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Mon, Oct 12, 2015·Honda Center, Anaheim

Vancouver Canucks 2, Anaheim Ducks 1 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Anaheim Ducks win this game 60% of the time.

ANA winsVAN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
VAN061807042225
ANA091909021129

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 1:56ANASami VatanenAssists: Andrew Cogliano, Mike Santorelli · Slap, 0.01 xG0–1
  2. P2 8:38VANAdam CracknellAssists: Brandon Prust, Jannik Hansen · Wrist, 0.05 xG1–1

Shootout

  1. 1. VAN Jared McCann stopped
  2. 2. ANA Jakob Silfverberg scored
  3. 3. VAN Radim Vrbata scored
  4. 4. ANA Rickard Rakell stopped
  5. 5. VAN Alexandre Burrows scored
  6. 6. ANA Corey Perry stopped
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 1:54VANBrandon Prust: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 1:54ANAClayton Stoner: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 2:04VANAlexander Edler: Holding2 min
  4. P1 3:44ANAJiri Sekac: Hooking2 min
  5. P1 15:29ANARyan Kesler: Roughing2 min
  6. OT 2:22VANAlexander Edler: 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.

VAN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0ANA
47% to win54% to win
← VAN attackANA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Sutter won the faceoff against Kesler
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

VANANA
25Shots on goal29
2.0Expected goals2.6
51Shot attempts66
22Faceoffs won19
2Power plays2
9Penalty minutes9
29Hits26
18Blocked shots16
12Giveaways12
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.

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestHansen – Baertschi – McCann2:10

    xG 0.28–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  2. Vrbata – Burrows – Horvat4:54

    xG 0.05–0.02 (71%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  3. Burrows – Hansen – McCann6:14

    xG 0.24–0.28 (46%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  4. Prust – Cracknell – Dorsett5:48

    xG 0.11–0.21 (34%)attempts 1–6goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestEdler – Tanev19:12

    xG 0.36–0.31 (54%)attempts 13–12goals 0–0

  2. Sbisa – Hutton14:21

    xG 0.60–0.55 (52%)attempts 11–16goals 0–1

  3. Hamhuis – Bartkowski17:06

    xG 0.35–1.05 (25%)attempts 12–22goals 1–0

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. bestGetzlaf – Perry – Sekac16:20

    xG 0.64–0.27 (70%)attempts 19–12goals 0–0

  2. Horcoff – Stewart – Maroon9:17

    xG 0.55–0.23 (70%)attempts 11–5goals 0–0

  3. Kesler – Hagelin – Silfverberg12:38

    xG 0.33–0.14 (70%)attempts 13–6goals 0–0

  4. Santorelli – Cogliano – Rakell11:05

    xG 0.30–0.53 (36%)attempts 8–6goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBieksa – Lindholm18:32

    xG 0.95–0.37 (72%)attempts 22–17goals 0–0

  2. Despres – Fowler17:42

    xG 0.75–0.27 (74%)attempts 15–7goals 0–0

  3. Stoner – Vatanen11:34

    xG 0.11–0.51 (18%)attempts 12–10goals 1–0

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.

ANA 2.6 xGVAN 2.0 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

ANAVAN

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 VAN. Dots are goals.

Excitement 31/100 · #893 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.14 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 26% (winner's lowest chance)
VAN 100%5050%50ANA 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +23 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 60% of the time.

ANA winsVAN wins

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

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