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Mon, Jan 25, 2016·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Arizona Coyotes 2, Minnesota Wild 1 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 62% of the time.

MIN winsARI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
ARI0402117011224
MIN013011111000135

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P3 10:20MINCharlie CoyleAssists: Nino Niederreiter, Mikko Koivu · Backhand, 0.29 xG0–1
  2. P3 18:47ARIAntoine VermetteSHAssists: Tobias Rieder · Deflected, 0.01 xG1–1

Shootout

  1. 1. MIN Zach Parise stopped
  2. 2. ARI Mikkel Boedker stopped
  3. 3. MIN Mikko Koivu stopped
  4. 4. ARI Anthony Duclair scored
  5. 5. MIN Charlie Coyle stopped
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 15:22ARIMartin Hanzal: Interference2 min
  2. P2 9:04MINErik Haula: Hooking2 min
  3. P3 12:38MINMikael Granlund: Hooking2 min
  4. P3 18:36ARIMartin Hanzal: Roughing2 min
  5. OT 1:52MINCharlie Coyle: High sticking2 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.

ARI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MIN
47% to win54% to win
← ARI attackMIN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Richardson won the faceoff against Granlund
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ARIMIN
24Shots on goal35
1.7Expected goals2.3
56Shot attempts61
35Faceoffs won35
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
16Hits21
19Blocked shots15
5Giveaways5
9Takeaways4

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.

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestGordon – Chipchura – Duclair5:00

    xG 0.45–0.14 (76%)attempts 8–4goals 0–0

  2. Gordon – Chipchura – Tikhonov3:59

    xG 0.20–0.01 (96%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  3. Hanzal – Duclair – Domi6:20

    xG 0.32–0.23 (58%)attempts 11–4goals 0–0

  4. Doan – Richardson – Martinook9:56

    xG 0.12–0.07 (63%)attempts 7–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestEkman-Larsson – Murphy18:23

    xG 0.71–0.23 (76%)attempts 15–13goals 0–0

  2. Michalek – Tinordi13:10

    xG 0.12–0.37 (24%)attempts 7–14goals 0–0

  3. Stone – Connauton14:48

    xG 0.16–0.93 (15%)attempts 13–19goals 0–1

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestKoivu – Coyle – Niederreiter12:58

    xG 0.57–0.07 (89%)attempts 15–5goals 1–0

  2. Pominville – Parise – Granlund15:11

    xG 0.69–0.25 (74%)attempts 21–9goals 0–0

  3. Porter – Haula – Fontaine5:26

    xG 0.31–0.16 (66%)attempts 7–3goals 0–0

  4. Stoll – Vanek – Zucker9:47

    xG 0.18–0.67 (21%)attempts 6–19goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSuter – Spurgeon21:23

    xG 0.76–0.62 (55%)attempts 17–17goals 0–0

  2. Brodin – Dumba8:58

    xG 0.16–0.10 (62%)attempts 8–5goals 0–0

  3. Scandella – Brodin4:46

    xG 0.37–0.32 (54%)attempts 4–8goals 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.

MIN 2.3 xGARI 1.7 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINARI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 50/100 · #587 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.61 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 5% (winner's lowest chance)
ARI 100%5050%50MIN 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +34 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 62% of the time.

MIN winsARI wins

Simulated goal difference (MIN − ARI), 10,000 replays

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