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Tue, Nov 12, 2019·Madison Square Garden, New York

Pittsburgh Penguins 2, New York Rangers 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Pittsburgh Penguins win this game 54% of the time.

NYR winsPIT wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
PIT0821101201232
NYR211070811327

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 6:42NYRKaapo KakkoAssists: Brendan Lemieux, Tony DeAngelo · Backhand, 0.11 xG0–1
  2. P1 19:49NYRAdam FoxAssists: Artemi Panarin, Filip Chytil · Wrist, 0.09 xG0–2
  3. P2 1:13PITJustin SchultzAssists: Evgeni Malkin, Marcus Pettersson · Snap, 0.08 xG1–2
  4. P2 12:33PITJared McCannPPAssists: Dominik Simon · Wrist, 0.06 xG2–2
  5. OT 2:24NYRKaapo KakkoGWGAssists: Adam Fox, Pavel Buchnevich · Tip-in, 0.13 xG2–3
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 8:09NYRBrett Howden: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 17:18NYRArtemi Panarin: Hooking2 min
  3. P2 11:03NYRAdam Fox: Hooking2 min · PPG
  4. P3 5:07PITNick Bjugstad: Tripping2 min
  5. P3 15:50PITBrian Dumoulin: Tripping2 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.

PIT00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0NYR
45% to win55% to win
← PIT attackNYR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Howden won the faceoff against Blueger
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PITNYR
32Shots on goal27
2.5Expected goals2.3
60Shot attempts47
23Faceoffs won22
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
37Hits29
15Blocked shots18
18Giveaways22
8Takeaways10

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.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Forward lines

  1. bestMalkin – Rust – Simon9:11

    xG 1.01–0.43 (70%)attempts 13–6goals 1–1

  2. Galchenyuk – McCann – Lafferty3:20

    xG 0.29–0.20 (59%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  3. Bjugstad – Lafferty – Kahun6:41

    xG 0.01–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  4. Bjugstad – Guentzel – Kahun4:41

    xG 0.30–0.30 (50%)attempts 7–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDumoulin – Marino18:14

    xG 0.89–0.53 (62%)attempts 19–15goals 0–1

  2. Schultz – Pettersson13:32

    xG 0.73–0.68 (52%)attempts 20–8goals 1–1

  3. Johnson – Schultz2:30

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–1goals 0–0

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. bestKreider – Buchnevich – Chytil11:15

    xG 0.56–0.30 (65%)attempts 11–7goals 0–0

  2. Fast – Strome – Panarin11:58

    xG 0.53–0.58 (47%)attempts 10–9goals 0–0

  3. Lemieux – Howden – Kakko11:50

    xG 0.38–0.70 (36%)attempts 8–17goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestFox – Lindgren11:51

    xG 0.69–0.38 (64%)attempts 11–8goals 1–0

  2. Trouba – Hajek10:32

    xG 0.45–0.50 (47%)attempts 7–12goals 0–0

  3. Skjei – Trouba2:15

    xG 0.10–0.21 (32%)attempts 3–4goals 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.

NYR 2.3 xGPIT 2.5 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRPIT

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 65/100 · #383 of 1082 this seasonSwing 1.50 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 45% (winner's lowest chance)
PIT 100%5050%50NYR 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest 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, Pittsburgh Penguins win this game 54% of the time.

NYR winsPIT wins

Simulated goal difference (NYR − PIT), 10,000 replays

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