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Mon, Jan 6, 2014·Pepsi Center, Denver

Calgary Flames 4, Colorado Avalanche 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 60% of the time.

COL winsCGY wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CGY142718419
COL2701018325

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:08CGYSean MonahanAssists: Lee Stempniak, Dennis Wideman · Wrist, 0.03 xG1–0
  2. P1 7:17COLNathan MacKinnonPPAssists: Paul Stastny, Andre Benoit · Wrist, 0.18 xG1–1
  3. P1 14:32COLNathan MacKinnonPPAssists: Paul Stastny, Tyson Barrie · Snap, 0.14 xG1–2
  4. P2 15:10CGYJoe ColborneAssists: TJ Galiardi, Shane O'Brien · Tip-in, 0.09 xG2–2
  5. P2 17:38CGYJiri HudlerAssists: Mark Giordano, Mikael Backlund · Backhand, 0.10 xG3–2
  6. P3 9:33COLPaul StastnyAssists: Gabriel Landeskog, Jan Hejda · Backhand, 0.10 xG3–3
  7. P3 16:30CGYMichael CammalleriPPGWGAssists: Jiri Hudler, Joe Colborne · Wrist, 0.22 xG4–3
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 5:37CGYMichael Cammalleri: Tripping2 min · PPG
  2. P1 13:42CGYKevin Westgarth: Too many men on the ice2 min · PPG
  3. P2 0:26COLPaul Stastny: Hooking2 min
  4. P2 11:12CGYKevin Westgarth: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  5. P2 18:12CGYJoe Colborne: Hooking2 min
  6. P3 11:24COLJamie McGinn: Tripping2 min
  7. P3 15:06COLJamie McGinn: 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.

CGY00 SOG · 0.0 xG

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P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0COL
48% to win52% to win
← CGY attackCOL attack →
  1. Press play, or drag along the timeline.
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CGYCOL
19Shots on goal25
1.9Expected goals2.4
48Shot attempts45
34Faceoffs won33
3Power plays4
8Penalty minutes6
15Hits17
12Blocked shots12
1Giveaways4
8Takeaways8

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.

Calgary Flames

Forward lines

  1. bestCammalleri – Hudler – Backlund11:39

    xG 0.36–0.07 (84%)attempts 13–2goals 1–0

  2. Stempniak – Byron – Monahan7:26

    xG 0.13–0.07 (65%)attempts 5–4goals 1–0

  3. Westgarth – Galiardi – Colborne6:00

    xG 0.23–0.19 (54%)attempts 4–3goals 1–0

  4. McGrattan – Stajan – Bouma3:55

    xG 0.10–0.29 (26%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestO'Brien – Butler9:30

    xG 0.63–0.37 (63%)attempts 13–8goals 1–0

  2. Giordano – Brodie15:16

    xG 0.39–0.25 (61%)attempts 11–7goals 1–1

  3. Wideman – Smid15:19

    xG 0.38–0.39 (49%)attempts 13–12goals 1–0

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestStastny – O'Reilly – Landeskog12:53

    xG 0.40–0.21 (66%)attempts 10–12goals 1–0

  2. Bordeleau – Cliche – Malone5:04

    xG 0.32–0.20 (62%)attempts 7–6goals 0–1

  3. Mitchell – McLeod – MacKinnon8:37

    xG 0.16–0.09 (63%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  4. Talbot – McGinn – Duchene11:33

    xG 0.21–0.63 (25%)attempts 6–13goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestHolden – Barrie11:56

    xG 0.49–0.26 (65%)attempts 16–11goals 0–0

  2. Hejda – Johnson14:41

    xG 0.42–0.44 (49%)attempts 4–14goals 1–0

  3. Sarich – Benoit11:38

    xG 0.04–0.53 (7%)attempts 6–9goals 0–2

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 2.4 xGCGY 1.9 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLCGY

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 CGY. Dots are goals.

Excitement 83/100 · #162 of 1230 this seasonSwing 2.18 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 25% (winner's lowest chance)
CGY 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +38 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 60% of the time.

COL winsCGY wins

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

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