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Mon, Oct 14, 2019·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Minnesota Wild 2, Ottawa Senators 0

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 72% of the time.

OTT winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN011012212235
OTT0701207026

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P3 9:23MINVictor RaskGWGAssists: Jordan Greenway · Wrist, 0.09 xG1–0
  2. P3 17:41MINZach PariseENAssists: Mikko Koivu · Wrist, 0.67 xG2–0
Penalties (13)
  1. P1 7:14OTTVladislav Namestnikov: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 19:17OTTErik Brannstrom: Interference2 min
  3. P2 2:22MINJoel Eriksson Ek: Holding2 min
  4. P2 9:17OTTBobby Ryan: Roughing2 min
  5. P2 9:17OTTChris Tierney: Slashing2 min
  6. P2 9:17MINLuke Kunin: Roughing2 min
  7. P2 9:28MINKevin Fiala: Hooking2 min
  8. P2 13:33OTTThomas Chabot: Hooking2 min
  9. P2 16:09OTTTyler Ennis: Interference2 min
  10. P2 19:17MINLuke Kunin: Slashing2 min
  11. P3 3:18OTTErik Brannstrom: Hooking2 min
  12. P3 6:15MINMarcus Foligno: Boarding2 min
  13. P3 15:28MINLuke Kunin: Hooking2 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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0OTT
45% to win55% to win
← MIN attackOTT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Eriksson Ek won the faceoff against White
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINOTT
35Shots on goal26
3.6Expected goals2.3
67Shot attempts50
34Faceoffs won33
6Power plays5
12Penalty minutes14
24Hits16
12Blocked shots21
12Giveaways19
3Takeaways5

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.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestKoivu – Parise – Zucker8:00

    xG 0.75–0.17 (81%)attempts 14–8goals 0–0

  2. Staal – Hartman – Fiala6:32

    xG 0.30–0.09 (78%)attempts 7–4goals 0–0

  3. Rask – Donato – Greenway5:20

    xG 0.23–0.09 (73%)attempts 6–2goals 1–0

  4. Foligno – Eriksson Ek – Kunin9:17

    xG 0.15–0.18 (46%)attempts 4–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrodin – Dumba11:32

    xG 0.75–0.25 (75%)attempts 15–9goals 0–0

  2. Suter – Spurgeon11:08

    xG 0.58–0.14 (80%)attempts 14–6goals 0–0

  3. Hunt – Soucy8:33

    xG 0.33–0.11 (75%)attempts 6–8goals 1–0

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. Boedker – Szwarz – Sabourin3:18

    xG 0.02–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  2. Pageau – Namestnikov – Brown7:07

    xG 0.08–0.11 (43%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

  3. Ryan – White – Tkachuk2:43

    xG 0.07–0.20 (26%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

  4. Ryan – Tierney – Duclair4:19

    xG 0.07–0.33 (17%)attempts 4–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestChabot – Zaitsev14:40

    xG 0.53–0.41 (57%)attempts 16–12goals 0–1

  2. Borowiecki – DeMelo9:43

    xG 0.30–0.42 (42%)attempts 5–9goals 0–0

  3. Hainsey – Brannstrom9:38

    xG 0.25–0.72 (26%)attempts 10–16goals 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 2.3 xGMIN 3.6 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTMIN

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 MIN. Dots are goals.

Excitement 11/100 · #978 of 1082 this seasonSwing 0.96 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 44% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +34 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 72% of the time.

OTT winsMIN wins

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

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