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Tue, Nov 10, 2015·Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia

Colorado Avalanche 4, Philadelphia Flyers 0

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 75% of the time.

PHI winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL115214111440
PHI0707011025

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:57COLJarome IginlaGWGAssists: Nick Holden, Carl Soderberg · Wrist, 0.04 xG1–0
  2. P2 0:25COLMatt DucheneAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog · Wrist, 0.35 xG2–0
  3. P2 3:44COLMatt DucheneAssists: Nick Holden, Tyson Barrie · Snap, 0.35 xG3–0
  4. P3 2:04COLCody McLeodPPAssists: Matt Duchene, Carl Soderberg · Backhand, 0.35 xG4–0
Penalties (3)
  1. P1 9:14PHIMark Streit: Cross checking2 min
  2. P3 0:50PHIRadko Gudas: Roughing2 min · PPG
  3. P3 2:45COLAndreas Martinsen: Roughing2 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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0PHI
47% to win54% to win
← COL attackPHI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Couturier won the faceoff against MacKinnon
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLPHI
40Shots on goal25
3.1Expected goals1.7
57Shot attempts54
25Faceoffs won29
2Power plays1
2Penalty minutes4
42Hits49
16Blocked shots10
9Giveaways13
5Takeaways6

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.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestDuchene – Landeskog – MacKinnon12:29

    xG 1.31–0.09 (94%)attempts 19–10goals 2–0

  2. McLeod – Grigorenko – Everberg10:54

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

  3. Skille – Street – Martinsen8:50

    xG 0.14–0.26 (35%)attempts 7–6goals 0–0

  4. Iginla – Comeau – Soderberg15:01

    xG 0.28–0.72 (28%)attempts 9–18goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHolden – Barrie15:04

    xG 1.59–0.60 (73%)attempts 21–18goals 3–0

  2. Stuart – Gormley12:09

    xG 0.49–0.21 (70%)attempts 14–8goals 0–0

  3. Beauchemin – Johnson22:20

    xG 0.25–0.80 (24%)attempts 9–23goals 0–0

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestGiroux – Voracek – Raffl11:51

    xG 0.23–0.14 (61%)attempts 8–6goals 0–1

  2. Lecavalier – Gagner – Schenn9:39

    xG 0.30–0.25 (55%)attempts 8–9goals 0–0

  3. Simmonds – Read – Couturier12:00

    xG 0.60–0.66 (47%)attempts 15–10goals 0–1

  4. VandeVelde – White – Laughton7:44

    xG 0.29–0.37 (44%)attempts 8–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSchenn – Manning2:37

    xG 0.31–0.01 (96%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  2. Manning – Gudas8:38

    xG 0.33–0.11 (75%)attempts 9–5goals 0–0

  3. Schultz – Schenn13:25

    xG 0.51–0.32 (61%)attempts 15–14goals 0–1

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.

PHI 1.7 xGCOL 3.1 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

PHICOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 5/100 · #1198 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.59 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 46% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50PHI 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +19 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 75% of the time.

PHI winsCOL wins

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

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