Springfield Thunderbirds at Providence Bruins

Amica Mutual Pavilion · Providence, RI

Springfield Thunderbirds

3:1

Final

Providence Bruins

The sheet

SPRPROSolid with a pale centre = goal · outline = saved · area = expected goals

Deserve to winexpected goals

12%88%

xG: 1.43.0
High danger: 14
Chances: 48
Shots: 1646

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

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

Win probability, as it happened

PRO above the lineSPR belowDots are goals. Pre-game 63% PRO.

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

16Shots on goal46

4Scoring chances8

1High-danger chances4

1.36Expected goals2.97

By period

Per	SOG	SC	HD	xG
1st	2–15	0–3	0–1	0.1–1.0
2nd	10–11	4–3	1–2	1.1–0.9
3rd	4–20	0–2	0–1	0.2–1.1

Away–home, in that order.

Pulling the goalie

Solid bar = net should be emptyDashed = league-median pullHollow dot = empty-net goal

Trailing	First behind by	Net empty from	Time left	Empty-net time	Worth
PRO	1	16:56 of the 3rd	3:04	3:04	+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

Vadim Zherenko

Shots faced: 46
Saves: 45
Allowed: 1
xGA: 2.97
GSAx: +1.97

Michael DiPietro

Shots faced: 15
Saves: 13
Allowed: 2
xGA: 1.35
GSAx: -0.65

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 6:20Hunter Skinner (1–0)low · 17 ft · beat Michael DiPietro
1st 7:03Penalty
1st 9:17Penalty
1st 9:41Georgii Merkulov (1–1)5v4 · high · rebound · 53 ft · beat Vadim Zherenko
2nd 2:04Chris Wagner (2–1)medium · 26 ft · beat Michael DiPietro
2nd 6:11Penalty
2nd 6:11Penalty
2nd 15:35Penalty
2nd 15:35Penalty
2nd 16:08Penalty
3rd 1:50Penalty
3rd 19:36Sam Stange (3–1)empty net · low · 69 ft