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Mon, Feb 21, 2022·Centre Bell, Montreal

Toronto Maple Leafs 2, Montréal Canadiens 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 51% of the time.

MTL winsTOR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
TOR011012214237
MTL2831105524

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:58MTLJosh AndersonAssists: Jeff Petry, Cole Caufield · Backhand, 0.22 xG0–1
  2. P1 19:10MTLCole CaufieldAssists: Josh Anderson · Slap, 0.15 xG0–2
  3. P2 0:38MTLMike HoffmanGWGAssists: Brendan Gallagher · Wrist, 0.04 xG0–3
  4. P2 15:58MTLJosh AndersonAssists: Cole Caufield, Nick Suzuki · Slap, 0.08 xG0–4
  5. P2 17:56MTLRem PitlickAssists: Brendan Gallagher, Ben Chiarot · Wrist, 0.22 xG0–5
  6. P3 4:43TORIlya MikheyevAssists: Morgan Rielly, Ondrej Kase · Tip-in, 0.06 xG1–5
  7. P3 5:28TORPierre EngvallAssists: Jason Spezza, Justin Holl · Wrist, 0.03 xG2–5
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 7:52MTLBrett Kulak: Cross checking2 min
  2. P1 14:12TORJustin Holl: Holding2 min
  3. P2 12:59MTLKale Clague: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 19:31TORJason Spezza: Slashing2 min
  5. P2 19:31MTLNick Suzuki: Roughing2 min
  6. P2 19:31TORJustin Holl: 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.

TOR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MTL
48% to win52% to win
← TOR attackMTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Kampf won the faceoff against Evans
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TORMTL
37Shots on goal24
2.7Expected goals2.6
66Shot attempts40
34Faceoffs won24
2Power plays2
6Penalty minutes6
26Hits38
12Blocked shots17
11Giveaways15
4Takeaways9

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. bestSpezza – Simmonds – Engvall8:34

    xG 0.40–0.17 (70%)attempts 12–3goals 1–0

  2. Bunting – Marner – Matthews14:22

    xG 0.82–0.81 (50%)attempts 25–9goals 0–1

  3. Tavares – Kerfoot – Nylander9:37

    xG 0.31–0.56 (36%)attempts 7–8goals 0–2

  4. Kase – Kampf – Mikheyev11:11

    xG 0.32–0.94 (25%)attempts 6–16goals 1–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestHoll – Dermott10:16

    xG 0.45–0.27 (62%)attempts 12–4goals 0–0

  2. Dermott – Liljegren4:28

    xG 0.19–0.09 (68%)attempts 5–2goals 0–1

  3. Holl – Rielly2:11

    xG 0.10–0.01 (88%)attempts 2–1goals 1–0

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. bestAnderson – Suzuki – Caufield12:27

    xG 0.92–0.51 (64%)attempts 8–9goals 3–0

  2. Lehkonen – Pezzetta – Poehling5:34

    xG 0.32–0.06 (84%)attempts 6–3goals 0–1

  3. Lehkonen – Evans – Pitlick2:34

    xG 0.12–0.11 (50%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

  4. Hoffman – Gallagher – Dauphin10:38

    xG 0.30–0.44 (41%)attempts 10–11goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPetry – Kulak16:50

    xG 1.04–0.45 (70%)attempts 16–14goals 3–1

  2. Wideman – Clague11:09

    xG 0.52–0.29 (64%)attempts 9–7goals 0–1

  3. Chiarot – Romanov17:31

    xG 0.95–0.89 (52%)attempts 14–26goals 2–0

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.

MTL 2.6 xGTOR 2.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MTLTOR

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 60/100 · #584 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.61 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 52% (winner's lowest chance)
TOR 100%5050%50MTL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +22 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 51% of the time.

MTL winsTOR wins

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

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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).