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Tue, Dec 17, 2019·Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia

Anaheim Ducks 1, Philadelphia Flyers 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Anaheim Ducks win this game 69% of the time.

PHI winsANA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ANA016112013141
PHI01221227431

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 0:55PHIClaude GirouxAssists: Travis Konecny, Sean Couturier · Tip-in, 0.11 xG0–1
  2. P2 4:14PHIDavid KaseGWGAssists: Travis Sanheim, Morgan Frost · Tip-in, 0.12 xG0–2
  3. P2 16:33ANARickard RakellPPAssists: Hampus Lindholm, Jakob Silfverberg · Tip-in, 0.14 xG1–2
  4. P3 4:11PHIJakub VoracekSHUnassisted · Snap, 0.15 xG1–3
  5. P3 19:52PHISean CouturierENAssists: Ivan Provorov, Claude Giroux · Snap, 0.57 xG1–4
Penalties (11)
  1. P1 6:54PHIChris Stewart: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 11:48ANANicolas Deslauriers: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 11:48PHIChris Stewart: Fighting5 min
  4. P1 18:48ANAHampus Lindholm: Interference2 min
  5. P2 5:40ANAHampus Lindholm: High sticking2 min
  6. P2 15:56PHIClaude Giroux: Tripping2 min · PPG
  7. P2 18:02PHINicolas Aube-Kubel: Kneeing2 min
  8. P3 1:30PHIMatt Niskanen: Boarding2 min
  9. P3 1:30PHITravis Konecny: Roughing2 min
  10. P3 1:30ANAErik Gudbranson: Roughing2 min
  11. P3 7:40PHIKevin Hayes: 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.

ANA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0PHI
45% to win55% to win
← ANA attackPHI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Giroux won the faceoff against Henrique
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ANAPHI
41Shots on goal31
3.7Expected goals2.6
64Shot attempts46
27Faceoffs won28
5Power plays2
11Penalty minutes17
16Hits24
11Blocked shots13
12Giveaways11
5Takeaways4

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.

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. bestGetzlaf – Shore – Kase6:21

    xG 0.96–0.17 (85%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  2. Henrique – Silfverberg – Rakell8:50

    xG 0.67–0.09 (88%)attempts 12–5goals 0–0

  3. Terry – Steel – Comtois5:28

    xG 0.21–0.13 (62%)attempts 7–2goals 0–1

  4. Grant – Deslauriers – Rowney3:06

    xG 0.03–0.01 (72%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestFowler – Gudbranson13:05

    xG 1.00–0.14 (88%)attempts 13–5goals 0–0

  2. Manson – Lindholm15:01

    xG 1.00–0.27 (79%)attempts 21–11goals 0–0

  3. Del Zotto – Larsson11:34

    xG 0.72–0.59 (55%)attempts 16–13goals 0–1

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. van Riemsdyk – Hayes – Aube-Kubel8:31

    xG 0.25–0.23 (52%)attempts 7–8goals 0–0

  2. Voracek – Kase – Frost7:42

    xG 0.28–0.27 (51%)attempts 4–8goals 2–0

  3. Stewart – Andreoff – Vorobyev4:28

    xG 0.12–0.19 (39%)attempts 3–5goals 0–0

  4. Giroux – Couturier – Konecny11:34

    xG 0.55–1.02 (35%)attempts 11–15goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. Braun – Sanheim13:48

    xG 0.73–0.94 (44%)attempts 15–13goals 2–0

  2. Gostisbehere – Hagg13:25

    xG 0.47–0.91 (34%)attempts 11–18goals 1–0

  3. Niskanen – Provorov16:05

    xG 0.31–1.00 (24%)attempts 9–22goals 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.

PHI 2.6 xGANA 3.7 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

PHIANA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 28/100 · #805 of 1082 this seasonSwing 0.94 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 53% (winner's lowest chance)
ANA 100%5050%50PHI 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +16 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Anaheim Ducks win this game 69% of the time.

PHI winsANA wins

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

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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).