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Tue, Oct 8, 2013·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Colorado Avalanche 2, Toronto Maple Leafs 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 67% of the time.

TOR winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL01011518233
TOR0121709128

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 13:12TORJoffrey LupulAssists: Carter Ashton · Snap, 0.24 xG0–1
  2. P2 16:39COLCory SarichAssists: Steve Downie, Matt Duchene · Snap, 0.03 xG1–1
  3. P3 2:30COLPA ParenteauGWGAssists: Jamie McGinn, Nathan MacKinnon · Snap, 0.20 xG2–1
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 7:26COLPaul Stastny: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 11:22TORJake Gardiner: Holding2 min
  3. P1 19:53TORCarl Gunnarsson: Holding2 min
  4. P2 15:32TORTroy Bodie: Fighting5 min
  5. P2 15:32COLCody McLeod: Fighting5 min
  6. P3 10:08COLCory Sarich: Tripping2 min
  7. P3 12:25TORCarl Gunnarsson: Tripping2 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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0TOR
48% to win52% to win
← COL attackTOR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Duchene won the faceoff against Bolland
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLTOR
33Shots on goal28
1.9Expected goals2.8
55Shot attempts64
41Faceoffs won27
3Power plays2
9Penalty minutes11
44Hits33
18Blocked shots13
9Giveaways16
5Takeaways9

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.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestTanguay – Stastny – Landeskog11:52

    xG 0.49–0.26 (65%)attempts 12–11goals 0–0

  2. Mitchell – Bordeleau – McLeod4:53

    xG 0.24–0.07 (77%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  3. Parenteau – McGinn – MacKinnon9:04

    xG 0.43–0.33 (56%)attempts 5–13goals 1–0

  4. Downie – O'Reilly – Duchene14:39

    xG 0.45–0.54 (46%)attempts 17–15goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGuenin – Barrie10:50

    xG 0.37–0.05 (88%)attempts 9–6goals 0–0

  2. Sarich – Benoit15:42

    xG 0.74–0.53 (58%)attempts 16–15goals 2–0

  3. Hejda – Johnson16:50

    xG 0.52–0.65 (44%)attempts 16–21goals 0–0

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestOrr – Ashton – Kadri7:55

    xG 0.31–0.12 (71%)attempts 11–3goals 0–0

  2. Lupul – Bolland – Raymond12:55

    xG 0.54–0.48 (53%)attempts 12–15goals 0–1

  3. Bodie – Smith – Devane3:50

    xG 0.00–0.04 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

  4. Kessel – van Riemsdyk – Bozak14:42

    xG 0.34–0.48 (42%)attempts 16–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Franson – Gardiner2:10

    xG 0.00–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  2. Ranger – Gardiner13:07

    xG 0.55–0.56 (50%)attempts 15–7goals 0–1

  3. Phaneuf – Gunnarsson12:50

    xG 0.39–0.44 (47%)attempts 14–13goals 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.

TOR 2.8 xGCOL 1.9 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 28/100 · #810 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.13 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 25% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +26 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 67% of the time.

TOR winsCOL wins

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

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