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Sat, Nov 18, 2023·Avicii Arena, StockholmNeutral site

Minnesota Wild 1, Ottawa Senators 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 57% of the time.

OTT winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
MIN0101707010125
OTT01009111011231

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 6:22MINMarco RossiAssists: Brock Faber, Mats Zuccarello · Tip-in, 0.17 xG1–0
  2. P3 3:22OTTErik BrannstromAssists: Anton Forsberg, Travis Hamonic · Slap, 0.04 xG1–1

Shootout

  1. 1. OTT Tim Stützle stopped
  2. 2. MIN Mats Zuccarello stopped
  3. 3. OTT Drake Batherson stopped
  4. 4. MIN Kirill Kaprizov stopped
  5. 5. OTT Josh Norris scored
  6. 6. MIN Joel Eriksson Ek stopped
Penalties (11)
  1. P1 4:49OTTDrake Batherson: Holding2 min
  2. P1 8:38MINMatt Boldy: Holding2 min
  3. P1 14:19MINJake Middleton: Fighting5 min
  4. P1 14:19OTTZack MacEwen: Fighting5 min
  5. P1 17:19MINMarcus Johansson: Interference2 min
  6. P2 3:38OTTErik Brannstrom: Penalty shot covering puck in crease0 min
  7. P2 10:00OTTRoby Jarventie: High sticking2 min
  8. P2 13:11MINVinni Lettieri: High sticking2 min
  9. P3 5:14OTTMathieu Joseph: Hooking2 min
  10. P3 7:21MINPatrick Maroon: Slashing2 min
  11. P3 10:56OTTDrake Batherson: Delaying game puck over glass2 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 SOG0OTT
46% to win54% to win
← MIN attackOTT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Norris won the faceoff against Eriksson Ek
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINOTT
25Shots on goal31
2.5Expected goals2.1
56Shot attempts65
21Faceoffs won32
4Power plays4
13Penalty minutes13
24Hits10
22Blocked shots17
6Giveaways4
6Takeaways3

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. Shift data for this game is incomplete, so treat these as rough.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestZuccarello – Kaprizov – Rossi12:31

    xG 0.29–0.23 (56%)attempts 8–16goals 1–0

  2. Petan – Duhaime – Dewar4:23

    xG 0.10–0.15 (40%)attempts 7–4goals 0–0

  3. Maroon – Foligno – Lettieri9:24

    xG 0.09–0.19 (32%)attempts 6–7goals 0–0

  4. Johansson – Eriksson Ek – Boldy11:20

    xG 0.27–0.37 (42%)attempts 9–14goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrodin – Faber16:41

    xG 0.65–0.38 (63%)attempts 13–17goals 1–0

  2. Bogosian – Merrill8:18

    xG 0.27–0.23 (54%)attempts 10–10goals 0–0

  3. Spurgeon – Middleton10:38

    xG 0.08–0.29 (21%)attempts 6–10goals 0–1

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestGiroux – Joseph – Stützle11:52

    xG 0.37–0.13 (74%)attempts 16–7goals 0–0

  2. Tarasenko – Norris – Tkachuk10:52

    xG 0.33–0.19 (63%)attempts 12–8goals 0–0

  3. Chartier – MacEwen – Kelly2:51

    xG 0.12–0.08 (61%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

  4. Kubalik – Chartier – Batherson3:05

    xG 0.04–0.11 (25%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestChychrun – Bernard-Docker15:55

    xG 0.57–0.36 (61%)attempts 15–14goals 0–0

  2. Sanderson – Zub12:22

    xG 0.21–0.13 (62%)attempts 11–8goals 0–0

  3. Hamonic – Brannstrom10:47

    xG 0.10–0.12 (47%)attempts 9–11goals 1–0

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.

OTT 2.1 xGMIN 2.5 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 57/100 · #602 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.74 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 26% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +27 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 57% of the time.

OTT winsMIN wins

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

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