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Sun, Mar 18, 2012·Rexall Place, Edmonton

Phoenix Coyotes 3, Edmonton Oilers 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 50% of the time.

EDM winsPHX wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
PHX012012212062342
EDM09216012011238

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 6:53EDMJordan EberleAssists: Ryan Jones · Snap, 0.25 xG0–1
  2. P2 7:26EDMAles HemskyAssists: Jeff Petry, Ladislav Smid · Snap, 0.56 xG0–2
  3. P3 7:58PHXRay WhitneyUnassisted · Snap, 0.20 xG1–2
  4. P3 17:37PHXRaffi TorresAssists: Gilbert Brule · Snap, 0.09 xG2–2

Shootout

  1. 1. EDM Jordan Eberle stopped
  2. 2. PHX Mikkel Boedker scored
  3. 3. EDM Sam Gagner scored
  4. 4. PHX Ray Whitney scored
  5. 5. EDM Ryan Nugent-Hopkins stopped
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 1:25EDMLennart Petrell: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 1:25PHXKeith Yandle: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 4:29EDMRyan Jones: Roughing2 min
  4. P1 5:40PHXMartin Hanzal: Holding the stick2 min
  5. OT 0:27PHXKeith Yandle: Kneeing2 min
  6. OT 2:42EDMShawn Horcoff: Penalty shot hooking on breakaway0 min
  7. OT 4:21EDMJeff Petry: Hooking2 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.

PHX00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0EDM
45% to win55% to win
← PHX attackEDM attack →
  1. P1 20:00Hanzal won the faceoff against Nugent-Hopkins
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHXEDM
42Shots on goal38
4.4Expected goals4.3
74Shot attempts63
34Faceoffs won29
2Power plays2
9Penalty minutes9
15Hits21
13Blocked shots17
8Giveaways17
3Takeaways11

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.

Phoenix Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestLangkow – Torres – Brule7:00

    xG 0.34–0.08 (81%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  2. Vrbata – Korpikoski – Hanzal5:02

    xG 0.46–0.25 (65%)attempts 7–5goals 0–0

  3. Whitney – Vermette – Korpikoski5:10

    xG 0.91–0.84 (52%)attempts 7–9goals 1–0

  4. Pyatt – Gordon – Boedker5:34

    xG 0.20–0.13 (59%)attempts 6–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Klesla – Ekman-Larsson16:52

    xG 0.92–1.18 (44%)attempts 20–15goals 0–1

  2. Rozsival – Schlemko16:04

    xG 0.80–1.19 (40%)attempts 18–22goals 0–0

  3. Morris – Yandle17:09

    xG 0.95–1.47 (39%)attempts 16–14goals 2–1

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestHemsky – Gagner – Hartikainen13:22

    xG 1.41–0.63 (69%)attempts 16–14goals 1–0

  2. Jones – Eberle – Nugent-Hopkins12:15

    xG 1.33–1.13 (54%)attempts 12–17goals 1–1

  3. Smyth – Horcoff – Petrell11:56

    xG 0.21–0.33 (39%)attempts 10–10goals 0–1

  4. Belanger – Hordichuk – Omark7:07

    xG 0.19–0.41 (31%)attempts 5–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSmid – Petry14:55

    xG 2.28–1.32 (63%)attempts 22–19goals 1–2

  2. Potter – Peckham16:27

    xG 0.79–0.76 (51%)attempts 14–21goals 0–0

  3. Schultz – Whitney19:53

    xG 0.51–0.58 (47%)attempts 12–18goals 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.

EDM 4.3 xGPHX 4.4 xG
012345P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

EDMPHX

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 70/100 · #341 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.67 · 4 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 4% (winner's lowest chance)
PHX 100%5050%50EDM 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +39 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 50% of the time.

EDM winsPHX wins

Simulated goal difference (EDM − PHX), 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).