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Tue, Mar 29, 2022·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Philadelphia Flyers 1, Minnesota Wild 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 52% of the time.

MIN winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PHI01204117133
MIN21621308437

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 14:29MINMathew DumbaAssists: Matt Boldy, Frederick Gaudreau · Snap, 0.22 xG0–1
  2. P1 16:23MINKirill KaprizovPPGWGAssists: Jared Spurgeon, Joel Eriksson Ek · Wrist, 0.05 xG0–2
  3. P2 1:35MINJordan GreenwayAssists: Joel Eriksson Ek, Marcus Foligno · Backhand, 0.14 xG0–3
  4. P2 18:49MINKevin FialaAssists: Dmitry Kulikov, Frederick Gaudreau · Slap, 0.04 xG0–4
  5. P3 4:21PHIMorgan FrostPPUnassisted · Backhand, 0.24 xG1–4
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 9:12PHINick Seeler: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 9:12MINNicolas Deslauriers: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 16:04PHIIvan Provorov: Holding2 min · PPG
  4. P2 3:15MINRyan Hartman: Hooking2 min
  5. P2 6:08PHIPatrick Brown: High sticking2 min
  6. P2 11:45PHIRasmus Ristolainen: Cross checking2 min
  7. P3 3:00MINTyson Jost: High sticking double minor4 min · PPG
  8. P3 8:14MINJon Merrill: Slashing2 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.

PHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIMIN
33Shots on goal37
3.1Expected goals3.0
55Shot attempts56
21Faceoffs won31
4Power plays3
11Penalty minutes13
15Hits19
10Blocked shots14
4Giveaways5
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. bestAtkinson – Cates – Farabee2:58

    xG 0.32–0.04 (88%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  2. Hayes – Hodgson – Konecny3:15

    xG 0.06–0.03 (70%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  3. Brown – Hodgson – MacEwen6:47

    xG 0.06–0.10 (37%)attempts 1–4goals 0–0

  4. Tippett – Frost – Cates6:36

    xG 0.36–0.56 (39%)attempts 8–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestProvorov – York6:21

    xG 0.43–0.24 (64%)attempts 8–4goals 0–1

  2. Ristolainen – York3:20

    xG 0.16–0.05 (77%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  3. Seeler – Ristolainen2:05

    xG 0.01–0.01 (39%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestFoligno – Greenway – Eriksson Ek10:34

    xG 0.99–0.13 (88%)attempts 14–6goals 1–0

  2. Zuccarello – Hartman – Kaprizov11:24

    xG 0.29–0.18 (62%)attempts 9–6goals 0–0

  3. Deslauriers – Jost – Duhaime7:25

    xG 0.15–0.08 (65%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  4. Gaudreau – Fiala – Boldy9:54

    xG 0.51–1.35 (28%)attempts 8–16goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSpurgeon – Middleton13:04

    xG 0.83–0.17 (83%)attempts 12–7goals 1–0

  2. Brodin – Dumba17:22

    xG 0.93–1.02 (48%)attempts 20–20goals 1–0

  3. Kulikov – Merrill13:46

    xG 0.57–0.81 (41%)attempts 10–12goals 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.

MIN 3.0 xGPHI 3.1 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINPHI

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 PHI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 13/100 · #1161 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.54 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 52% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50MIN 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, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 52% of the time.

MIN winsPHI wins

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

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