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Mon, Feb 26, 2018·Centre Bell, Montreal

Philadelphia Flyers 1, Montréal Canadiens 0 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Montréal Canadiens win this game 51% of the time.

MTL winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
PHI01008010052133
MTL0301504061028

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. No goals in regulation or overtime.

Shootout

  1. 1. MTL Alex Galchenyuk stopped
  2. 2. PHI Claude Giroux stopped
  3. 3. MTL Paul Byron scored
  4. 4. PHI Nolan Patrick stopped
  5. 5. MTL Jonathan Drouin stopped
  6. 6. PHI Jakub Voracek scored
  7. 7. MTL Artturi Lehkonen stopped
  8. 8. PHI Jordan Weal stopped
  9. 9. MTL Charles Hudon stopped
  10. 10. PHI Travis Konecny stopped
  11. 11. MTL David Schlemko stopped
  12. 12. PHI Sean Couturier scored
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 0:31PHIShayne Gostisbehere: Roughing2 min
  2. P1 0:31MTLMax Pacioretty: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 0:31MTLMax Pacioretty: Roughing2 min
  4. P2 6:33MTLJacob de la Rose: Interference2 min
  5. P2 14:35PHIIvan Provorov: Tripping2 min
  6. P3 13:35MTLJonathan Drouin: Tripping2 min
  7. OT 4:41PHIClaude Giroux: Roughing2 min
  8. OT 4:41MTLPhillip Danault: Roughing2 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 SOG0MTL
46% to win54% to win
← PHI attackMTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Drouin won the faceoff against Couturier
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIMTL
33Shots on goal28
2.8Expected goals2.8
66Shot attempts56
38Faceoffs won19
3Power plays1
6Penalty minutes10
18Hits30
16Blocked shots17
11Giveaways9
4Takeaways10

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 – Konecny14:05

    xG 0.54–0.13 (80%)attempts 16–6goals 0–0

  2. Weal – Laughton – Raffl7:56

    xG 0.10–0.03 (77%)attempts 5–6goals 0–0

  3. Weise – Laughton – Raffl2:00

    xG 0.04–0.06 (43%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

  4. Voracek – Lindblom – Patrick11:44

    xG 0.40–0.68 (37%)attempts 12–17goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestManning – Gudas14:44

    xG 0.39–0.20 (66%)attempts 15–10goals 0–0

  2. MacDonald – Hagg16:21

    xG 0.50–0.35 (59%)attempts 12–17goals 0–0

  3. Gostisbehere – Provorov17:01

    xG 0.57–0.64 (47%)attempts 18–13goals 0–0

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. bestByron – Gallagher – de la Rose10:59

    xG 0.58–0.25 (70%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

  2. Danault – Galchenyuk – Hudon11:32

    xG 0.55–0.44 (56%)attempts 16–11goals 0–0

  3. Deslauriers – Shaw – Carr9:29

    xG 0.13–0.30 (30%)attempts 3–16goals 0–0

  4. Pacioretty – Lehkonen – Drouin11:49

    xG 0.10–0.41 (20%)attempts 10–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSchlemko – Benn13:41

    xG 0.62–0.52 (54%)attempts 13–12goals 0–0

  2. Petry – Mete15:43

    xG 0.51–0.44 (54%)attempts 13–20goals 0–0

  3. Schlemko – Mete2:33

    xG 0.03–0.08 (30%)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.

MTL 2.8 xGPHI 2.8 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MTLPHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 11/100 · #1141 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.83 · 0 goals in reachComeback index 41% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50MTL 100%P1P2P3OTEnd

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Montréal Canadiens win this game 51% of the time.

MTL winsPHI wins

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

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