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Tue, Jan 8, 2019·Capital One Arena, Washington

Philadelphia Flyers 3, Washington Capitals 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Washington Capitals win this game 74% of the time.

WSH winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PHI111012217340
WSH1431318525

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:21WSHTom WilsonAssists: Jakub Vrana, Lars Eller · Tip-in, 0.10 xG0–1
  2. P1 9:28PHIJakub VoracekAssists: Oskar Lindblom · Wrist, 0.13 xG1–1
  3. P2 9:19WSHT.J. OshieAssists: Lars Eller, John Carlson · Tip-in, 0.06 xG1–2
  4. P2 11:22WSHJakub VranaUnassisted · Wrist, 0.18 xG1–3
  5. P2 15:55WSHJakub VranaPPGWGAssists: Travis Boyd, John Carlson · Wrist, 0.05 xG1–4
  6. P3 16:33PHIWayne SimmondsAssists: Jakub Voracek, Sean Couturier · Wrist, 0.25 xG2–4
  7. P3 19:53PHIClaude GirouxAssists: Sean Couturier, Jakub Voracek · Slap, 0.08 xG3–4
  8. P3 19:57WSHT.J. OshieENUnassisted · Wrist, 0.61 xG3–5
Penalties (12)
  1. P1 5:46WSHAndre Burakovsky: Hooking2 min
  2. P2 5:24PHIRobert Hagg: Slashing2 min
  3. P2 14:12PHIIvan Provorov: Tripping2 min · PPG
  4. P2 19:06WSHBrooks Orpik: Roughing2 min
  5. P3 2:04WSHDevante Smith-Pelly: Roughing2 min
  6. P3 2:04WSHDevante Smith-Pelly: Fighting5 min
  7. P3 2:04PHIRadko Gudas: Fighting5 min
  8. P3 9:06WSHTom Wilson: Slashing2 min
  9. P3 13:31PHITravis Konecny: Slashing2 min
  10. P3 17:56PHIShayne Gostisbehere: Hooking2 min
  11. P3 17:56PHIWayne Simmonds: Misconduct10 min
  12. P3 19:28WSHEvgeny Kuznetsov: 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.

PHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0WSH
46% to win54% to win
← PHI attackWSH attack →
  1. P1 20:00Laughton won the faceoff against Eller
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIWSH
40Shots on goal25
2.6Expected goals4.1
65Shot attempts53
45Faceoffs won19
5Power plays4
23Penalty minutes15
23Hits15
14Blocked shots19
8Giveaways14
11Takeaways14

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. bestSimmonds – Laughton – Raffl7:02

    xG 0.30–0.10 (75%)attempts 9–2goals 0–1

  2. Voracek – Lindblom – Patrick4:22

    xG 0.16–0.10 (62%)attempts 7–1goals 0–1

  3. van Riemsdyk – Weise – Varone6:54

    xG 0.02–0.04 (38%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  4. Giroux – van Riemsdyk – Konecny2:32

    xG 0.17–0.21 (46%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Gudas – Gostisbehere10:30

    xG 0.24–0.24 (50%)attempts 15–7goals 1–0

  2. Sanheim – Provorov13:22

    xG 0.37–0.60 (38%)attempts 14–10goals 0–2

  3. Hagg – Folin10:59

    xG 0.38–0.86 (31%)attempts 9–14goals 0–1

Washington Capitals

Forward lines

  1. bestOshie – Eller – Vrana9:21

    xG 0.53–0.11 (83%)attempts 11–8goals 2–0

  2. Dowd – Smith-Pelly – Stephenson6:52

    xG 0.30–0.06 (84%)attempts 7–5goals 0–0

  3. Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – Wilson10:26

    xG 0.51–0.31 (62%)attempts 9–10goals 0–0

  4. Connolly – Boyd – Burakovsky7:24

    xG 0.26–0.20 (57%)attempts 4–8goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestCarlson – Kempny11:20

    xG 0.74–0.23 (76%)attempts 16–10goals 2–1

  2. Niskanen – Orlov11:57

    xG 0.53–0.22 (71%)attempts 11–10goals 0–0

  3. Orlov – Siegenthaler4:27

    xG 0.24–0.03 (90%)attempts 6–4goals 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.

WSH 4.1 xGPHI 2.6 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

WSHPHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 76/100 · #319 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.94 · 8 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 51% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50WSH 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, Washington Capitals win this game 74% of the time.

WSH winsPHI wins

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

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7

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