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Fri, Dec 29, 2023·Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle

Philadelphia Flyers 1, Seattle Kraken 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 60% of the time.

SEA winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
PHI1110401201128
SEA050911114229

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 16:21PHITravis KonecnySHAssists: Scott Laughton, Travis Sanheim · Wrist, 0.08 xG1–0
  2. P3 5:45SEAVince DunnPPAssists: Oliver Bjorkstrand, Alexander Wennberg · Slap, 0.02 xG1–1
  3. OT 2:35SEAJustin SchultzGWGAssists: Oliver Bjorkstrand, Yanni Gourde · Wrist, 0.17 xG1–2
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 9:41SEAJustin Schultz: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 15:59PHIJoel Farabee: High sticking2 min
  3. P2 16:13SEATomas Tatar: Interference2 min
  4. P3 5:26PHITyson Foerster: Hooking2 min · PPG
  5. P3 12:20SEATye Kartye: Tripping2 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.

PHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0SEA
46% to win54% to win
← PHI attackSEA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Couturier won the faceoff against Wennberg
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHISEA
28Shots on goal29
2.4Expected goals3.0
60Shot attempts66
20Faceoffs won30
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
16Hits22
21Blocked shots14
3Giveaways6
12Takeaways10

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.

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestCouturier – Konecny – Tippett10:03

    xG 0.52–0.11 (82%)attempts 10–11goals 0–0

  2. Poehling – Farabee – Brink12:52

    xG 0.49–0.55 (47%)attempts 13–16goals 0–0

  3. Atkinson – Frost – Foerster9:09

    xG 0.16–0.33 (33%)attempts 7–10goals 0–0

  4. Deslauriers – Laughton – Hathaway7:40

    xG 0.01–1.01 (1%)attempts 3–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Ristolainen – Zamula14:10

    xG 0.59–0.60 (50%)attempts 14–15goals 0–0

  2. Sanheim – York15:43

    xG 0.35–0.42 (45%)attempts 12–19goals 0–0

  3. Seeler – Walker16:16

    xG 0.43–1.17 (27%)attempts 15–21goals 0–0

Seattle Kraken

Forward lines

  1. bestEberle – Tatar – Beniers14:08

    xG 0.86–0.17 (84%)attempts 21–10goals 0–0

  2. McCann – Yamamoto – Kartye2:25

    xG 0.24–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

  3. Burakovsky – Yamamoto – Kartye4:26

    xG 0.22–0.18 (55%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

  4. Burakovsky – Wennberg – Tanev5:00

    xG 0.09–0.12 (42%)attempts 8–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLarsson – Dunn17:49

    xG 0.95–0.22 (81%)attempts 25–12goals 0–0

  2. Oleksiak – Borgen14:49

    xG 0.73–0.65 (53%)attempts 14–12goals 0–0

  3. Schultz – Dumoulin13:09

    xG 0.50–0.48 (51%)attempts 16–13goals 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.

SEA 3.0 xGPHI 2.4 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

SEAPHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 44/100 · #783 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.43 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 25% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50SEA 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest 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, Seattle Kraken win this game 60% of the time.

SEA winsPHI wins

Simulated goal difference (SEA − PHI), 10,000 replays

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