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Mon, Feb 27, 2012·Pepsi Center, Denver

Anaheim Ducks 1, Colorado Avalanche 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 64% of the time.

COL winsANA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ANA0711605128
COL160839423

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 9:26COLCody McLeodAssists: Steve Downie, Jan Hejda · Backhand, 0.14 xG0–1
  2. P2 18:30ANABobby RyanPPAssists: Andrew Cogliano, Cam Fowler · Snap, 0.06 xG1–1
  3. P3 0:37COLRyan O'ReillyGWGAssists: Gabriel Landeskog, Steve Downie · Wrist, 0.11 xG1–2
  4. P3 2:55COLMatt DucheneAssists: Paul Stastny, Milan Hejduk · Wrist, 0.17 xG1–3
  5. P3 14:46COLJay McClementAssists: Gabriel Landeskog, Jan Hejda · Snap, 0.03 xG1–4
Penalties (4)
  1. P2 16:25ANAFrancois Beauchemin: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 16:58COLErik Johnson: Interference2 min · PPG
  3. P3 7:23COLPeter Mueller: Tripping2 min
  4. P3 15:22COLJay McClement: Holding2 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 SOG0COL
45% to win55% to win
← ANA attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Getzlaf won the faceoff against O'Reilly
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ANACOL
28Shots on goal23
1.5Expected goals2.2
55Shot attempts53
24Faceoffs won31
3Power plays1
2Penalty minutes6
12Hits14
18Blocked shots16
1Giveaways2
1Takeaways9

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. bestCogliano – Bonino – Smith-Pelly3:45

    xG 0.23–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

  2. Getzlaf – Perry – Cogliano5:32

    xG 0.15–0.14 (52%)attempts 7–5goals 0–1

  3. Blake – Getzlaf – Perry4:43

    xG 0.04–0.07 (37%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

  4. Blake – Bonino – Smith-Pelly6:51

    xG 0.12–0.15 (44%)attempts 6–7goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Lydman – Visnovsky2:10

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

  2. Beauchemin – Sbisa3:22

    xG 0.00–0.06 (0%)attempts 0–4goals 0–0

  3. Beauchemin – Fowler15:18

    xG 0.57–0.78 (42%)attempts 17–15goals 0–2

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestHejduk – Stastny – Duchene15:11

    xG 1.26–0.19 (87%)attempts 20–10goals 1–0

  2. Jones – Mueller – Olver10:14

    xG 0.10–0.18 (35%)attempts 6–11goals 0–0

  3. Downie – O'Reilly – Landeskog13:21

    xG 0.23–0.45 (33%)attempts 12–14goals 1–0

  4. Kobasew – McClement – McLeod8:16

    xG 0.14–0.37 (27%)attempts 5–12goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestO'Brien – Johnson18:29

    xG 1.05–0.28 (79%)attempts 16–15goals 1–0

  2. Hejda – Wilson15:31

    xG 0.43–0.20 (69%)attempts 18–11goals 3–0

  3. Hunwick – Elliott15:44

    xG 0.53–0.39 (57%)attempts 13–14goals 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.

COL 2.2 xGANA 1.5 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLANA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 30/100 · #845 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.00 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 55% (winner's lowest chance)
ANA 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +25 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 64% of the time.

COL winsANA wins

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

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-1
0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).