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Sun, Feb 17, 2019·BB&T Center, Sunrise

Montréal Canadiens 3, Florida Panthers 6

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 90% of the time.

FLA winsMTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MTL21711103331
FLA310114212636

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:59FLAAleksander BarkovPPAssists: Keith Yandle, Mike Hoffman · Tip-in, 0.41 xG0–1
  2. P1 11:28FLADenis MalginAssists: Derick Brassard, Henrik Borgstrom · Wrist, 0.02 xG0–2
  3. P1 13:04MTLMax DomiAssists: Tomas Tatar · Wrist, 0.17 xG1–2
  4. P1 13:57FLAFrank VatranoAssists: Aleksander Barkov, Jonathan Huberdeau · Wrist, 0.06 xG1–3
  5. P1 16:46MTLBrendan GallagherUnassisted · Wrist, 0.26 xG2–3
  6. P2 5:18MTLMax DomiAssists: Mike Reilly, Tomas Tatar · Tip-in, 0.09 xG3–3
  7. P2 17:49FLAAleksander BarkovGWGAssists: Keith Yandle · Wrist, 0.21 xG3–4
  8. P3 9:13FLAAleksander BarkovUnassisted · Snap, 0.23 xG3–5
  9. P3 17:35FLARiley SheahanENAssists: Evgenii Dadonov, Mike Hoffman · Tip-in, 0.77 xG3–6
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 3:52MTLMax Domi: High sticking2 min · PPG
  2. P1 17:32FLAMike Hoffman: Cross checking2 min
  3. P1 19:06FLAMark Pysyk: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 6:20MTLPhillip Danault: Slashing2 min
  5. P2 14:12MTLJonathan Drouin: Slashing2 min
  6. P3 13:52FLAJoshua Brown: 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.

MTL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0FLA
46% to win54% to win
← MTL attackFLA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Danault won the faceoff against Barkov
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MTLFLA
31Shots on goal36
2.8Expected goals6.1
55Shot attempts58
34Faceoffs won31
3Power plays3
6Penalty minutes6
30Hits19
8Blocked shots12
21Giveaways14
10Takeaways13

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.

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. bestTatar – Shaw – Domi11:35

    xG 0.93–0.54 (63%)attempts 11–9goals 2–0

  2. Armia – Lehkonen – Kotkaniemi9:36

    xG 0.44–0.29 (60%)attempts 13–8goals 0–1

  3. Thompson – Weise – Hudon8:30

    xG 0.25–0.50 (33%)attempts 4–6goals 0–0

  4. Gallagher – Danault – Drouin9:38

    xG 0.41–1.57 (21%)attempts 11–14goals 1–3

Defence pairs

  1. bestBenn – Kulak12:06

    xG 0.86–0.27 (76%)attempts 15–7goals 1–0

  2. Petry – Reilly9:42

    xG 0.68–0.53 (56%)attempts 15–8goals 2–0

  3. Reilly – Kulak2:41

    xG 0.01–0.01 (40%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestHuberdeau – Barkov – Vatrano12:58

    xG 2.00–0.59 (77%)attempts 18–15goals 3–1

  2. Brouwer – Sheahan – Hawryluk9:01

    xG 0.48–0.07 (88%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  3. Dadonov – Hoffman – Trocheck10:26

    xG 0.41–0.52 (44%)attempts 11–10goals 0–1

  4. Brassard – Malgin – Borgstrom9:42

    xG 0.31–0.53 (37%)attempts 9–14goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestMatheson – Ekblad16:29

    xG 1.88–0.82 (70%)attempts 20–15goals 2–1

  2. Yandle – Brown6:46

    xG 0.53–0.32 (62%)attempts 7–4goals 0–0

  3. Pysyk – McCoshen4:48

    xG 0.03–0.02 (54%)attempts 3–3goals 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.

FLA 6.1 xGMTL 2.8 xG
0123456P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

FLAMTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 83/100 · #241 of 1271 this seasonSwing 1.56 · 9 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 50% (winner's lowest chance)
MTL 100%5050%50FLA 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +26 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 90% of the time.

FLA winsMTL wins

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

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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).