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Thu, Oct 8, 2026·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Philadelphia Flyers 1, Ottawa Senators 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 56% of the time.

OTT winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PHI01111107129
OTT180919226

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 10:14OTTNick CousinsAssists: Tyler Kleven, Warren Foegele · Tip-in, 0.10 xG0–1
  2. P2 7:46PHIMatvei MichkovPPAssists: Trevor Zegras, Travis Konecny · Backhand, 0.20 xG1–1
  3. P3 13:01OTTCarter YakemchukPPGWGAssists: Claude Giroux, Shane Pinto · Slap, 0.06 xG1–2
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 5:00OTTDylan Cozens: Roughing2 min
  2. P1 8:10PHITravis Sanheim: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 10:19PHIMatvei Michkov: Tripping2 min
  4. P1 12:29PHITravis Sanheim: Holding2 min
  5. P1 14:40PHISimon Benoit: Cross checking2 min
  6. P2 7:04OTTTyler Kleven: Hooking2 min · PPG
  7. P3 6:17OTTDrake Batherson: High sticking2 min
  8. P3 7:50OTTJordan Spence: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  9. P3 11:09PHIMichael Bunting: Hooking2 min · PPG

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 SOG0OTT
47% to win53% to win
← PHI attackOTT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Pinto won the faceoff against Dvorak
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIOTT
29Shots on goal26
2.7Expected goals2.4
64Shot attempts50
25Faceoffs won28
4Power plays5
10Penalty minutes8
22Hits23
11Blocked shots20
9Giveaways15
4Takeaways3

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. bestCouturier – Konecny – Martone6:39

    xG 0.52–0.27 (66%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  2. Dvorak – Tippett – Zegras8:21

    xG 0.36–0.19 (65%)attempts 7–4goals 0–0

  3. Foerster – Barkey – Michkov4:48

    xG 0.13–0.00 (98%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  4. Bunting – Acciari – Cates5:42

    xG 0.12–0.43 (22%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSanheim – Drysdale13:38

    xG 1.13–0.22 (83%)attempts 24–10goals 0–0

  2. Seeler – Benoit7:37

    xG 0.10–0.14 (42%)attempts 8–5goals 0–0

  3. York – Jiricek9:12

    xG 0.25–0.54 (32%)attempts 9–6goals 0–0

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestCousins – Batherson – Stützle2:52

    xG 0.09–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  2. Cousins – Foegele – Halliday2:42

    xG 0.10–0.05 (69%)attempts 1–4goals 1–0

  3. Giroux – Amadio – Pinto8:05

    xG 0.44–0.45 (49%)attempts 7–9goals 0–0

  4. Zetterlund – Cozens – Greig3:57

    xG 0.08–0.53 (13%)attempts 3–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestChabot – Spence16:53

    xG 1.02–0.77 (57%)attempts 16–22goals 0–0

  2. Matinpalo – Stanley9:01

    xG 0.15–0.14 (52%)attempts 7–8goals 0–0

  3. Kleven – Yakemchuk9:14

    xG 0.23–0.77 (23%)attempts 7–12goals 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.

OTT 2.4 xGPHI 2.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTPHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 40/100 · #34 of 65 this seasonSwing 1.40 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 44% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50OTT 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, Philadelphia Flyers win this game 56% of the time.

OTT winsPHI wins

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

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