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Mon, Dec 29, 2014·Scottrade Center, St. Louis

Colorado Avalanche 0, St. Louis Blues 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 86% of the time.

STL winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL080305016
STL0521119325

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 0:28STLDmitrij JaskinGWGAssists: Paul Stastny · Wrist, 0.04 xG0–1
  2. P2 4:30STLChris ButlerAssists: T.J. Oshie, Paul Stastny · Backhand, 0.10 xG0–2
  3. P3 15:25STLVladimir TarasenkoUnassisted · Wrist, 0.08 xG0–3
Penalties (2)
  1. P2 8:57STLVladimir Tarasenko: Holding2 min
  2. P2 12:32COLDaniel Brière: 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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
46% to win54% to win
← COL attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Mitchell won the faceoff against Stastny
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLSTL
16Shots on goal25
0.8Expected goals2.7
33Shot attempts56
11Faceoffs won27
1Power plays1
2Penalty minutes2
26Hits22
9Blocked shots11
1Giveaways5
6Takeaways4

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. Brière – O'Reilly – Landeskog14:31

    xG 0.20–0.43 (32%)attempts 12–13goals 0–1

  2. Talbot – Duchene – MacKinnon12:15

    xG 0.17–0.41 (29%)attempts 9–9goals 0–1

  3. Iginla – Tanguay – Mitchell14:27

    xG 0.04–1.15 (3%)attempts 3–15goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Guenin – Hejda2:11

    xG 0.04–0.17 (21%)attempts 1–5goals 0–0

  2. Guenin – Barrie8:31

    xG 0.06–0.23 (20%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  3. Hejda – Johnson15:16

    xG 0.22–0.40 (36%)attempts 11–13goals 0–1

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSteen – Backes – Oshie13:12

    xG 0.96–0.16 (86%)attempts 13–9goals 0–0

  2. Stastny – Reaves – Jaskin11:38

    xG 0.39–0.04 (92%)attempts 13–3goals 1–0

  3. Porter – Lehtera – Tarasenko4:27

    xG 0.25–0.14 (65%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  4. Ott – Lapierre – Tarasenko3:51

    xG 0.11–0.02 (84%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBouwmeester – Pietrangelo18:47

    xG 1.32–0.22 (86%)attempts 23–10goals 0–0

  2. Butler – Shattenkirk14:33

    xG 0.52–0.19 (73%)attempts 16–7goals 1–0

  3. Jackman – Cole14:14

    xG 0.42–0.37 (54%)attempts 8–10goals 2–0

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.

STL 2.7 xGCOL 0.8 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 3/100 · #1193 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.52 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 53% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +20 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 86% of the time.

STL winsCOL wins

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

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