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Wed, Mar 28, 2018·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Florida Panthers 3, Toronto Maple Leafs 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 54% of the time.

TOR winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA19110114333
TOR31601118435

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:05TORMitch MarnerAssists: Morgan Rielly, Tomas Plekanec · Wrist, 0.20 xG0–1
  2. P1 9:24TORAuston MatthewsAssists: William Nylander, Jake Gardiner · Snap, 0.13 xG0–2
  3. P1 13:55TORPatrick MarleauAssists: Mitch Marner · Tip-in, 0.09 xG0–3
  4. P1 17:49FLAJonathan HuberdeauAssists: Denis Malgin · Snap, 0.09 xG1–3
  5. P2 15:08FLAJonathan HuberdeauAssists: Vincent Trocheck, Mark Pysyk · Snap, 0.08 xG2–3
  6. P3 11:48TORJames van RiemsdykGWGAssists: Tyler Bozak, Connor Brown · Backhand, 0.25 xG2–4
  7. P3 18:34FLAEvgenii DadonovAssists: Keith Yandle, Aaron Ekblad · Backhand, 0.19 xG3–4
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 4:26FLANick Bjugstad: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 2:41TORJames van Riemsdyk: Hooking2 min
  3. P2 4:04TORRoman Polak: Slashing2 min
  4. P3 13:32TORMitch Marner: Holding the stick2 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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0TOR
46% to win54% to win
← FLA attackTOR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Kadri won the faceoff against Barkov
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLATOR
33Shots on goal35
3.7Expected goals3.4
74Shot attempts66
36Faceoffs won35
3Power plays1
2Penalty minutes6
24Hits22
18Blocked shots22
8Giveaways23
5Takeaways10

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.

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestDadonov – Bjugstad – Barkov12:45

    xG 0.74–0.33 (69%)attempts 16–10goals 0–1

  2. McGinn – Trocheck – Huberdeau5:09

    xG 0.31–0.13 (71%)attempts 8–5goals 1–0

  3. Trocheck – Huberdeau – Malgin5:53

    xG 0.46–0.29 (61%)attempts 9–5goals 1–1

  4. MacKenzie – Sceviour – Vatrano6:23

    xG 0.20–0.31 (39%)attempts 7–7goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestPysyk – Matheson14:13

    xG 1.00–0.75 (57%)attempts 20–14goals 1–2

  2. Yandle – Ekblad17:16

    xG 0.96–1.16 (45%)attempts 19–21goals 1–2

  3. Matheson – Ekblad2:32

    xG 0.01–0.25 (5%)attempts 1–6goals 0–0

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestvan Riemsdyk – Bozak – Brown10:35

    xG 1.47–0.47 (76%)attempts 20–7goals 1–0

  2. Plekanec – Johnsson – Kapanen5:12

    xG 0.06–0.10 (38%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  3. Marleau – Kadri – Marner15:28

    xG 0.60–0.88 (40%)attempts 14–19goals 1–0

  4. Hyman – Nylander – Matthews8:35

    xG 0.27–0.86 (24%)attempts 4–19goals 1–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestPolak – Dermott11:57

    xG 0.96–0.27 (78%)attempts 15–10goals 1–0

  2. Hainsey – Rielly15:36

    xG 0.86–0.83 (51%)attempts 15–18goals 2–0

  3. Gardiner – Zaitsev15:46

    xG 0.63–1.33 (32%)attempts 15–27goals 0–2

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.

TOR 3.4 xGFLA 3.7 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 68/100 · #423 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.98 · 7 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50TOR 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, Florida Panthers win this game 54% of the time.

TOR winsFLA wins

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

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