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Thu, Oct 17, 2019·TD Garden, Boston

Tampa Bay Lightning 4, Boston Bruins 3 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Tampa Bay Lightning win this game 53% of the time.

BOS winsTBL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
TBL11611314031436
BOS111110111050337

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 9:34BOSDavid PastrnakPPAssists: Patrice Bergeron, Torey Krug · Slap, 0.26 xG0–1
  2. P1 19:59TBLBrayden PointAssists: Yanni Gourde, Victor Hedman · Wrist, 0.12 xG1–1
  3. P2 7:26BOSPatrice BergeronPPAssists: David Pastrnak, Brad Marchand · Tip-in, 0.11 xG1–2
  4. P2 10:32TBLMathieu JosephAssists: Alex Killorn · Wrist, 0.18 xG2–2
  5. P3 15:13TBLKevin ShattenkirkAssists: Steven Stamkos, Brayden Point · Wrist, 0.06 xG3–2
  6. P3 16:55BOSDavid PastrnakPPAssists: Brad Marchand, Torey Krug · Wrist, 0.27 xG3–3

Shootout

  1. 1. TBL Victor Hedman stopped
  2. 2. BOS Charlie Coyle stopped
  3. 3. TBL Brayden Point stopped
  4. 4. BOS David Pastrnak stopped
  5. 5. TBL Nikita Kucherov stopped
  6. 6. BOS Brad Marchand stopped
  7. 7. TBL Steven Stamkos scored
  8. 8. BOS Jake DeBrusk stopped
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 9:27TBLMikhail Sergachev: Holding2 min · PPG
  2. P1 11:04BOSSean Kuraly: Hooking2 min
  3. P1 16:09BOSPatrice Bergeron: Slashing2 min
  4. P2 2:15TBLCarter Verhaeghe: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 6:23TBLYanni Gourde: Interference2 min · PPG
  6. P2 17:56TBLErik Cernak: Interference2 min
  7. P3 8:25BOSMatt Grzelcyk: Hooking2 min
  8. P3 16:08TBLAnthony Cirelli: Tripping2 min · PPG
  9. OT 5:00BOSBrad Marchand: Holding2 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.

TBL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

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P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0BOS
45% to win55% to win
← TBL attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Bergeron won the faceoff against Johnson
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TBLBOS
36Shots on goal37
3.2Expected goals3.0
58Shot attempts61
34Faceoffs won29
3Power plays5
10Penalty minutes8
31Hits21
12Blocked shots10
15Giveaways12
7Takeaways7

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.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Forward lines

  1. bestStamkos – Kucherov – Point13:44

    xG 0.88–0.27 (77%)attempts 17–10goals 1–0

  2. Johnson – Palat – Verhaeghe3:48

    xG 0.19–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  3. Palat – Joseph – Cirelli2:34

    xG 0.19–0.05 (80%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  4. Johnson – Palat – Gourde6:49

    xG 0.17–0.17 (50%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCoburn – Sergachev6:34

    xG 0.42–0.17 (71%)attempts 8–3goals 0–0

  2. Shattenkirk – McDonagh12:08

    xG 0.29–0.11 (73%)attempts 12–5goals 0–0

  3. Shattenkirk – Hedman2:55

    xG 0.17–0.10 (62%)attempts 2–4goals 1–0

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestBergeron – Marchand – Pastrnak11:43

    xG 0.40–0.29 (58%)attempts 10–11goals 0–0

  2. Coyle – Heinen – DeBrusk2:49

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

  3. Coyle – Ritchie – DeBrusk4:29

    xG 0.29–0.40 (42%)attempts 2–6goals 0–1

  4. Heinen – Kuhlman – Lindholm4:04

    xG 0.03–0.32 (9%)attempts 3–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGrzelcyk – Carlo3:01

    xG 0.23–0.03 (88%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  2. Krug – Clifton5:20

    xG 0.06–0.15 (28%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  3. Grzelcyk – Clifton6:43

    xG 0.07–0.17 (28%)attempts 4–6goals 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.

BOS 3.0 xGTBL 3.2 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSTBL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 86/100 · #148 of 1082 this seasonSwing 2.32 · 6 goals in reachComeback index 29% (winner's lowest chance)
TBL 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +41 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Tampa Bay Lightning win this game 53% of the time.

BOS winsTBL wins

Simulated goal difference (BOS − TBL), 10,000 replays

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