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Sun, Mar 28, 2021·American Airlines Center, Dallas

Florida Panthers 4, Dallas Stars 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 67% of the time.

DAL winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA3140415423
DAL17014013134

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:32DALJason RobertsonPPAssists: Roope Hintz, John Klingberg · Tip-in, 0.09 xG0–1
  2. P1 5:03FLAJonathan HuberdeauUnassisted · Wrist, 0.08 xG1–1
  3. P1 6:26FLAAnthony DuclairGWGUnassisted · Wrist, 0.32 xG2–1
  4. P1 13:37FLAJonathan HuberdeauPPAssists: Keith Yandle, Aaron Ekblad · Wrist, 0.05 xG3–1
  5. P3 18:55FLAOwen TippettENAssists: Jonathan Huberdeau · Wrist, 0.70 xG4–1
Penalties (12)
  1. P1 0:55DALJohn Klingberg: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  2. P1 4:19FLAAaron Ekblad: Roughing2 min · PPG
  3. P1 6:26DALAndrew Cogliano: Penalty shot slash on breakaway0 min
  4. P1 13:21DALBlake Comeau: High sticking2 min · PPG
  5. P1 19:36DALRadek Faksa: Roughing2 min
  6. P1 19:36FLAMason Marchment: Slashing2 min
  7. P2 7:41DALDenis Gurianov: Too many men on the ice2 min
  8. P2 11:58FLANoel Acciari: Slashing2 min
  9. P3 4:09DALMiro Heiskanen: Holding2 min
  10. P3 7:22FLARiley Stillman: Fighting5 min
  11. P3 7:22DALDenis Gurianov: Fighting5 min
  12. P3 8:09FLAMarkus Nutivaara: Interference2 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 SOG0DAL
46% to win54% to win
← FLA attackDAL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Acciari won the faceoff against Faksa
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLADAL
23Shots on goal34
4.2Expected goals3.2
46Shot attempts61
29Faceoffs won32
4Power plays3
13Penalty minutes15
23Hits29
17Blocked shots12
15Giveaways4
2Takeaways4

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. bestDuclair – Verhaeghe – Acciari9:36

    xG 0.44–0.31 (59%)attempts 7–11goals 0–0

  2. Lammikko – Vatrano – Tippett7:34

    xG 0.11–0.24 (32%)attempts 5–6goals 0–0

  3. Huberdeau – Marchment – Luostarinen2:31

    xG 0.00–0.15 (0%)attempts 0–4goals 0–0

  4. Connolly – Huberdeau – Wennberg9:35

    xG 0.23–0.80 (22%)attempts 6–9goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestWeegar – Stillman5:18

    xG 0.23–0.04 (84%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  2. Weegar – Ekblad4:44

    xG 0.10–0.00 (98%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  3. Weegar – Forsling3:35

    xG 0.09–0.17 (35%)attempts 2–6goals 0–0

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestPavelski – Hintz – Robertson13:01

    xG 1.03–0.30 (77%)attempts 20–6goals 0–0

  2. Benn – Dickinson – Gurianov7:48

    xG 0.20–0.08 (72%)attempts 8–1goals 0–1

  3. Comeau – Cogliano – Faksa8:40

    xG 0.24–0.35 (40%)attempts 5–8goals 0–0

  4. Caamano – Gardner – L'Esperance5:16

    xG 0.00–0.36 (1%)attempts 2–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKlingberg – Hanley4:00

    xG 0.54–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  2. Klingberg – Heiskanen4:07

    xG 0.28–0.00 (100%)attempts 11–0goals 0–0

  3. Lindell – Heiskanen2:42

    xG 0.19–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 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.

DAL 3.2 xGFLA 4.2 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DALFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 27/100 · #606 of 868 this seasonSwing 0.91 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 32% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50DAL 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, Florida Panthers win this game 67% of the time.

DAL winsFLA wins

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

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