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Tue, Jan 14, 2025·Prudential Center, Newark

Florida Panthers 2, New Jersey Devils 1 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, New Jersey Devils win this game 64% of the time.

NJD winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
FLA05011111012228
NJD060819041127

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P3 0:41FLAJesper BoqvistAssists: Carter Verhaeghe, Nate Schmidt · Wrist, 0.12 xG1–0
  2. P3 2:27NJDNico HischierAssists: Timo Meier, Nathan Bastian · Wrist, 0.12 xG1–1

Shootout

  1. 1. NJD Paul Cotter scored
  2. 2. FLA Aleksander Barkov scored
  3. 3. NJD Jesper Bratt stopped
  4. 4. FLA Sam Reinhart stopped
  5. 5. NJD Jack Hughes stopped
  6. 6. FLA Anton Lundell scored
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 0:33NJDJohnathan Kovacevic: Cross checking2 min
  2. P1 4:52FLAMackie Samoskevich: Holding2 min
  3. P3 4:32FLAMatthew Tkachuk: Roughing2 min
  4. P3 4:32FLAMatthew Tkachuk: Interference2 min
  5. P3 4:32NJDJonas Siegenthaler: 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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0NJD
43% to win57% to win
← FLA attackNJD attack →
  1. P1 20:00Barkov won the faceoff against Hischier
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLANJD
28Shots on goal27
2.2Expected goals3.0
66Shot attempts55
37Faceoffs won31
1Power plays2
6Penalty minutes4
42Hits30
14Blocked shots19
14Giveaways11
2Takeaways7

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. bestBarkov – Reinhart – Tkachuk14:25

    xG 0.31–0.13 (70%)attempts 12–8goals 0–0

  2. Verhaeghe – Boqvist – Lundell11:02

    xG 0.33–0.41 (45%)attempts 12–10goals 1–0

  3. Nosek – Greer – Rodrigues6:12

    xG 0.33–0.54 (38%)attempts 12–7goals 0–1

  4. Bennett – Luostarinen – Samoskevich12:13

    xG 0.46–0.70 (40%)attempts 13–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSchmidt – Mikkola16:34

    xG 0.77–0.28 (73%)attempts 22–10goals 1–0

  2. Forsling – Mikkola2:29

    xG 0.06–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  3. Schmidt – Balinskis2:18

    xG 0.03–0.10 (26%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

New Jersey Devils

Forward lines

  1. bestTatar – Meier – Hischier8:17

    xG 0.40–0.10 (80%)attempts 10–4goals 0–0

  2. Palat – Bratt – Hughes13:17

    xG 0.52–0.25 (67%)attempts 12–12goals 0–1

  3. MacDermid – Lazar – Bastian4:24

    xG 0.31–0.17 (64%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  4. Meier – Hischier – Mercer6:26

    xG 0.39–0.45 (47%)attempts 5–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDillon – Hamilton13:36

    xG 0.87–0.63 (58%)attempts 15–15goals 1–1

  2. Pesce – Hughes17:47

    xG 0.64–0.45 (59%)attempts 12–24goals 0–0

  3. Siegenthaler – Kovacevic18:21

    xG 0.35–0.58 (38%)attempts 13–17goals 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.

NJD 3.0 xGFLA 2.2 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NJDFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 39/100 · #790 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.35 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 41% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50NJD 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest 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, New Jersey Devils win this game 64% of the time.

NJD winsFLA wins

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

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
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+3
+4
+5
+6
+7

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