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Sat, Nov 19, 2022·Centre Bell, Montreal

Philadelphia Flyers 4, Montréal Canadiens 5 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 54% of the time.

MTL winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
PHI2918112000429
MTL21111416011532

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:39PHITravis SanheimAssists: Scott Laughton, Zack MacEwen · Wrist, 0.21 xG1–0
  2. P1 2:55PHIOwen TippettAssists: Travis Sanheim, Joel Farabee · Wrist, 0.02 xG2–0
  3. P1 4:07MTLChristian DvorakAssists: Brendan Gallagher, Arber Xhekaj · Wrist, 0.14 xG2–1
  4. P1 17:49MTLCole CaufieldPPAssists: Kirby Dach, Mike Hoffman · Slap, 0.10 xG2–2
  5. P2 11:55MTLMike MathesonAssists: Nick Suzuki, Cole Caufield · Wrist, 0.10 xG2–3
  6. P2 15:50PHIOwen TippettUnassisted · Snap, 0.06 xG3–3
  7. P3 8:17PHIKevin HayesAssists: Nick Seeler, Zack MacEwen · Wrist, 0.02 xG4–3
  8. P3 19:57MTLCole CaufieldAssists: Nick Suzuki, Sean Monahan · Snap, 0.06 xG4–4

Shootout

  1. 1. MTL Cole Caufield stopped
  2. 2. PHI Owen Tippett stopped
  3. 3. MTL Nick Suzuki scored
  4. 4. PHI Morgan Frost stopped
  5. 5. MTL Christian Dvorak stopped
  6. 6. PHI Kevin Hayes stopped
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 15:52PHIKieffer Bellows: High sticking2 min · PPG
  2. P1 17:19PHIScott Laughton: Cross checking2 min
  3. P1 19:17MTLKirby Dach: Tripping2 min
  4. P2 12:59MTLEvgenii Dadonov: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  5. P2 15:49MTLArber Xhekaj: Fighting5 min
  6. P2 15:49PHINicolas Deslauriers: Fighting5 min
  7. P2 16:32PHIRasmus Ristolainen: Hooking2 min
  8. P2 18:57MTLMike Matheson: High sticking double minor4 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 SOG0MTL
49% to win51% to win
← PHI attackMTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Suzuki won the faceoff against Frost
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIMTL
29Shots on goal32
3.7Expected goals3.4
67Shot attempts66
18Faceoffs won34
4Power plays3
11Penalty minutes13
31Hits16
18Blocked shots17
5Giveaways26
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. bestTippett – Frost – Farabee9:48

    xG 0.56–0.26 (68%)attempts 16–10goals 1–0

  2. Deslauriers – Sedlak – Brown2:41

    xG 0.17–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  3. Deslauriers – Sedlak – Bellows4:18

    xG 0.19–0.06 (76%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  4. Laughton – MacEwen – Cates5:25

    xG 0.50–0.55 (47%)attempts 6–8goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSeeler – Ristolainen11:27

    xG 0.86–0.56 (61%)attempts 12–11goals 1–0

  2. Braun – Sanheim13:11

    xG 0.94–0.69 (58%)attempts 17–14goals 1–1

  3. DeAngelo – Provorov13:25

    xG 0.46–0.79 (37%)attempts 14–12goals 1–1

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. bestHoffman – Gallagher – Dvorak5:28

    xG 0.43–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–2goals 1–0

  2. Dadonov – Anderson – Monahan8:39

    xG 0.41–0.45 (48%)attempts 12–9goals 0–1

  3. Evans – Pezzetta – Slafkovský3:47

    xG 0.00–0.07 (0%)attempts 0–7goals 0–2

  4. Gallagher – Dvorak – Evans2:05

    xG 0.09–0.32 (22%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSavard – Guhle13:24

    xG 0.71–0.34 (67%)attempts 15–8goals 0–1

  2. Edmundson – Matheson12:09

    xG 0.75–0.69 (52%)attempts 14–16goals 1–2

  3. Kovacevic – Xhekaj9:41

    xG 0.50–0.61 (45%)attempts 8–14goals 1–1

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.

MTL 3.4 xGPHI 3.7 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MTLPHI

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 PHI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 98/100 · #40 of 1312 this seasonSwing 2.94 · 8 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 3% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50MTL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +51 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 54% of the time.

MTL winsPHI wins

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

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