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Mon, Nov 25, 2024·Madison Square Garden, New York

St. Louis Blues 5, New York Rangers 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 89% of the time.

NYR winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
STL115117312544
NYR1141807229

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 8:47NYRWill CuylleAssists: Kaapo Kakko, Zac Jones · Deflected, 0.12 xG0–1
  2. P1 11:45STLJordan KyrouAssists: Brayden Schenn · Snap, 0.12 xG1–1
  3. P2 4:30STLZachary BolducAssists: Radek Faksa, Dylan Holloway · Snap, 0.35 xG2–1
  4. P2 7:20NYRWill CuylleAssists: Mika Zibanejad, Brett Berard · Wrist, 0.08 xG2–2
  5. P3 1:12STLBrayden SchennGWGAssists: Scott Perunovich · Snap, 0.09 xG3–2
  6. P3 8:25STLZachary BolducAssists: Colton Parayko, Dylan Holloway · Snap, 0.20 xG4–2
  7. P3 17:15STLPavel BuchnevichENAssists: Oskar Sundqvist, Ryan Suter · Wrist, 0.81 xG5–2
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 2:29STLOskar Sundqvist: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 6:18STLZachary Bolduc: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 14:01NYRAdam Edstrom: Boarding2 min
  4. P2 7:50STLZachary Bolduc: Cross checking2 min
  5. P2 10:18NYRSam Carrick: Tripping2 min
  6. P2 0:00STLJake Neighbours: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  7. P2 0:00NYRWill Cuylle: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  8. P3 3:44NYRMatt Rempe: Roughing2 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.

STL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0NYR
43% to win57% to win
← STL attackNYR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Faksa won the faceoff against Zibanejad
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLNYR
44Shots on goal29
5.5Expected goals2.4
72Shot attempts61
18Faceoffs won23
3Power plays3
8Penalty minutes8
24Hits23
17Blocked shots14
18Giveaways19
4Takeaways6

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.

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSundqvist – Holloway – Bolduc7:37

    xG 0.87–0.13 (87%)attempts 13–3goals 1–0

  2. Buchnevich – Thomas – Neighbours7:56

    xG 0.91–0.31 (75%)attempts 14–6goals 0–0

  3. Faksa – Walker – Toropchenko7:40

    xG 0.26–0.13 (67%)attempts 7–12goals 0–0

  4. Schenn – Saad – Kyrou7:55

    xG 0.39–0.42 (48%)attempts 6–11goals 1–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestSuter – Parayko16:52

    xG 1.23–0.40 (75%)attempts 18–17goals 2–0

  2. Joseph – Kessel7:11

    xG 0.62–0.21 (75%)attempts 11–5goals 1–1

  3. Faulk – Joseph4:02

    xG 0.25–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. Smith – Kakko – Edstrom10:08

    xG 0.37–0.53 (41%)attempts 17–10goals 0–0

  2. Carrick – Vesey – Rempe7:04

    xG 0.01–0.36 (2%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

  3. Zibanejad – Berard – Cuylle7:57

    xG 0.55–1.04 (35%)attempts 7–14goals 1–2

  4. Trocheck – Panarin – Lafrenière12:52

    xG 0.21–1.07 (16%)attempts 9–17goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Fox – Miller12:59

    xG 0.69–0.75 (48%)attempts 17–11goals 0–0

  2. Jones – Schneider12:44

    xG 0.18–0.57 (24%)attempts 13–8goals 0–0

  3. Trouba – Lindgren12:30

    xG 0.31–1.42 (18%)attempts 7–22goals 1–3

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.

NYR 2.4 xGSTL 5.5 xG
0123456P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRSTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 58/100 · #541 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.61 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 31% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50NYR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +29 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 89% of the time.

NYR winsSTL wins

Simulated goal difference (NYR − STL), 10,000 replays

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