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Mon, Dec 9, 2024·Madison Square Garden, New York

Chicago Blackhawks 2, New York Rangers 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Chicago Blackhawks win this game 64% of the time.

NYR winsCHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CHI19113010232
NYR1140907130

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 8:10CHITyler BertuzziAssists: Taylor Hall · Snap, 0.16 xG1–0
  2. P1 19:17NYRWill CuylleSHAssists: Sam Carrick · Snap, 0.29 xG1–1
  3. P2 6:16CHITaylor HallGWGAssists: Connor Bedard, Jason Dickinson · Poke, 0.12 xG2–1
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 12:56CHIConnor Bedard: Holding2 min
  2. P1 18:01NYRChris Kreider: Holding2 min
  3. P2 3:22CHITyler Bertuzzi: Slashing2 min
  4. P3 3:50NYRAdam Fox: High sticking2 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.

CHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CHINYR
32Shots on goal30
3.3Expected goals2.5
59Shot attempts61
13Faceoffs won22
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
14Hits25
17Blocked shots14
9Giveaways15
8Takeaways2

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.

Chicago Blackhawks

Forward lines

  1. bestHall – Bertuzzi – Donato10:24

    xG 1.12–0.18 (86%)attempts 14–6goals 1–0

  2. Foligno – Teravainen – Dickinson9:17

    xG 0.02–0.04 (37%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  3. Maroon – Anderson – Reichel5:28

    xG 0.04–0.14 (25%)attempts 3–8goals 0–0

  4. Kurashev – Mikheyev – Bedard8:13

    xG 0.34–0.58 (37%)attempts 7–15goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMurphy – Allan14:39

    xG 0.53–0.18 (74%)attempts 10–9goals 1–0

  2. Vlasic – Kaiser16:10

    xG 0.73–0.45 (62%)attempts 18–13goals 0–0

  3. Brodie – Korchinski13:07

    xG 0.55–0.54 (50%)attempts 12–14goals 1–0

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. Chytil – Kakko – Cuylle10:54

    xG 0.24–0.23 (51%)attempts 9–6goals 0–0

  2. Carrick – Edstrom – Berard5:55

    xG 0.09–0.23 (27%)attempts 6–3goals 0–1

  3. Trocheck – Panarin – Lafrenière14:17

    xG 0.71–1.18 (38%)attempts 20–19goals 0–0

  4. Kreider – Smith – Zibanejad8:36

    xG 0.19–0.69 (22%)attempts 6–13goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestJones – Mancini12:15

    xG 0.61–0.47 (56%)attempts 15–12goals 0–0

  2. Miller – Jones2:17

    xG 0.00–0.02 (0%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  3. Fox – Miller2:23

    xG 0.14–0.29 (32%)attempts 2–5goals 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.

NYR 2.5 xGCHI 3.3 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRCHI

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 CHI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 33/100 · #874 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.18 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 41% (winner's lowest chance)
CHI 100%5050%50NYR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +22 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Chicago Blackhawks win this game 64% of the time.

NYR winsCHI wins

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

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