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Sat, Oct 19, 2024·Nationwide Arena, Columbus

Minnesota Wild 3, Columbus Blue Jackets 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 80% of the time.

CBJ winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN11306215334
CBJ0401218124

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 12:40MINMarco RossiAssists: Yakov Trenin, Marcus Foligno · Snap, 0.20 xG1–0
  2. P3 2:52MINKirill KaprizovPPGWGAssists: Brock Faber, Matt Boldy · Slap, 0.09 xG2–0
  3. P3 8:26MINMats ZuccarelloAssists: Kirill Kaprizov, Jon Merrill · Backhand, 0.06 xG3–0
  4. P3 18:35CBJEgor ChinakhovAssists: Sean Monahan, David Jiricek · Snap, 0.06 xG3–1
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 9:01CBJMathieu Olivier: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 19:09MINYakov Trenin: Cross checking2 min
  3. P2 5:42MINYakov Trenin: High sticking double minor4 min
  4. P3 2:20CBJJordan Harris: Delaying game puck over glass2 min · PPG
  5. P3 2:46CBJCole Sillinger: 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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0CBJ
43% to win57% to win
← MIN attackCBJ attack →
  1. P1 20:00Eriksson Ek won the faceoff against Fantilli
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINCBJ
34Shots on goal24
4.1Expected goals2.1
60Shot attempts59
21Faceoffs won26
3Power plays3
6Penalty minutes6
13Hits27
20Blocked shots11
23Giveaways18
4Takeaways10

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.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestJohansson – Eriksson Ek – Boldy8:58

    xG 0.40–0.05 (89%)attempts 11–4goals 0–0

  2. Zuccarello – Kaprizov – Rossi12:36

    xG 1.00–0.66 (60%)attempts 8–18goals 1–0

  3. Lauko – Khusnutdinov – Ohgren2:56

    xG 0.23–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–0goals 0–0

  4. Foligno – Trenin – Khusnutdinov3:58

    xG 0.22–0.01 (97%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMerrill – Chisholm9:58

    xG 0.78–0.09 (90%)attempts 14–3goals 1–0

  2. Middleton – Faber14:02

    xG 0.48–0.21 (69%)attempts 11–9goals 0–0

  3. Chisholm – Faber2:06

    xG 0.02–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

Columbus Blue Jackets

Forward lines

  1. bestMonahan – Marchenko – Chinakhov11:13

    xG 0.54–0.45 (55%)attempts 14–6goals 1–1

  2. van Riemsdyk – Kuraly – Marchenko2:09

    xG 0.06–0.01 (89%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

  3. van Riemsdyk – Kuraly – Fantilli2:12

    xG 0.01–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  4. Danforth – Aston-Reese – Fantilli11:01

    xG 0.17–0.42 (29%)attempts 7–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Severson – Jiricek2:24

    xG 0.00–0.03 (0%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

  2. Johnson – Jiricek6:20

    xG 0.08–0.19 (29%)attempts 4–7goals 1–0

  3. Severson – Christiansen8:56

    xG 0.08–0.34 (18%)attempts 6–10goals 0–1

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.

CBJ 2.1 xGMIN 4.1 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

CBJMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 16/100 · #1113 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.74 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 42% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50CBJ 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +17 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 80% of the time.

CBJ winsMIN wins

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

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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).