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Mon, Mar 4, 2024·Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia

St. Louis Blues 2, Philadelphia Flyers 1 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 79% of the time.

PHI winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
STL0611305012225
PHI112010014061142

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 18:52PHIScott LaughtonAssists: Ryan Poehling, Travis Sanheim · Deflected, 0.25 xG0–1
  2. P2 15:47STLKevin HayesAssists: Kasperi Kapanen · Wrist, 0.26 xG1–1

Shootout

  1. 1. PHI Sean Couturier stopped
  2. 2. STL Robert Thomas stopped
  3. 3. PHI Tyson Foerster stopped
  4. 4. STL Jake Neighbours scored
  5. 5. PHI Morgan Frost scored
  6. 6. STL Brayden Schenn stopped
  7. 7. PHI Owen Tippett stopped
  8. 8. STL Pavel Buchnevich scored
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 12:33STLOskar Sundqvist: Hooking2 min
  2. P2 10:13PHINick Seeler: Interference2 min
  3. P2 12:41PHIEgor Zamula: Holding2 min
  4. P3 11:21STLOskar Sundqvist: Slashing2 min
  5. P3 15:14PHIMarc Staal: 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.

STL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0PHI
46% to win54% to win
← STL attackPHI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Laughton won the faceoff against Schenn
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLPHI
25Shots on goal42
2.2Expected goals4.0
65Shot attempts71
27Faceoffs won28
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
16Hits14
14Blocked shots29
8Giveaways7
6Takeaways9

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.

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestHayes – Kapanen – Bolduc6:04

    xG 0.40–0.18 (69%)attempts 6–5goals 1–0

  2. Buchnevich – Kyrou – Thomas15:56

    xG 0.76–0.61 (56%)attempts 25–11goals 0–1

  3. Sundqvist – Walker – Toropchenko7:05

    xG 0.03–0.18 (12%)attempts 3–11goals 0–0

  4. Schenn – Saad – Neighbours11:10

    xG 0.08–0.98 (7%)attempts 9–18goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Faulk – Krug16:54

    xG 0.54–0.51 (52%)attempts 23–17goals 0–0

  2. Scandella – Perunovich5:19

    xG 0.20–0.24 (46%)attempts 4–8goals 0–0

  3. Parayko – Perunovich2:05

    xG 0.17–0.36 (32%)attempts 6–3goals 0–1

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestFrost – Farabee – Brink3:07

    xG 0.36–0.02 (95%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  2. Hathaway – Poehling – Cates11:26

    xG 0.58–0.26 (69%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

  3. Laughton – Tippett – Foerster6:03

    xG 0.22–0.09 (71%)attempts 12–10goals 0–0

  4. Laughton – Farabee – Foerster8:00

    xG 0.42–0.33 (56%)attempts 11–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStaal – Zamula9:46

    xG 0.63–0.05 (92%)attempts 14–4goals 0–0

  2. Seeler – Walker14:42

    xG 0.99–0.51 (66%)attempts 21–17goals 1–1

  3. Staal – Walker2:35

    xG 0.23–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–1goals 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.

PHI 4.0 xGSTL 2.2 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

PHISTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 53/100 · #675 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.66 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 23% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50PHI 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +23 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 79% of the time.

PHI winsSTL wins

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

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