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Fri, Mar 20, 2015·Honda Center, Anaheim

Colorado Avalanche 2, Anaheim Ducks 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Anaheim Ducks win this game 64% of the time.

ANA winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
COL070122500224
ANA11401111312340

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:37ANAJiri SekacAssists: Tomas Fleischmann, Rickard Rakell · Wrist, 0.06 xG0–1
  2. P3 5:28COLJarome IginlaAssists: Matt Duchene, Jan Hejda · Slap, 0.20 xG1–1
  3. P3 7:19COLRyan O'ReillySHUnassisted · Wrist, 0.15 xG2–1
  4. P3 9:04ANARickard RakellAssists: Simon Despres, Jiri Sekac · Wrist, 0.08 xG2–2
  5. OT 1:25ANACorey PerryGWGAssists: Sami Vatanen · Wrist, 0.08 xG2–3
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 14:36ANAFrancois Beauchemin: Hooking2 min
  2. P2 2:58COLAlex Tanguay: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 19:55COLGabriel Landeskog: Roughing2 min
  4. P3 6:26COLAlex Tanguay: Interference2 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 SOG0ANA
46% to win54% to win
← COL attackANA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Thompson won the faceoff against Duchene
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLANA
24Shots on goal40
1.9Expected goals2.6
38Shot attempts68
26Faceoffs won23
1Power plays3
6Penalty minutes2
32Hits25
14Blocked shots7
9Giveaways13
6Takeaways9

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. bestMcLeod – Cliche – Everberg7:10

    xG 0.16–0.05 (75%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  2. Tanguay – O'Reilly – Landeskog16:28

    xG 0.24–0.38 (39%)attempts 10–10goals 0–0

  3. Iginla – Mitchell – Duchene15:37

    xG 0.71–0.86 (45%)attempts 14–24goals 1–1

  4. Brière – Caron – Hamilton4:45

    xG 0.00–0.41 (1%)attempts 1–8goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestHejda – Redmond11:13

    xG 0.61–0.31 (66%)attempts 11–14goals 1–1

  2. Stuart – Barrie2:06

    xG 0.01–0.17 (6%)attempts 1–5goals 0–0

  3. Hejda – Barrie2:29

    xG 0.00–0.17 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. bestFleischmann – Rakell – Sekac11:03

    xG 0.62–0.12 (83%)attempts 15–3goals 2–0

  2. Getzlaf – Perry – Maroon10:55

    xG 0.41–0.25 (62%)attempts 13–7goals 0–0

  3. Thompson – Cogliano – Silfverberg13:03

    xG 0.57–0.53 (52%)attempts 15–12goals 0–0

  4. Kesler – Beleskey – Palmieri12:07

    xG 0.27–0.26 (51%)attempts 9–4goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestVatanen – Fowler15:17

    xG 0.74–0.26 (74%)attempts 17–9goals 1–0

  2. Beauchemin – Lindholm15:11

    xG 0.66–0.46 (59%)attempts 22–13goals 0–0

  3. Wisniewski – Despres14:29

    xG 0.28–0.48 (37%)attempts 10–6goals 0–1

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.

ANA 2.6 xGCOL 1.9 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

ANACOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 62/100 · #424 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.83 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 21% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50ANA 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +30 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Anaheim Ducks win this game 64% of the time.

ANA winsCOL wins

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

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