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Sat, Dec 14, 2024·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Philadelphia Flyers 1, Minnesota Wild 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 63% of the time.

MIN winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PHI090419122
MIN181727422

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 14:18MINKirill KaprizovAssists: Jon Merrill, Zach Bogosian · Snap, 0.06 xG0–1
  2. P2 15:21MINMatt BoldyGWGAssists: Brock Faber · Wrist, 0.14 xG0–2
  3. P3 9:34MINMarco RossiAssists: Mats Zuccarello, Declan Chisholm · Wrist, 0.09 xG0–3
  4. P3 14:18PHITravis SanheimAssists: Ryan Poehling, Garnet Hathaway · Snap, 0.03 xG1–3
  5. P3 17:50MINKirill KaprizovENAssists: Marcus Foligno, Jonas Brodin · Wrist, 0.71 xG1–4
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 1:27PHIGarnet Hathaway: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 2:29MINJared Spurgeon: Hooking2 min
  3. P1 11:37PHIGarnet Hathaway: Fighting5 min
  4. P1 11:37MINMarcus Foligno: Fighting5 min
  5. P1 17:41MINJon Merrill: High sticking2 min
  6. P2 7:09MINMatt Boldy: Hooking2 min
  7. P2 13:44MINMarcus Foligno: Roughing2 min
  8. P2 13:44PHITravis Sanheim: 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.

PHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIMIN
22Shots on goal22
1.6Expected goals2.1
52Shot attempts41
34Faceoffs won26
3Power plays1
9Penalty minutes13
17Hits18
11Blocked shots16
15Giveaways15
6Takeaways5

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.

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. Cates – Brink – Foerster6:22

    xG 0.22–0.18 (54%)attempts 7–5goals 0–1

  2. Laughton – Hathaway – Poehling8:05

    xG 0.12–0.18 (39%)attempts 6–5goals 1–0

  3. Couturier – Konecny – Farabee10:29

    xG 0.14–0.23 (39%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

  4. Tippett – Frost – Michkov7:13

    xG 0.15–0.35 (31%)attempts 5–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestRistolainen – Zamula13:11

    xG 0.23–0.14 (63%)attempts 14–7goals 0–0

  2. Sanheim – Drysdale5:05

    xG 0.07–0.02 (77%)attempts 4–4goals 1–0

  3. Seeler – Drysdale8:59

    xG 0.25–0.29 (46%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestZuccarello – Kaprizov – Rossi11:08

    xG 0.39–0.09 (81%)attempts 11–7goals 1–1

  2. Foligno – Gaudreau – Jones4:55

    xG 0.24–0.09 (73%)attempts 7–3goals 0–0

  3. Foligno – Gaudreau – Boldy2:00

    xG 0.13–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  4. Foligno – Johnson – Khusnutdinov2:13

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 1–0goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrodin – Faber17:57

    xG 0.53–0.24 (69%)attempts 16–7goals 0–0

  2. Spurgeon – Chisholm15:11

    xG 0.37–0.27 (57%)attempts 11–12goals 1–0

  3. Bogosian – Merrill10:35

    xG 0.27–0.28 (49%)attempts 7–10goals 1–1

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.

MIN 2.1 xGPHI 1.6 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINPHI

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 PHI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 22/100 · #1011 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.63 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 55% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +14 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 63% of the time.

MIN winsPHI wins

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

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