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Mon, Jan 18, 2016·MTS Centre, Winnipeg

Colorado Avalanche 2, Winnipeg Jets 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 58% of the time.

WPG winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL01021608234
WPG01209116137

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 1:16COLCarl SoderbergAssists: Nick Holden, Blake Comeau · Wrist, 0.39 xG1–0
  2. P2 19:42COLJarome IginlaPPGWGAssists: Carl Soderberg, Alex Tanguay · Wrist, 0.07 xG2–0
  3. P3 19:18WPGJoel ArmiaAssists: Mathieu Perreault, Nikolaj Ehlers · Wrist, 0.16 xG2–1
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 5:51COLJack Skille: Too many men on the ice2 min
  2. P1 11:39WPGBryan Little: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 18:48WPGBlake Wheeler: Interference2 min · PPG
  4. P3 15:21COLTyson Barrie: 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.

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
34Shots on goal37
3.4Expected goals2.9
50Shot attempts72
26Faceoffs won22
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
22Hits25
21Blocked shots8
14Giveaways13
1Takeaways13

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. Comeau – Soderberg – Landeskog12:00

    xG 0.29–0.28 (51%)attempts 10–12goals 0–0

  2. Mitchell – McLeod – Skille9:06

    xG 0.30–0.35 (46%)attempts 7–8goals 0–0

  3. Iginla – Wagner – Martinsen8:42

    xG 0.00–0.10 (0%)attempts 2–9goals 0–0

  4. Tanguay – Duchene – MacKinnon13:28

    xG 0.66–1.25 (35%)attempts 16–21goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestRedmond – Bigras12:38

    xG 0.59–0.38 (61%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

  2. Holden – Barrie14:42

    xG 0.29–0.29 (50%)attempts 10–16goals 0–0

  3. Beauchemin – Zadorov19:55

    xG 1.02–1.26 (45%)attempts 22–26goals 0–0

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestLadd – Wheeler – Little13:24

    xG 0.91–0.18 (83%)attempts 26–10goals 0–0

  2. Perreault – Armia – Ehlers10:45

    xG 0.45–0.09 (84%)attempts 8–5goals 0–0

  3. Peluso – Lipon – Copp5:06

    xG 0.06–0.30 (17%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

  4. Thorburn – Halischuk – Burmistrov11:08

    xG 0.42–0.68 (39%)attempts 11–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestEnstrom – Myers17:22

    xG 1.41–0.60 (70%)attempts 30–14goals 0–0

  2. Byfuglien – Trouba18:21

    xG 0.51–0.76 (40%)attempts 16–11goals 0–0

  3. Stuart – Chiarot9:41

    xG 0.06–0.32 (17%)attempts 7–8goals 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.

WPG 2.9 xGCOL 3.4 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 12/100 · #1077 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.75 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 44% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50WPG 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +23 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 58% of the time.

WPG winsCOL wins

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

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