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Mon, Jan 27, 2014·American Airlines Center, Dallas

Colorado Avalanche 4, Dallas Stars 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 77% of the time.

DAL winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL2101813421
DAL112219013344

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:40COLNathan MacKinnonAssists: Max Talbot, Tyson Barrie · Backhand, 0.08 xG1–0
  2. P1 15:57COLJamie McGinnAssists: Ryan O'Reilly, Matt Duchene · Backhand, 0.13 xG2–0
  3. P1 17:27DALJamie BennAssists: Tyler Seguin · Wrist, 0.06 xG2–1
  4. P2 1:02DALTyler SeguinPPAssists: Jamie Benn, Alex Goligoski · Snap, 0.10 xG2–2
  5. P2 17:57COLPaul StastnyPPAssists: Gabriel Landeskog · Backhand, 0.16 xG3–2
  6. P2 18:13DALTyler SeguinAssists: Alex Goligoski, Sergei Gonchar · Wrist, 0.02 xG3–3
  7. P3 4:13COLAlex TanguayGWGAssists: Gabriel Landeskog, Max Talbot · Wrist, 0.06 xG4–3
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 19:34COLJohn Mitchell: Hooking2 min · PPG
  2. P1 19:37DALErik Cole: Interference2 min
  3. P2 0:36COLNick Holden: Tripping2 min
  4. P2 3:53DALAntoine Roussel: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  5. P2 16:22DALRay Whitney: Too many men on the ice2 min · PPG
  6. P3 1:54COLNate Guenin: Holding2 min
  7. P3 9:22COLPatrick Bordeleau: Delaying game2 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 SOG0DAL
48% to win52% to win
← COL attackDAL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Stastny won the faceoff against Seguin
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLDAL
21Shots on goal44
2.0Expected goals3.7
41Shot attempts71
26Faceoffs won29
2Power plays4
8Penalty minutes6
25Hits26
19Blocked shots13
7Giveaways12
5Takeaways13

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. bestMcGinn – O'Reilly – Duchene14:09

    xG 0.78–0.41 (66%)attempts 14–12goals 1–0

  2. Bordeleau – McLeod – Cliche5:04

    xG 0.00–0.29 (0%)attempts 1–6goals 0–0

  3. Tanguay – Stastny – Landeskog12:39

    xG 0.31–0.60 (34%)attempts 8–13goals 1–1

  4. Talbot – Mitchell – MacKinnon9:37

    xG 0.29–0.59 (33%)attempts 10–8goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. Guenin – Benoit13:32

    xG 0.61–0.62 (49%)attempts 11–12goals 1–0

  2. Holden – Barrie13:37

    xG 0.37–0.41 (47%)attempts 12–13goals 2–0

  3. Hejda – Johnson15:46

    xG 0.41–0.76 (35%)attempts 12–17goals 0–2

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestWhitney – Cole – Fiddler7:21

    xG 0.54–0.08 (88%)attempts 8–3goals 0–1

  2. Benn – Seguin – Nichushkin11:09

    xG 0.66–0.30 (69%)attempts 13–10goals 2–0

  3. Roussel – Eakin – Garbutt10:37

    xG 0.49–0.19 (72%)attempts 14–4goals 0–0

  4. Cole – Benn – Seguin2:04

    xG 0.15–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBenn – Dillon13:45

    xG 1.03–0.23 (82%)attempts 19–8goals 1–0

  2. Gonchar – Rome13:07

    xG 0.48–0.38 (55%)attempts 5–12goals 0–1

  3. Gonchar – Daley2:04

    xG 0.22–0.25 (46%)attempts 4–4goals 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.

DAL 3.7 xGCOL 2.0 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DALCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 75/100 · #243 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.77 · 7 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 48% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50DAL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +25 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 77% of the time.

DAL winsCOL wins

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

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