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Tue, Oct 26, 2010·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Colorado Avalanche 3, Vancouver Canucks 4 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 54% of the time.

VAN winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
COL1811611500339
VAN116181512431

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:28COLDavid JonesAssists: Milan Hejduk, Scott Hannan · Wrist, 0.11 xG1–0
  2. P1 9:10VANJeff TambelliniAssists: Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin · Wrist, 0.08 xG1–1
  3. P2 4:40COLDaniel WinnikAssists: Ryan O'Reilly, John-Michael Liles · Deflected, 0.14 xG2–1
  4. P2 7:31VANRyan KeslerPPAssists: Christian Ehrhoff, Alexander Edler · Wrist, 0.22 xG2–2
  5. P3 4:58VANPeter SchaeferAssists: Christian Ehrhoff · Wrist, 0.02 xG2–3
  6. P3 18:27COLMatt DucheneAssists: Milan Hejduk, Chris Stewart · Wrist, 0.06 xG3–3
  7. OT 0:28VANMason RaymondGWGUnassisted · Wrist, 0.09 xG3–4
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 3:34COLCody McLeod: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 3:34VANTanner Glass: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 9:51COLDavid Van Der Gulik: Interference2 min
  4. P1 16:54COLPaul Stastny: Tripping2 min
  5. P1 17:41VANRyan Kesler: Holding the stick2 min
  6. P2 6:24COLPhilippe Dupuis: Charging2 min · PPG
  7. P2 15:12VANKevin Bieksa: Interference2 min

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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0VAN
47% to win53% to win
← COL attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Stastny won the faceoff against Kesler
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLVAN
39Shots on goal31
2.8Expected goals3.0
60Shot attempts57
27Faceoffs won31
2Power plays3
11Penalty minutes9
26Hits27
14Blocked shots14
4Giveaways6
6Takeaways11

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. Shift data for this game is incomplete, so treat these as rough.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestStastny – Stewart – Galiardi11:53

    xG 0.38–0.17 (69%)attempts 13–6goals 0–0

  2. Van Der Gulik – Dupuis – McLeod2:44

    xG 0.11–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  3. Yip – Winnik – O'Reilly9:29

    xG 0.27–0.38 (42%)attempts 14–10goals 0–1

  4. Hejduk – Jones – Duchene9:36

    xG 0.23–0.35 (40%)attempts 6–9goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLiles – Wilson2:18

    xG 0.12–0.04 (74%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  2. Liles – Quincey12:48

    xG 0.30–0.23 (57%)attempts 17–7goals 0–0

  3. Hannan – Wilson10:57

    xG 0.23–0.30 (44%)attempts 4–12goals 0–1

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestSedin – Sedin – Tambellini12:04

    xG 0.69–0.52 (57%)attempts 11–9goals 1–1

  2. Malhotra – Torres – Hansen10:34

    xG 0.18–0.14 (57%)attempts 9–10goals 0–0

  3. Schaefer – Desbiens – Glass2:14

    xG 0.14–0.11 (55%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  4. Samuelsson – Kesler – Raymond13:04

    xG 0.19–0.54 (26%)attempts 8–13goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestRome – Parent8:48

    xG 0.33–0.15 (69%)attempts 5–6goals 0–0

  2. Bieksa – Alberts12:03

    xG 0.24–0.20 (55%)attempts 8–11goals 0–0

  3. Ehrhoff – Edler14:14

    xG 0.62–0.72 (46%)attempts 16–13goals 2–1

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.

VAN 3.0 xGCOL 2.8 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 90/100 · #97 of 1230 this seasonSwing 2.45 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 26% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +44 pts

Did the better team win?

Every shot replayed 10,000 times, scoring with its expected-goal probability.

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 54% of the time.

VAN winsCOL wins

Simulated goal difference (VAN − COL), 10,000 replays

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
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+7

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