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Mon, Nov 23, 2015·MTS Centre, Winnipeg

Colorado Avalanche 4, Winnipeg Jets 1

Expected result

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

WPG winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL0917313429
WPG190705121

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 13:40WPGToby EnstromAssists: Blake Wheeler, Andrew Ladd · Wrist, 0.01 xG0–1
  2. P2 16:43COLCarl SoderbergPPAssists: Mikhail Grigorenko, Francois Beauchemin · Deflected, 0.17 xG1–1
  3. P3 6:45COLCody McLeodGWGAssists: Zach Redmond, Blake Comeau · Deflected, 0.15 xG2–1
  4. P3 16:11COLMatt DucheneAssists: Tyson Barrie, Gabriel Landeskog · Backhand, 0.12 xG3–1
  5. P3 18:50COLBlake ComeauENAssists: Carl Soderberg, Francois Beauchemin · Wrist, 0.72 xG4–1
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 1:46COLCody McLeod: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 1:46WPGChris Thorburn: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 16:25COLBlake Comeau: Cross checking2 min
  4. P2 0:22COLNathan MacKinnon: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 15:24WPGDustin Byfuglien: Cross checking2 min · PPG
  6. P2 19:00WPGToby Enstrom: High sticking double minor4 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 SOG0WPG
47% to win54% to win
← COL attackWPG attack →
  1. P1 20:00MacKinnon won the faceoff against Little
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLWPG
29Shots on goal21
3.8Expected goals2.3
44Shot attempts61
21Faceoffs won25
3Power plays2
9Penalty minutes11
17Hits22
20Blocked shots9
13Giveaways13
5Takeaways7

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 – MacKinnon11:31

    xG 0.83–0.22 (79%)attempts 14–9goals 1–1

  2. Comeau – Soderberg – McLeod10:47

    xG 0.93–0.80 (54%)attempts 9–17goals 1–0

  3. Skille – Wagner – Everberg5:00

    xG 0.00–0.03 (0%)attempts 1–5goals 0–0

  4. Iginla – Grigorenko – Martinsen11:31

    xG 0.10–0.19 (33%)attempts 2–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestRedmond – Gormley11:50

    xG 1.04–0.13 (89%)attempts 14–8goals 2–0

  2. Beauchemin – Johnson16:26

    xG 1.22–0.43 (74%)attempts 18–16goals 0–1

  3. Holden – Barrie17:05

    xG 0.12–0.72 (15%)attempts 2–18goals 0–0

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestStafford – Perreault – Scheifele12:30

    xG 0.49–0.38 (57%)attempts 17–4goals 0–2

  2. Peluso – Lowry – Copp7:10

    xG 0.08–0.03 (74%)attempts 8–3goals 0–0

  3. Ladd – Wheeler – Little12:42

    xG 0.59–0.83 (42%)attempts 13–11goals 1–0

  4. Thorburn – Burmistrov – Ehlers8:54

    xG 0.44–0.80 (36%)attempts 9–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestByfuglien – Trouba6:44

    xG 0.31–0.19 (62%)attempts 12–4goals 0–1

  2. Stuart – Trouba10:29

    xG 0.61–0.62 (49%)attempts 11–7goals 0–1

  3. Enstrom – Myers14:47

    xG 0.32–0.57 (36%)attempts 10–9goals 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.

WPG 2.3 xGCOL 3.8 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

WPGCOL

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 COL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 38/100 · #783 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.28 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 22% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50WPG 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +31 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.

WPG winsCOL wins

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

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