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Thu, Oct 12, 2023·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Florida Panthers 0, Minnesota Wild 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 78% of the time.

MIN winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA014012015041
MIN1511105221

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 7:54MINBrock FaberGWGAssists: Matt Boldy, Joel Eriksson Ek · Snap, 0.02 xG0–1
  2. P2 12:56MINJoel Eriksson EkPPAssists: Mats Zuccarello, Kirill Kaprizov · Wrist, 0.30 xG0–2
Penalties (11)
  1. P1 18:09MINRyan Hartman: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 2:10FLAUvis Balinskis: Slashing2 min
  3. P2 11:14FLAJosh Mahura: Roughing2 min · PPG
  4. P2 11:14MINMatt Boldy: Cross checking2 min
  5. P2 12:48FLADmitry Kulikov: Tripping2 min
  6. P2 17:46MINJake Middleton: Interference2 min
  7. P3 0:18FLAEvan Rodrigues: High sticking2 min
  8. P3 9:54FLANiko Mikkola: Roughing2 min
  9. P3 9:54FLAUvis Balinskis: Interference2 min
  10. P3 9:54MINBrock Faber: Roughing2 min
  11. P3 11:45MINMarcus Foligno: Interference2 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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MIN
46% to win54% to win
← FLA attackMIN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Eriksson Ek won the faceoff against Barkov
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLAMIN
41Shots on goal21
3.8Expected goals2.0
83Shot attempts40
37Faceoffs won25
3Power plays4
12Penalty minutes10
11Hits17
11Blocked shots26
7Giveaways9
9Takeaways8

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.

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestVerhaeghe – Barkov – Rodrigues10:57

    xG 0.80–0.16 (83%)attempts 14–7goals 0–0

  2. Cousins – Tkachuk – Luostarinen8:12

    xG 0.70–0.19 (79%)attempts 15–4goals 0–0

  3. Stenlund – Lorentz – Lomberg4:12

    xG 0.14–0.11 (56%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  4. Reinhart – Lundell – Samoskevich8:04

    xG 0.11–0.22 (34%)attempts 6–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestEkman-Larsson – Forsling13:41

    xG 0.76–0.16 (82%)attempts 18–9goals 0–0

  2. Kulikov – Mikkola12:53

    xG 0.66–0.17 (79%)attempts 19–6goals 0–0

  3. Mahura – Balinskis9:50

    xG 0.56–0.38 (60%)attempts 10–10goals 0–1

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. Foligno – Gaudreau – Rossi6:57

    xG 0.06–0.18 (26%)attempts 3–10goals 0–0

  2. Zuccarello – Hartman – Kaprizov10:09

    xG 0.00–0.25 (1%)attempts 4–9goals 0–0

  3. Maroon – Duhaime – Dewar5:45

    xG 0.28–0.55 (34%)attempts 6–11goals 0–0

  4. Johansson – Eriksson Ek – Boldy7:58

    xG 0.04–0.61 (6%)attempts 3–11goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. Merrill – Addison12:11

    xG 0.07–0.37 (16%)attempts 7–16goals 0–0

  2. Brodin – Faber14:29

    xG 0.33–0.78 (29%)attempts 7–18goals 1–0

  3. Goligoski – Middleton12:27

    xG 0.18–0.89 (17%)attempts 7–19goals 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.

MIN 2.0 xGFLA 3.8 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINFLA

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 FLA. Dots are goals.

Excitement 1/100 · #1306 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.61 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +17 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 78% of the time.

MIN winsFLA wins

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

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