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Sat, Mar 30, 2013·Rexall Place, Edmonton

Vancouver Canucks 0, Edmonton Oilers 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 63% of the time.

EDM winsVAN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
VAN0100805023
EDM41103010424

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:16EDMTaylor HallGWGAssists: Jordan Eberle, Jeff Petry · Snap, 0.06 xG0–1
  2. P1 2:05EDMLadislav SmidAssists: Jeff Petry, Lennart Petrell · Slap, 0.03 xG0–2
  3. P1 2:43EDMTaylor HallAssists: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Nick Schultz · Wrist, 0.26 xG0–3
  4. P1 7:53EDMTaylor HallPPAssists: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Justin Schultz · Wrist, 0.16 xG0–4
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 5:42EDMRyan Smyth: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 7:42VANSteven Pinizzotto: Interference2 min · PPG
  3. P1 0:00VANTom Sestito: Misconduct10 min
  4. P1 0:00EDMMike Brown: Misconduct10 min
  5. P2 3:20EDMRyan Nugent-Hopkins: Too many men on the ice2 min
  6. P2 9:39VANJason Garrison: Holding2 min
  7. P2 14:21EDMRyan Jones: High sticking2 min
  8. P3 18:42VANChris Tanev: 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.

VAN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0EDM
43% to win57% to win
← VAN attackEDM attack →
  1. P1 20:00Sedin won the faceoff against Nugent-Hopkins
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

VANEDM
23Shots on goal24
2.0Expected goals2.6
50Shot attempts45
26Faceoffs won22
3Power plays3
16Penalty minutes16
28Hits38
8Blocked shots16
11Giveaways13
3Takeaways7

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.

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestSedin – Sedin – Burrows7:28

    xG 0.33–0.14 (70%)attempts 4–3goals 0–1

  2. Lapierre – Gordon – Sestito4:25

    xG 0.19–0.01 (93%)attempts 6–2goals 0–0

  3. Sedin – Sedin – Hansen5:07

    xG 0.30–0.28 (51%)attempts 9–4goals 0–0

  4. Lapierre – Raymond – Ebbett2:52

    xG 0.02–0.06 (28%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHamhuis – Tanev2:00

    xG 0.14–0.01 (91%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  2. Hamhuis – Bieksa2:19

    xG 0.10–0.09 (52%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  3. Hamhuis – Garrison13:13

    xG 0.15–0.33 (32%)attempts 10–11goals 0–1

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestEberle – Hall – Nugent-Hopkins11:43

    xG 1.12–0.42 (73%)attempts 16–10goals 2–0

  2. Horcoff – Jones – Yakupov9:47

    xG 0.22–0.09 (71%)attempts 5–5goals 0–0

  3. Smyth – Brown – Petrell8:23

    xG 0.18–0.33 (35%)attempts 8–7goals 1–0

  4. Hemsky – Gagner – Paajarvi11:46

    xG 0.29–0.55 (35%)attempts 5–12goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSmid – Petry17:21

    xG 0.84–0.26 (76%)attempts 16–9goals 2–0

  2. Whitney – Potter14:56

    xG 0.76–0.43 (64%)attempts 15–9goals 1–0

  3. Schultz – Schultz14:36

    xG 0.80–0.68 (54%)attempts 9–18goals 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 2.6 xGVAN 2.0 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

EDMVAN

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 VAN. Dots are goals.

Excitement 3/100 · #715 of 720 this seasonSwing 0.44 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 57% (winner's lowest chance)
VAN 100%5050%50EDM 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +16 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 63% of the time.

EDM winsVAN wins

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

-7
-6
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-3
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-1
0
+1
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+7

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