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Sat, Jan 17, 2015·Amalie Arena, Tampa

Colorado Avalanche 2, Tampa Bay Lightning 3 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 74% of the time.

TBL winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
COL05120112051242
TBL1150915022331

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:58TBLRyan CallahanPPAssists: Alex Killorn, Anton Stralman · Wrist, 0.04 xG0–1
  2. P2 0:51COLRyan O'ReillyAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Jan Hejda · Wrist, 0.26 xG1–1
  3. P3 4:08TBLAnton StralmanAssists: Valtteri Filppula · Wrist, 0.01 xG1–2
  4. P3 19:53COLNathan MacKinnonAssists: Gabriel Landeskog, Erik Johnson · Wrist, 0.34 xG2–2

Shootout

  1. 1. TBL Nikita Kucherov scored
  2. 2. COL Nathan MacKinnon stopped
  3. 3. TBL Ondrej Palat stopped
  4. 4. COL Matt Duchene scored
  5. 5. TBL Ryan Callahan scored
  6. 6. COL Alex Tanguay stopped
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 0:31COLJan Hejda: Hooking2 min · PPG
  2. P1 19:30TBLRyan Callahan: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 19:30COLJarome Iginla: Fighting5 min
  4. P3 12:26TBLBrenden Morrow: Interference2 min
  5. P3 14:45TBLVictor Hedman: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  6. OT 4:36TBLSteven Stamkos: Hooking2 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 SOG0TBL
46% to win54% to win
← COL attackTBL attack →
  1. P1 20:00O'Reilly won the faceoff against Johnson
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLTBL
42Shots on goal31
3.7Expected goals2.2
69Shot attempts51
36Faceoffs won27
3Power plays1
7Penalty minutes11
29Hits24
10Blocked shots15
5Giveaways6
5Takeaways10

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. bestO'Reilly – Landeskog – MacKinnon11:42

    xG 1.01–0.31 (77%)attempts 13–10goals 1–0

  2. Iginla – Tanguay – Duchene11:27

    xG 0.49–0.32 (61%)attempts 11–10goals 0–1

  3. Brière – Talbot – Cliche10:17

    xG 0.33–0.30 (52%)attempts 10–9goals 0–0

  4. Mitchell – McLeod – Everberg11:53

    xG 0.09–0.15 (38%)attempts 4–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHejda – Johnson16:39

    xG 1.21–0.31 (80%)attempts 18–12goals 1–0

  2. Johnson – Barrie2:19

    xG 0.05–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–0goals 0–0

  3. Guenin – Barrie14:10

    xG 0.34–0.30 (53%)attempts 11–11goals 0–0

Tampa Bay Lightning

Forward lines

  1. bestMorrow – Boyle – Drouin9:20

    xG 0.28–0.20 (58%)attempts 8–5goals 0–0

  2. Johnson – Palat – Kucherov11:37

    xG 0.39–0.31 (56%)attempts 13–6goals 0–0

  3. Killorn – Connolly – Paquette10:56

    xG 0.14–0.09 (60%)attempts 8–4goals 0–0

  4. Filppula – Callahan – Stamkos12:56

    xG 0.24–0.49 (33%)attempts 8–14goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGarrison – Sustr2:01

    xG 0.09–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  2. Garrison – Nesterov12:37

    xG 0.34–0.51 (40%)attempts 13–14goals 0–0

  3. Barberio – Sustr14:12

    xG 0.15–0.51 (23%)attempts 6–16goals 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.

TBL 2.2 xGCOL 3.7 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TBLCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 71/100 · #307 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.94 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 50% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50TBL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +48 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 74% of the time.

TBL winsCOL wins

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

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