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Thu, Oct 8, 2015·Scottrade Center, St. Louis

Edmonton Oilers 1, St. Louis Blues 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 60% of the time.

STL winsEDM wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
EDM1100708125
STL0811429331

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 17:22EDMRyan Nugent-HopkinsPPUnassisted · Tip-in, 0.29 xG1–0
  2. P2 9:10STLVladimir TarasenkoAssists: Alex Pietrangelo, Jay Bouwmeester · Wrist, 0.08 xG1–1
  3. P3 9:29STLRobby FabbriGWGAssists: Jori Lehtera, Jaden Schwartz · Wrist, 0.08 xG1–2
  4. P3 19:42STLTroy BrouwerENAssists: Jaden Schwartz · Backhand, 0.58 xG1–3
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 8:52EDMMatt Hendricks: Roughing2 min
  2. P1 8:52STLSteve Ott: Roughing2 min
  3. P1 14:19EDMGriffin Reinhart: Hooking2 min
  4. P1 17:19STLKevin Shattenkirk: Tripping2 min · PPG
  5. P1 19:40EDMGriffin Reinhart: High sticking2 min
  6. P2 6:21STLSteve Ott: Charging2 min
  7. P2 6:21STLJoel Edmundson: Fighting5 min
  8. P2 6:21EDMEric Gryba: Fighting5 min
  9. P3 2:44STLRyan Reaves: Tripping2 min
  10. P3 10:06EDMAnton Slepyshev: Holding2 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 SOG0STL
47% to win54% to win
← EDM attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Stastny won the faceoff against Nugent-Hopkins
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

EDMSTL
25Shots on goal31
2.0Expected goals2.5
49Shot attempts57
19Faceoffs won34
3Power plays3
13Penalty minutes13
14Hits22
13Blocked shots17
4Giveaways3
3Takeaways7

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. bestHall – Slepyshev – McDavid7:45

    xG 0.30–0.05 (85%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  2. Hendricks – Letestu – Gazdic5:27

    xG 0.07–0.04 (61%)attempts 8–4goals 0–0

  3. Korpikoski – Lander – Yakupov6:02

    xG 0.18–0.18 (50%)attempts 8–5goals 0–0

  4. Pouliot – Purcell – Nugent-Hopkins9:54

    xG 0.22–0.76 (23%)attempts 8–13goals 0–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestGryba – Reinhart14:05

    xG 0.44–0.30 (60%)attempts 15–11goals 0–0

  2. Sekera – Schultz2:25

    xG 0.00–0.02 (0%)attempts 0–1goals 0–0

  3. Sekera – Fayne11:26

    xG 0.27–0.30 (47%)attempts 9–10goals 0–1

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestLehtera – Schwartz – Fabbri9:04

    xG 0.29–0.04 (87%)attempts 7–5goals 1–0

  2. Ott – Brodziak – Reaves7:57

    xG 0.12–0.03 (81%)attempts 5–8goals 0–0

  3. Backes – Brouwer – Jaskin10:36

    xG 0.43–0.37 (54%)attempts 11–7goals 0–0

  4. Steen – Stastny – Tarasenko11:25

    xG 0.49–0.50 (50%)attempts 10–13goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestShattenkirk – Gunnarsson12:51

    xG 0.67–0.06 (92%)attempts 13–9goals 0–0

  2. Bouwmeester – Pietrangelo14:56

    xG 0.39–0.51 (43%)attempts 10–14goals 1–0

  3. Edmundson – Parayko11:19

    xG 0.12–0.28 (30%)attempts 8–10goals 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.

STL 2.5 xGEDM 2.0 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLEDM

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 EDM. Dots are goals.

Excitement 38/100 · #774 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.31 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 27% (winner's lowest chance)
EDM 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +33 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 60% of the time.

STL winsEDM wins

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

-7
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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).