Skip to content
Ice Lab

Fri, Feb 28, 2020·Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia

New York Rangers 2, Philadelphia Flyers 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 76% of the time.

PHI winsNYR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
NYR18010110228
PHI116213211540

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:49NYRJesper FastAssists: Artemi Panarin · Wrist, 0.30 xG1–0
  2. P1 16:07PHISean CouturierAssists: Jakub Voracek, Ivan Provorov · Wrist, 0.15 xG1–1
  3. P2 13:00PHIJames van RiemsdykAssists: Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Scott Laughton · Snap, 0.09 xG1–2
  4. P2 15:05PHIClaude GirouxGWGAssists: Sean Couturier, Jakub Voracek · Snap, 0.05 xG1–3
  5. P3 2:36PHIClaude GirouxPPAssists: Jakub Voracek, Travis Konecny · Tip-in, 0.15 xG1–4
  6. P3 12:56PHIKevin HayesAssists: Jakub Voracek, Scott Laughton · Snap, 0.09 xG1–5
  7. P3 19:34NYRBrett HowdenAssists: Adam Fox, Pavel Buchnevich · Wrist, 0.27 xG2–5
Penalties (10)
  1. P2 6:24PHIPhilippe Myers: Interference2 min
  2. P2 10:35NYRAdam Fox: Holding2 min
  3. P2 11:15PHIIvan Provorov: Interference2 min
  4. P2 11:15NYRBrett Howden: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 18:04PHIMichael Raffl: Hooking2 min
  6. P3 1:39NYRPavel Buchnevich: High sticking2 min · PPG
  7. P3 5:23NYRAdam Fox: Cross checking2 min
  8. P3 10:51PHIJakub Voracek: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  9. P3 18:45NYRRyan Lindgren: Roughing2 min
  10. P3 18:45PHIScott Laughton: Roughing2 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.

NYR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

NYRPHI
28Shots on goal40
2.1Expected goals3.8
47Shot attempts75
17Faceoffs won36
3Power plays3
10Penalty minutes10
31Hits26
17Blocked shots13
11Giveaways11
12Takeaways9

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.

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. bestFast – Strome – Panarin8:47

    xG 0.60–0.35 (63%)attempts 9–13goals 1–0

  2. Lemieux – Chytil – Kakko2:17

    xG 0.01–0.05 (24%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  3. Lemieux – Gauthier – Howden3:43

    xG 0.00–0.09 (0%)attempts 1–6goals 0–0

  4. Di Giuseppe – Chytil – Kakko6:48

    xG 0.23–0.38 (38%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestFox – Lindgren14:58

    xG 0.74–0.52 (59%)attempts 15–16goals 1–0

  2. Staal – Trouba2:00

    xG 0.00–0.07 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

  3. Smith – Trouba12:27

    xG 0.45–0.91 (33%)attempts 19–16goals 0–1

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestHayes – Laughton – Konecny9:26

    xG 0.68–0.24 (74%)attempts 12–10goals 0–0

  2. Giroux – Voracek – Couturier11:13

    xG 0.87–0.47 (65%)attempts 18–7goals 2–1

  3. van Riemsdyk – Grant – Pitlick10:12

    xG 0.62–0.46 (57%)attempts 13–15goals 0–0

  4. Thompson – Raffl – Aube-Kubel8:12

    xG 0.09–0.06 (60%)attempts 9–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBraun – Hagg12:28

    xG 1.38–0.31 (81%)attempts 21–14goals 1–0

  2. Sanheim – Myers17:46

    xG 1.01–0.64 (61%)attempts 21–9goals 0–1

  3. Niskanen – Provorov14:58

    xG 0.41–0.19 (68%)attempts 16–11goals 1–0

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 3.8 xGNYR 2.1 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

PHINYR

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 NYR. Dots are goals.

Excitement 43/100 · #653 of 1082 this seasonSwing 1.03 · 6 goals in reachComeback index 33% (winner's lowest chance)
NYR 100%5050%50PHI 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +21 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 76% of the time.

PHI winsNYR wins

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

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7

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