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Thu, Nov 21, 2024·Rogers Place, Edmonton

Minnesota Wild 5, Edmonton Oilers 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 54% of the time.

EDM winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN1931017526
EDM17113111331

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:27EDMLeon DraisaitlAssists: Connor McDavid · Wrist, 0.00 xG0–1
  2. P1 9:56MINMatt BoldyAssists: Kirill Kaprizov, Jonas Brodin · Wrist, 0.09 xG1–1
  3. P2 3:09MINMarcus FolignoAssists: Declan Chisholm, Frederick Gaudreau · Snap, 0.30 xG2–1
  4. P2 6:03EDMCorey PerryUnassisted · Wrap-around, 0.08 xG2–2
  5. P2 9:10MINMarcus JohanssonAssists: Ryan Hartman · Wrist, 0.12 xG3–2
  6. P2 17:02MINFrederick GaudreauGWGAssists: Ryan Hartman · Tip-in, 0.05 xG4–2
  7. P3 9:50MINFrederick GaudreauAssists: Jake Middleton, Marcus Foligno · Snap, 0.14 xG5–2
  8. P3 19:35EDMJeff SkinnerAssists: Corey Perry, Adam Henrique · Wrist, 0.13 xG5–3
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 16:57EDMVasily Podkolzin: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 15:37MINMatt Boldy: Fighting5 min
  3. P2 15:37EDMDrake Caggiula: Fighting5 min
  4. P3 4:19MINRyan Hartman: Holding2 min
  5. P3 10:44MINMarat Khusnutdinov: Hooking2 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 SOG0EDM
43% to win57% to win
← MIN attackEDM attack →
  1. P1 20:00Eriksson Ek won the faceoff against McDavid
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINEDM
26Shots on goal31
2.8Expected goals2.6
51Shot attempts68
27Faceoffs won36
1Power plays2
9Penalty minutes7
25Hits18
26Blocked shots13
15Giveaways19
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.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestEriksson Ek – Kaprizov – Boldy12:21

    xG 0.77–0.10 (89%)attempts 15–10goals 1–1

  2. Foligno – Gaudreau – Trenin8:26

    xG 0.82–0.45 (64%)attempts 10–7goals 2–0

  3. Johansson – Hartman – Rossi10:20

    xG 0.30–0.14 (68%)attempts 11–11goals 1–1

  4. Shore – Lauko – Khusnutdinov5:50

    xG 0.05–0.26 (17%)attempts 1–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBogosian – Chisholm11:10

    xG 0.80–0.10 (89%)attempts 10–10goals 1–0

  2. Spurgeon – Brodin17:11

    xG 0.72–0.54 (57%)attempts 13–21goals 2–1

  3. Middleton – Faber16:19

    xG 0.59–1.06 (36%)attempts 14–20goals 2–1

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestDraisaitl – McDavid – Podkolzin12:22

    xG 1.09–0.54 (67%)attempts 19–13goals 1–1

  2. Perry – Draisaitl – McDavid2:54

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

  3. Skinner – Nugent-Hopkins – Kapanen7:37

    xG 0.09–0.15 (37%)attempts 7–6goals 0–1

  4. Henrique – Brown – Janmark7:21

    xG 0.16–0.48 (25%)attempts 5–7goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Ekholm – Bouchard17:50

    xG 1.10–1.12 (49%)attempts 26–18goals 1–2

  2. Kulak – Emberson12:46

    xG 0.16–0.56 (23%)attempts 10–12goals 1–2

  3. Brown – Stecher10:44

    xG 0.05–0.54 (8%)attempts 8–10goals 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.

EDM 2.6 xGMIN 2.8 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

EDMMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 67/100 · #428 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.32 · 8 goals in reachComeback index 32% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50EDM 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +23 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 54% of the time.

EDM winsMIN wins

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

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