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Sat, Feb 3, 2018·TD Garden, Boston

Toronto Maple Leafs 1, Boston Bruins 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 57% of the time.

BOS winsTOR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
TOR1707010124
BOS11321116430

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:29BOSPatrice BergeronAssists: Danton Heinen · Wrist, 0.03 xG0–1
  2. P1 8:03TORMitch MarnerPPAssists: Morgan Rielly, Nazem Kadri · Wrist, 0.03 xG1–1
  3. P2 9:22BOSDavid PastrnakPPGWGAssists: Torey Krug, Danton Heinen · Wrist, 0.11 xG1–2
  4. P2 16:47BOSTorey KrugPPAssists: Austin Czarnik, David Krejci · Slap, 0.07 xG1–3
  5. P3 18:21BOSTim SchallerENAssists: Tuukka Rask, Zdeno Chara · Wrist, 0.47 xG1–4
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 6:53BOSBrandon Carlo: Interference2 min · PPG
  2. P2 3:11BOSDavid Pastrnak: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  3. P2 4:37TORMorgan Rielly: Holding2 min
  4. P2 8:59TORPatrick Marleau: Tripping2 min · PPG
  5. P2 15:19TORRon Hainsey: Interference2 min · PPG
  6. P3 3:58BOSCharlie McAvoy: Holding2 min
  7. P3 10:33BOSDavid Backes: Kneeing2 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.

TOR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TORBOS
24Shots on goal30
2.3Expected goals2.7
47Shot attempts61
33Faceoffs won27
4Power plays3
6Penalty minutes8
29Hits26
15Blocked shots9
19Giveaways7
7Takeaways4

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.

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. Komarov – Kapanen – Matthews2:07

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–2goals 0–0

  2. Moore – Komarov – Kapanen6:02

    xG 0.25–0.29 (47%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

  3. van Riemsdyk – Bozak – Brown7:56

    xG 0.12–0.16 (43%)attempts 8–8goals 0–0

  4. Marleau – Kadri – Marner8:16

    xG 0.16–0.31 (33%)attempts 6–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Rielly – Dermott2:29

    xG 0.01–0.01 (51%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  2. Gardiner – Zaitsev12:16

    xG 0.23–0.27 (46%)attempts 8–9goals 0–1

  3. Hainsey – Carrick2:23

    xG 0.00–0.09 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestBergeron – Pastrnak – Heinen9:56

    xG 0.37–0.01 (98%)attempts 9–2goals 1–0

  2. Kuraly – Vatrano – Czarnik7:14

    xG 0.53–0.25 (68%)attempts 9–3goals 0–0

  3. Krejci – Spooner – DeBrusk12:15

    xG 0.31–0.29 (52%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

  4. Backes – Nash – Schaller9:21

    xG 0.24–0.26 (48%)attempts 11–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestChara – McAvoy14:50

    xG 0.45–0.09 (83%)attempts 20–5goals 1–0

  2. Krug – Carlo14:05

    xG 0.46–0.20 (70%)attempts 12–8goals 0–0

  3. McQuaid – Grzelcyk13:01

    xG 0.25–0.52 (32%)attempts 5–11goals 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.

BOS 2.7 xGTOR 2.3 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSTOR

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 TOR. Dots are goals.

Excitement 29/100 · #901 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.99 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
TOR 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +20 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 57% of the time.

BOS winsTOR wins

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

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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).