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Tue, Feb 2, 2016·Bridgestone Arena, Nashville

St. Louis Blues 1, Nashville Predators 0

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 56% of the time.

NSH winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
STL0407112123
NSH080305016

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P3 18:55STLTroy BrouwerGWGAssists: Alex Pietrangelo, Robby Fabbri · Tip-in, 0.14 xG1–0
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 7:42NSHMattias Ekholm: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  2. P1 12:45STLAlex Pietrangelo: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 18:51STLAlexander Steen: Interference2 min
  4. P2 5:33STLJoel Edmundson: Slashing2 min
  5. P2 10:50NSHMattias Ekholm: Holding2 min
  6. P3 9:40NSHRyan Johansen: 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 SOG0NSH
47% to win54% to win
← STL attackNSH attack →
  1. P1 20:00Steen won the faceoff against Ribeiro
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLNSH
23Shots on goal16
1.8Expected goals1.6
46Shot attempts38
20Faceoffs won26
3Power plays3
6Penalty minutes6
19Hits22
14Blocked shots16
9Giveaways22
7Takeaways1

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. bestStastny – Paajarvi – Tarasenko10:47

    xG 0.79–0.13 (86%)attempts 9–4goals 0–0

  2. Steen – Backes – Berglund11:07

    xG 0.22–0.17 (56%)attempts 6–7goals 0–0

  3. Brouwer – Lehtera – Fabbri9:54

    xG 0.08–0.25 (24%)attempts 7–10goals 0–0

  4. Upshall – Brodziak – Jaskin5:44

    xG 0.08–0.39 (17%)attempts 3–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBouwmeester – Pietrangelo14:26

    xG 1.01–0.64 (61%)attempts 15–12goals 1–0

  2. Shattenkirk – Edmundson11:30

    xG 0.05–0.05 (51%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  3. Gunnarsson – Parayko11:23

    xG 0.07–0.28 (21%)attempts 5–10goals 0–0

Nashville Predators

Forward lines

  1. bestFisher – Watson – Arvidsson7:29

    xG 0.18–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–0goals 0–0

  2. Gaustad – Bass – Salomaki5:31

    xG 0.08–0.02 (82%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  3. Neal – Johansen – Forsberg9:41

    xG 0.55–0.75 (42%)attempts 10–12goals 0–0

  4. Ribeiro – Smith – Jarnkrok10:22

    xG 0.10–0.35 (23%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJackman – Ellis13:20

    xG 0.72–0.12 (85%)attempts 16–8goals 0–0

  2. Ellis – Ekholm2:58

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  3. Ekholm – Granberg10:49

    xG 0.18–0.31 (37%)attempts 6–10goals 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.

NSH 1.6 xGSTL 1.8 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NSHSTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 12/100 · #1089 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.99 · 1 goal in reachComeback index 44% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50NSH 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +46 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 56% of the time.

NSH winsSTL wins

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

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