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Sat, Feb 7, 2015·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Colorado Avalanche 0, Minnesota Wild 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 87% of the time.

MIN winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL040509018
MIN1170507129

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 11:21MINCharlie CoyleGWGAssists: Marco Scandella, Nino Niederreiter · Deflected, 0.10 xG0–1
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 4:22COLStefan Elliott: Holding2 min
  2. P1 12:00COLNick Holden: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 7:55MINNino Niederreiter: Slashing2 min
  4. P3 0:45COLJan Hejda: Tripping2 min
  5. P3 14:09MINKyle Brodziak: Slashing2 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 SOG0MIN
46% to win54% to win
← COL attackMIN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Koivu won the faceoff against Duchene
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLMIN
18Shots on goal29
0.9Expected goals3.0
42Shot attempts66
29Faceoffs won44
2Power plays3
6Penalty minutes4
19Hits15
16Blocked shots16
2Giveaways1
2Takeaways9

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. Shift data for this game is incomplete, so treat these as rough.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestO'Reilly – Landeskog – MacKinnon9:29

    xG 0.38–0.14 (73%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

  2. Mitchell – McLeod – Everberg6:22

    xG 0.07–0.26 (21%)attempts 4–7goals 0–1

  3. Brière – Talbot – Cliche6:00

    xG 0.01–0.28 (3%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

  4. Iginla – Tanguay – Duchene6:38

    xG 0.00–1.04 (0%)attempts 2–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Stuart – Hejda2:01

    xG 0.00–0.05 (0%)attempts 0–5goals 0–0

  2. Hejda – Redmond10:40

    xG 0.37–0.47 (44%)attempts 8–14goals 0–1

  3. Guenin – Elliott8:56

    xG 0.09–0.35 (20%)attempts 6–8goals 0–0

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestKoivu – Pominville – Zucker10:02

    xG 1.00–0.30 (77%)attempts 19–9goals 0–0

  2. Brodziak – Carter – Haula7:44

    xG 0.46–0.07 (86%)attempts 9–2goals 0–0

  3. Schroeder – Coyle – Niederreiter5:53

    xG 0.25–0.00 (100%)attempts 7–1goals 1–0

  4. Vanek – Parise – Granlund9:08

    xG 0.08–0.10 (43%)attempts 6–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestScandella – Spurgeon9:43

    xG 0.99–0.00 (100%)attempts 22–2goals 1–0

  2. Suter – Brodin14:45

    xG 0.86–0.33 (72%)attempts 18–11goals 0–0

  3. Prosser – Dumba5:55

    xG 0.04–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–1goals 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.

MIN 3.0 xGCOL 0.9 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 2/100 · #1200 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.67 · 1 goal in reachComeback index 53% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +18 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 87% of the time.

MIN winsCOL wins

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

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