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Thu, Mar 29, 2018·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Florida Panthers 2, Ottawa Senators 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 68% of the time.

OTT winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
FLA082601002226
OTT0101121513330

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 1:24OTTJean-Gabriel PageauAssists: Mike Hoffman, Tom Pyatt · Wrap-around, 0.13 xG0–1
  2. P2 5:19FLAAaron EkbladPPAssists: Jamie McGinn, Keith Yandle · Snap, 0.17 xG1–1
  3. P2 6:50FLAEvgenii DadonovAssists: MacKenzie Weegar, Alexander Petrovic · Wrist, 0.06 xG2–1
  4. P3 0:16OTTMagnus PaajarviAssists: Zack Smith, Erik Karlsson · Deflected, 0.10 xG2–2
  5. OT 4:44OTTJean-Gabriel PageauGWGUnassisted · Snap, 0.35 xG2–3
Penalties (4)
  1. P2 3:35OTTMax McCormick: High sticking2 min · PPG
  2. P3 9:35OTTAlexandre Burrows: Slashing2 min
  3. P3 12:16FLAKeith Yandle: Slashing2 min
  4. OT 4:44FLAMike Matheson: Penalty shot tripping on breakaway0 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 SOG0OTT
46% to win54% to win
← FLA attackOTT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Smith won the faceoff against Trocheck
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLAOTT
26Shots on goal30
1.8Expected goals2.6
54Shot attempts54
25Faceoffs won29
2Power plays1
2Penalty minutes4
24Hits28
14Blocked shots17
9Giveaways9
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.

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. Vatrano – Malgin – Borgstrom7:37

    xG 0.06–0.01 (83%)attempts 6–2goals 0–0

  2. MacKenzie – Sceviour – McCann8:49

    xG 0.13–0.12 (53%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

  3. Dadonov – Bjugstad – Barkov10:01

    xG 0.13–0.44 (24%)attempts 9–10goals 0–0

  4. McGinn – Trocheck – Huberdeau14:17

    xG 0.18–0.73 (20%)attempts 11–20goals 0–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestYandle – Ekblad17:04

    xG 0.42–0.35 (54%)attempts 14–16goals 0–0

  2. Petrovic – Weegar12:37

    xG 0.19–0.21 (48%)attempts 4–10goals 1–0

  3. Pysyk – Matheson18:45

    xG 0.32–0.85 (27%)attempts 19–17goals 0–2

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestSmith – Paajarvi – White10:53

    xG 0.32–0.03 (92%)attempts 12–5goals 1–0

  2. Pyatt – Hoffman – Pageau13:07

    xG 0.58–0.33 (63%)attempts 12–12goals 1–0

  3. Burrows – McCormick – Chlapik6:45

    xG 0.10–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

  4. Ryan – Duchene – Dzingel11:29

    xG 0.22–0.39 (36%)attempts 7–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBorowiecki – Ceci10:45

    xG 0.64–0.14 (82%)attempts 13–9goals 1–0

  2. Karlsson – Chabot14:51

    xG 0.58–0.23 (72%)attempts 17–11goals 1–0

  3. Claesson – Ceci3:33

    xG 0.20–0.04 (85%)attempts 3–2goals 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.

OTT 2.6 xGFLA 1.8 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 50/100 · #633 of 1271 this seasonSwing 1.64 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 28% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +28 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 68% of the time.

OTT winsFLA wins

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

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