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Sat, Mar 19, 2011·STAPLES Center, Los Angeles

Anaheim Ducks 2, Los Angeles Kings 1 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Anaheim Ducks win this game 55% of the time.

LAK winsANA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
ANA18080613225
LAK0801311100132

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 15:24ANABrandon McMillanAssists: Dan Sexton, Francois Beauchemin · Wrist, 0.14 xG1–0
  2. P3 11:04LAKDustin BrownAssists: Michal Handzus, Alexei Ponikarovsky · Wrist, 0.11 xG1–1
  3. OT 1:32ANACorey PerryGWGAssists: Cam Fowler · Snap, 0.04 xG2–1
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 10:31LAKRyan Smyth: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 11:14ANARyan Getzlaf: High sticking2 min
  3. P1 17:21ANALuca Sbisa: Boarding2 min
  4. P2 1:16LAKDustin Brown: Interference2 min
  5. P2 5:08ANAAndy Sutton: Hooking2 min
  6. P2 7:30ANAAndy Sutton: Cross checking2 min
  7. P2 12:48LAKAlexei Ponikarovsky: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  8. P2 18:36ANAToni Lydman: Hooking2 min
  9. P3 8:56ANACam Fowler: Delaying game puck over glass2 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.

ANA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0LAK
47% to win53% to win
← ANA attackLAK attack →
  1. P1 20:00Kopitar won the faceoff against Getzlaf
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ANALAK
25Shots on goal32
2.7Expected goals2.4
43Shot attempts73
21Faceoffs won28
3Power plays6
12Penalty minutes6
24Hits21
19Blocked shots9
16Giveaways14
5Takeaways3

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.

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. bestSelanne – Koivu – Blake9:21

    xG 0.93–0.28 (77%)attempts 11–6goals 0–0

  2. Winchester – McMillan – Sexton6:00

    xG 0.55–0.23 (70%)attempts 5–10goals 1–0

  3. Getzlaf – Perry – Ryan13:03

    xG 0.35–0.45 (44%)attempts 10–14goals 0–0

  4. Koivu – Blake – Sexton2:11

    xG 0.02–0.13 (12%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBeauchemin – Sbisa12:05

    xG 1.21–0.63 (66%)attempts 13–13goals 1–0

  2. Lydman – Visnovsky9:09

    xG 0.37–0.28 (57%)attempts 5–9goals 0–0

  3. Sutton – Fowler7:17

    xG 0.34–0.28 (55%)attempts 8–11goals 0–0

Los Angeles Kings

Forward lines

  1. bestSmyth – Stoll – Brown11:50

    xG 0.41–0.31 (57%)attempts 14–10goals 0–0

  2. Richardson – Lewis – Westgarth5:12

    xG 0.15–0.14 (51%)attempts 5–1goals 0–1

  3. Williams – Penner – Kopitar11:45

    xG 0.54–0.59 (48%)attempts 15–8goals 0–0

  4. Handzus – Ponikarovsky – Simmonds7:56

    xG 0.27–0.68 (28%)attempts 6–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Scuderi – Johnson14:59

    xG 0.94–0.90 (51%)attempts 21–11goals 0–1

  2. Mitchell – Scuderi2:24

    xG 0.00–0.02 (0%)attempts 0–1goals 0–0

  3. Greene – Martinez5:27

    xG 0.16–0.37 (30%)attempts 9–4goals 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.

LAK 2.4 xGANA 2.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

LAKANA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 46/100 · #625 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.47 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 47% (winner's lowest chance)
ANA 100%5050%50LAK 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +35 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Anaheim Ducks win this game 55% of the time.

LAK winsANA wins

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

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