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Tue, Apr 2, 2019·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Winnipeg Jets 1, Minnesota Wild 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 52% of the time.

MIN winsWPG wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
WPG01119013133
MIN3918111528

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 9:04MINZach PariseAssists: Greg Pateryn, Jason Zucker · Backhand, 0.14 xG0–1
  2. P1 12:16MINZach PariseGWGAssists: Ryan Suter · Wrist, 0.09 xG0–2
  3. P1 18:08MINVictor RaskAssists: Jonas Brodin · Wrist, 0.03 xG0–3
  4. P2 10:29MINJoel Eriksson EkAssists: Luke Kunin, Jordan Greenway · Snap, 0.05 xG0–4
  5. P2 16:13WPGJacob TroubaSHAssists: Blake Wheeler · Backhand, 0.08 xG1–4
  6. P3 15:11MINMarcus FolignoAssists: JT Brown · Wrist, 0.03 xG1–5
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 2:41MINJT Brown: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 6:27MINBrad Hunt: Hooking2 min
  3. P2 14:36WPGDustin Byfuglien: Tripping2 min
  4. P3 7:31WPGBlake Wheeler: Interference goalkeeper2 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.

WPG00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MIN
46% to win54% to win
← WPG attackMIN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Scheifele won the faceoff against Eriksson Ek
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

WPGMIN
33Shots on goal28
1.7Expected goals1.8
62Shot attempts46
36Faceoffs won23
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
18Hits16
10Blocked shots16
1Giveaways5
4Takeaways2

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.

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestLowry – Ehlers – Roslovic2:22

    xG 0.14–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  2. Perreault – Copp – Roslovic8:45

    xG 0.20–0.13 (61%)attempts 12–5goals 0–0

  3. Perreault – Lowry – Ehlers3:23

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 2–0goals 0–0

  4. Wheeler – Scheifele – Connor13:20

    xG 0.58–0.77 (43%)attempts 20–14goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBeaulieu – Trouba14:02

    xG 0.37–0.23 (62%)attempts 16–10goals 0–1

  2. Byfuglien – Chiarot17:19

    xG 0.43–0.42 (51%)attempts 16–11goals 0–1

  3. Myers – Kulikov15:40

    xG 0.29–0.84 (25%)attempts 16–19goals 0–3

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. Greenway – Eriksson Ek – Kunin11:42

    xG 0.35–0.37 (49%)attempts 9–16goals 1–0

  2. Rask – Fiala – Donato10:27

    xG 0.25–0.29 (47%)attempts 10–9goals 1–0

  3. Fehr – Foligno – Brown8:35

    xG 0.00–0.07 (0%)attempts 2–7goals 0–0

  4. Staal – Parise – Zucker10:35

    xG 0.18–0.34 (35%)attempts 5–12goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrodin – Hunt16:40

    xG 0.62–0.41 (60%)attempts 19–14goals 1–0

  2. Suter – Spurgeon18:35

    xG 0.69–0.56 (55%)attempts 14–24goals 2–0

  3. Pateryn – Seeler14:05

    xG 0.14–0.22 (39%)attempts 7–16goals 1–0

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.

MIN 1.8 xGWPG 1.7 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINWPG

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 13/100 · #1081 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.55 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 53% (winner's lowest chance)
WPG 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +16 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 52% of the time.

MIN winsWPG wins

Simulated goal difference (MIN − WPG), 10,000 replays

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