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Mon, Oct 20, 2025·Madison Square Garden, New York

Minnesota Wild 3, New York Rangers 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 67% of the time.

NYR winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN11601125332
NYR1601107124

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:57NYRArtemi PanarinAssists: Mika Zibanejad, Will Borgen · Wrist, 0.09 xG0–1
  2. P1 5:10MINJonas BrodinAssists: Matt Boldy, Joel Eriksson Ek · Wrist, 0.03 xG1–1
  3. P3 8:16MINDanila YurovGWGAssists: Marcus Johansson · Wrist, 0.16 xG2–1
  4. P3 18:24MINKirill KaprizovENAssists: Ryan Hartman · Wrist, 0.35 xG3–1
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 15:11NYRWill Borgen: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  2. P2 5:08NYRAlexis Lafrenière: Hooking2 min
  3. P2 16:37NYRWill Cuylle: Roughing2 min
  4. P3 3:05MINJake Middleton: 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 SOG0NYR
47% to win53% to win
← MIN attackNYR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Miller won the faceoff against Eriksson Ek
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINNYR
32Shots on goal24
3.5Expected goals2.5
73Shot attempts68
28Faceoffs won29
3Power plays1
2Penalty minutes6
20Hits34
19Blocked shots21
12Giveaways11
3Takeaways2

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 – Jones7:03

    xG 0.25–0.04 (87%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

  2. Eriksson Ek – Kaprizov – Boldy12:40

    xG 0.92–0.88 (51%)attempts 16–17goals 1–0

  3. Foligno – Hinostroza – Hartman8:05

    xG 0.41–0.38 (52%)attempts 11–10goals 0–0

  4. Johansson – Tarasenko – Yurov6:18

    xG 0.24–0.47 (34%)attempts 7–11goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestMiddleton – Jiricek10:21

    xG 0.41–0.34 (55%)attempts 13–12goals 0–0

  2. Spurgeon – Buium12:28

    xG 0.71–0.64 (53%)attempts 14–18goals 0–1

  3. Brodin – Faber18:03

    xG 0.80–0.85 (49%)attempts 19–21goals 2–0

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. bestZibanejad – Panarin – Cuylle13:23

    xG 0.59–0.41 (59%)attempts 18–12goals 1–0

  2. Miller – Sheary – Lafrenière11:45

    xG 0.73–0.57 (56%)attempts 17–16goals 0–1

  3. Carrick – Edstrom – Rempe6:50

    xG 0.27–0.29 (48%)attempts 9–7goals 0–1

  4. Raddysh – Parssinen – Laba4:33

    xG 0.16–0.58 (21%)attempts 4–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Soucy – Schneider8:40

    xG 0.41–0.59 (41%)attempts 10–12goals 0–1

  2. Borgen – Robertson14:28

    xG 0.86–1.06 (45%)attempts 18–24goals 1–1

  3. Gavrikov – Fox19:55

    xG 0.32–0.83 (28%)attempts 20–17goals 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.

NYR 2.5 xGMIN 3.5 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 19/100 · #1119 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.01 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 34% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50NYR 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, Minnesota Wild win this game 67% of the time.

NYR winsMIN wins

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

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