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Tue, Dec 15, 2015·MTS Centre, Winnipeg

St. Louis Blues 4, Winnipeg Jets 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 57% of the time.

WPG winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
STL01021224426
WPG110213013336

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:10WPGMark ScheifeleAssists: Tyler Myers, Mathieu Perreault · Deflected, 0.12 xG0–1
  2. P2 0:16STLTroy BrouwerAssists: David Backes, Jay Bouwmeester · Snap, 0.07 xG1–1
  3. P2 5:54WPGChris ThorburnAssists: Blake Wheeler, Tyler Myers · Slap, 0.07 xG1–2
  4. P2 8:30WPGDrew StaffordAssists: Mathieu Perreault, Mark Scheifele · Wrist, 0.18 xG1–3
  5. P2 18:25STLAlexander SteenPPAssists: Kevin Shattenkirk, Vladimir Tarasenko · Slap, 0.04 xG2–3
  6. P3 0:51STLVladimir TarasenkoPPAssists: Kevin Shattenkirk, Alexander Steen · Snap, 0.05 xG3–3
  7. P3 16:22STLPaul StastnyGWGAssists: Vladimir Tarasenko, Alexander Steen · Wrist, 0.06 xG4–3
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 12:45STLJori Lehtera: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 13:38WPGBen Chiarot: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 18:03WPGAdam Lowry: Holding2 min · PPG
  4. P2 19:20WPGMark Scheifele: Cross checking2 min · PPG
  5. P2 19:20WPGMark Scheifele: Roughing2 min
  6. P2 19:20STLColton Parayko: Roughing2 min
  7. P3 4:04STLMagnus Paajarvi: Slashing2 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.

STL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLWPG
26Shots on goal36
2.3Expected goals2.8
56Shot attempts66
30Faceoffs won26
3Power plays2
6Penalty minutes8
16Hits30
22Blocked shots19
9Giveaways12
2Takeaways4

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.

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSteen – Stastny – Tarasenko8:22

    xG 0.63–0.29 (68%)attempts 10–9goals 1–0

  2. Steen – Backes – Brouwer4:41

    xG 0.34–0.14 (70%)attempts 6–7goals 0–0

  3. Lehtera – Jaskin – Fabbri10:44

    xG 0.55–0.42 (57%)attempts 13–11goals 0–1

  4. Stastny – Paajarvi – Tarasenko4:12

    xG 0.12–0.17 (42%)attempts 4–3goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestShattenkirk – Lindbohm10:00

    xG 0.57–0.35 (62%)attempts 16–11goals 0–1

  2. Shattenkirk – Gunnarsson4:19

    xG 0.00–0.01 (0%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  3. Bouwmeester – Pietrangelo16:07

    xG 0.73–1.00 (42%)attempts 17–23goals 1–1

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestStafford – Perreault – Scheifele10:45

    xG 0.99–0.51 (66%)attempts 20–9goals 2–2

  2. Peluso – Lowry – Copp7:35

    xG 0.23–0.22 (51%)attempts 8–6goals 0–0

  3. Thorburn – Burmistrov – Ehlers7:45

    xG 0.06–0.09 (41%)attempts 5–9goals 0–0

  4. Ladd – Wheeler – Little13:26

    xG 0.67–0.79 (46%)attempts 14–16goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestEnstrom – Myers18:03

    xG 0.89–0.51 (63%)attempts 25–12goals 1–1

  2. Byfuglien – Trouba14:11

    xG 0.98–0.77 (56%)attempts 18–13goals 1–1

  3. Stuart – Chiarot14:06

    xG 0.27–0.54 (34%)attempts 10–16goals 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 2.8 xGSTL 2.3 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

WPGSTL

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 STL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 80/100 · #230 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.92 · 7 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 7% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50WPG 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +41 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 57% of the time.

WPG winsSTL wins

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

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