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Thu, Apr 4, 2019·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Philadelphia Flyers 3, St. Louis Blues 7

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 59% of the time.

STL winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PHI31206011329
STL51618111735

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:49STLIvan BarbashevAssists: Alexander Steen, Alex Pietrangelo · Tip-in, 0.28 xG0–1
  2. P1 3:28STLRyan O'ReillyPPAssists: David Perron, Brayden Schenn · Tip-in, 0.18 xG0–2
  3. P1 5:33STLAlexander SteenSHAssists: Oskar Sundqvist, Alex Pietrangelo · Snap, 0.24 xG0–3
  4. P1 6:45PHIOskar LindblomAssists: Ryan Hartman, Scott Laughton · Tip-in, 0.11 xG1–3
  5. P1 6:58STLPatrick MaroonGWGAssists: Tyler Bozak, Robert Thomas · Tip-in, 0.15 xG1–4
  6. P1 7:24PHIJames van RiemsdykUnassisted · Wrist, 0.28 xG2–4
  7. P1 9:41STLDavid PerronPPAssists: Alex Pietrangelo, Vladimir Tarasenko · Wrist, 0.05 xG2–5
  8. P1 19:17PHIClaude GirouxAssists: Sean Couturier, James van Riemsdyk · Wrist, 0.14 xG3–5
  9. P2 13:06STLBrayden SchennAssists: Vince Dunn, Vladimir Tarasenko · Wrist, 0.26 xG3–6
  10. P3 10:34STLAlexander SteenAssists: Ivan Barbashev, Robby Fabbri · Backhand, 0.10 xG3–7
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 3:09PHIRadko Gudas: Hooking2 min · PPG
  2. P1 4:13STLCarl Gunnarsson: Hooking2 min
  3. P1 8:56PHISean Couturier: Tripping2 min · PPG
  4. P2 10:38STLTyler Bozak: Hooking2 min
  5. P3 2:35STLRobert Thomas: High sticking2 min
  6. P3 5:09PHIRobert Hagg: Roughing2 min
  7. P3 5:09PHISamuel Morin: Roughing2 min
  8. P3 5:09STLBrayden Schenn: Roughing2 min
  9. P3 5:52STLDavid Perron: Hooking2 min
  10. P3 15:27PHITravis Konecny: Delaying game puck over glass2 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.

PHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
46% to win54% to win
← PHI attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Sundqvist won the faceoff against Couturier
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHISTL
29Shots on goal35
2.8Expected goals3.3
42Shot attempts54
40Faceoffs won37
4Power plays4
10Penalty minutes10
9Hits17
12Blocked shots3
9Giveaways2
13Takeaways11

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.

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestGiroux – van Riemsdyk – Couturier3:18

    xG 0.36–0.14 (73%)attempts 5–3goals 1–0

  2. Giroux – Couturier – Konecny5:25

    xG 0.24–0.17 (58%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

  3. van Riemsdyk – Voracek – Couturier2:37

    xG 0.03–0.05 (36%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  4. Laughton – Raffl – Lindblom2:20

    xG 0.00–0.02 (0%)attempts 0–1goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSanheim – Provorov16:32

    xG 1.33–0.81 (62%)attempts 17–16goals 2–1

  2. Gudas – Hagg9:13

    xG 0.11–0.22 (33%)attempts 1–8goals 1–0

  3. Gostisbehere – Myers4:00

    xG 0.05–0.58 (8%)attempts 1–5goals 0–1

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSteen – Fabbri – Barbashev8:58

    xG 0.81–0.12 (87%)attempts 11–2goals 2–0

  2. Perron – Schwartz – Sundqvist11:50

    xG 0.31–0.03 (91%)attempts 8–2goals 0–0

  3. Maroon – Bozak – Thomas9:23

    xG 0.41–0.17 (71%)attempts 8–3goals 1–0

  4. O'Reilly – Schenn – Tarasenko11:02

    xG 0.69–1.48 (32%)attempts 12–14goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestPietrangelo – Dunn14:41

    xG 0.75–0.45 (63%)attempts 10–10goals 2–0

  2. Bortuzzo – Edmundson13:50

    xG 0.58–0.59 (50%)attempts 15–5goals 1–1

  3. Bouwmeester – Gunnarsson13:28

    xG 0.53–0.87 (38%)attempts 13–11goals 0–1

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.

STL 3.3 xGPHI 2.8 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLPHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 75/100 · #335 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.97 · 9 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +14 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 59% of the time.

STL winsPHI wins

Simulated goal difference (STL − PHI), 10,000 replays

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