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Tue, Jan 10, 2023·Madison Square Garden, New York

Minnesota Wild 3, New York Rangers 4 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, New York Rangers win this game 75% of the time.

NYR winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
MIN21301017021332
NYR01122016062443

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 12:36MINJon MerrillAssists: Joel Eriksson Ek, Marcus Foligno · Wrist, 0.02 xG1–0
  2. P1 17:43MINKirill KaprizovAssists: Sam Steel, Ryan Reaves · Wrist, 0.03 xG2–0
  3. P2 2:37NYRK'Andre MillerAssists: Jimmy Vesey · Snap, 0.13 xG2–1
  4. P2 15:50NYRAdam FoxUnassisted · Wrist, 0.08 xG2–2
  5. P3 4:33MINMats ZuccarelloAssists: Sam Steel, Jonas Brodin · Wrist, 0.03 xG3–2
  6. P3 13:35NYRFilip ChytilAssists: Adam Fox, K'Andre Miller · Wrist, 0.20 xG3–3

Shootout

  1. 1. NYR Kaapo Kakko scored
  2. 2. MIN Mats Zuccarello scored
  3. 3. NYR Mika Zibanejad stopped
  4. 4. MIN Kirill Kaprizov stopped
  5. 5. NYR Artemi Panarin scored
  6. 6. MIN Frederick Gaudreau stopped
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 1:30MINMatt Boldy: Kneeing2 min
  2. P1 3:38MINMats Zuccarello: Slashing2 min
  3. P1 6:48NYRFilip Chytil: Hooking2 min
  4. P2 13:57NYRAlexis Lafrenière: Embellishment2 min
  5. P2 13:57MINBrandon Duhaime: Tripping2 min
  6. OT 2:35MINMats Zuccarello: Too many men on the ice2 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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0NYR
49% to win51% to win
← MIN attackNYR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Steel won the faceoff against Zibanejad
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINNYR
32Shots on goal43
2.9Expected goals4.7
49Shot attempts90
30Faceoffs won39
1Power plays3
8Penalty minutes4
26Hits19
29Blocked shots6
5Giveaways10
3Takeaways7

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.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. Reaves – Duhaime – Dewar6:17

    xG 0.26–0.24 (53%)attempts 4–11goals 0–0

  2. Hartman – Gaudreau – Boldy10:28

    xG 0.28–0.49 (36%)attempts 8–11goals 0–1

  3. Foligno – Greenway – Eriksson Ek13:56

    xG 0.55–0.82 (40%)attempts 11–16goals 1–1

  4. Zuccarello – Kaprizov – Steel13:15

    xG 0.49–0.83 (37%)attempts 9–18goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrodin – Dumba17:14

    xG 1.10–0.43 (72%)attempts 15–17goals 2–0

  2. Merrill – Addison9:49

    xG 0.38–0.68 (36%)attempts 13–15goals 1–1

  3. Dumba – Middleton3:46

    xG 0.12–0.57 (17%)attempts 3–9goals 0–1

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. bestKreider – Zibanejad – Kakko11:44

    xG 1.27–0.36 (78%)attempts 27–8goals 0–1

  2. Goodrow – Vesey – Chytil3:04

    xG 0.55–0.00 (100%)attempts 7–0goals 1–0

  3. Trocheck – Panarin – Kravtsov12:06

    xG 0.52–0.41 (56%)attempts 15–9goals 0–1

  4. Zibanejad – Kakko – Lafrenière2:41

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 1–0goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestFox – Lindgren16:51

    xG 1.24–0.44 (74%)attempts 28–9goals 0–1

  2. Trouba – Miller17:31

    xG 0.76–0.76 (50%)attempts 20–16goals 1–1

  3. Harpur – Schneider11:11

    xG 0.08–0.66 (10%)attempts 6–13goals 0–1

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.

NYR 4.7 xGMIN 2.9 xG
012345P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 90/100 · #178 of 1312 this seasonSwing 2.30 · 6 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 15% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50NYR 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +38 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, New York Rangers win this game 75% of the time.

NYR winsMIN wins

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

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