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Thu, Feb 26, 2026·Madison Square Garden, New York

Philadelphia Flyers 3, New York Rangers 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 61% of the time.

NYR winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
PHI051101811324
NYR19150802224

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 9:56NYRSam CarrickAssists: Taylor Raddysh, Will Borgen · Wrist, 0.01 xG0–1
  2. P2 1:23NYRAlexis LafrenièreAssists: Will Cuylle, Vincent Trocheck · Wrist, 0.22 xG0–2
  3. P2 10:25PHIMatvei MichkovPPAssists: Noah Cates, Owen Tippett · Snap, 0.23 xG1–2
  4. P3 0:39PHITrevor ZegrasAssists: Travis Konecny, Travis Sanheim · Wrist, 0.08 xG2–2
  5. OT 2:10PHIMatvei MichkovGWGAssists: Sean Couturier, Nick Seeler · Wrist, 0.06 xG3–2
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 16:11PHIGarnet Hathaway: Boarding2 min
  2. P1 16:11NYRSam Carrick: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 16:11PHIGarnet Hathaway: Fighting5 min
  4. P2 3:29NYRBrennan Othmann: Cross checking2 min
  5. P2 8:27NYRConor Sheary: High sticking2 min · PPG
  6. P2 11:53PHITrevor Zegras: High sticking2 min
  7. P2 13:17NYRVincent Trocheck: Interference2 min
  8. P3 7:28NYRAlexis Lafrenière: Slashing2 min
  9. P3 14:40NYRVladislav Gavrikov: High sticking2 min
  10. P3 19:51PHIMatvei Michkov: Interference goalkeeper2 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.

PHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0NYR
47% to win53% to win
← PHI attackNYR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Dvorak won the faceoff against Zibanejad
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHINYR
24Shots on goal24
2.7Expected goals2.1
53Shot attempts51
18Faceoffs won31
5Power plays3
11Penalty minutes15
23Hits23
11Blocked shots15
15Giveaways9
4Takeaways4

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.

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestHathaway – Grundstrom – Grebenkin5:33

    xG 0.34–0.01 (98%)attempts 9–1goals 0–1

  2. Couturier – Grundstrom – Grebenkin2:03

    xG 0.00–0.04 (0%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  3. Couturier – Tippett – Barkey8:22

    xG 0.11–0.31 (27%)attempts 5–8goals 0–0

  4. Dvorak – Konecny – Zegras11:34

    xG 0.11–0.49 (18%)attempts 4–10goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestYork – Drysdale13:00

    xG 0.53–0.40 (57%)attempts 11–8goals 0–1

  2. Seeler – Andrae10:17

    xG 0.08–0.29 (22%)attempts 8–10goals 0–0

  3. Ristolainen – Sanheim15:30

    xG 0.33–0.79 (29%)attempts 6–16goals 1–1

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. bestSheary – Brisson – Laba8:22

    xG 0.51–0.00 (100%)attempts 10–4goals 0–0

  2. Zibanejad – Miller – Perreault12:04

    xG 0.61–0.11 (85%)attempts 13–4goals 0–1

  3. Trocheck – Lafrenière – Cuylle10:01

    xG 0.40–0.15 (73%)attempts 10–3goals 1–0

  4. Carrick – Raddysh – Othmann6:16

    xG 0.04–0.69 (5%)attempts 4–14goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGavrikov – Fox13:45

    xG 0.42–0.14 (75%)attempts 9–5goals 0–1

  2. Robertson – Iorio9:38

    xG 0.31–0.07 (82%)attempts 10–4goals 0–0

  3. Fox – Robertson2:24

    xG 0.10–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–2goals 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 2.1 xGPHI 2.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRPHI

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 PHI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 72/100 · #423 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.74 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 12% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50NYR 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +31 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 61% of the time.

NYR winsPHI wins

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

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