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Thu, Mar 20, 2025·Nationwide Arena, Columbus

Florida Panthers 1, Columbus Blue Jackets 0 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Columbus Blue Jackets win this game 52% of the time.

CBJ winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
FLA013080711129
CBJ050120800025

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. OT 0:29FLAAleksander BarkovPPGWGAssists: Seth Jones, Sam Reinhart · Snap, 0.18 xG1–0
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 7:45FLAAleksander Barkov: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 8:01CBJDmitri Voronkov: Roughing2 min
  3. P2 8:01FLACarter Verhaeghe: Slashing2 min
  4. P2 16:54CBJBoone Jenner: Interference2 min
  5. P3 12:25FLASam Bennett: Hooking2 min
  6. P3 19:30CBJKirill Marchenko: Delaying game puck over glass2 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 SOG0CBJ
43% to win57% to win
← FLA attackCBJ attack →
  1. P1 20:00Barkov won the faceoff against Danforth
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLACBJ
29Shots on goal25
2.8Expected goals2.9
66Shot attempts75
30Faceoffs won24
2Power plays2
6Penalty minutes6
28Hits27
14Blocked shots18
33Giveaways27
3Takeaways7

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. bestVerhaeghe – Barkov – Reinhart14:25

    xG 0.74–0.40 (65%)attempts 19–11goals 0–0

  2. Bennett – Rodrigues – Samoskevich11:03

    xG 0.46–0.28 (62%)attempts 10–11goals 0–0

  3. Boqvist – Luostarinen – Lundell9:22

    xG 0.17–0.39 (31%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

  4. Greer – Gadjovich – Sturm6:05

    xG 0.10–0.62 (14%)attempts 7–16goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJones – Forsling16:22

    xG 0.86–0.72 (55%)attempts 22–21goals 0–0

  2. Schmidt – Balinskis10:19

    xG 0.59–0.48 (55%)attempts 12–14goals 0–0

  3. Schmidt – Jones2:00

    xG 0.11–0.03 (77%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

Columbus Blue Jackets

Forward lines

  1. bestvan Riemsdyk – Kuraly – Kunin7:14

    xG 0.70–0.12 (85%)attempts 19–7goals 0–0

  2. Marchenko – Johnson – Fantilli10:36

    xG 0.42–0.07 (86%)attempts 13–5goals 0–0

  3. Olivier – Danforth – Aston-Reese13:32

    xG 0.57–0.51 (53%)attempts 14–16goals 0–0

  4. Jenner – Voronkov – Chinakhov11:02

    xG 0.28–0.55 (34%)attempts 13–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestWerenski – Fabbro18:04

    xG 1.01–0.70 (59%)attempts 31–18goals 0–0

  2. Johnson – Severson12:58

    xG 0.63–0.36 (64%)attempts 22–12goals 0–0

  3. Provorov – Mateychuk14:03

    xG 0.42–0.56 (43%)attempts 9–15goals 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.

CBJ 2.9 xGFLA 2.8 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

CBJFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 20/100 · #1049 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.12 · 1 goal in reachComeback index 39% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50CBJ 100%P1P2P3OTEnd

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Columbus Blue Jackets win this game 52% of the time.

CBJ winsFLA wins

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

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