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Fri, Feb 1, 2019·NYCB Live/Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale

Tampa Bay Lightning 1, New York Islanders 0 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, New York Islanders win this game 58% of the time.

NYI winsTBL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
TBL014010016011141
NYI011010011040036

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. No goals in regulation or overtime.

Shootout

  1. 1. NYI Brock Nelson stopped
  2. 2. TBL Victor Hedman scored
  3. 3. NYI Mathew Barzal stopped
  4. 4. TBL Nikita Kucherov stopped
  5. 5. NYI Josh Bailey stopped
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 14:53NYIJohnny Boychuk: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 16:11TBLNikita Kucherov: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 3:45TBLCedric Paquette: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  4. P2 7:48TBLVictor Hedman: Hooking2 min
  5. OT 3:23TBLNikita Kucherov: Cross checking2 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.

TBL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0NYI
46% to win54% to win
← TBL attackNYI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Miller won the faceoff against Cizikas
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TBLNYI
41Shots on goal36
3.0Expected goals3.5
64Shot attempts60
22Faceoffs won31
1Power plays4
8Penalty minutes2
33Hits22
16Blocked shots16
14Giveaways15
1Takeaways5

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.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Forward lines

  1. bestStamkos – Palat – Gourde11:16

    xG 0.87–0.33 (72%)attempts 12–4goals 0–0

  2. Killorn – Miller – Cirelli10:34

    xG 0.29–0.13 (69%)attempts 11–4goals 0–0

  3. Paquette – Erne – Joseph8:20

    xG 0.36–0.40 (47%)attempts 6–7goals 0–0

  4. Johnson – Kucherov – Point14:28

    xG 0.65–1.13 (36%)attempts 19–20goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGirardi – Hedman15:20

    xG 1.33–0.72 (65%)attempts 18–8goals 0–0

  2. McDonagh – Cernak13:29

    xG 0.56–0.39 (59%)attempts 18–11goals 0–0

  3. Coburn – Sergachev12:07

    xG 0.50–0.52 (49%)attempts 13–6goals 0–0

New York Islanders

Forward lines

  1. bestClutterbuck – Martin – Cizikas11:28

    xG 0.70–0.23 (75%)attempts 7–6goals 0–0

  2. Filppula – Komarov – Dal Colle10:05

    xG 0.48–0.33 (59%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

  3. Eberle – Lee – Nelson10:27

    xG 0.61–0.52 (54%)attempts 17–17goals 0–0

  4. Bailey – Barzal – Beauvillier12:42

    xG 0.33–1.03 (24%)attempts 5–17goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPelech – Pulock16:24

    xG 1.06–0.64 (62%)attempts 16–16goals 0–0

  2. Boychuk – Leddy19:59

    xG 0.85–0.59 (59%)attempts 17–22goals 0–0

  3. Mayfield – Toews13:16

    xG 0.23–1.03 (18%)attempts 6–15goals 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.

NYI 3.5 xGTBL 3.0 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYITBL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 6/100 · #1162 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.67 · 0 goals in reachComeback index 46% (winner's lowest chance)
TBL 100%5050%50NYI 100%P1P2P3OTEnd

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, New York Islanders win this game 58% of the time.

NYI winsTBL wins

Simulated goal difference (NYI − TBL), 10,000 replays

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