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Thu, Oct 29, 2015·Scottrade Center, St. Louis

Anaheim Ducks 1, St. Louis Blues 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Anaheim Ducks win this game 69% of the time.

STL winsANA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ANA0121704123
STL01019115234

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 2:33ANAHampus LindholmPPAssists: Corey Perry, Kevin Bieksa · Wrist, 0.40 xG1–0
  2. P2 6:18STLVladimir TarasenkoAssists: Jori Lehtera, Steve Ott · Snap, 0.16 xG1–1
  3. P3 10:31STLColton ParaykoGWGAssists: Ty Rattie, Scott Gomez · Wrist, 0.02 xG1–2
Penalties (13)
  1. P1 4:56STLTy Rattie: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 5:38ANARyan Kesler: Holding the stick2 min
  3. P2 0:49STLAlex Pietrangelo: Holding2 min · PPG
  4. P2 8:31STLSteve Ott: Roughing2 min
  5. P2 8:31ANAPatrick Maroon: Roughing2 min
  6. P2 8:31ANAKorbinian Holzer: Roughing2 min
  7. P2 11:24ANARyan Kesler: Hooking2 min
  8. P2 16:20ANACorey Perry: Fighting5 min
  9. P2 16:20STLSteve Ott: Fighting5 min
  10. P2 16:20ANACorey Perry: Holding2 min
  11. P2 17:16STLDavid Backes: Tripping2 min
  12. P3 7:51ANAAndrew Cogliano: Hooking2 min
  13. P3 16:49STLJori Lehtera: 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.

ANA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
47% to win54% to win
← ANA attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Lehtera won the faceoff against Horcoff
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ANASTL
23Shots on goal34
2.5Expected goals1.6
46Shot attempts54
26Faceoffs won38
4Power plays5
17Penalty minutes15
25Hits23
13Blocked shots9
2Giveaways5
3Takeaways5

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.

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. Stewart – Rakell – Sekac8:43

    xG 0.09–0.05 (63%)attempts 5–6goals 0–0

  2. Santorelli – Maroon – Wagner6:20

    xG 0.17–0.14 (55%)attempts 5–8goals 0–0

  3. Kesler – Perry – Hagelin9:33

    xG 0.19–0.48 (28%)attempts 6–9goals 0–1

  4. Horcoff – Cogliano – Silfverberg8:02

    xG 0.05–0.49 (9%)attempts 4–12goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Vatanen – Fowler2:11

    xG 0.02–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

  2. Stoner – Vatanen10:13

    xG 0.16–0.18 (46%)attempts 8–7goals 0–0

  3. Holzer – Fowler12:02

    xG 0.40–0.61 (40%)attempts 13–16goals 0–1

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSteen – Lehtera – Tarasenko10:14

    xG 0.64–0.33 (66%)attempts 14–6goals 0–0

  2. Backes – Brouwer – Jaskin6:48

    xG 0.02–0.04 (35%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  3. Gomez – Rattie – Fabbri7:18

    xG 0.04–0.07 (38%)attempts 5–3goals 1–0

  4. Ott – Brodziak – Reaves4:55

    xG 0.02–0.28 (8%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGunnarsson – Parayko12:27

    xG 0.56–0.23 (71%)attempts 16–8goals 2–0

  2. Bouwmeester – Pietrangelo13:06

    xG 0.41–0.28 (60%)attempts 11–6goals 0–0

  3. Bortuzzo – Pietrangelo2:04

    xG 0.07–0.10 (41%)attempts 2–2goals 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 1.6 xGANA 2.5 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLANA

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 ANA. Dots are goals.

Excitement 48/100 · #610 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.55 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 28% (winner's lowest chance)
ANA 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +34 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 69% of the time.

STL winsANA wins

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

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