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Wed, Dec 10, 2025·Delta Center, Salt Lake City

Florida Panthers 4, Utah Mammoth 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 71% of the time.

UTA winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA11027119436
UTA11321304330

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 11:23UTADylan GuentherAssists: John Marino · Snap, 0.12 xG0–1
  2. P1 19:17FLACarter VerhaegheAssists: Aaron Ekblad, Sam Bennett · Snap, 0.26 xG1–1
  3. P2 1:40FLASam BennettAssists: Evan Rodrigues, Niko Mikkola · Snap, 0.07 xG2–1
  4. P2 3:24FLASam BennettAssists: Carter Verhaeghe · Wrist, 0.19 xG3–1
  5. P2 3:37UTADylan GuentherAssists: Lawson Crouse, John Marino · Backhand, 0.11 xG3–2
  6. P2 14:37UTAJack McBainAssists: Sean Durzi, Ian Cole · Backhand, 0.12 xG3–3
  7. P3 19:08FLAAnton LundellGWGAssists: Eetu Luostarinen, Sam Reinhart · Wrist, 0.15 xG4–3
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 5:01FLAUvis Balinskis: Slashing2 min
  2. P1 19:27FLAA.J. Greer: High sticking2 min
  3. P2 19:15FLAEetu Luostarinen: Cross checking2 min
  4. P3 1:05UTAMikhail Sergachev: Holding2 min
  5. P3 6:48UTASean Durzi: 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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0UTA
47% to win53% to win
← FLA attackUTA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Bennett won the faceoff against Schmaltz
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLAUTA
36Shots on goal30
5.3Expected goals3.8
81Shot attempts60
29Faceoffs won30
2Power plays3
6Penalty minutes4
21Hits19
15Blocked shots15
16Giveaways13
6Takeaways3

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.

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestGreer – Rodrigues – Samoskevich10:47

    xG 0.79–0.12 (87%)attempts 15–5goals 0–1

  2. Reinhart – Luostarinen – Lundell13:01

    xG 0.76–0.12 (86%)attempts 19–7goals 1–0

  3. Gregor – Boqvist – Studnicka5:23

    xG 0.00–0.52 (0%)attempts 2–8goals 0–0

  4. Marchand – Verhaeghe – Bennett12:36

    xG 0.94–1.62 (37%)attempts 16–20goals 2–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestJones – Mikkola15:15

    xG 0.85–0.26 (77%)attempts 20–8goals 2–1

  2. Petry – Balinskis11:24

    xG 0.17–0.06 (72%)attempts 9–8goals 0–0

  3. Jones – Forsling2:11

    xG 0.00–0.19 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

Utah Mammoth

Forward lines

  1. bestCarcone – McBain – But8:15

    xG 0.79–0.09 (90%)attempts 11–5goals 1–0

  2. Crouse – Hayton – Guenther10:10

    xG 0.73–0.42 (63%)attempts 16–10goals 2–0

  3. O'Brien – Stenlund – Tanev7:24

    xG 0.08–0.23 (26%)attempts 6–11goals 0–0

  4. Schmaltz – Keller – Peterka12:27

    xG 0.42–1.04 (29%)attempts 9–17goals 0–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestMarino – Sergachev10:08

    xG 0.97–0.61 (61%)attempts 13–13goals 1–1

  2. Schmidt – Durzi5:37

    xG 0.29–0.07 (81%)attempts 3–5goals 0–1

  3. Cole – Durzi4:16

    xG 0.44–0.28 (61%)attempts 5–4goals 1–0

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.

UTA 3.8 xGFLA 5.3 xG
0123456P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

UTAFLA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 79/100 · #331 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.89 · 7 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 30% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50UTA 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +40 pts

Did the better team win?

Every shot replayed 10,000 times, scoring with its expected-goal probability.

Based on shot quality alone, Florida Panthers win this game 71% of the time.

UTA winsFLA wins

Simulated goal difference (UTA − FLA), 10,000 replays

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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).