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Sat, Dec 14, 2013·Pepsi Center, Denver

Minnesota Wild 2, Colorado Avalanche 1 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 61% of the time.

COL winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
MIN06010110012227
COL0111905021127

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 10:48COLMax TalbotAssists: Cory Sarich, John Mitchell · Tip-in, 0.10 xG0–1
  2. P3 16:07MINNino NiederreiterAssists: Ryan Suter, Jason Pominville · Tip-in, 0.10 xG1–1

Shootout

  1. 1. COL Matt Duchene scored
  2. 2. MIN Zach Parise scored
  3. 3. COL PA Parenteau stopped
  4. 4. MIN Mikko Koivu scored
  5. 5. COL Ryan O'Reilly stopped
Penalties (3)
  1. P1 16:23MINJonas Brodin: Interference2 min
  2. P2 2:52MINNino Niederreiter: Hooking2 min
  3. P3 9:10COLNathan MacKinnon: Holding2 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 SOG0COL
48% to win52% to win
← MIN attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Koivu won the faceoff against Stastny
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINCOL
27Shots on goal27
2.3Expected goals1.7
57Shot attempts50
24Faceoffs won26
1Power plays2
4Penalty minutes2
25Hits23
15Blocked shots15
5Giveaways6
11Takeaways11

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. bestCooke – Brodziak – Bulmer11:41

    xG 0.39–0.22 (64%)attempts 7–10goals 0–0

  2. Koivu – Parise – Coyle12:01

    xG 0.48–0.43 (53%)attempts 11–11goals 0–0

  3. Koivu – Pominville – Parise3:39

    xG 0.18–0.14 (57%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  4. Pominville – Haula – Niederreiter9:06

    xG 0.46–0.42 (52%)attempts 10–8goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSuter – Spurgeon13:49

    xG 0.53–0.07 (89%)attempts 17–8goals 1–0

  2. Scandella – Spurgeon5:25

    xG 0.25–0.13 (67%)attempts 11–5goals 0–0

  3. Scandella – Brodin7:52

    xG 0.17–0.06 (72%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. Talbot – Mitchell – McGinn11:25

    xG 0.26–0.27 (49%)attempts 9–7goals 1–0

  2. Parenteau – Stastny – Landeskog16:32

    xG 0.66–0.69 (49%)attempts 15–20goals 0–0

  3. Bordeleau – McLeod – Cliche5:29

    xG 0.01–0.18 (7%)attempts 1–5goals 0–0

  4. O'Reilly – Duchene – MacKinnon15:08

    xG 0.20–0.45 (31%)attempts 11–15goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestHejda – Johnson20:30

    xG 1.03–0.54 (66%)attempts 21–15goals 0–0

  2. Sarich – Benoit15:18

    xG 0.29–0.28 (50%)attempts 11–8goals 1–0

  3. Guenin – Barrie12:15

    xG 0.10–0.71 (12%)attempts 5–18goals 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.

COL 1.7 xGMIN 2.3 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 40/100 · #676 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.40 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 11% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +40 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 61% of the time.

COL winsMIN wins

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

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