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Sun, Nov 3, 2024·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Toronto Maple Leafs 1, Minnesota Wild 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 68% of the time.

MIN winsTOR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
TOR1120110500128
MIN11101001111233

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 10:19MINRyan HartmanAssists: Frederick Gaudreau, Jared Spurgeon · Deflected, 0.18 xG0–1
  2. P1 19:08TORWilliam NylanderPPAssists: Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner · Wrist, 0.06 xG1–1
  3. OT 2:14MINMatt BoldyGWGAssists: Marco Rossi, Jared Spurgeon · Wrist, 0.29 xG1–2
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 12:12MINKirill Kaprizov: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 17:58MINMarco Rossi: Hooking2 min · PPG
  3. P1 19:45TORChris Tanev: Holding2 min
  4. P2 6:37TORRyan Reaves: Roughing2 min
  5. P2 6:37MINRyan Hartman: Roughing2 min
  6. P2 17:32TOROliver Ekman-Larsson: Roughing2 min
  7. P2 17:32TOROliver Ekman-Larsson: Cross checking2 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.

TOR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MIN
43% to win57% to win
← TOR attackMIN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Rossi won the faceoff against Tavares
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TORMIN
28Shots on goal33
1.7Expected goals2.6
48Shot attempts72
24Faceoffs won23
2Power plays3
8Penalty minutes6
30Hits22
24Blocked shots8
10Giveaways15
2Takeaways7

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.

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestDomi – Robertson – McMann8:39

    xG 0.46–0.21 (69%)attempts 10–12goals 0–0

  2. Marner – Matthews – Knies10:53

    xG 0.37–0.28 (56%)attempts 9–17goals 0–0

  3. Reaves – Lorentz – Kampf5:23

    xG 0.07–0.25 (22%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

  4. Pacioretty – Tavares – Nylander8:35

    xG 0.11–0.76 (12%)attempts 4–17goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Tanev – McCabe14:08

    xG 0.28–0.25 (53%)attempts 12–17goals 0–0

  2. Ekman-Larsson – Rielly12:37

    xG 0.47–0.44 (51%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

  3. Timmins – Benoit11:35

    xG 0.26–0.85 (24%)attempts 7–21goals 0–1

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestZuccarello – Kaprizov – Rossi12:18

    xG 0.51–0.24 (68%)attempts 17–11goals 0–0

  2. Johansson – Eriksson Ek – Boldy9:18

    xG 0.29–0.05 (85%)attempts 13–3goals 0–0

  3. Foligno – Hartman – Gaudreau8:45

    xG 0.42–0.32 (57%)attempts 11–3goals 1–0

  4. Trenin – Lauko – Khusnutdinov5:53

    xG 0.03–0.16 (17%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSpurgeon – Brodin14:15

    xG 0.80–0.04 (96%)attempts 24–2goals 1–0

  2. Middleton – Faber12:12

    xG 0.42–0.28 (60%)attempts 17–10goals 0–0

  3. Bogosian – Chisholm10:02

    xG 0.21–0.23 (48%)attempts 7–11goals 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 2.6 xGTOR 1.7 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINTOR

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 TOR. Dots are goals.

Excitement 19/100 · #1059 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.00 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
TOR 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +14 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 68% of the time.

MIN winsTOR wins

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

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