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Sat, Feb 27, 2021·Rogers Place, Edmonton

Toronto Maple Leafs 4, Edmonton Oilers 0

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 54% of the time.

EDM winsTOR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
TOR2911317429
EDM01001109030

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 14:37TORWilliam NylanderPPGWGAssists: Mitch Marner, John Tavares · Wrist, 0.08 xG1–0
  2. P1 15:50TORMitch MarnerAssists: John Tavares, Joe Thornton · Snap, 0.10 xG2–0
  3. P2 11:15TORJason SpezzaAssists: Jimmy Vesey, TJ Brodie · Wrist, 0.04 xG3–0
  4. P3 13:34TORZach HymanAssists: Pierre Engvall, Jake Muzzin · Snap, 0.11 xG4–0
Penalties (1)
  1. P1 14:13EDMKris Russell: Holding2 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.

TOR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0EDM
46% to win54% to win
← TOR attackEDM attack →
  1. P1 20:00Tavares won the faceoff against McDavid
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TOREDM
29Shots on goal30
2.7Expected goals3.0
39Shot attempts58
27Faceoffs won25
1Power plays0
0Penalty minutes2
21Hits41
12Blocked shots5
11Giveaways14
9Takeaways9

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.

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestThornton – Tavares – Marner14:39

    xG 0.86–0.57 (60%)attempts 12–9goals 1–0

  2. Hyman – Engvall – Mikheyev15:19

    xG 0.83–0.77 (52%)attempts 13–11goals 1–0

  3. Kerfoot – Nylander – Barabanov10:08

    xG 0.56–0.54 (51%)attempts 7–12goals 0–0

  4. Spezza – Boyd – Vesey7:38

    xG 0.04–0.55 (6%)attempts 1–9goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrodie – Rielly19:58

    xG 1.33–0.86 (61%)attempts 16–19goals 1–0

  2. Muzzin – Rielly2:08

    xG 0.06–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

  3. Bogosian – Dermott13:40

    xG 0.30–0.33 (48%)attempts 10–7goals 0–0

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestChiasson – Russell – Haas10:33

    xG 0.63–0.19 (77%)attempts 11–3goals 0–0

  2. Ennis – Archibald – Khaira9:39

    xG 0.87–0.51 (63%)attempts 11–8goals 0–0

  3. Draisaitl – Yamamoto – Kahun10:04

    xG 0.11–0.06 (66%)attempts 9–2goals 0–0

  4. McDavid – Yamamoto – Kahun3:41

    xG 0.10–0.11 (50%)attempts 1–1goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBear – Jones10:04

    xG 0.69–0.24 (74%)attempts 6–7goals 0–0

  2. Larsson – Jones4:18

    xG 0.47–0.13 (78%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

  3. Russell – Larsson11:50

    xG 0.63–0.47 (57%)attempts 11–7goals 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.

EDM 3.0 xGTOR 2.7 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

EDMTOR

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 3/100 · #831 of 868 this seasonSwing 0.54 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 46% (winner's lowest chance)
TOR 100%5050%50EDM 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +17 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 54% of the time.

EDM winsTOR wins

Simulated goal difference (EDM − TOR), 10,000 replays

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