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Tue, Feb 4, 2025·Delta Center, Salt Lake City

Philadelphia Flyers 2, Utah Hockey Club 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Utah Hockey Club win this game 88% of the time.

UTA winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
PHI110140501220
UTA01211311215342

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:02PHIRodrigo AbolsAssists: Travis Sanheim · Snap, 0.02 xG1–0
  2. P2 3:32UTAMikhail SergachevAssists: Dylan Guenther, Barrett Hayton · Slap, 0.01 xG1–1
  3. P2 4:29PHITyson FoersterAssists: Sean Couturier, Bobby Brink · Tip-in, 0.13 xG2–1
  4. P3 8:40UTADylan GuentherAssists: Barrett Hayton, Mikhail Sergachev · Snap, 0.11 xG2–2
  5. OT 4:59UTADylan GuentherGWGAssists: Mikhail Sergachev, Clayton Keller · Snap, 0.15 xG2–3
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 13:42UTALiam O'Brien: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 13:42PHINicolas Deslauriers: Fighting5 min
  3. P2 9:19PHIRodrigo Abols: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  4. P2 12:26PHINick Seeler: Holding2 min
  5. P2 19:38PHISean Couturier: Tripping2 min
  6. P3 13:29UTALiam O'Brien: Tripping2 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 SOG0UTA
43% to win57% to win
← PHI attackUTA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Hayton won the faceoff against Cates
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIUTA
20Shots on goal42
1.8Expected goals4.5
47Shot attempts90
26Faceoffs won43
1Power plays3
11Penalty minutes7
24Hits29
19Blocked shots13
17Giveaways17
5Takeaways5

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. bestLaughton – Hathaway – Richard9:31

    xG 0.27–0.19 (59%)attempts 12–10goals 0–0

  2. Cates – Brink – Foerster11:02

    xG 0.35–0.62 (36%)attempts 10–18goals 0–0

  3. Deslauriers – Abols – Gaucher5:11

    xG 0.32–0.59 (35%)attempts 5–9goals 1–1

  4. Couturier – Konecny – Michkov10:32

    xG 0.33–1.10 (23%)attempts 7–18goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Sanheim – Drysdale2:07

    xG 0.02–0.21 (7%)attempts 1–1goals 1–0

  2. Seeler – Drysdale17:15

    xG 0.77–0.97 (44%)attempts 16–24goals 0–0

  3. Johnson – Andrae10:37

    xG 0.30–0.54 (35%)attempts 11–10goals 0–1

Utah Hockey Club

Forward lines

  1. bestBjugstad – O'Brien – Stenlund8:23

    xG 0.97–0.23 (81%)attempts 17–8goals 0–1

  2. Carcone – Hayton – Guenther10:28

    xG 0.76–0.25 (75%)attempts 18–8goals 2–0

  3. Kerfoot – Schmaltz – Keller10:43

    xG 0.53–0.20 (73%)attempts 14–9goals 0–0

  4. McBain – Maccelli – Doan7:38

    xG 0.31–0.33 (49%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMaatta – DeSimone15:09

    xG 1.14–0.39 (74%)attempts 26–10goals 0–1

  2. Marino – Sergachev16:42

    xG 1.30–0.66 (67%)attempts 24–18goals 2–1

  3. Cole – Kesselring14:14

    xG 0.25–0.43 (37%)attempts 13–12goals 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.

UTA 4.5 xGPHI 1.8 xG
012345P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

UTAPHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 67/100 · #418 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.91 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 21% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50UTA 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +34 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Utah Hockey Club win this game 88% of the time.

UTA winsPHI wins

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

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