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Sun, Feb 11, 2018·T-Mobile Arena, Paradise

Philadelphia Flyers 4, Vegas Golden Knights 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Vegas Golden Knights win this game 63% of the time.

VGK winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PHI172714418
VGK112015012139

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 11:22VGKBrayden McNabbAssists: Reilly Smith, William Karlsson · Wrist, 0.04 xG0–1
  2. P1 17:50PHISean CouturierAssists: Travis Konecny, Claude Giroux · Snap, 0.17 xG1–1
  3. P2 17:08PHIAndrew MacDonaldGWGAssists: Sean Couturier, Travis Konecny · Deflected, 0.09 xG2–1
  4. P2 19:54PHIClaude GirouxAssists: Sean Couturier, Ivan Provorov · Backhand, 0.12 xG3–1
  5. P3 17:34PHIRadko GudasENUnassisted · Wrist, 0.48 xG4–1
Penalties (1)
  1. P1 5:35PHIBrandon Manning: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 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 SOG0VGK
46% to win54% to win
← PHI attackVGK attack →
  1. P1 20:00Laughton won the faceoff against Carpenter
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIVGK
18Shots on goal39
1.6Expected goals2.2
34Shot attempts64
38Faceoffs won26
0Power plays1
2Penalty minutes0
17Hits15
10Blocked shots8
5Giveaways14
3Takeaways8

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. bestGiroux – Couturier – Konecny11:30

    xG 0.64–0.43 (60%)attempts 10–10goals 3–1

  2. Filppula – Lehtera – Weise9:39

    xG 0.12–0.31 (28%)attempts 6–9goals 0–0

  3. Weal – Laughton – Raffl13:05

    xG 0.07–0.34 (17%)attempts 4–13goals 0–0

  4. Voracek – Simmonds – Patrick12:19

    xG 0.13–0.45 (23%)attempts 8–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Gostisbehere – Provorov19:37

    xG 0.40–0.52 (43%)attempts 4–18goals 2–0

  2. Manning – Gudas16:43

    xG 0.19–0.64 (23%)attempts 11–20goals 0–1

  3. MacDonald – Hagg18:53

    xG 0.31–0.80 (28%)attempts 15–20goals 1–0

Vegas Golden Knights

Forward lines

  1. bestSmith – Karlsson – Marchessault13:08

    xG 0.80–0.33 (71%)attempts 13–5goals 1–1

  2. Carpenter – Bellemare – Tuch10:11

    xG 0.47–0.07 (87%)attempts 16–6goals 0–0

  3. Neal – Perron – Haula13:43

    xG 0.26–0.19 (57%)attempts 11–9goals 0–1

  4. Eakin – Lindberg – Leipsic10:39

    xG 0.36–0.29 (55%)attempts 13–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMiller – Hunt13:54

    xG 0.41–0.05 (89%)attempts 12–4goals 0–0

  2. Miller – Theodore2:59

    xG 0.22–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–0goals 0–0

  3. McNabb – Schmidt17:25

    xG 0.68–0.54 (56%)attempts 19–11goals 1–2

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.

VGK 2.2 xGPHI 1.6 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VGKPHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 30/100 · #888 of 1271 this seasonSwing 1.03 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 24% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50VGK 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +26 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Vegas Golden Knights win this game 63% of the time.

VGK winsPHI wins

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

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