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Thu, Mar 14, 2024·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Anaheim Ducks 0, Minnesota Wild 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 85% of the time.

MIN winsANA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ANA070207016
MIN11011506231

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 14:44MINZach BogosianGWGAssists: Marco Rossi, Jonas Brodin · Snap, 0.01 xG0–1
  2. P2 2:17MINKirill KaprizovAssists: Ryan Hartman, Matt Boldy · Wrist, 0.19 xG0–2
Penalties (3)
  1. P1 15:19ANAAlex Killorn: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 18:57MINMarc-Andre Fleury: High sticking2 min
  3. P2 2:22ANAUrho Vaakanainen: 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.

ANA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ANAMIN
16Shots on goal31
0.9Expected goals2.8
44Shot attempts55
20Faceoffs won24
1Power plays2
4Penalty minutes2
16Hits14
14Blocked shots16
1Giveaways4
1Takeaways5

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.

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. bestJohnston – Groulx – Regenda7:58

    xG 0.21–0.14 (61%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  2. Silfverberg – Lundeström – Meyers4:10

    xG 0.03–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  3. Killorn – Leason – McTavish5:32

    xG 0.02–0.05 (31%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  4. Vatrano – Terry – McTavish2:11

    xG 0.00–0.08 (0%)attempts 0–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Gudas – LaCombe3:59

    xG 0.06–0.01 (83%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  2. LaCombe – Mintyukov4:01

    xG 0.03–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  3. Zellweger – Mintyukov5:28

    xG 0.21–0.18 (53%)attempts 3–6goals 0–1

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestHartman – Kaprizov – Boldy12:18

    xG 0.74–0.22 (78%)attempts 13–10goals 1–0

  2. Johansson – Zuccarello – Rossi11:42

    xG 0.50–0.26 (66%)attempts 10–10goals 1–0

  3. Lettieri – Shaw – Lucchini7:36

    xG 0.19–0.09 (68%)attempts 3–5goals 0–0

  4. Foligno – Gaudreau – Khusnutdinov8:24

    xG 0.08–0.05 (63%)attempts 4–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBogosian – Brodin18:35

    xG 1.08–0.27 (80%)attempts 22–11goals 1–0

  2. Middleton – Faber15:27

    xG 0.42–0.21 (67%)attempts 8–17goals 1–0

  3. Merrill – Chisholm12:13

    xG 0.24–0.28 (46%)attempts 7–9goals 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 2.8 xGANA 0.9 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINANA

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 ANA. Dots are goals.

Excitement 1/100 · #1309 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.59 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
ANA 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +18 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 85% of the time.

MIN winsANA wins

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

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