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Thu, Apr 9, 2015·Pepsi Center, Denver

Winnipeg Jets 0, Colorado Avalanche 1 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 70% of the time.

COL winsWPG wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
WPG08012017040041
COL050607032121

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. No goals in regulation or overtime.

Shootout

  1. 1. COL Ryan O'Reilly scored
  2. 2. WPG Blake Wheeler stopped
  3. 3. COL Matt Duchene scored
  4. 4. WPG Andrew Ladd stopped
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 2:13COLCody McLeod: Roughing2 min
  2. P1 5:22WPGJay Harrison: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 2:10COLGabriel Landeskog: Tripping2 min
  4. P2 9:34COLJordan Caron: Hooking2 min
  5. P3 10:11COLJoey Hishon: Abusive language2 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.

WPG00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0COL
46% to win54% to win
← WPG attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Little won the faceoff against Duchene
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

WPGCOL
41Shots on goal21
2.9Expected goals1.8
64Shot attempts39
16Faceoffs won27
4Power plays1
2Penalty minutes8
13Hits20
12Blocked shots15
0Giveaways3
12Takeaways10

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.

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestLadd – Little – Frolik7:11

    xG 0.38–0.06 (87%)attempts 9–1goals 0–0

  2. Stempniak – Perreault – Lowry4:25

    xG 0.16–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  3. Thorburn – Slater – Tlusty3:41

    xG 0.15–0.04 (78%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  4. Stempniak – Tlusty – Lowry2:18

    xG 0.00–0.01 (14%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHarrison – Pardy6:00

    xG 0.12–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–0goals 0–0

  2. Stuart – Trouba11:56

    xG 0.31–0.19 (62%)attempts 8–10goals 0–0

  3. Myers – Chiarot10:46

    xG 0.18–0.12 (59%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. McLeod – Cliche – Hishon5:22

    xG 0.08–0.05 (62%)attempts 5–6goals 0–0

  2. Iginla – Mitchell – Duchene9:22

    xG 0.06–0.07 (46%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  3. Tanguay – O'Reilly – Landeskog9:30

    xG 0.10–0.33 (24%)attempts 3–7goals 0–0

  4. Brière – Caron – Hamilton2:26

    xG 0.00–0.25 (0%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHejda – Barrie6:45

    xG 0.19–0.05 (80%)attempts 7–3goals 0–0

  2. Holden – Barrie2:08

    xG 0.06–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–0goals 0–0

  3. Hejda – Redmond4:07

    xG 0.00–0.03 (0%)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.

COL 1.8 xGWPG 2.9 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLWPG

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 WPG. Dots are goals.

Excitement 11/100 · #1085 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.83 · 0 goals in reachComeback index 47% (winner's lowest chance)
WPG 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3OTEnd

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 70% of the time.

COL winsWPG wins

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

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