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Sat, Jan 18, 2020·Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia

Los Angeles Kings 1, Philadelphia Flyers 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 59% of the time.

PHI winsLAK wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
LAK09011115135
PHI1921314426

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:48PHITravis KonecnyAssists: James van Riemsdyk, Claude Giroux · Wrist, 0.18 xG0–1
  2. P2 3:44PHITravis KonecnyGWGAssists: James van Riemsdyk, Sean Couturier · Wrist, 0.10 xG0–2
  3. P2 12:08PHIJoel FarabeePPAssists: Matt Niskanen, Travis Sanheim · Tip-in, 0.16 xG0–3
  4. P3 5:06LAKDustin BrownUnassisted · Snap, 0.32 xG1–3
  5. P3 8:09PHIJames van RiemsdykPPAssists: Claude Giroux, Kevin Hayes · Tip-in, 0.12 xG1–4
Penalties (4)
  1. P2 0:53PHIJames van Riemsdyk: Delaying game unsuccessful challenge2 min
  2. P2 10:34LAKDrew Doughty: High sticking2 min · PPG
  3. P2 16:07PHIClaude Giroux: Holding the stick2 min
  4. P3 7:38LAKNikolai Prokhorkin: Hooking2 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.

LAK00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

LAKPHI
35Shots on goal26
2.6Expected goals2.2
66Shot attempts40
33Faceoffs won29
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
33Hits22
8Blocked shots14
8Giveaways11
8Takeaways4

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.

Los Angeles Kings

Forward lines

  1. bestBrown – Kopitar – Iafallo4:10

    xG 0.37–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–0goals 1–0

  2. Carter – Toffoli – Kempe3:25

    xG 0.33–0.00 (100%)attempts 7–0goals 0–0

  3. Prokhorkin – Kempe – Amadio5:11

    xG 0.14–0.02 (85%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  4. Kopitar – Toffoli – Iafallo4:21

    xG 0.12–0.02 (86%)attempts 8–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDoughty – Forbort18:07

    xG 0.50–0.26 (66%)attempts 19–11goals 0–0

  2. Martinez – Roy15:55

    xG 0.84–0.62 (57%)attempts 15–14goals 1–1

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. Pitlick – Bunnaman – Farabee6:51

    xG 0.16–0.12 (58%)attempts 5–7goals 0–0

  2. Voracek – Couturier – Farabee2:31

    xG 0.03–0.14 (15%)attempts 1–5goals 0–0

  3. Giroux – van Riemsdyk – Konecny11:12

    xG 0.50–0.69 (42%)attempts 9–12goals 1–0

  4. Voracek – Couturier – Raffl13:22

    xG 0.36–0.72 (33%)attempts 14–12goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestSanheim – Myers15:47

    xG 0.72–0.43 (62%)attempts 15–12goals 1–0

  2. Niskanen – Provorov18:24

    xG 0.19–0.69 (22%)attempts 12–17goals 0–1

  3. Braun – Hagg15:02

    xG 0.16–0.82 (16%)attempts 6–26goals 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 2.2 xGLAK 2.6 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

PHILAK

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 LAK. Dots are goals.

Excitement 22/100 · #869 of 1082 this seasonSwing 0.59 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
LAK 100%5050%50PHI 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +13 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 59% of the time.

PHI winsLAK wins

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

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