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Tue, Oct 28, 2025·Grand Casino Arena, St. Paul

Winnipeg Jets 4, Minnesota Wild 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 65% of the time.

MIN winsWPG wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
WPG29051611421
MIN0162121700335

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 12:16WPGGabriel VilardiAssists: Mark Scheifele, Logan Stanley · Bat, 0.09 xG1–0
  2. P1 12:38WPGVladislav NamestnikovAssists: Neal Pionk, Logan Stanley · Deflected, 0.10 xG2–0
  3. P2 6:03MINKirill KaprizovAssists: Jared Spurgeon, Matt Boldy · Wrist, 0.20 xG2–1
  4. P2 13:12MINBrock FaberAssists: Marco Rossi, Vinnie Hinostroza · Slap, 0.19 xG2–2
  5. P3 3:48MINMarcus JohanssonPPAssists: Brock Faber, Marco Rossi · Wrist, 0.13 xG2–3
  6. P3 11:35WPGNino NiederreiterAssists: Gustav Nyquist, Morgan Barron · Wrist, 0.18 xG3–3
  7. OT 0:46WPGKyle ConnorGWGAssists: Mark Scheifele, Josh Morrissey · Wrist, 0.18 xG4–3
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 19:18WPGHaydn Fleury: Interference2 min
  2. P2 3:49MINJake Middleton: Fighting5 min
  3. P2 3:49WPGLuke Schenn: Fighting5 min
  4. P2 19:37WPGAlex Iafallo: Slashing2 min
  5. P2 19:59MINMatt Boldy: High sticking2 min
  6. P3 2:30WPGLogan Stanley: Slashing2 min · PPG
  7. P3 12:37WPGTanner Pearson: 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.

WPG00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MIN
47% to win53% to win
← WPG attackMIN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Barron won the faceoff against Hartman
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

WPGMIN
21Shots on goal35
2.4Expected goals3.3
48Shot attempts76
29Faceoffs won26
1Power plays4
13Penalty minutes7
24Hits28
17Blocked shots10
13Giveaways14
4Takeaways6

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.

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestNyquist – Niederreiter – Barron10:58

    xG 0.35–0.30 (54%)attempts 9–13goals 1–0

  2. Pearson – Koepke – Ford6:08

    xG 0.21–0.25 (45%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

  3. Scheifele – Connor – Vilardi14:48

    xG 0.60–0.97 (38%)attempts 12–26goals 1–1

  4. Toews – Namestnikov – Iafallo12:41

    xG 0.29–0.75 (28%)attempts 7–15goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. DeMelo – Morrissey18:52

    xG 0.78–0.97 (44%)attempts 14–25goals 0–1

  2. Schenn – Fleury7:01

    xG 0.24–0.49 (33%)attempts 7–10goals 0–0

  3. Stanley – Pionk18:37

    xG 0.83–1.30 (39%)attempts 16–25goals 3–1

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestPitlick – Trenin – Yurov7:39

    xG 0.43–0.24 (64%)attempts 6–8goals 0–0

  2. Tarasenko – Eriksson Ek – Boldy8:35

    xG 0.42–0.27 (61%)attempts 20–6goals 0–0

  3. Foligno – Hinostroza – Hartman8:03

    xG 0.36–0.31 (53%)attempts 10–7goals 0–1

  4. Johansson – Tarasenko – Eriksson Ek3:11

    xG 0.31–0.29 (51%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrodin – Faber13:56

    xG 0.96–0.39 (71%)attempts 29–9goals 1–1

  2. Jiricek – Buium9:55

    xG 0.55–0.24 (69%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  3. Spurgeon – Middleton16:08

    xG 0.88–0.77 (54%)attempts 19–17goals 0–2

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.

MIN 3.3 xGWPG 2.4 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINWPG

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 89/100 · #166 of 1312 this seasonSwing 2.21 · 7 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 15% (winner's lowest chance)
WPG 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +39 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 65% of the time.

MIN winsWPG wins

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

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