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Wed, Jan 17, 2018·TD Garden, Boston

Montréal Canadiens 1, Boston Bruins 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 61% of the time.

BOS winsMTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MTL160709122
BOS11211327432

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:31MTLJakub JerabekAssists: Charles Hudon, Paul Byron · Tip-in, 0.09 xG1–0
  2. P1 6:50BOSDavid PastrnakAssists: Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand · Wrist, 0.03 xG1–1
  3. P2 2:37BOSRyan SpoonerGWGAssists: David Krejci, Jake DeBrusk · Backhand, 0.04 xG1–2
  4. P3 3:40BOSBrad MarchandPPAssists: Patrice Bergeron, Torey Krug · Wrist, 0.23 xG1–3
  5. P3 16:46BOSDavid KrejciENAssists: David Backes · Wrist, 0.71 xG1–4
Penalties (5)
  1. P2 8:33BOSCharlie McAvoy: Holding2 min
  2. P2 9:24BOSBrandon Carlo: Slashing2 min
  3. P2 18:48MTLByron Froese: Slashing2 min
  4. P3 2:41MTLJacob de la Rose: Hooking2 min · PPG
  5. P3 9:11MTLByron Froese: 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.

MTL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0BOS
46% to win54% to win
← MTL attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Bergeron won the faceoff against Hudon
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MTLBOS
22Shots on goal32
2.2Expected goals2.7
39Shot attempts63
30Faceoffs won40
2Power plays3
6Penalty minutes4
32Hits32
21Blocked shots10
12Giveaways15
9Takeaways8

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.

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. bestDeslauriers – Galchenyuk – Drouin6:49

    xG 0.41–0.14 (74%)attempts 9–5goals 0–0

  2. Byron – Pacioretty – Hudon9:00

    xG 0.24–0.12 (67%)attempts 5–10goals 1–1

  3. Plekanec – Gallagher – Lehkonen9:41

    xG 0.29–0.30 (50%)attempts 9–9goals 0–0

  4. Galchenyuk – de la Rose – Drouin5:45

    xG 0.10–0.16 (39%)attempts 1–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSchlemko – Mete12:39

    xG 0.45–0.25 (64%)attempts 10–10goals 0–1

  2. Petry – Alzner14:27

    xG 0.23–0.30 (43%)attempts 6–16goals 0–1

  3. Benn – Jerabek18:27

    xG 0.52–0.64 (45%)attempts 15–21goals 0–0

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestBackes – Nash – Heinen12:01

    xG 0.41–0.09 (81%)attempts 12–4goals 0–0

  2. Krejci – Spooner – DeBrusk12:16

    xG 0.44–0.34 (57%)attempts 13–10goals 1–0

  3. Bergeron – Marchand – Pastrnak10:30

    xG 0.22–0.36 (38%)attempts 11–9goals 1–0

  4. Kuraly – Schaller – Acciari11:02

    xG 0.21–0.38 (36%)attempts 9–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMcQuaid – Grzelcyk13:15

    xG 0.60–0.19 (76%)attempts 15–7goals 1–0

  2. Chara – McAvoy16:31

    xG 0.35–0.36 (49%)attempts 18–9goals 1–1

  3. Chara – Carlo2:16

    xG 0.00–0.06 (0%)attempts 0–2goals 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.

BOS 2.7 xGMTL 2.2 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSMTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 26/100 · #927 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.84 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 38% (winner's lowest chance)
MTL 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +22 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 61% of the time.

BOS winsMTL wins

Simulated goal difference (BOS − MTL), 10,000 replays

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