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Mon, Mar 18, 2013·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Minnesota Wild 3, Vancouver Canucks 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 77% of the time.

VAN winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN0811027325
VAN010114012136

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 10:18VANHenrik SedinPPAssists: Daniel Sedin, Jason Garrison · Wrist, 0.26 xG0–1
  2. P2 15:06MINJonas BrodinPPAssists: Dany Heatley, Pierre-Marc Bouchard · Slap, 0.06 xG1–1
  3. P3 3:20MINCharlie CoyleGWGAssists: Clayton Stoner, Mikko Koivu · Deflected, 0.10 xG2–1
  4. P3 9:17MINMatt CullenAssists: Devin Setoguchi, Pierre-Marc Bouchard · Wrist, 0.10 xG3–1
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 6:05MINJason Zucker: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 11:41MINRyan Suter: Cross checking2 min
  3. P2 9:33MINDevin Setoguchi: Hooking2 min · PPG
  4. P2 11:32VANKevin Bieksa: Roughing2 min
  5. P2 13:24VANHenrik Sedin: Tripping2 min · PPG
  6. P3 13:13MINDevin Setoguchi: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  7. P3 19:42VANAlexandre Burrows: Slashing2 min
  8. P3 19:42MINRyan Suter: Slashing2 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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0VAN
43% to win57% to win
← MIN attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Lapierre won the faceoff against Brodziak
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINVAN
25Shots on goal36
1.5Expected goals3.0
39Shot attempts79
44Faceoffs won21
2Power plays4
10Penalty minutes6
16Hits12
23Blocked shots5
4Giveaways4
4Takeaways9

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.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestHeatley – Brodziak – Clutterbuck9:10

    xG 0.28–0.16 (63%)attempts 7–6goals 0–0

  2. Cullen – Bouchard – Setoguchi9:14

    xG 0.11–0.20 (37%)attempts 7–8goals 0–0

  3. Koivu – Parise – Coyle11:33

    xG 0.39–0.52 (43%)attempts 10–14goals 1–0

  4. Konopka – Mitchell – Zucker8:10

    xG 0.10–0.43 (19%)attempts 4–16goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Falk – Prosser12:10

    xG 0.33–0.29 (53%)attempts 12–13goals 1–0

  2. Stoner – Spurgeon12:16

    xG 0.28–0.47 (38%)attempts 7–17goals 1–0

  3. Suter – Brodin21:09

    xG 0.49–0.85 (37%)attempts 13–25goals 0–0

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestSedin – Sedin – Burrows12:16

    xG 0.61–0.23 (73%)attempts 20–8goals 0–0

  2. Sestito – Weise – Schroeder7:42

    xG 0.34–0.10 (77%)attempts 11–5goals 0–0

  3. Hansen – Raymond – Ebbett9:23

    xG 0.30–0.11 (72%)attempts 12–3goals 0–1

  4. Higgins – Lapierre – Pinizzotto10:38

    xG 0.12–0.35 (26%)attempts 5–9goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestHamhuis – Garrison11:12

    xG 0.63–0.24 (72%)attempts 18–7goals 0–1

  2. Bieksa – Edler15:02

    xG 0.42–0.24 (64%)attempts 14–9goals 0–0

  3. Ballard – Tanev13:32

    xG 0.41–0.24 (63%)attempts 15–9goals 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.

VAN 3.0 xGMIN 1.5 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 39/100 · #460 of 720 this seasonSwing 1.34 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 18% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +29 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 77% of the time.

VAN winsMIN wins

Simulated goal difference (VAN − MIN), 10,000 replays

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