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Fri, Oct 19, 2018·American Airlines Center, Dallas

Minnesota Wild 3, Dallas Stars 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 85% of the time.

DAL winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN08013315336
DAL0602414134

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P3 0:36DALJason SpezzaAssists: Miro Heiskanen, Devin Shore · Wrist, 0.01 xG0–1
  2. P3 9:37MINMathew DumbaAssists: Mikael Granlund, Zach Parise · Tip-in, 0.10 xG1–1
  3. P3 12:54MINRyan SuterGWGAssists: Eric Staal, Jason Zucker · Deflected, 0.07 xG2–1
  4. P3 19:00MINZach PariseENAssists: Ryan Suter · Tip-in, 0.77 xG3–1
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 7:15DALJulius Honka: Interference2 min
  2. P1 14:54MINMatt Read: Hooking2 min
  3. P2 8:07MINGreg Pateryn: Slashing2 min
  4. P2 8:38DALJohn Klingberg: Holding2 min
  5. P2 16:37MINRyan Suter: Hooking2 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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0DAL
46% to win54% to win
← MIN attackDAL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Koivu won the faceoff against Seguin
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINDAL
36Shots on goal34
6.0Expected goals3.4
67Shot attempts62
21Faceoffs won22
2Power plays3
6Penalty minutes4
16Hits16
21Blocked shots19
3Giveaways12
5Takeaways7

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.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestKoivu – Parise – Granlund13:10

    xG 1.22–0.46 (73%)attempts 16–16goals 1–0

  2. Coyle – Niederreiter – Greenway8:52

    xG 0.64–0.33 (66%)attempts 10–7goals 0–0

  3. Staal – Zucker – Read11:26

    xG 0.68–0.53 (56%)attempts 15–11goals 1–1

  4. Fehr – Foligno – Brown9:43

    xG 0.35–0.26 (57%)attempts 8–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSuter – Dumba19:36

    xG 1.99–0.77 (72%)attempts 24–19goals 2–0

  2. Pateryn – Seeler13:17

    xG 0.57–0.30 (66%)attempts 14–11goals 0–0

  3. Spurgeon – Brodin12:58

    xG 0.61–0.50 (55%)attempts 14–11goals 0–1

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestBenn – Seguin – Hintz11:41

    xG 0.24–0.18 (58%)attempts 10–9goals 0–0

  2. Ritchie – Smith – Dickinson4:55

    xG 0.05–0.18 (23%)attempts 2–5goals 0–0

  3. Spezza – Pitlick – Shore8:55

    xG 0.51–0.80 (39%)attempts 10–12goals 1–0

  4. Comeau – Faksa – Janmark7:56

    xG 0.36–1.09 (25%)attempts 8–11goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Klingberg – Lindell19:15

    xG 0.67–0.75 (47%)attempts 21–16goals 0–1

  2. Polak – Honka8:32

    xG 0.30–0.50 (37%)attempts 6–11goals 0–0

  3. Methot – Heiskanen11:46

    xG 0.39–1.20 (25%)attempts 8–15goals 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.

DAL 3.4 xGMIN 6.0 xG
0123456P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DALMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 40/100 · #757 of 1271 this seasonSwing 1.37 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 17% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50DAL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +35 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 85% of the time.

DAL winsMIN wins

Simulated goal difference (DAL − MIN), 10,000 replays

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