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Sat, Mar 26, 2022·Centre Bell, Montreal

Toronto Maple Leafs 2, Montréal Canadiens 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 90% of the time.

MTL winsTOR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
TOR112015124251
MTL0321223418

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:36TORAuston MatthewsAssists: Michael Bunting, Mitch Marner · Snap, 0.09 xG1–0
  2. P2 9:44MTLDavid SavardAssists: Laurent Dauphin, Nick Suzuki · Wrist, 0.13 xG1–1
  3. P2 18:08MTLCole CaufieldPPAssists: Chris Wideman, Nick Suzuki · Wrist, 0.06 xG1–2
  4. P3 7:33TORWilliam NylanderPPAssists: John Tavares, Mitch Marner · Wrist, 0.27 xG2–2
  5. P3 17:32MTLPaul ByronGWGUnassisted · Wrist, 0.06 xG2–3
  6. P3 19:37MTLChristian DvorakENAssists: Paul Byron, David Savard · Wrist, 0.71 xG2–4
Penalties (5)
  1. P2 10:04TORMorgan Rielly: Interference2 min
  2. P2 17:20TORJustin Holl: Interference2 min · PPG
  3. P3 2:17MTLJoel Edmundson: Roughing2 min
  4. P3 6:41MTLChristian Dvorak: Holding2 min · PPG
  5. P3 7:33MTLJoel Edmundson: Cross checking2 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 20:00Matthews won the faceoff against Suzuki
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TORMTL
51Shots on goal18
5.6Expected goals2.4
77Shot attempts36
25Faceoffs won36
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
11Hits30
11Blocked shots16
10Giveaways20
6Takeaways7

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. bestBunting – Marner – Matthews13:58

    xG 1.39–0.21 (87%)attempts 23–5goals 1–1

  2. Tavares – Kerfoot – Mikheyev4:10

    xG 0.44–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

  3. Engvall – Kampf – Mikheyev7:45

    xG 0.48–0.29 (62%)attempts 13–6goals 0–0

  4. Tavares – Kerfoot – Nylander8:04

    xG 0.33–0.34 (49%)attempts 4–6goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrodie – Holl15:32

    xG 1.93–0.42 (82%)attempts 22–7goals 1–0

  2. Giordano – Liljegren13:15

    xG 1.05–0.26 (80%)attempts 18–8goals 0–1

  3. Rielly – Lyubushkin14:05

    xG 0.50–0.33 (60%)attempts 12–9goals 0–1

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. Hoffman – Evans – Pitlick10:45

    xG 0.29–0.50 (37%)attempts 6–9goals 0–0

  2. Byron – Armia – Dvorak9:00

    xG 0.08–0.35 (19%)attempts 5–13goals 1–0

  3. Anderson – Suzuki – Caufield12:02

    xG 0.32–1.70 (16%)attempts 7–20goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestSavard – Lagesson6:54

    xG 0.50–0.26 (66%)attempts 6–7goals 1–0

  2. Savard – Romanov7:02

    xG 0.02–0.15 (11%)attempts 3–5goals 0–0

  3. Wideman – Schueneman10:12

    xG 0.34–0.64 (34%)attempts 7–11goals 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.

MTL 2.4 xGTOR 5.6 xG
0123456P1P2P3EndxG

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 58/100 · #605 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.74 · 6 goals in reachComeback index 31% (winner's lowest chance)
TOR 100%5050%50MTL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +40 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 90% of the time.

MTL winsTOR wins

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

-7
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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).