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Sat, Mar 31, 2018·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Winnipeg Jets 3, Toronto Maple Leafs 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 73% of the time.

TOR winsWPG wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
WPG01031207329
TOR01019010129

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 2:02TORPatrick MarleauPPAssists: Auston Matthews, Jake Gardiner · Tip-in, 0.12 xG0–1
  2. P2 8:30WPGJosh MorrisseyAssists: Nikolaj Ehlers, Jacob Trouba · Slap, 0.02 xG1–1
  3. P2 9:40WPGDustin ByfuglienPPGWGAssists: Blake Wheeler, Paul Stastny · Snap, 0.05 xG2–1
  4. P2 17:24WPGAndrew CoppAssists: Adam Lowry, Brandon Tanev · Snap, 0.12 xG3–1
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 4:31TORKasperi Kapanen: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 5:01WPGBlake Wheeler: High sticking2 min
  3. P2 1:42WPGBen Chiarot: Holding2 min · PPG
  4. P2 8:57TORJake Gardiner: Cross checking2 min · PPG
  5. P2 12:03WPGMathieu Perreault: Hooking2 min
  6. P3 9:48WPGMathieu Perreault: Too many men on the ice2 min
  7. P3 18:53TORRon Hainsey: Holding2 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.

WPG00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

WPGTOR
29Shots on goal29
2.1Expected goals3.5
48Shot attempts58
24Faceoffs won36
3Power plays4
8Penalty minutes6
26Hits11
14Blocked shots7
10Giveaways13
6Takeaways8

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.

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestStastny – Ehlers – Laine11:47

    xG 0.67–0.42 (62%)attempts 14–12goals 1–0

  2. Lowry – Copp – Tanev7:37

    xG 0.30–0.11 (73%)attempts 8–6goals 0–0

  3. Wheeler – Scheifele – Connor14:21

    xG 0.47–0.65 (42%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

  4. Little – Perreault – Armia10:31

    xG 0.10–1.05 (9%)attempts 5–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestTrouba – Morrissey16:38

    xG 0.78–0.50 (61%)attempts 16–14goals 2–0

  2. Myers – Chiarot13:47

    xG 0.40–0.37 (52%)attempts 14–9goals 0–0

  3. Byfuglien – Morrow15:29

    xG 0.38–1.18 (24%)attempts 8–13goals 0–0

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestvan Riemsdyk – Bozak – Brown10:43

    xG 0.90–0.68 (57%)attempts 12–15goals 0–2

  2. Marleau – Kadri – Marner13:33

    xG 0.71–0.53 (57%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

  3. Hyman – Nylander – Matthews11:14

    xG 0.36–0.23 (61%)attempts 12–7goals 0–0

  4. Plekanec – Komarov – Kapanen5:41

    xG 0.08–0.15 (35%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGardiner – Zaitsev12:39

    xG 1.13–0.51 (69%)attempts 16–10goals 0–1

  2. Hainsey – Rielly10:07

    xG 0.61–0.39 (61%)attempts 7–9goals 0–0

  3. Polak – Gardiner2:56

    xG 0.13–0.08 (63%)attempts 3–3goals 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.

TOR 3.5 xGWPG 2.1 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORWPG

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 WPG. Dots are goals.

Excitement 31/100 · #882 of 1271 this seasonSwing 1.15 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 23% (winner's lowest chance)
WPG 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +22 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 73% of the time.

TOR winsWPG wins

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

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