Hershey Bears at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins

Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza · Wilkes-Barre, PA

Hershey Bears

2:3

Final / OT

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins

The sheet

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

Deserve to winexpected goals

42%58%

xG: 2.63.2
High danger: 54
Chances: 1012
Shots: 2631

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

WBS above the lineHER belowDots are goals. Pre-game 55% WBS.

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

26Shots on goal31

10Scoring chances12

5High-danger chances4

2.58Expected goals3.21

By period

Per	SOG	SC	HD	xG
1st	10–7	5–1	2–1	1.0–0.4
2nd	10–14	4–6	2–2	1.0–1.7
3rd	6–8	1–4	1–1	0.6–0.9
OT	0–2	0–1	0–0	0.0–0.2

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
HER	1	16:56 of the 3rd	3:04	1:33	+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

Hunter Shepard

Shots faced: 31
Saves: 28
Allowed: 3
xGA: 3.21
GSAx: +0.21

Sergei Murashov

Shots faced: 26
Saves: 24
Allowed: 2
xGA: 2.58
GSAx: +0.58

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 17:16Penalty
1st 18:36Mike Vecchione (1–0)5v4 · high · tip · 24 ft · beat Sergei Murashov
2nd 3:49Atley Calvert (1–1)grade A · tip · rebound · 12 ft · beat Hunter Shepard
2nd 7:21Penalty
2nd 7:21Penalty
3rd 6:52Atley Calvert (1–2)medium · backhand · 11 ft · beat Hunter Shepard
3rd 7:29Penalty
3rd 7:29Penalty
3rd 10:50Penalty
3rd 18:29Mike Vecchione (2–2)grade A · tip · 9 ft · beat Sergei Murashov
OT 2:09Avery Hayes (2–3)medium · tip · 15 ft · beat Hunter Shepard