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Sat, Mar 4, 2023·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Toronto Maple Leafs 1, Vancouver Canucks 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 57% of the time.

VAN winsTOR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
TOR01409114137
VAN0511138424

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 17:51VANAndrei KuzmenkoPPAssists: Quinn Hughes, Brock Boeser · Tip-in, 0.12 xG0–1
  2. P3 1:32TORJohn TavaresPPAssists: William Nylander, Morgan Rielly · Tip-in, 0.11 xG1–1
  3. P3 6:49VANElias PetterssonSHGWGAssists: J.T. Miller, Tyler Myers · Wrist, 0.15 xG1–2
  4. P3 7:33VANJ.T. MillerSHAssists: Elias Pettersson, Quinn Hughes · Wrist, 0.09 xG1–3
  5. P3 12:34VANNils AmanAssists: Brock Boeser, Phillip Di Giuseppe · Snap, 0.22 xG1–4
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 0:59TORJake McCabe: Instigator2 min
  2. P1 0:59VANTyler Myers: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 0:59TORJake McCabe: Fighting5 min
  4. P1 0:59TORJake McCabe: Instigator misconduct10 min
  5. P1 6:01TORNoel Acciari: Holding2 min
  6. P1 13:28VANNils Aman: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  7. P2 0:32VANNoah Juulsen: Slashing2 min
  8. P2 16:32TORMorgan Rielly: Holding2 min · PPG
  9. P3 0:45VANTyler Myers: Hooking2 min · PPG
  10. P3 6:31VANPhillip Di Giuseppe: High sticking2 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 SOG0VAN
49% to win51% to win
← TOR attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Matthews won the faceoff against Miller
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TORVAN
37Shots on goal24
3.0Expected goals3.5
64Shot attempts49
27Faceoffs won23
4Power plays3
21Penalty minutes13
16Hits23
16Blocked shots16
7Giveaways2
2Takeaways3

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. bestO'Reilly – Lafferty – Bunting2:58

    xG 0.20–0.05 (79%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

  2. Kerfoot – Marner – Matthews7:08

    xG 0.31–0.25 (55%)attempts 8–4goals 0–0

  3. Lafferty – Acciari – Kampf2:33

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–0goals 0–0

  4. Tavares – Jarnkrok – Nylander2:25

    xG 0.00–0.01 (0%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSchenn – Brodie4:29

    xG 0.48–0.00 (100%)attempts 10–3goals 0–0

  2. McCabe – Gustafsson2:10

    xG 0.06–0.01 (81%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  3. Brodie – McCabe7:29

    xG 0.29–0.25 (54%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestMiller – Di Giuseppe – Boeser10:19

    xG 0.46–0.18 (73%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

  2. Beauvillier – Pettersson – Kuzmenko9:02

    xG 0.43–0.34 (56%)attempts 6–13goals 0–0

  3. Joshua – Garland – Aman5:01

    xG 0.11–0.10 (52%)attempts 6–3goals 0–0

  4. Dries – Kravtsov – Podkolzin6:03

    xG 0.02–0.45 (5%)attempts 3–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMyers – Brisebois6:52

    xG 0.78–0.41 (66%)attempts 8–10goals 1–0

  2. Burroughs – Brisebois2:59

    xG 0.16–0.06 (71%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  3. Juulsen – Hughes8:09

    xG 0.20–0.14 (60%)attempts 9–6goals 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.

VAN 3.5 xGTOR 3.0 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANTOR

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 39/100 · #874 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.34 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 48% (winner's lowest chance)
TOR 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +24 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 57% of the time.

VAN winsTOR wins

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

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
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+6
+7

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