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‹ Sunday, December 17

Springfield Thunderbirds at Hershey Bears

Giant Center · Hershey, PA

Springfield Thunderbirds
0:1
Final
Hershey Bears

The sheet

SPRHERSolid with a pale centre = goal · outline = saved · area = expected goals
Deserve to winexpected goals
57%43%
xG
1.41.4
High danger
21
Chances
54
Shots
1819

Each club’s colour washes in from its own end; where they meet is what the chances say. Centre ice is the halfway mark, so the gap between the seam and the red line is the argument. Goals are excluded on purpose.

Expected goals, minute by minute

00.511.5P2P3
Cumulative expected goals · rings mark goals · dashed = goalie should be out, solid = goalie out

Win probability, as it happened

9050101st2nd3rd
HER above the lineSPR belowDots are goals. Pre-game 52% HER.

The same model the scoreboard runs during a live game, replayed from this game’s goal times. It knows the score, the clock and what the two clubs were expected to do before puck drop; on a live night it also reads the man advantage and an empty net.

Head to head

18Shots on goal19
5Scoring chances4
2High-danger chances1
1.44Expected goals1.39

By period

PerSOGSCHDxG
1st8–92–30–10.5–0.8
2nd3–42–01–00.3–0.2
3rd7–61–11–00.5–0.4

Away–home, in that order.

Pulling the goalie

SPR−10:005:0010:0015:0020:00
Solid bar = net should be emptyDashed = league-median pullHollow dot = empty-net goal
TrailingFirst behind byNet empty fromTime leftEmpty-net timeWorth
SPR116:56 of the 3rd3:043:04+0.052 pts

“Worth” is the standings points the empty net is expected to add, from that moment on, over pulling when AHL benches actually do. It is an expectation across every way the rest of the game could have gone, not a claim about this one result — a team can follow the rule perfectly and still lose by two.

In goal

Shots faced
19
Saves
18
Allowed
1
xGA
1.39
GSAx
+0.39
Shots faced
18
Saves
18
Allowed
0
xGA
1.44
GSAx
+1.44

Goals saved above expected is what the chances faced were worth minus what actually went in, so a positive number is work the shot quality did not account for. Empty-net shots have no goaltender and are left out.

Scoring and penalties

  • 1st 3:21Penalty
  • 1st 3:21Penalty
  • 1st 11:32Penalty
  • 1st 11:52Penalty
  • 1st 11:52Penalty
  • 2nd 12:55Penalty
  • 3rd 5:31Pierrick Dubé (0–1)low · 48 ft · beat Malcolm Subban
  • 3rd 7:41Penalty