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Tue, Nov 17, 2015·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Colorado Avalanche 1, Toronto Maple Leafs 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 62% of the time.

TOR winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL013112010135
TOR21011129530

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:21TORLeo KomarovSHAssists: Shawn Matthias · Slap, 0.05 xG0–1
  2. P1 18:37TORPA ParenteauPPGWGAssists: Peter Holland, Tyler Bozak · Wrist, 0.15 xG0–2
  3. P2 10:12TORTyler BozakPPAssists: Brad Boyes, Peter Holland · Snap, 0.06 xG0–3
  4. P2 12:04COLErik JohnsonAssists: Matt Duchene, Nathan MacKinnon · Wrist, 0.01 xG1–3
  5. P3 11:21TORPA ParenteauPPAssists: Peter Holland, Tyler Bozak · Snap, 0.07 xG1–4
  6. P3 15:59TORJames van RiemsdykPPAssists: Matt Hunwick, Morgan Rielly · Snap, 0.10 xG1–5
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 2:32TORByron Froese: Holding2 min
  2. P1 18:19COLBlake Comeau: High sticking2 min · PPG
  3. P2 7:43TORByron Froese: Holding2 min
  4. P2 9:53COLBlake Comeau: Interference2 min · PPG
  5. P3 6:25TORNazem Kadri: Tripping2 min
  6. P3 9:51COLFrancois Beauchemin: High sticking2 min · PPG
  7. P3 11:31COLBrandon Gormley: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  8. P3 15:50COLAndreas Martinsen: Interference2 min · PPG
  9. P3 19:14TORMartin Marincin: Cross checking2 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 SOG0TOR
47% to win54% to win
← COL attackTOR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Kadri won the faceoff against MacKinnon
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLTOR
35Shots on goal30
2.1Expected goals2.8
62Shot attempts60
33Faceoffs won27
4Power plays5
10Penalty minutes8
37Hits31
12Blocked shots14
6Giveaways7
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. bestIginla – Comeau – Soderberg12:20

    xG 0.50–0.33 (61%)attempts 14–12goals 0–0

  2. Duchene – Grigorenko – MacKinnon13:38

    xG 0.51–0.42 (55%)attempts 14–8goals 1–0

  3. McLeod – Wagner – Martinsen8:06

    xG 0.07–0.10 (39%)attempts 5–9goals 0–0

  4. Skille – Street – Everberg4:23

    xG 0.10–0.34 (22%)attempts 3–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGuenin – Gormley10:26

    xG 0.51–0.31 (62%)attempts 12–13goals 0–0

  2. Holden – Barrie17:26

    xG 0.67–0.53 (56%)attempts 20–19goals 0–0

  3. Beauchemin – Johnson14:42

    xG 0.20–0.59 (25%)attempts 12–12goals 1–0

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestBoyes – Grabner – Holland5:15

    xG 0.23–0.00 (100%)attempts 9–1goals 0–0

  2. Komarov – van Riemsdyk – Kadri11:53

    xG 0.53–0.37 (59%)attempts 10–9goals 0–1

  3. Parenteau – Matthias – Bozak9:43

    xG 0.35–0.39 (47%)attempts 16–9goals 0–0

  4. Lupul – Winnik – Froese11:16

    xG 0.16–0.34 (31%)attempts 6–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPolak – Marincin14:03

    xG 0.36–0.27 (57%)attempts 15–12goals 0–0

  2. Hunwick – Rielly13:05

    xG 0.41–0.40 (51%)attempts 10–11goals 0–1

  3. Phaneuf – Gardiner14:07

    xG 0.48–0.61 (44%)attempts 14–18goals 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.

TOR 2.8 xGCOL 2.1 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 24/100 · #964 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.67 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 53% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +15 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 62% of the time.

TOR winsCOL wins

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

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