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Sat, Feb 12, 2022·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Carolina Hurricanes 2, Minnesota Wild 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 79% of the time.

MIN winsCAR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CAR08016215239
MIN06110211327

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 10:14MINKevin FialaAssists: Frederick Gaudreau, Jon Merrill · Wrist, 0.07 xG0–1
  2. P3 1:16MINKirill KaprizovAssists: Mats Zuccarello · Backhand, 0.17 xG0–2
  3. P3 2:34MINFrederick GaudreauGWGAssists: Kevin Fiala · Wrist, 0.06 xG0–3
  4. P3 5:02CARAndrei SvechnikovAssists: Jaccob Slavin, Tony DeAngelo · Wrist, 0.07 xG1–3
  5. P3 6:23CARAndrei SvechnikovPPAssists: Teuvo Teravainen, Tony DeAngelo · Wrist, 0.07 xG2–3
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 4:44CARMartin Necas: Hooking2 min
  2. P2 4:00MINDmitry Kulikov: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 12:32MINJared Spurgeon: Slashing2 min
  4. P3 5:35MINMats Zuccarello: Tripping2 min · PPG
  5. P3 7:23MINMatt Boldy: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  6. P3 9:52CARJaccob Slavin: Hooking2 min
  7. P3 14:59MINKirill Kaprizov: Roughing2 min
  8. P3 14:59CARVincent Trocheck: 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.

CAR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MIN
48% to win52% to win
← CAR attackMIN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Eriksson Ek won the faceoff against Staal
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CARMIN
39Shots on goal27
1.7Expected goals3.4
62Shot attempts44
33Faceoffs won27
4Power plays2
6Penalty minutes10
25Hits26
4Blocked shots18
4Giveaways10
4Takeaways4

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.

Carolina Hurricanes

Forward lines

  1. bestTrocheck – Svechnikov – Jarvis9:53

    xG 0.43–0.14 (76%)attempts 12–3goals 1–0

  2. Staal – Niederreiter – Fast10:29

    xG 0.13–0.16 (45%)attempts 8–5goals 0–1

  3. Teravainen – Aho – Necas10:47

    xG 0.30–0.64 (32%)attempts 9–13goals 0–2

  4. Stepan – Martinook – Kotkaniemi6:31

    xG 0.04–0.41 (9%)attempts 3–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSkjei – Pesce15:55

    xG 0.61–0.41 (60%)attempts 16–10goals 0–1

  2. Cole – Bear9:15

    xG 0.28–0.12 (69%)attempts 12–4goals 0–1

  3. Slavin – DeAngelo16:02

    xG 0.09–0.98 (8%)attempts 7–18goals 1–1

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestGaudreau – Fiala – Boldy8:58

    xG 0.50–0.12 (81%)attempts 10–7goals 2–0

  2. Zuccarello – Hartman – Kaprizov12:14

    xG 0.47–0.13 (79%)attempts 8–5goals 1–0

  3. Rask – Dewar – Sturm5:57

    xG 0.31–0.02 (93%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  4. Greenway – Eriksson Ek – Duhaime8:30

    xG 0.09–0.55 (14%)attempts 5–17goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrodin – Dumba16:59

    xG 0.75–0.35 (68%)attempts 15–19goals 0–0

  2. Kulikov – Merrill13:45

    xG 0.32–0.13 (72%)attempts 6–8goals 0–0

  3. Goligoski – Spurgeon11:41

    xG 0.75–0.71 (51%)attempts 14–12goals 3–1

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.

MIN 3.4 xGCAR 1.7 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINCAR

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 61/100 · #576 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.08 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 49% (winner's lowest chance)
CAR 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +23 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 79% of the time.

MIN winsCAR wins

Simulated goal difference (MIN − CAR), 10,000 replays

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