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Tue, Jan 9, 2024·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Florida Panthers 5, St. Louis Blues 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 56% of the time.

STL winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA11118312531
STL1909012130

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:24STLBrayden SchennAssists: Jake Neighbours, Brandon Saad · Wrist, 0.11 xG0–1
  2. P1 15:56FLAKevin StenlundAssists: Jonah Gadjovich, William Lockwood · Wrist, 0.21 xG1–1
  3. P2 1:11FLASam ReinhartPPGWGAssists: Matthew Tkachuk, Aleksander Barkov · Wrist, 0.14 xG2–1
  4. P3 2:18FLAMatthew TkachukAssists: Carter Verhaeghe · Snap, 0.08 xG3–1
  5. P3 5:57FLAMatthew TkachukAssists: Gustav Forsling, Anton Lundell · Tip-in, 0.07 xG4–1
  6. P3 19:03FLAMatthew TkachukENAssists: Dmitry Kulikov · Wrist, 0.47 xG5–1
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 4:20STLScott Perunovich: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 11:36FLAMatthew Tkachuk: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 18:49STLPavel Buchnevich: Roughing2 min
  4. P1 18:49FLAOliver Ekman-Larsson: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  5. P1 19:34STLJordan Kyrou: Tripping2 min · PPG
  6. P2 1:57FLASam Bennett: High sticking double minor4 min
  7. P2 19:48FLAAnton Lundell: High sticking2 min
  8. P3 7:44FLAJonah Gadjovich: Roughing2 min
  9. P3 7:44STLOskar Sundqvist: Boarding2 min
  10. P3 13:46STLRobert Thomas: 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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
46% to win54% to win
← FLA attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Bennett won the faceoff against Schenn
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLASTL
31Shots on goal30
3.5Expected goals3.1
49Shot attempts59
26Faceoffs won25
3Power plays4
12Penalty minutes10
29Hits14
10Blocked shots8
4Giveaways16
11Takeaways11

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. bestStenlund – Lockwood – Gadjovich7:30

    xG 0.27–0.14 (65%)attempts 4–9goals 1–0

  2. Verhaeghe – Bennett – Tkachuk10:53

    xG 0.60–0.61 (49%)attempts 11–9goals 1–1

  3. Lomberg – Luostarinen – Lundell6:12

    xG 0.19–0.29 (39%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

  4. Barkov – Reinhart – Rodrigues9:17

    xG 0.20–0.53 (28%)attempts 8–13goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestEkblad – Forsling11:40

    xG 0.62–0.51 (55%)attempts 12–11goals 2–0

  2. Ekman-Larsson – Montour2:22

    xG 0.08–0.06 (57%)attempts 2–3goals 1–0

  3. Ekman-Larsson – Kulikov8:19

    xG 0.00–0.13 (3%)attempts 4–7goals 0–0

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSchenn – Saad – Neighbours6:55

    xG 0.71–0.06 (92%)attempts 12–4goals 1–0

  2. Buchnevich – Kyrou – Thomas11:13

    xG 0.70–0.37 (66%)attempts 12–11goals 0–0

  3. Sundqvist – Walker – Toropchenko4:40

    xG 0.11–0.12 (48%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  4. Schenn – Walker – Neighbours2:36

    xG 0.00–0.02 (0%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Parayko – Perunovich2:21

    xG 0.04–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  2. Leddy – Parayko12:03

    xG 0.66–0.66 (50%)attempts 13–14goals 1–2

  3. Krug – Kessel11:46

    xG 0.21–0.26 (45%)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.

STL 3.1 xGFLA 3.5 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 34/100 · #891 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.14 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 28% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +19 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 56% of the time.

STL winsFLA wins

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

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