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Thu, Nov 21, 2024·TD Garden, Boston

Utah Hockey Club 0, Boston Bruins 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 79% of the time.

BOS winsUTA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
UTA060907022
BOS01511105131

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 12:41BOSElias LindholmPPGWGAssists: Brad Marchand, David Pastrnak · Wrist, 0.32 xG0–1
Penalties (15)
  1. P1 6:17BOSMark Kastelic: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 6:17UTARobert Bortuzzo: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 7:18UTALawson Crouse: Tripping2 min
  4. P1 10:16BOSMorgan Geekie: Tripping2 min
  5. P1 13:02UTAJack McBain: High sticking2 min
  6. P1 17:37UTALogan Cooley: Slashing2 min
  7. P2 3:37UTAJack McBain: Hooking2 min
  8. P2 5:29BOSCharlie Coyle: Tripping2 min
  9. P2 12:20UTALogan Cooley: Holding2 min · PPG
  10. P2 12:55BOSMark Kastelic: Roughing2 min
  11. P2 12:55UTARobert Bortuzzo: Fighting5 min
  12. P2 12:55BOSMark Kastelic: Fighting5 min
  13. P3 1:54UTAMichael Kesselring: Cross checking2 min
  14. P3 13:04BOSCole Koepke: Slashing2 min
  15. P3 18:22UTAKevin Stenlund: Slashing2 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.

UTA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0BOS
43% to win57% to win
← UTA attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Zacha won the faceoff against Cooley
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

UTABOS
22Shots on goal31
2.0Expected goals3.7
60Shot attempts64
27Faceoffs won31
4Power plays7
24Penalty minutes18
10Hits24
20Blocked shots14
10Giveaways18
9Takeaways7

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.

Utah Hockey Club

Forward lines

  1. bestKerfoot – Schmaltz – Hayton4:12

    xG 0.26–0.09 (74%)attempts 10–3goals 0–0

  2. McBain – Guenther – Cooley2:35

    xG 0.19–0.03 (85%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  3. Bjugstad – Crouse – Maccelli2:05

    xG 0.10–0.00 (97%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  4. Schmaltz – Keller – Hayton4:13

    xG 0.05–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBortuzzo – Kesselring5:22

    xG 0.33–0.12 (73%)attempts 7–5goals 0–0

  2. Cole – Lamoureux10:30

    xG 0.44–0.32 (58%)attempts 16–7goals 0–0

  3. Maatta – Lamoureux2:24

    xG 0.11–0.03 (78%)attempts 6–2goals 0–0

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestKastelic – Koepke – Beecher3:56

    xG 0.31–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  2. Marchand – Lindholm – Brazeau7:15

    xG 0.23–0.18 (56%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  3. Pastrnak – Zacha – Geekie7:04

    xG 0.19–0.17 (53%)attempts 6–9goals 0–0

  4. Coyle – Frederic – Merkulov6:03

    xG 0.06–0.16 (27%)attempts 5–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCarlo – Wotherspoon9:11

    xG 0.38–0.26 (59%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

  2. Zadorov – Peeke11:19

    xG 0.44–0.46 (49%)attempts 8–17goals 0–0

  3. McAvoy – Lohrei11:56

    xG 0.07–0.14 (33%)attempts 6–8goals 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.

BOS 3.7 xGUTA 2.0 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSUTA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 11/100 · #1163 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.91 · 1 goal in reachComeback index 53% (winner's lowest chance)
UTA 100%5050%50BOS 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, Boston Bruins win this game 79% of the time.

BOS winsUTA wins

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

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