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Tue, Dec 11, 2018·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Florida Panthers 3, St. Louis Blues 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 62% of the time.

STL winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA1501327325
STL01009414433

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 15:29FLAEvgenii DadonovAssists: Jonathan Huberdeau · Wrist, 0.16 xG1–0
  2. P3 1:28STLIvan BarbashevAssists: Robert Thomas, Oskar Sundqvist · Wrist, 0.11 xG1–1
  3. P3 1:39STLDavid PerronAssists: Jaden Schwartz · Wrist, 0.09 xG1–2
  4. P3 11:12STLDavid PerronAssists: Jaden Schwartz, Brayden Schenn · Wrist, 0.06 xG1–3
  5. P3 11:46FLAMacKenzie WeegarAssists: Jared McCann, Mark Pysyk · Wrist, 0.03 xG2–3
  6. P3 13:14FLAMike HoffmanAssists: Jonathan Huberdeau, Aleksander Barkov · Tip-in, 0.09 xG3–3
  7. P3 16:05STLBrayden SchennGWGAssists: Alexander Steen, Vince Dunn · Backhand, 0.15 xG3–4
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 0:39FLAMike Matheson: High sticking double minor4 min
  2. P1 11:29FLADryden Hunt: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 14:23STLDavid Perron: Too many men on the ice2 min
  4. P2 19:15STLRobert Thomas: 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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
46% to win54% to win
← FLA attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Barkov won the faceoff against O'Reilly
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLASTL
25Shots on goal33
1.9Expected goals2.6
54Shot attempts62
34Faceoffs won34
2Power plays3
6Penalty minutes4
12Hits17
14Blocked shots19
5Giveaways8
8Takeaways14

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. bestHoffman – Huberdeau – Barkov2:21

    xG 0.20–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–1goals 1–0

  2. Sceviour – McCann – Hunt5:15

    xG 0.28–0.14 (66%)attempts 5–5goals 1–0

  3. Hoffman – Vatrano – Malgin7:08

    xG 0.27–0.17 (62%)attempts 11–5goals 0–1

  4. Brouwer – Haley – Lammikko3:02

    xG 0.10–0.09 (51%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestYandle – Ekblad15:44

    xG 0.56–0.48 (54%)attempts 17–13goals 2–0

  2. Pysyk – Weegar12:40

    xG 0.26–0.42 (38%)attempts 12–9goals 1–0

  3. Petrovic – Matheson17:17

    xG 0.54–1.14 (32%)attempts 12–26goals 0–3

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestMaroon – Bozak – Thomas8:50

    xG 0.49–0.21 (70%)attempts 7–11goals 0–0

  2. Nolan – Sundqvist – Barbashev4:22

    xG 0.13–0.03 (82%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

  3. Perron – Schenn – Schwartz13:11

    xG 0.47–0.45 (51%)attempts 13–12goals 2–0

  4. Steen – O'Reilly – Tarasenko12:20

    xG 0.57–0.56 (50%)attempts 14–12goals 0–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestBortuzzo – Dunn15:54

    xG 0.72–0.53 (58%)attempts 15–16goals 2–1

  2. Butler – Schmaltz7:35

    xG 0.45–0.30 (60%)attempts 10–10goals 1–0

  3. Bouwmeester – Parayko17:06

    xG 0.54–0.43 (56%)attempts 17–12goals 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.

STL 2.6 xGFLA 1.9 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 88/100 · #174 of 1271 this seasonSwing 2.17 · 7 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 23% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +43 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 62% of the time.

STL winsFLA wins

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

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