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Wed, Oct 10, 2018·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Philadelphia Flyers 7, Ottawa Senators 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 68% of the time.

OTT winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PHI11639320745
OTT11421219435

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 8:39OTTBrady TkachukPPAssists: Chris Tierney, Maxime Lajoie · Deflected, 0.14 xG0–1
  2. P1 14:44PHIJakub VoracekPPAssists: Shayne Gostisbehere, Claude Giroux · Tip-in, 0.16 xG1–1
  3. P2 1:20OTTBrady TkachukAssists: Mikkel Boedker, Thomas Chabot · Wrist, 0.03 xG1–2
  4. P2 3:04PHISean CouturierAssists: Radko Gudas, Jakub Voracek · Wrist, 0.27 xG2–2
  5. P2 6:35PHIJakub VoracekAssists: Radko Gudas · Wrist, 0.07 xG3–2
  6. P2 11:13OTTMaxime LajoiePPAssists: Chris Tierney, Brady Tkachuk · Wrist, 0.12 xG3–3
  7. P2 15:45PHIScott LaughtonAssists: Dale Weise, Andrew MacDonald · Backhand, 0.05 xG4–3
  8. P3 4:08PHIRobert HaggGWGAssists: Michael Raffl, Dale Weise · Wrist, 0.14 xG5–3
  9. P3 12:37PHIClaude GirouxPPAssists: Shayne Gostisbehere, Jakub Voracek · Wrist, 0.23 xG6–3
  10. P3 17:08OTTMaxime LajoiePPAssists: Chris Tierney, Mikkel Boedker · Backhand, 0.18 xG6–4
  11. P3 19:25PHIScott LaughtonENAssists: Jakub Voracek, Radko Gudas · Wrist, 0.75 xG7–4
Penalties (24)
  1. P1 1:04OTTMikkel Boedker: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 3:42PHIAndrew MacDonald: Hooking2 min
  3. P1 6:57PHIIvan Provorov: Tripping2 min · PPG
  4. P1 9:01OTTDylan DeMelo: Tripping2 min
  5. P1 14:09OTTChris Wideman: Hooking2 min · PPG
  6. P1 18:05PHIMichael Raffl: High sticking2 min
  7. P2 10:19OTTAlex Formenton: Roughing2 min
  8. P2 10:19PHIJori Lehtera: Cross checking2 min · PPG
  9. P2 10:19PHIJori Lehtera: Roughing2 min
  10. P2 14:17PHIRobert Hagg: Roughing2 min
  11. P2 14:17OTTAlex Formenton: Roughing2 min
  12. P2 14:17OTTBobby Ryan: Roughing2 min
  13. P2 14:17PHIOskar Lindblom: Roughing2 min
  14. P2 14:17PHIJori Lehtera: Roughing2 min
  15. P2 14:17OTTChris Tierney: Roughing2 min
  16. P2 14:17PHIRobert Hagg: Interference2 min
  17. P2 15:04OTTRyan Dzingel: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  18. P3 1:29OTTBrady Tkachuk: Roughing2 min
  19. P3 1:29OTTBrady Tkachuk: Roughing2 min
  20. P3 1:29PHIScott Laughton: Roughing2 min
  21. P3 8:29OTTMark Stone: Tripping2 min
  22. P3 11:58OTTZack Smith: High sticking2 min · PPG
  23. P3 13:18PHIDale Weise: Interference2 min
  24. P3 16:58PHIJori Lehtera: Interference2 min · PPG

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 SOG0OTT
46% to win54% to win
← PHI attackOTT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Giroux won the faceoff against Smith
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIOTT
45Shots on goal35
5.3Expected goals4.2
71Shot attempts64
38Faceoffs won35
7Power plays7
24Penalty minutes24
26Hits24
16Blocked shots12
6Giveaways12
4Takeaways2

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. Lehtera – Weise – Raffl3:32

    xG 0.34–0.29 (54%)attempts 5–3goals 1–0

  2. Giroux – Voracek – Couturier9:29

    xG 0.69–0.76 (47%)attempts 15–15goals 2–0

  3. Lehtera – Lindblom – Konecny6:10

    xG 0.14–0.22 (39%)attempts 6–5goals 0–1

  4. Simmonds – Laughton – Vorobyev6:13

    xG 0.06–0.23 (19%)attempts 2–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGudas – Provorov3:08

    xG 0.10–0.00 (97%)attempts 6–2goals 0–0

  2. Gudas – Sanheim6:44

    xG 0.45–0.36 (55%)attempts 8–5goals 2–1

  3. MacDonald – Hagg11:14

    xG 0.42–0.85 (33%)attempts 13–13goals 1–0

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestBoedker – Duchene – Tkachuk5:23

    xG 1.01–0.11 (90%)attempts 10–6goals 1–0

  2. Smith – Stone – Dzingel5:45

    xG 0.20–0.03 (85%)attempts 8–3goals 0–0

  3. Ryan – Tierney – Formenton4:55

    xG 0.18–0.03 (85%)attempts 5–6goals 0–0

  4. Pyatt – Paajarvi – White2:57

    xG 0.00–0.01 (0%)attempts 0–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBorowiecki – Wideman8:31

    xG 0.66–0.08 (90%)attempts 9–5goals 0–0

  2. Ceci – Lajoie11:23

    xG 0.85–0.57 (60%)attempts 16–13goals 0–0

  3. DeMelo – Chabot10:39

    xG 0.08–0.52 (14%)attempts 7–11goals 1–1

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 4.2 xGPHI 5.3 xG
0123456P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTPHI

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 PHI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 90/100 · #143 of 1271 this seasonSwing 1.96 · 11 goals in reachComeback index 28% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +24 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 68% of the time.

OTT winsPHI wins

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

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