Springfield Thunderbirds at Bridgeport Islanders

Total Mortgage Arena · Bridgeport, CT

Springfield Thunderbirds

1:4

Final

Bridgeport Islanders

The sheet

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

Deserve to winexpected goals

30%70%

xG: 1.62.3
High danger: 13
Chances: 59
Shots: 1924

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

BRI above the lineSPR belowDots are goals. Pre-game 54% BRI.

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

19Shots on goal24

5Scoring chances9

1High-danger chances3

1.65Expected goals2.29

By period

Per	SOG	SC	HD	xG
1st	8–10	0–3	0–0	0.4–0.9
2nd	8–8	4–4	1–2	1.0–1.0
3rd	3–6	1–2	0–1	0.2–0.5

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
SPR	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: 24
Saves: 20
Allowed: 4
xGA: 2.29
GSAx: -1.71

Henrik Tikkanen

Shots faced: 19
Saves: 18
Allowed: 1
xGA: 1.64
GSAx: +0.64

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 6:36Daylan Kuefler (0–1)medium · 13 ft · beat Vadim Zherenko
1st 7:29Penalty
2nd 0:49Matthew Peca (1–1)low · 27 ft · beat Henrik Tikkanen
2nd 2:57Cam Berg (1–2)medium · 21 ft · beat Vadim Zherenko
2nd 14:13Penalty
3rd 18:45Adam Beckman (1–3)empty net · low · 139 ft · beat Vadim Zherenko
3rd 19:54Eetu Liukas (1–4)empty net · low · 88 ft · beat Vadim Zherenko