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Sat, Oct 19, 2024·Delta Center, Salt Lake City

Boston Bruins 1, Utah Hockey Club 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Utah Hockey Club win this game 53% of the time.

UTA winsBOS wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
BOS06190700122
UTA0100111813232

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 12:49BOSCole KoepkeAssists: Brad Marchand · Snap, 0.04 xG1–0
  2. P3 14:51UTAVladislav KolyachonokAssists: Nick Schmaltz, Clayton Keller · Backhand, 0.14 xG1–1
  3. OT 2:46UTAMichael KesselringGWGAssists: Logan Cooley, Matias Maccelli · Snap, 0.11 xG1–2
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 6:19UTAKevin Stenlund: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 18:50BOSCharlie McAvoy: High sticking2 min
  3. P2 3:03UTARobert Bortuzzo: Roughing2 min
  4. P2 3:03BOSMark Kastelic: Roughing2 min
  5. P2 7:44BOSNikita Zadorov: Hooking2 min
  6. P2 13:13UTAVladislav Kolyachonok: Interference2 min
  7. P2 19:11BOSHampus Lindholm: Tripping2 min
  8. P3 3:17UTAClayton Keller: Hooking2 min
  9. OT 0:42BOSDavid Pastrnak: 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.

BOS00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0UTA
43% to win57% to win
← BOS attackUTA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Coyle won the faceoff against Hayton
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

BOSUTA
22Shots on goal32
2.5Expected goals2.7
43Shot attempts70
23Faceoffs won26
3Power plays4
10Penalty minutes8
29Hits12
19Blocked shots8
22Giveaways17
3Takeaways2

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.

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestKastelic – Koepke – Beecher7:26

    xG 0.29–0.15 (66%)attempts 5–10goals 0–0

  2. Marchand – Coyle – Brazeau5:57

    xG 0.01–0.03 (34%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  3. Frederic – Geekie – Poitras5:52

    xG 0.08–0.17 (31%)attempts 4–7goals 0–0

  4. Lindholm – Pastrnak – Zacha8:00

    xG 0.35–0.51 (41%)attempts 5–12goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Zadorov – Peeke12:44

    xG 0.24–0.23 (52%)attempts 8–11goals 0–0

  2. Lindholm – Carlo11:13

    xG 0.23–0.33 (41%)attempts 7–12goals 1–1

  3. McAvoy – Lohrei13:49

    xG 0.37–0.54 (40%)attempts 8–18goals 0–0

Utah Hockey Club

Forward lines

  1. bestSchmaltz – Keller – Hayton10:18

    xG 0.41–0.25 (62%)attempts 11–5goals 1–0

  2. McBain – Guenther – Cooley9:40

    xG 0.32–0.19 (62%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  3. Stenlund – Yamamoto – Maccelli7:12

    xG 0.24–0.13 (64%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  4. Kerfoot – Crouse – Doan8:55

    xG 0.30–0.38 (44%)attempts 17–8goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestVälimäki – Kolyachonok5:12

    xG 0.40–0.16 (71%)attempts 9–3goals 0–0

  2. Bortuzzo – Kolyachonok3:28

    xG 0.26–0.07 (79%)attempts 7–2goals 0–0

  3. Cole – Kolyachonok3:56

    xG 0.15–0.02 (90%)attempts 3–1goals 1–0

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.

UTA 2.7 xGBOS 2.5 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

UTABOS

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 50/100 · #655 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.61 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 14% (winner's lowest chance)
BOS 100%5050%50UTA 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +40 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Utah Hockey Club win this game 53% of the time.

UTA winsBOS wins

Simulated goal difference (UTA − BOS), 10,000 replays

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