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Mon, Nov 7, 2022·TD Garden, Boston

St. Louis Blues 1, Boston Bruins 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 70% of the time.

BOS winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
STL06110011127
BOS11408215337

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 13:34BOSJake DeBruskPPAssists: David Pastrnak, Brad Marchand · Wrist, 0.14 xG0–1
  2. P2 11:37STLBrayden SchennAssists: Jordan Kyrou, Torey Krug · Snap, 0.15 xG1–1
  3. P3 12:45BOSPatrice BergeronPPGWGAssists: Brad Marchand, David Krejci · Snap, 0.18 xG1–2
  4. P3 16:28BOSTrent FredericUnassisted · Wrist, 0.05 xG1–3
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 2:30BOSMike Reilly: Interference2 min
  2. P1 5:36BOSMatt Grzelcyk: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 10:49BOSTomas Nosek: Hooking2 min
  4. P1 13:17STLNiko Mikkola: Interference2 min · PPG
  5. P1 14:58STLTorey Krug: Roughing2 min
  6. P1 14:58BOSCharlie Coyle: Roughing2 min
  7. P3 11:32STLRyan O'Reilly: Tripping2 min · PPG

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.

STL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0BOS
49% to win51% to win
← STL attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Coyle won the faceoff against O'Reilly
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLBOS
27Shots on goal37
2.4Expected goals3.6
48Shot attempts66
23Faceoffs won30
3Power plays2
6Penalty minutes8
33Hits21
19Blocked shots12
11Giveaways11
6Takeaways6

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.

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. Walker – Acciari – Toropchenko6:23

    xG 0.06–0.03 (66%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

  2. O'Reilly – Saad – Barbashev10:25

    xG 0.25–0.23 (51%)attempts 5–9goals 0–0

  3. Schenn – Kyrou – Neighbours9:40

    xG 0.29–0.29 (50%)attempts 6–11goals 1–1

  4. Tarasenko – Buchnevich – Thomas10:10

    xG 0.48–0.69 (41%)attempts 11–12goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestFaulk – Krug11:22

    xG 0.80–0.59 (57%)attempts 12–14goals 0–1

  2. Bortuzzo – Mikkola7:34

    xG 0.24–0.24 (50%)attempts 3–11goals 0–0

  3. Leddy – Faulk2:42

    xG 0.11–0.16 (42%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestSmith – Nosek – Frederic5:38

    xG 0.50–0.07 (87%)attempts 7–4goals 1–0

  2. Bergeron – Marchand – DeBrusk8:34

    xG 0.56–0.23 (71%)attempts 15–5goals 0–0

  3. Foligno – Coyle – Zacha5:56

    xG 0.25–0.06 (82%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

  4. Krejci – Pastrnak – Zacha4:34

    xG 0.14–0.23 (38%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGrzelcyk – Carlo12:32

    xG 0.79–0.30 (72%)attempts 16–6goals 1–0

  2. Lindholm – Clifton14:47

    xG 0.95–0.63 (60%)attempts 19–12goals 0–0

  3. Lindholm – Carlo2:54

    xG 0.09–0.03 (76%)attempts 3–1goals 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.

BOS 3.6 xGSTL 2.4 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSSTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 32/100 · #966 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.16 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 48% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +29 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 70% of the time.

BOS winsSTL wins

Simulated goal difference (BOS − STL), 10,000 replays

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