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Mon, Jan 19, 2015·Scottrade Center, St. Louis

Colorado Avalanche 1, St. Louis Blues 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 80% of the time.

STL winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL180505118
STL11321403330

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 8:06STLCarl GunnarssonAssists: Jaden Schwartz, Paul Stastny · Slap, 0.03 xG0–1
  2. P1 13:02COLMatt DucheneUnassisted · Backhand, 0.06 xG1–1
  3. P2 0:32STLJaden SchwartzPPGWGAssists: Alexander Steen · Slap, 0.14 xG1–2
  4. P2 10:40STLT.J. OshieAssists: David Backes, Alexander Steen · Wrist, 0.27 xG1–3
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 3:26STLT.J. Oshie: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 19:28COLGabriel Landeskog: Slashing2 min · PPG
  3. P2 3:43COLTyson Barrie: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  4. P3 8:03STLIan Cole: Holding2 min
  5. P3 16:43STLJori Lehtera: High sticking2 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 20:00Iginla won the faceoff against Steen
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLSTL
18Shots on goal30
1.4Expected goals3.0
37Shot attempts57
28Faceoffs won22
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
40Hits24
8Blocked shots12
6Giveaways5
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.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestBrière – Talbot – Cliche5:03

    xG 0.46–0.05 (90%)attempts 7–2goals 0–0

  2. Mitchell – McLeod – Everberg9:31

    xG 0.17–0.36 (32%)attempts 2–8goals 0–0

  3. Iginla – Tanguay – Duchene11:13

    xG 0.10–0.48 (18%)attempts 4–16goals 1–1

  4. O'Reilly – Landeskog – MacKinnon10:45

    xG 0.12–0.68 (15%)attempts 5–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStuart – Holden12:23

    xG 0.72–0.21 (77%)attempts 12–10goals 0–0

  2. Guenin – Barrie12:39

    xG 0.11–0.60 (16%)attempts 5–11goals 1–2

  3. Hejda – Johnson16:11

    xG 0.18–1.18 (13%)attempts 7–21goals 0–0

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSteen – Backes – Oshie11:24

    xG 0.64–0.21 (76%)attempts 13–6goals 1–0

  2. Lehtera – Tarasenko – Schwartz6:05

    xG 0.43–0.10 (81%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  3. Berglund – Lehtera – Tarasenko5:01

    xG 0.24–0.09 (72%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  4. Stastny – Schwartz – Jaskin3:57

    xG 0.16–0.17 (49%)attempts 5–3goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestShattenkirk – Gunnarsson14:57

    xG 0.70–0.37 (65%)attempts 13–12goals 1–1

  2. Jackman – Cole13:51

    xG 0.48–0.22 (69%)attempts 14–5goals 0–0

  3. Bouwmeester – Pietrangelo16:10

    xG 0.78–0.53 (60%)attempts 16–8goals 1–0

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 3.0 xGCOL 1.4 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

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 19/100 · #968 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.98 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 51% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +19 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 80% 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).