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Mon, Feb 25, 2019·Pepsi Center, Denver

Florida Panthers 4, Colorado Avalanche 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 63% of the time.

COL winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
FLA0622011111438
COL01021411401339

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 2:12COLTyson JostAssists: Patrik Nemeth, J.T. Compher · Wrist, 0.17 xG0–1
  2. P2 14:31COLMikko RantanenAssists: Tyson Barrie · Wrist, 0.06 xG0–2
  3. P2 18:26FLATroy BrouwerAssists: Keith Yandle, MacKenzie Weegar · Wrist, 0.07 xG1–2
  4. P2 19:35FLAEvgenii DadonovPPAssists: Aleksander Barkov, Mike Hoffman · Wrist, 0.36 xG2–2
  5. P3 7:49COLDerick BrassardAssists: Ryan Graves, Tyson Barrie · Wrist, 0.12 xG2–3
  6. P3 11:57FLAMike HoffmanAssists: Keith Yandle, MacKenzie Weegar · Wrist, 0.04 xG3–3
  7. OT 0:26FLAAaron EkbladGWGAssists: Mike Hoffman, Vincent Trocheck · Wrist, 0.06 xG4–3
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 5:53FLAJamie McGinn: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 4:41FLAHenrik Borgstrom: High sticking2 min
  3. P2 11:46COLGabriel Bourque: Interference2 min
  4. P2 18:33COLNikita Zadorov: Interference2 min · PPG

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 SOG0COL
46% to win54% to win
← FLA attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Barkov won the faceoff against MacKinnon
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLACOL
38Shots on goal39
3.8Expected goals2.9
67Shot attempts58
37Faceoffs won38
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
28Hits23
12Blocked shots22
6Giveaways7
7Takeaways10

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 – Sheahan – Hunt5:28

    xG 0.84–0.24 (78%)attempts 9–4goals 0–0

  2. Trocheck – Huberdeau – Barkov4:08

    xG 0.00–0.04 (0%)attempts 0–1goals 0–0

  3. Dadonov – Hoffman – Sheahan2:04

    xG 0.03–0.07 (29%)attempts 1–5goals 0–0

  4. Dadonov – Hoffman – Trocheck3:58

    xG 0.12–0.18 (39%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrown – McCoshen12:30

    xG 1.18–1.02 (54%)attempts 17–16goals 0–1

  2. Yandle – Weegar14:23

    xG 0.48–0.50 (49%)attempts 16–8goals 2–0

  3. Pysyk – Ekblad18:23

    xG 0.20–0.86 (19%)attempts 9–21goals 0–1

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestKerfoot – MacKinnon – Rantanen14:07

    xG 0.72–0.42 (63%)attempts 21–14goals 1–1

  2. Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen3:05

    xG 0.15–0.01 (92%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  3. Brassard – Calvert – Jost8:23

    xG 0.57–0.47 (55%)attempts 7–10goals 0–0

  4. Bourque – Andrighetto – Dries4:42

    xG 0.08–0.09 (45%)attempts 3–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestNemeth – Zadorov13:11

    xG 1.48–0.53 (74%)attempts 23–10goals 1–0

  2. Johnson – Girard17:08

    xG 0.43–0.26 (62%)attempts 12–15goals 0–0

  3. Barrie – Nemeth2:02

    xG 0.10–0.04 (74%)attempts 1–2goals 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.

COL 2.9 xGFLA 3.8 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 87/100 · #190 of 1271 this seasonSwing 2.15 · 7 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 9% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +37 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 63% of the time.

COL winsFLA wins

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

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