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Thu, Jan 24, 2013·Rexall Place, Edmonton

Los Angeles Kings 1, Edmonton Oilers 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 60% of the time.

EDM winsLAK wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
LAK081150701131
EDM0150911015239

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 13:26LAKJeff CarterAssists: Kyle Clifford · Backhand, 0.11 xG1–0
  2. P3 19:55EDMNail YakupovAssists: Taylor Hall, Justin Schultz · Slap, 0.18 xG1–1
  3. OT 3:01EDMSam GagnerPPGWGAssists: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Justin Schultz · Snap, 0.36 xG1–2
Penalties (21)
  1. P1 3:47EDMShawn Horcoff: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  2. P1 3:47EDMLadislav Smid: Cross checking2 min
  3. P1 7:09EDMLadislav Smid: Delaying game smothering puck2 min
  4. P1 9:54LAKJordan Nolan: Fighting5 min
  5. P1 9:54EDMLadislav Smid: Instigator2 min
  6. P1 9:54EDMLadislav Smid: Instigator face shield2 min
  7. P1 9:54EDMLadislav Smid: Fighting5 min
  8. P1 9:54EDMLadislav Smid: Misconduct10 min
  9. P1 14:07LAKDwight King: High sticking double minor4 min
  10. P1 16:19LAKMike Richards: Tripping2 min
  11. P2 2:14LAKJustin Williams: Holding2 min
  12. P2 3:54LAKColin Fraser: Too many men on the ice2 min
  13. P2 3:54EDMTeemu Hartikainen: Delaying game bench face off violation2 min
  14. P2 6:33LAKSlava Voynov: Interference2 min
  15. P2 13:42EDMRyan Smyth: Tripping2 min
  16. P2 14:33EDMMark Fistric: Cross checking2 min
  17. P3 1:36LAKTrevor Lewis: High sticking2 min
  18. P3 7:06LAKTrevor Lewis: Boarding2 min
  19. P3 12:23EDMSam Gagner: Slashing2 min
  20. P3 17:10LAKJeff Carter: Tripping2 min
  21. OT 1:21LAKJeff Carter: Too many men on the ice2 min · PPG

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 SOG0EDM
43% to win57% to win
← LAK attackEDM attack →
  1. P1 20:00Nugent-Hopkins won the faceoff against Richards
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

LAKEDM
31Shots on goal39
4.5Expected goals5.1
65Shot attempts68
35Faceoffs won34
8Power plays9
25Penalty minutes33
18Hits12
16Blocked shots19
7Giveaways12
4Takeaways7

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. bestCarter – Richards – Clifford5:33

    xG 0.34–0.04 (90%)attempts 5–4goals 1–0

  2. Fraser – Richardson – Nolan3:59

    xG 0.26–0.07 (79%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  3. Williams – Brown – Kopitar7:03

    xG 0.70–0.66 (52%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

  4. Stoll – Lewis – King5:37

    xG 0.06–0.05 (58%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMartinez – Voynov11:52

    xG 0.77–0.44 (64%)attempts 11–5goals 0–0

  2. Scuderi – Doughty11:26

    xG 0.61–0.42 (59%)attempts 11–12goals 1–0

  3. Muzzin – Drewiske4:02

    xG 0.22–0.30 (42%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestHemsky – Gagner – Yakupov5:12

    xG 0.15–0.06 (72%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  2. Eberle – Hall – Nugent-Hopkins10:45

    xG 0.71–0.82 (46%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

  3. Belanger – Petrell – Hartikainen2:42

    xG 0.07–0.21 (25%)attempts 4–5goals 0–1

  4. Smyth – Horcoff – Paajarvi4:26

    xG 0.02–0.16 (9%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSmid – Petry5:29

    xG 0.29–0.12 (70%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  2. Whitney – Schultz2:12

    xG 0.16–0.13 (55%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

  3. Schultz – Schultz7:40

    xG 0.21–0.53 (29%)attempts 8–9goals 0–1

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.

EDM 5.1 xGLAK 4.5 xG
012345P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

EDMLAK

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 LAK. Dots are goals.

Excitement 87/100 · #104 of 720 this seasonSwing 2.38 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 2% (winner's lowest chance)
LAK 100%5050%50EDM 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +49 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 60% of the time.

EDM winsLAK wins

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

-7
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-1
0
+1
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+7

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