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Sun, Mar 13, 2011·American Airlines Center, Dallas

Los Angeles Kings 3, Dallas Stars 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 57% of the time.

DAL winsLAK wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
LAK1919112330
DAL0511216223

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:04LAKDrew DoughtyPPAssists: Jarret Stoll, Alexei Ponikarovsky · Slap, 0.02 xG1–0
  2. P2 14:01LAKDustin PennerAssists: Anze Kopitar, Justin Williams · Wrist, 0.13 xG2–0
  3. P2 18:00DALBrad RichardsAssists: Loui Eriksson · Wrist, 0.11 xG2–1
  4. P3 19:17DALJamie LangenbrunnerAssists: Alex Goligoski, Jamie Benn · Wrist, 0.56 xG2–2
  5. P3 19:39LAKMichal HandzusGWGAssists: Alexei Ponikarovsky, Wayne Simmonds · Wrist, 0.16 xG3–2
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 1:29DALLoui Eriksson: Tripping2 min · PPG
  2. P1 4:37LAKKyle Clifford: Holding the stick2 min
  3. P1 10:15LAKWayne Simmonds: Delaying game2 min
  4. P2 4:31LAKJustin Williams: Hooking2 min
  5. P3 0:26DALJamie Langenbrunner: High sticking2 min
  6. P3 3:01DALJeff Woywitka: Hooking2 min
  7. P3 10:41DALSteve Ott: Roughing2 min
  8. P3 10:41LAKDustin Brown: Roughing2 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.

LAK00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0DAL
47% to win53% to win
← LAK attackDAL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Benn won the faceoff against Kopitar
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

LAKDAL
30Shots on goal23
2.3Expected goals2.0
47Shot attempts60
28Faceoffs won25
3Power plays3
8Penalty minutes8
30Hits31
18Blocked shots8
3Giveaways11
4Takeaways5

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.

Los Angeles Kings

Forward lines

  1. bestWilliams – Penner – Kopitar10:51

    xG 0.57–0.20 (74%)attempts 11–11goals 1–0

  2. Smyth – Stoll – Brown8:13

    xG 0.47–0.26 (65%)attempts 12–8goals 0–1

  3. Handzus – Ponikarovsky – Simmonds9:04

    xG 0.20–0.29 (40%)attempts 3–14goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMitchell – Doughty17:30

    xG 0.92–0.35 (73%)attempts 17–18goals 2–0

  2. Scuderi – Greene2:37

    xG 0.45–0.02 (95%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

  3. Scuderi – Johnson13:15

    xG 0.33–0.09 (78%)attempts 7–9goals 0–0

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestRichards – Ott – Eriksson6:17

    xG 0.14–0.07 (66%)attempts 8–4goals 0–0

  2. Morrow – Ribeiro – Vincour2:59

    xG 0.13–0.07 (65%)attempts 6–2goals 0–0

  3. Langenbrunner – Ott – Benn4:08

    xG 0.07–0.03 (72%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  4. Richards – Eriksson – Wandell2:31

    xG 0.11–0.07 (60%)attempts 2–4goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. Skrastins – Grossmann8:58

    xG 0.23–0.28 (45%)attempts 8–7goals 0–0

  2. Robidas – Goligoski17:30

    xG 0.49–0.77 (39%)attempts 21–15goals 1–1

  3. Woywitka – Daley12:16

    xG 0.20–0.55 (26%)attempts 15–6goals 0–0

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.

DAL 2.0 xGLAK 2.3 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DALLAK

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 75/100 · #267 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.87 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 47% (winner's lowest chance)
LAK 100%5050%50DAL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +46 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 57% of the time.

DAL winsLAK wins

Simulated goal difference (DAL − LAK), 10,000 replays

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