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Thu, Dec 12, 2024·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Florida Panthers 0, Vancouver Canucks 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 68% of the time.

VAN winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA0701307027
VAN2101514419

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:23VANCarson SoucyGWGAssists: Max Sasson, Teddy Blueger · Wrist, 0.06 xG0–1
  2. P1 18:41VANDanton HeinenAssists: Max Sasson, Teddy Blueger · Deflected, 0.15 xG0–2
  3. P2 4:53VANBrock BoeserAssists: J.T. Miller, Quinn Hughes · Wrist, 0.11 xG0–3
  4. P3 12:55VANJake DeBruskPPAssists: Quinn Hughes, J.T. Miller · Tip-in, 0.15 xG0–4
Penalties (5)
  1. P2 9:15VANKiefer Sherwood: High sticking2 min
  2. P2 0:00FLAJesper Boqvist: Roughing2 min
  3. P2 0:00VANNoah Juulsen: Roughing2 min
  4. P3 7:38VANBrock Boeser: Tripping2 min
  5. P3 12:48FLASam Reinhart: Tripping2 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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0VAN
43% to win57% to win
← FLA attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Barkov won the faceoff against Miller
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLAVAN
27Shots on goal19
2.3Expected goals1.4
61Shot attempts31
25Faceoffs won32
2Power plays1
4Penalty minutes6
25Hits26
7Blocked shots18
19Giveaways8
6Takeaways8

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.

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestBennett – Rodrigues – Tkachuk12:43

    xG 0.96–0.63 (60%)attempts 19–9goals 0–2

  2. Verhaeghe – Barkov – Reinhart14:26

    xG 0.49–0.17 (75%)attempts 15–5goals 0–0

  3. Nosek – Greer – Boqvist3:20

    xG 0.02–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  4. Boqvist – Luostarinen – Lundell8:19

    xG 0.15–0.14 (50%)attempts 9–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSchmidt – Mikkola5:49

    xG 0.59–0.05 (92%)attempts 13–1goals 0–0

  2. Forsling – Mikkola2:13

    xG 0.40–0.03 (94%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  3. Kulikov – Mikkola11:50

    xG 0.43–0.18 (71%)attempts 11–5goals 0–0

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestMiller – Boeser – Hoglander9:38

    xG 0.20–0.05 (79%)attempts 6–5goals 1–0

  2. Joshua – Garland – Suter9:29

    xG 0.22–0.10 (70%)attempts 6–8goals 0–0

  3. Blueger – Heinen – Sasson11:05

    xG 0.38–0.39 (49%)attempts 5–13goals 2–0

  4. DeBrusk – Pettersson – Sherwood9:59

    xG 0.12–0.57 (18%)attempts 3–13goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Myers – Hughes12:37

    xG 0.44–0.44 (50%)attempts 8–12goals 1–0

  2. Forbort – Friedman7:18

    xG 0.27–0.28 (49%)attempts 6–7goals 1–0

  3. Soucy – Juulsen13:14

    xG 0.16–0.39 (30%)attempts 3–14goals 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.

VAN 1.4 xGFLA 2.3 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 3/100 · #1293 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.44 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 57% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +12 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 68% of the time.

VAN winsFLA wins

Simulated goal difference (VAN − FLA), 10,000 replays

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