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Fri, Nov 25, 2022·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Toronto Maple Leafs 4, Minnesota Wild 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 56% of the time.

MIN winsTOR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
TOR21011117428
MIN11216110328

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:42TORMitch MarnerAssists: Timothy Liljegren, John Tavares · Wrist, 0.01 xG1–0
  2. P1 12:01MINKirill KaprizovPPAssists: Joel Eriksson Ek, Mats Zuccarello · Snap, 0.33 xG1–1
  3. P1 12:43TORZachary Aston-ReeseAssists: Pierre Engvall · Wrist, 0.05 xG2–1
  4. P2 2:38MINMatt BoldyAssists: Alex Goligoski, Jordan Greenway · Snap, 0.15 xG2–2
  5. P2 10:04TORCalle JarnkrokAssists: Mark Giordano, John Tavares · Snap, 0.19 xG3–2
  6. P3 13:23TORWilliam NylanderGWGAssists: Michael Bunting, Victor Mete · Wrist, 0.11 xG4–2
  7. P3 16:26MINMats ZuccarelloAssists: Kirill Kaprizov, Alex Goligoski · Snap, 0.19 xG4–3
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 8:28MINJordan Greenway: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 11:13TORJustin Holl: High sticking2 min · PPG
  3. P2 11:35MINRyan Reaves: Tripping2 min
  4. P2 17:31MINJon Merrill: Tripping2 min
  5. P3 4:51TORAlexander Kerfoot: 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.

TOR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MIN
49% to win51% to win
← TOR attackMIN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Kampf won the faceoff against Eriksson Ek
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TORMIN
28Shots on goal28
2.5Expected goals2.8
48Shot attempts63
30Faceoffs won24
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
12Hits22
22Blocked shots10
4Giveaways5
4Takeaways10

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. bestNylander – Bunting – Matthews10:32

    xG 0.56–0.18 (76%)attempts 9–13goals 1–0

  2. Tavares – Jarnkrok – Marner10:07

    xG 0.44–0.17 (73%)attempts 9–4goals 2–1

  3. Engvall – Aston-Reese – Kampf8:43

    xG 0.49–0.48 (51%)attempts 9–13goals 1–0

  4. Simmonds – Kerfoot – Holmberg7:40

    xG 0.13–0.32 (28%)attempts 5–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLiljegren – Sandin14:11

    xG 0.69–0.12 (86%)attempts 13–8goals 1–0

  2. Giordano – Holl15:05

    xG 0.79–0.48 (62%)attempts 15–16goals 1–0

  3. Mete – Hollowell9:47

    xG 0.25–0.22 (53%)attempts 12–12goals 2–0

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestZuccarello – Kaprizov – Steel12:01

    xG 0.65–0.56 (54%)attempts 17–9goals 0–1

  2. Reaves – Foligno – Eriksson Ek9:34

    xG 0.30–0.22 (58%)attempts 15–5goals 0–1

  3. Petan – Shaw – Dewar5:51

    xG 0.05–0.21 (19%)attempts 6–5goals 0–1

  4. Gaudreau – Greenway – Boldy9:36

    xG 0.02–0.39 (4%)attempts 2–11goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestSpurgeon – Middleton13:22

    xG 0.48–0.42 (53%)attempts 20–10goals 0–0

  2. Merrill – Dumba2:36

    xG 0.00–0.02 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

  3. Goligoski – Dumba16:25

    xG 0.69–0.83 (45%)attempts 17–20goals 1–4

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 2.8 xGTOR 2.5 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINTOR

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 TOR. Dots are goals.

Excitement 59/100 · #581 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.66 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 47% (winner's lowest chance)
TOR 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +23 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 56% of the time.

MIN winsTOR wins

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

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