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Tue, Dec 2, 2025·Rogers Place, Edmonton

Minnesota Wild 1, Edmonton Oilers 0

Expected result

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

EDM winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN190609124
EDM07015011033

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 13:11MINJonas BrodinGWGAssists: Nico Sturm · Slap, 0.02 xG1–0
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 10:42EDMTy Emberson: Interference2 min
  2. P2 5:26MINRyan Hartman: Hooking2 min
  3. P2 11:45MINRyan Hartman: Tripping2 min
  4. P3 9:45EDMDarnell Nurse: Holding2 min
  5. P3 19:18MINMatt Boldy: 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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0EDM
47% to win53% to win
← MIN attackEDM attack →
  1. P1 20:00Nugent-Hopkins won the faceoff against Eriksson Ek
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINEDM
24Shots on goal33
2.7Expected goals2.7
51Shot attempts71
19Faceoffs won30
2Power plays3
6Penalty minutes4
25Hits19
20Blocked shots13
12Giveaways18
8Takeaways4

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. Zuccarello – Hartman – Kaprizov12:33

    xG 0.57–0.64 (47%)attempts 9–19goals 0–0

  2. Johansson – Eriksson Ek – Boldy10:25

    xG 0.26–0.33 (44%)attempts 6–7goals 0–0

  3. Pitlick – Jones – Ohgren3:03

    xG 0.00–0.09 (0%)attempts 0–6goals 0–0

  4. Tarasenko – Trenin – Sturm8:30

    xG 0.12–0.28 (31%)attempts 3–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBogosian – Buium11:03

    xG 0.28–0.20 (59%)attempts 10–7goals 0–0

  2. Brodin – Faber17:27

    xG 0.53–0.60 (47%)attempts 11–21goals 0–0

  3. Spurgeon – Middleton15:23

    xG 0.23–1.08 (18%)attempts 6–24goals 0–0

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestHenrique – Janmark – Mangiapane4:18

    xG 0.39–0.06 (86%)attempts 9–2goals 0–0

  2. Draisaitl – Mangiapane – Podkolzin7:09

    xG 0.24–0.04 (85%)attempts 7–1goals 0–0

  3. Hyman – McDavid – Savoie6:13

    xG 0.40–0.25 (62%)attempts 7–7goals 0–0

  4. Hyman – Draisaitl – McDavid3:39

    xG 0.18–0.02 (89%)attempts 11–3goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestEkholm – Bouchard17:18

    xG 0.73–0.38 (66%)attempts 23–8goals 0–1

  2. Nurse – Regula13:23

    xG 0.64–0.31 (67%)attempts 16–8goals 0–0

  3. Kulak – Emberson13:13

    xG 0.13–0.69 (16%)attempts 10–14goals 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.

EDM 2.7 xGMIN 2.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

EDMMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 8/100 · #1240 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.71 · 1 goal in reachComeback index 47% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50EDM 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +17 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.

EDM winsMIN wins

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

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