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Mon, Mar 30, 2015·Pepsi Center, Denver

Edmonton Oilers 4, Colorado Avalanche 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 62% of the time.

COL winsEDM wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
EDM11519212436
COL11101108130

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:49EDMBrandon DavidsonAssists: Anton Lander, Andrew Miller · Wrist, 0.06 xG1–0
  2. P1 13:18COLRyan O'ReillyAssists: Alex Tanguay, Nate Guenin · Wrist, 0.38 xG1–1
  3. P2 15:28EDMJustin SchultzGWGAssists: Teddy Purcell · Backhand, 0.11 xG2–1
  4. P3 17:53EDMNikita NikitinENAssists: Andrew Miller, Anton Lander · Snap, 0.51 xG3–1
  5. P3 18:25EDMTaylor HallENAssists: Andrew Miller, Martin Marincin · Wrist, 0.58 xG4–1
Penalties (1)
  1. P2 6:40EDMRob Klinkhammer: 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.

EDM00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0COL
46% to win54% to win
← EDM attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00O'Reilly won the faceoff against Nugent-Hopkins
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

EDMCOL
36Shots on goal30
3.9Expected goals3.1
56Shot attempts52
25Faceoffs won28
0Power plays1
2Penalty minutes0
13Hits16
7Blocked shots8
2Giveaways9
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.

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestLander – Hall – Miller14:13

    xG 1.09–0.73 (60%)attempts 17–10goals 1–0

  2. Roy – Purcell – Yakupov13:13

    xG 0.82–0.48 (63%)attempts 16–8goals 1–0

  3. Pouliot – Eberle – Nugent-Hopkins14:30

    xG 0.30–0.61 (33%)attempts 9–15goals 0–0

  4. Klinkhammer – Gazdic – Fraser7:42

    xG 0.16–0.77 (18%)attempts 5–9goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestNikitin – Marincin15:53

    xG 1.09–0.21 (84%)attempts 20–8goals 0–0

  2. Aulie – Marincin2:43

    xG 0.16–0.12 (57%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  3. Schultz – Klefbom19:52

    xG 0.72–0.78 (48%)attempts 18–15goals 1–0

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestIginla – McLeod – Duchene2:04

    xG 0.44–0.10 (81%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  2. Tanguay – O'Reilly – Landeskog16:04

    xG 0.85–0.55 (61%)attempts 15–11goals 1–0

  3. Iginla – Mitchell – Duchene11:14

    xG 0.61–0.64 (48%)attempts 10–10goals 0–0

  4. Caron – Hishon – Hamilton5:40

    xG 0.18–0.23 (44%)attempts 4–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStuart – Holden18:49

    xG 1.07–0.42 (72%)attempts 18–14goals 0–0

  2. Guenin – Barrie10:05

    xG 0.78–0.58 (57%)attempts 7–14goals 1–2

  3. Hejda – Redmond13:34

    xG 0.49–0.50 (50%)attempts 11–8goals 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.

COL 3.1 xGEDM 3.9 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLEDM

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 28/100 · #861 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.94 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 46% (winner's lowest chance)
EDM 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +22 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 62% of the time.

COL winsEDM wins

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

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