carey – Vesey10:04

    xG 0.24–0.26 (48%)attempts 4–9goals 0–0

  3. Grabner – Holland – Fast12:24

    xG 0.33–0.39 (46%)attempts 7–6goals 1–1

  4. Zuccarello – Miller – Lettieri11:19

    xG 0.08–0.25 (23%)attempts 3–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStaal – Skjei10:08

    xG 0.53–0.11 (83%)attempts 6–7goals 3–0

  2. Smith – Skjei2:24

    xG 0.28–0.07 (80%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  3. Holden – Skjei3:51

    xG 0.01–0.07 (16%)attempts 2–3goals 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.

NYR 2.5 xGPHI 2.2 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRPHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 25/100 · #934 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.82 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 38% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50NYR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +19 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, New York Rangers win this game 57% of the time.

NYR winsPHI wins

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

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