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Thu, Mar 13, 2025·Scotiabank Arena, Toronto

Florida Panthers 3, Toronto Maple Leafs 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 63% of the time.

TOR winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA1112905325
TOR1701018225

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:00TORJohn TavaresAssists: William Nylander, Simon Benoit · Wrist, 0.03 xG0–1
  2. P1 17:51FLASam BennettPPAssists: Mackie Samoskevich, Sam Reinhart · Wrist, 0.25 xG1–1
  3. P2 13:56FLANiko MikkolaAssists: A.J. Greer · Wrist, 0.09 xG2–1
  4. P2 17:13FLASam BennettPPGWGAssists: Sam Reinhart, Mackie Samoskevich · Wrist, 0.19 xG3–1
  5. P3 4:26TORMax DomiAssists: Calle Jarnkrok, Oliver Ekman-Larsson · Wrist, 0.10 xG3–2
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 3:54FLANate Schmidt: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 3:54TORMax Domi: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 11:54TORDavid Kampf: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  4. P1 17:16TOROliver Ekman-Larsson: Roughing2 min · PPG
  5. P2 2:49FLAA.J. Greer: Roughing2 min
  6. P2 7:57FLASam Bennett: Interference2 min
  7. P2 15:16TORBobby McMann: Too many men on the ice2 min · PPG
  8. P3 2:03FLANate Schmidt: Holding2 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 SOG0TOR
43% to win57% to win
← FLA attackTOR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Barkov won the faceoff against Matthews
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLATOR
25Shots on goal25
1.9Expected goals2.6
55Shot attempts52
29Faceoffs won28
3Power plays3
11Penalty minutes11
40Hits24
12Blocked shots14
18Giveaways8
2Takeaways4

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. bestGreer – Gadjovich – Sturm5:05

    xG 0.23–0.08 (74%)attempts 8–2goals 1–1

  2. Bennett – Rodrigues – Samoskevich11:03

    xG 0.39–0.43 (48%)attempts 13–7goals 0–0

  3. Boqvist – Luostarinen – Lundell9:10

    xG 0.08–0.18 (30%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  4. Verhaeghe – Barkov – Reinhart10:48

    xG 0.30–0.49 (38%)attempts 14–6goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestSchmidt – Balinskis7:47

    xG 0.32–0.27 (55%)attempts 12–4goals 0–1

  2. Kulikov – Mikkola14:39

    xG 0.27–0.31 (47%)attempts 11–9goals 0–0

  3. Jones – Forsling16:18

    xG 0.19–0.71 (21%)attempts 8–17goals 0–0

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestMarner – Matthews – Knies10:22

    xG 0.82–0.17 (83%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

  2. Jarnkrok – Domi – McMann2:38

    xG 0.10–0.05 (65%)attempts 1–5goals 1–0

  3. Tavares – Domi – Nylander2:42

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–0goals 0–0

  4. Tavares – Laughton – Nylander2:53

    xG 0.01–0.03 (21%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestRielly – Carlo9:53

    xG 0.38–0.18 (68%)attempts 7–9goals 0–0

  2. Ekman-Larsson – Carlo2:57

    xG 0.23–0.07 (76%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  3. Tanev – McCabe13:03

    xG 0.43–0.29 (60%)attempts 11–12goals 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.

TOR 2.6 xGFLA 1.9 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 44/100 · #729 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.41 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 29% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +25 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 63% of the time.

TOR winsFLA wins

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

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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).