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Sat, Nov 13, 2010·Jobing.com Arena, Glendale

St. Louis Blues 3, Phoenix Coyotes 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Phoenix Coyotes win this game 55% of the time.

PHX winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
STL11119118338
PHX11031017527

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 5:03PHXRadim VrbataPPAssists: Keith Yandle, Ray Whitney · Tip-in, 0.18 xG0–1
  2. P1 14:10STLAndy McDonaldAssists: Patrik Berglund · Backhand, 0.07 xG1–1
  3. P2 5:39PHXRay WhitneyUnassisted · Wrist, 0.38 xG1–2
  4. P2 7:52STLDavid BackesPPAssists: Patrik Berglund, Andy McDonald · Wrist, 0.31 xG2–2
  5. P2 10:28PHXRay WhitneyPPAssists: Keith Yandle, Eric Belanger · Wrist, 0.16 xG2–3
  6. P2 15:03PHXMartin HanzalPPGWGAssists: Radim Vrbata, Ray Whitney · Tip-in, 0.16 xG2–4
  7. P3 18:12STLBrad BoyesAssists: Andy McDonald, Alex Pietrangelo · Wrist, 0.16 xG3–4
  8. P3 19:36PHXRay WhitneyENAssists: Radim Vrbata · Wrist, 0.63 xG3–5
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 4:21STLVladimir Sobotka: Tripping2 min · PPG
  2. P1 8:59STLVladimir Sobotka: Hooking2 min
  3. P1 15:09PHXPaul Bissonnette: Fighting5 min
  4. P1 15:09STLCam Janssen: Fighting5 min
  5. P2 6:50PHXAdrian Aucoin: Delaying game puck over glass2 min · PPG
  6. P2 9:10STLDavid Backes: Hooking2 min · PPG
  7. P2 9:31STLTy Conklin: Tripping2 min
  8. P2 14:20STLNathan Oystrick: Tripping2 min · PPG
  9. P3 9:00PHXScottie Upshall: Slashing2 min
  10. P3 11:37STLErik Johnson: Closing hand on puck2 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.

STL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0PHX
47% to win53% to win
← STL attackPHX attack →
  1. P1 20:00Belanger won the faceoff against Sobotka
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLPHX
38Shots on goal27
3.1Expected goals3.5
72Shot attempts38
28Faceoffs won32
2Power plays6
17Penalty minutes9
20Hits30
3Blocked shots16
3Giveaways3
2Takeaways4

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.

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSteen – D'Agostini – Berglund13:00

    xG 0.63–0.37 (63%)attempts 18–8goals 0–0

  2. Janssen – Crombeen – Porter3:02

    xG 0.27–0.03 (90%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

  3. McDonald – Backes – Sobotka11:35

    xG 0.25–0.17 (59%)attempts 11–4goals 0–0

  4. Boyes – McClement – Drazenovic7:35

    xG 0.10–0.57 (15%)attempts 4–6goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrewer – Johnson14:41

    xG 1.03–0.10 (91%)attempts 26–3goals 1–0

  2. Brewer – Pietrangelo2:27

    xG 0.26–0.12 (68%)attempts 6–1goals 1–0

  3. Nikitin – Pietrangelo13:53

    xG 0.30–0.35 (46%)attempts 13–8goals 0–0

Phoenix Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestWhitney – Vrbata – Hanzal14:36

    xG 0.85–0.67 (56%)attempts 10–17goals 1–0

  2. Belanger – Stempniak – Wolski11:33

    xG 0.26–0.21 (55%)attempts 6–14goals 0–0

  3. Pyatt – Fiddler – Korpikoski5:24

    xG 0.07–0.21 (24%)attempts 1–4goals 0–0

  4. Fiddler – Upshall – Korpikoski8:36

    xG 0.05–0.54 (9%)attempts 3–16goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Stafford – Lepisto8:52

    xG 0.23–0.33 (41%)attempts 4–9goals 0–0

  2. Morris – Yandle16:28

    xG 0.37–0.60 (38%)attempts 7–18goals 0–0

  3. Aucoin – Jovanovski19:19

    xG 0.60–1.02 (37%)attempts 10–29goals 1–1

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.

PHX 3.5 xGSTL 3.1 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

PHXSTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 69/100 · #352 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.50 · 8 goals in reachComeback index 50% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50PHX 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +22 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Phoenix Coyotes win this game 55% of the time.

PHX winsSTL wins

Simulated goal difference (PHX − STL), 10,000 replays

-7
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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).