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Thu, Mar 28, 2019·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Florida Panthers 5, Ottawa Senators 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 69% of the time.

OTT winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA110213211534
OTT19010111230

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:30FLAEvgenii DadonovAssists: Aleksander Barkov, Keith Yandle · Deflected, 0.16 xG1–0
  2. P1 12:59OTTColin WhiteAssists: Brian Gibbons, Anthony Duclair · Snap, 0.16 xG1–1
  3. P2 2:35FLATroy BrouwerAssists: Riley Sheahan, Dryden Hunt · Deflected, 0.12 xG2–1
  4. P2 6:31FLAJonathan HuberdeauGWGAssists: Aleksander Barkov, Evgenii Dadonov · Wrist, 0.16 xG3–1
  5. P3 3:01OTTBrady TkachukAssists: Brian Gibbons, Thomas Chabot · Backhand, 0.10 xG3–2
  6. P3 18:32FLADryden HuntENUnassisted · Wrist, 0.50 xG4–2
  7. P3 19:46FLAJonathan HuberdeauENAssists: Evgenii Dadonov · Snap, 0.74 xG5–2
Penalties (7)
  1. P2 8:24FLATroy Brouwer: Hooking2 min
  2. P2 13:22FLAAaron Ekblad: Hooking2 min
  3. P2 15:04OTTColin White: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  4. P3 13:36FLAKeith Yandle: Tripping2 min
  5. P3 14:16OTTBobby Ryan: Hooking2 min
  6. P3 19:46OTTBrady Tkachuk: Cross checking2 min
  7. P3 19:46FLAAaron Ekblad: Roughing2 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 SOG0OTT
46% to win54% to win
← FLA attackOTT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Barkov won the faceoff against Pageau
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLAOTT
34Shots on goal30
2.9Expected goals2.0
53Shot attempts55
29Faceoffs won26
2Power plays3
8Penalty minutes6
24Hits19
14Blocked shots11
10Giveaways13
3Takeaways6

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. bestBrouwer – Sheahan – Hunt9:58

    xG 0.29–0.07 (80%)attempts 13–5goals 1–0

  2. Dadonov – Huberdeau – Barkov12:55

    xG 0.47–0.54 (47%)attempts 12–13goals 2–1

  3. Hoffman – Trocheck – Hawryluk10:17

    xG 0.35–0.53 (40%)attempts 10–13goals 0–0

  4. Vatrano – Malgin – Borgstrom9:48

    xG 0.12–0.32 (28%)attempts 5–6goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestWeegar – Keeper11:25

    xG 0.47–0.09 (83%)attempts 13–10goals 1–0

  2. Yandle – Ekblad16:56

    xG 0.65–0.86 (43%)attempts 19–16goals 2–2

  3. Pysyk – Brown16:40

    xG 0.17–0.47 (26%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestGibbons – White – Tkachuk5:10

    xG 0.55–0.02 (96%)attempts 7–2goals 1–0

  2. Ryan – Pageau – Tkachuk5:01

    xG 0.36–0.07 (84%)attempts 10–4goals 0–0

  3. Gibbons – Duclair – White2:52

    xG 0.29–0.06 (83%)attempts 5–4goals 1–0

  4. Paajarvi – Lindberg – Gibbons2:41

    xG 0.03–0.02 (65%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDeMelo – Chabot13:12

    xG 0.68–0.29 (70%)attempts 8–9goals 1–1

  2. Chabot – Jaros6:21

    xG 0.20–0.17 (54%)attempts 8–7goals 0–0

  3. Borowiecki – Jaros7:52

    xG 0.05–0.07 (43%)attempts 6–3goals 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.

OTT 2.0 xGFLA 2.9 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 54/100 · #579 of 1271 this seasonSwing 1.29 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 46% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +20 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 69% of the time.

OTT winsFLA wins

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

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