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Mon, Nov 25, 2024·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Winnipeg Jets 4, Minnesota Wild 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 58% of the time.

MIN winsWPG wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
WPG17113212432
MIN12201705144

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 8:37MINJake MiddletonAssists: Marcus Johansson, Brock Faber · Wrist, 0.07 xG0–1
  2. P1 10:03WPGAlex IafalloAssists: Rasmus Kupari · Backhand, 0.07 xG1–1
  3. P2 12:05WPGNino NiederreiterGWGAssists: Neal Pionk, Vladislav Namestnikov · Backhand, 0.14 xG2–1
  4. P3 13:20WPGAlex IafalloPPAssists: Neal Pionk, Cole Perfetti · Tip-in, 0.08 xG3–1
  5. P3 18:57WPGAdam LowryENAssists: Kyle Connor, Mark Scheifele · Backhand, 0.65 xG4–1
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 15:32WPGGabriel Vilardi: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  2. P1 19:00MINJake Middleton: Roughing2 min
  3. P1 19:00WPGMark Scheifele: Roughing2 min
  4. P1 19:00MINJake Middleton: Roughing2 min
  5. P2 7:32WPGHaydn Fleury: Cross checking2 min
  6. P2 9:49MINRyan Hartman: Interference2 min
  7. P3 12:29MINMarcus Foligno: Holding2 min · PPG

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.

WPG00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

WPGMIN
32Shots on goal44
2.9Expected goals3.3
62Shot attempts72
24Faceoffs won29
3Power plays2
6Penalty minutes8
16Hits19
17Blocked shots14
14Giveaways17
5Takeaways9

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.

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestScheifele – Connor – Vilardi12:00

    xG 0.55–0.31 (64%)attempts 15–15goals 0–0

  2. Namestnikov – Ehlers – Perfetti7:45

    xG 0.46–0.29 (61%)attempts 11–8goals 0–0

  3. Niederreiter – Lowry – Appleton9:01

    xG 0.29–0.31 (49%)attempts 13–9goals 0–0

  4. Lowry – Appleton – Barron2:54

    xG 0.03–0.09 (27%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMiller – Heinola11:28

    xG 0.53–0.11 (83%)attempts 12–6goals 0–0

  2. DeMelo – Morrissey14:31

    xG 0.70–0.49 (59%)attempts 18–15goals 0–0

  3. Fleury – Pionk13:47

    xG 0.32–0.29 (52%)attempts 11–16goals 0–0

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestJohansson – Hartman – Rossi8:24

    xG 0.59–0.28 (68%)attempts 13–11goals 1–1

  2. Shore – Jones – Lauko3:30

    xG 0.11–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  3. Foligno – Gaudreau – Trenin7:31

    xG 0.10–0.27 (28%)attempts 6–11goals 0–0

  4. Eriksson Ek – Kaprizov – Boldy13:51

    xG 0.31–0.53 (37%)attempts 15–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSpurgeon – Brodin12:54

    xG 0.56–0.41 (57%)attempts 14–18goals 0–1

  2. Spurgeon – Chisholm2:01

    xG 0.11–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  3. Middleton – Faber16:09

    xG 0.56–0.72 (44%)attempts 22–19goals 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.

MIN 3.3 xGWPG 2.9 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINWPG

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 WPG. Dots are goals.

Excitement 31/100 · #907 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.05 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 31% (winner's lowest chance)
WPG 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +24 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 58% of the time.

MIN winsWPG wins

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

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