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Sat, Oct 18, 2025·Xfinity Mobile Arena, Philadelphia

Minnesota Wild 1, Philadelphia Flyers 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 52% of the time.

PHI winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
MIN03180401116
PHI06051911221

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 1:55MINVladimir TarasenkoAssists: Marco Rossi, Jonas Brodin · Snap, 0.10 xG1–0
  2. P3 7:10PHIOwen TippettAssists: Trevor Zegras, Christian Dvorak · Backhand, 0.00 xG1–1
  3. OT 2:37PHINoah CatesGWGAssists: Tyson Foerster, Jamie Drysdale · Wrist, 0.16 xG1–2
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 1:56PHINicolas Deslauriers: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 1:56MINMarcus Foligno: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 18:07MINJonas Brodin: Holding2 min
  4. P2 1:55PHITrevor Zegras: Delaying game unsuccessful challenge2 min
  5. P2 4:34PHIOwen Tippett: Tripping2 min
  6. P2 19:52MINRyan Hartman: Tripping2 min
  7. P3 10:00PHIJamie Drysdale: Hooking2 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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0PHI
47% to win53% to win
← MIN attackPHI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Eriksson Ek won the faceoff against Cates
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINPHI
16Shots on goal21
2.3Expected goals2.2
56Shot attempts51
23Faceoffs won24
3Power plays2
9Penalty minutes11
19Hits32
15Blocked shots16
14Giveaways15
1Takeaways4

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.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestPitlick – Trenin – Yurov5:39

    xG 0.19–0.10 (66%)attempts 7–3goals 0–0

  2. Foligno – Hinostroza – Hartman6:20

    xG 0.12–0.08 (59%)attempts 8–2goals 0–0

  3. Foligno – Hartman – Trenin2:04

    xG 0.01–0.01 (56%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  4. Eriksson Ek – Kaprizov – Boldy9:43

    xG 0.19–0.27 (41%)attempts 8–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Spurgeon – Middleton3:08

    xG 0.01–0.08 (8%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

  2. Spurgeon – Buium12:55

    xG 0.34–0.46 (42%)attempts 12–7goals 0–0

  3. Brodin – Faber17:04

    xG 0.40–0.65 (38%)attempts 12–14goals 1–0

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestDvorak – Tippett – Zegras9:12

    xG 0.68–0.21 (76%)attempts 14–6goals 1–0

  2. Cates – Brink – Foerster12:55

    xG 0.43–0.03 (93%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

  3. Couturier – Konecny – Tippett3:49

    xG 0.10–0.02 (82%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  4. Couturier – Konecny – Michkov7:02

    xG 0.21–0.32 (40%)attempts 4–11goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestSeeler – Drysdale11:09

    xG 0.74–0.26 (74%)attempts 15–10goals 1–0

  2. Sanheim – York18:18

    xG 0.61–0.31 (67%)attempts 18–9goals 0–0

  3. Seeler – Sanheim2:30

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–2goals 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.

PHI 2.2 xGMIN 2.3 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

PHIMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 40/100 · #841 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.39 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 23% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50PHI 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +24 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 52% of the time.

PHI winsMIN wins

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

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