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Mon, Nov 25, 2019·Madison Square Garden, New York

Minnesota Wild 2, New York Rangers 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 51% of the time.

NYR winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
MIN0121211400228
NYR1901011111331

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 14:50NYRBrady SkjeiAssists: Tony DeAngelo, Artemi Panarin · Wrist, 0.03 xG0–1
  2. P2 17:11MINZach PariseAssists: Kevin Fiala, Jared Spurgeon · Wrist, 0.11 xG1–1
  3. P3 10:00MINRyan DonatoAssists: Ryan Hartman · Snap, 0.17 xG2–1
  4. P3 17:10NYRChris KreiderPPAssists: Artemi Panarin, Adam Fox · Wrist, 0.27 xG2–2
  5. OT 0:32NYRTony DeAngeloGWGAssists: Artemi Panarin, Ryan Strome · Snap, 0.10 xG2–3
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 3:03NYRBoo Nieves: Slashing2 min
  2. P1 10:10MINKevin Fiala: Roughing2 min
  3. P1 10:45NYRChris Kreider: Slashing2 min
  4. P2 4:46MINJordan Greenway: Interference2 min
  5. P2 11:24MINMathew Dumba: Cross checking2 min
  6. P3 16:52MINRyan Hartman: Tripping2 min · PPG

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 SOG0NYR
45% to win55% to win
← MIN attackNYR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Eriksson Ek won the faceoff against Howden
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINNYR
28Shots on goal31
2.7Expected goals2.7
49Shot attempts59
32Faceoffs won32
2Power plays4
8Penalty minutes4
14Hits23
18Blocked shots13
10Giveaways15
10Takeaways10

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 – Fiala12:12

    xG 0.74–0.10 (88%)attempts 15–6goals 1–0

  2. Greenway – Eriksson Ek – Kunin13:48

    xG 0.64–0.29 (69%)attempts 11–10goals 0–0

  3. Staal – Zuccarello – Zucker11:55

    xG 0.46–0.49 (48%)attempts 8–16goals 0–1

  4. Rask – Hartman – Donato6:46

    xG 0.54–0.60 (48%)attempts 9–8goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrodin – Dumba19:40

    xG 0.77–0.43 (64%)attempts 16–18goals 1–1

  2. Suter – Spurgeon19:15

    xG 1.07–0.74 (59%)attempts 20–21goals 1–0

  3. Hunt – Soucy9:32

    xG 0.57–0.62 (48%)attempts 8–7goals 0–0

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. bestKreider – Strome – Panarin8:00

    xG 0.15–0.01 (93%)attempts 8–2goals 1–0

  2. Buchnevich – Lemieux – Chytil7:54

    xG 0.76–0.67 (53%)attempts 8–9goals 0–1

  3. Lemieux – Howden – Kakko3:11

    xG 0.02–0.03 (42%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  4. Kreider – Strome – Buchnevich5:52

    xG 0.33–0.46 (42%)attempts 8–4goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. DeAngelo – Hajek7:04

    xG 0.03–0.22 (12%)attempts 4–8goals 0–0

  2. Fox – Lindgren11:36

    xG 0.18–0.45 (29%)attempts 9–9goals 0–0

  3. Skjei – Trouba16:03

    xG 0.55–1.22 (31%)attempts 18–18goals 0–2

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 2.7 xGMIN 2.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRMIN

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 MIN. Dots are goals.

Excitement 76/100 · #255 of 1082 this seasonSwing 2.06 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 8% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50NYR 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +42 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 51% of the time.

NYR winsMIN wins

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

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