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Mon, Mar 9, 2020·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Florida Panthers 2, St. Louis Blues 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 51% of the time.

STL winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA01111617234
STL0111709127

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 11:20STLColton ParaykoAssists: Robert Thomas · Slap, 0.04 xG0–1
  2. P2 16:12FLAMike HoffmanPPAssists: Aleksi Saarela, Evgenii Dadonov · Wrist, 0.06 xG1–1
  3. P3 4:23FLABrett ConnollyGWGAssists: Aleksi Saarela · Snap, 0.05 xG2–1
Penalties (3)
  1. P1 16:59FLAMacKenzie Weegar: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 14:46STLMarco Scandella: Slashing2 min · PPG
  3. P3 15:26FLAAnton Stralman: 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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
45% to win55% to win
← FLA attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Haula won the faceoff against Schenn
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLASTL
34Shots on goal27
2.3Expected goals2.4
55Shot attempts58
31Faceoffs won34
1Power plays2
4Penalty minutes2
11Hits6
23Blocked shots15
6Giveaways10
13Takeaways8

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.

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestConnolly – Wallmark – Saarela11:34

    xG 0.73–0.33 (69%)attempts 10–7goals 1–0

  2. Dadonov – Barkov – Vatrano10:46

    xG 0.29–0.14 (68%)attempts 14–6goals 0–0

  3. Hoffman – Haula – Huberdeau12:20

    xG 0.12–0.99 (11%)attempts 11–15goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestStralman – Matheson14:15

    xG 0.41–0.24 (63%)attempts 14–12goals 0–1

  2. Yandle – Brown7:59

    xG 0.38–0.24 (61%)attempts 10–4goals 0–0

  3. Weegar – Ekblad15:02

    xG 0.40–1.25 (24%)attempts 12–13goals 1–0

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSchenn – Schwartz – Blais10:18

    xG 0.31–0.19 (62%)attempts 9–9goals 0–0

  2. Sundqvist – MacEachern – Barbashev8:29

    xG 0.31–0.19 (62%)attempts 5–7goals 0–0

  3. Perron – O'Reilly – Sanford11:42

    xG 0.16–0.32 (33%)attempts 10–11goals 0–1

  4. Steen – Bozak – Thomas11:19

    xG 0.35–0.85 (29%)attempts 11–14goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestScandella – Parayko14:10

    xG 1.31–0.11 (92%)attempts 21–11goals 1–0

  2. Faulk – Parayko2:04

    xG 0.01–0.03 (22%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  3. Gunnarsson – Pietrangelo14:28

    xG 0.21–0.36 (37%)attempts 8–9goals 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.

STL 2.4 xGFLA 2.3 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 20/100 · #886 of 1082 this seasonSwing 1.06 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 27% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +30 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 51% of the time.

STL winsFLA wins

Simulated goal difference (STL − FLA), 10,000 replays

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