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Thu, Oct 29, 2015·MTS Centre, Winnipeg

Chicago Blackhawks 1, Winnipeg Jets 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Chicago Blackhawks win this game 54% of the time.

WPG winsCHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CHI114018014146
WPG1911319331

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:26CHIPatrick KanePPAssists: Artemi Panarin, Brent Seabrook · Wrist, 0.05 xG1–0
  2. P1 8:12WPGBlake WheelerAssists: Bryan Little · Wrist, 0.02 xG1–1
  3. P2 5:09WPGAndrew LaddPPGWGAssists: Bryan Little, Mathieu Perreault · Snap, 0.49 xG1–2
  4. P3 8:04WPGMark ScheifeleAssists: Nikolaj Ehlers, Tyler Myers · Snap, 0.05 xG1–3
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 0:18WPGToby Enstrom: Holding2 min · PPG
  2. P1 8:19WPGJacob Trouba: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 8:32CHIJonathan Toews: Hooking2 min
  4. P1 17:04CHIRyan Garbutt: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 4:03CHIJonathan Toews: Holding2 min · PPG
  6. P2 19:41WPGJacob Trouba: Tripping2 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.

CHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0WPG
47% to win54% to win
← CHI attackWPG attack →
  1. P1 20:00Toews won the faceoff against Little
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CHIWPG
46Shots on goal31
4.1Expected goals3.8
70Shot attempts51
33Faceoffs won38
3Power plays3
6Penalty minutes6
15Hits32
10Blocked shots18
13Giveaways8
5Takeaways4

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.

Chicago Blackhawks

Forward lines

  1. bestHossa – Toews – Tikhonov8:07

    xG 0.63–0.23 (73%)attempts 8–5goals 0–1

  2. Bickell – Garbutt – Kero7:01

    xG 0.31–0.09 (78%)attempts 7–3goals 0–0

  3. Desjardins – Kruger – Shaw6:50

    xG 0.29–0.24 (55%)attempts 7–8goals 0–0

  4. Anisimov – Kane – Panarin11:51

    xG 0.13–0.53 (20%)attempts 8–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHjalmarsson – van Riemsdyk15:51

    xG 1.09–0.29 (79%)attempts 18–8goals 0–0

  2. Seabrook – Svedberg14:16

    xG 0.50–0.66 (43%)attempts 10–18goals 0–1

  3. Daley – Rundblad13:21

    xG 0.19–0.58 (25%)attempts 11–10goals 0–1

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestStafford – Burmistrov – Lowry13:22

    xG 0.65–0.16 (80%)attempts 10–7goals 0–0

  2. Thorburn – Copp – Petan6:14

    xG 0.28–0.13 (69%)attempts 4–6goals 0–0

  3. Perreault – Scheifele – Ehlers9:30

    xG 0.44–0.48 (48%)attempts 12–10goals 1–0

  4. Ladd – Wheeler – Little11:11

    xG 0.14–0.62 (18%)attempts 6–9goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStuart – Trouba15:18

    xG 0.59–0.41 (59%)attempts 11–13goals 0–0

  2. Myers – Chiarot12:51

    xG 0.49–0.57 (46%)attempts 16–13goals 0–0

  3. Enstrom – Byfuglien14:40

    xG 0.38–0.95 (29%)attempts 9–15goals 2–0

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.

WPG 3.8 xGCHI 4.1 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

WPGCHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 30/100 · #901 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.13 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 33% (winner's lowest chance)
CHI 100%5050%50WPG 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +20 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Chicago Blackhawks win this game 54% of the time.

WPG winsCHI wins

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

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