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Sun, Nov 9, 2025·Grand Casino Arena, St. Paul

Calgary Flames 0, Minnesota Wild 2

Expected result

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

MIN winsCGY wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CGY011012013036
MIN081714219

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 13:47MINMatt BoldyGWGAssists: Marcus Johansson, Joel Eriksson Ek · Wrist, 0.10 xG0–1
  2. P3 19:10MINKirill KaprizovENAssists: Joel Eriksson Ek, Matt Boldy · Wrist, 0.78 xG0–2
Penalties (7)
  1. P2 5:23CGYMatt Coronato: Too many men on the ice2 min
  2. P2 8:13MINJonas Brodin: Hooking2 min
  3. P2 8:17CGYMatt Coronato: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 16:03CGYAdam Klapka: Hooking2 min
  5. P3 9:48MINYakov Trenin: Tripping2 min
  6. P3 13:33MINKirill Kaprizov: Tripping2 min
  7. P3 15:00CGYMacKenzie Weegar: 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.

CGY00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CGYMIN
36Shots on goal19
2.8Expected goals2.9
77Shot attempts48
35Faceoffs won26
3Power plays4
8Penalty minutes6
15Hits13
13Blocked shots20
19Giveaways16
5Takeaways6

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.

Calgary Flames

Forward lines

  1. bestHuberdeau – Frost – Coronato11:37

    xG 0.90–0.31 (74%)attempts 22–6goals 0–0

  2. Backlund – Coleman – Honzek8:48

    xG 0.32–0.02 (95%)attempts 15–3goals 0–0

  3. Kadri – Farabee – Sharangovich9:05

    xG 0.61–0.32 (65%)attempts 11–8goals 0–1

  4. Lomberg – Zary – Klapka7:02

    xG 0.31–0.42 (42%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPachal – Kuznetsov8:28

    xG 0.65–0.25 (72%)attempts 18–6goals 0–0

  2. Andersson – Bahl14:03

    xG 0.66–0.39 (63%)attempts 12–9goals 0–0

  3. Weegar – Hanley16:26

    xG 0.75–0.62 (55%)attempts 23–14goals 0–1

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestFoligno – Trenin – Yurov8:24

    xG 0.42–0.28 (60%)attempts 9–5goals 0–0

  2. Johansson – Eriksson Ek – Boldy9:03

    xG 0.26–0.25 (50%)attempts 8–11goals 1–0

  3. Zuccarello – Kaprizov – Rossi9:54

    xG 0.50–0.54 (48%)attempts 9–15goals 0–0

  4. Tarasenko – Hinostroza – Hartman8:35

    xG 0.08–0.64 (11%)attempts 4–15goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Spurgeon – Brodin15:50

    xG 0.40–0.52 (44%)attempts 10–17goals 1–0

  2. Hunt – Faber2:36

    xG 0.00–0.12 (0%)attempts 0–8goals 0–0

  3. Hunt – Jiricek7:19

    xG 0.30–0.50 (37%)attempts 6–15goals 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.

MIN 2.9 xGCGY 2.8 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINCGY

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 CGY. Dots are goals.

Excitement 8/100 · #1245 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.70 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 49% (winner's lowest chance)
CGY 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +27 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.

MIN winsCGY wins

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

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