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Mon, Apr 5, 2021·TD Garden, Boston

Philadelphia Flyers 3, Boston Bruins 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 61% of the time.

BOS winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
PHI1100131514332
BOS1711101001229

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 10:15PHITravis KonecnyAssists: Claude Giroux, Ivan Provorov · Wrist, 0.12 xG1–0
  2. P1 17:33BOSKarson KuhlmanAssists: Charlie Coyle · Wrist, 0.07 xG1–1
  3. P2 0:46BOSPatrice BergeronPPAssists: David Pastrnak, Matt Grzelcyk · Deflected, 0.14 xG1–2
  4. P3 6:56PHISean CouturierPPAssists: Ivan Provorov, Kevin Hayes · Wrist, 0.05 xG2–2
  5. OT 3:08PHITravis SanheimGWGUnassisted · Wrist, 0.24 xG3–2
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 19:18PHIShayne Gostisbehere: Tripping2 min · PPG
  2. P2 2:44BOSJeremy Lauzon: Holding2 min
  3. P2 5:46BOSDavid Pastrnak: Hooking2 min
  4. P2 13:20PHIJustin Braun: Hooking2 min
  5. P3 5:21BOSJeremy Lauzon: 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.

PHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0BOS
46% to win54% to win
← PHI attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Couturier won the faceoff against Bergeron
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIBOS
32Shots on goal29
3.0Expected goals2.5
57Shot attempts52
31Faceoffs won40
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
26Hits30
10Blocked shots12
7Giveaways8
6Takeaways5

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.

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestRaffl – Aube-Kubel – Laczynski2:20

    xG 0.06–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  2. Giroux – Voracek – Konecny9:14

    xG 0.36–0.43 (46%)attempts 10–10goals 1–1

  3. Hayes – Laughton – Patrick8:32

    xG 0.14–0.42 (25%)attempts 5–11goals 0–0

  4. van Riemsdyk – Couturier – Farabee10:00

    xG 0.38–0.66 (37%)attempts 8–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGostisbehere – Provorov2:06

    xG 0.18–0.01 (96%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  2. Gostisbehere – Myers3:31

    xG 0.04–0.15 (21%)attempts 1–4goals 0–0

  3. Sanheim – Myers13:12

    xG 0.18–0.33 (35%)attempts 9–10goals 0–1

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestBergeron – Marchand – Smith10:02

    xG 0.93–0.10 (91%)attempts 17–5goals 0–0

  2. Kuraly – Senyshyn – Frederic3:08

    xG 0.12–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  3. Kuraly – Frederic – Kuhlman2:21

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

  4. Coyle – Senyshyn – DeBrusk3:02

    xG 0.03–0.06 (32%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGrzelcyk – McAvoy14:13

    xG 1.11–0.34 (76%)attempts 19–9goals 0–0

  2. Clifton – Lauzon14:18

    xG 0.13–0.28 (32%)attempts 6–8goals 0–0

  3. Kampfer – Zboril16:06

    xG 0.46–0.93 (33%)attempts 14–17goals 0–1

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.

BOS 2.5 xGPHI 3.0 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSPHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 51/100 · #413 of 868 this seasonSwing 1.65 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 20% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +26 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 61% of the time.

BOS winsPHI wins

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

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