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Sat, Feb 6, 2016·Pepsi Center, Denver

Winnipeg Jets 4, Colorado Avalanche 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 58% of the time.

COL winsWPG wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
WPG111217111439
COL17112015234

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 5:40COLMikhail GrigorenkoPPAssists: Jarome Iginla, Francois Beauchemin · Wrist, 0.32 xG0–1
  2. P1 18:07WPGAndrew LaddUnassisted · Wrist, 0.08 xG1–1
  3. P2 2:54WPGDrew StaffordAssists: Mark Scheifele · Wrist, 0.09 xG2–1
  4. P2 10:37WPGDrew StaffordPPGWGAssists: Jacob Trouba, Mathieu Perreault · Wrist, 0.07 xG3–1
  5. P2 14:12COLMatt DucheneAssists: Andrew Bodnarchuk, Nathan MacKinnon · Wrist, 0.16 xG3–2
  6. P3 9:17WPGMathieu PerreaultAssists: Drew Stafford · Wrist, 0.11 xG4–2
Penalties (20)
  1. P1 2:46COLCody McLeod: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 2:46WPGChris Thorburn: Fighting5 min · PPG
  3. P1 5:31WPGDustin Byfuglien: Tripping2 min
  4. P2 9:38COLGabriel Landeskog: Holding2 min · PPG
  5. P2 10:37COLAndreas Martinsen: Abuse of officials2 min
  6. P2 10:45WPGJacob Trouba: Hooking2 min
  7. P2 15:15WPGDrew Stafford: High sticking2 min
  8. P2 15:15WPGDrew Stafford: High sticking2 min
  9. P2 15:15COLNick Holden: Hooking2 min
  10. P3 10:30WPGNikolaj Ehlers: Fighting5 min
  11. P3 10:30COLTyson Barrie: Fighting5 min
  12. P3 10:30WPGDustin Byfuglien: Roughing2 min
  13. P3 10:30COLGabriel Landeskog: Roughing2 min
  14. P3 10:30COLNick Holden: Roughing2 min
  15. P3 10:30WPGDustin Byfuglien: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  16. P3 10:30WPGBlake Wheeler: Roughing2 min
  17. P3 14:26WPGMark Scheifele: Roughing2 min
  18. P3 14:26COLBlake Comeau: Roughing2 min
  19. P3 14:26WPGMark Scheifele: Misconduct10 min
  20. P3 14:26COLBlake Comeau: Misconduct10 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.

WPG00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0COL
47% to win54% to win
← WPG attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Little won the faceoff against Soderberg
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

WPGCOL
39Shots on goal34
2.8Expected goals2.3
71Shot attempts60
40Faceoffs won38
2Power plays4
36Penalty minutes32
27Hits21
17Blocked shots18
0Giveaways8
11Takeaways0

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.

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestLadd – Lowry – Armia11:43

    xG 0.64–0.24 (72%)attempts 14–11goals 1–0

  2. Stafford – Perreault – Scheifele10:11

    xG 0.50–0.24 (68%)attempts 16–10goals 2–0

  3. Wheeler – Little – Ehlers12:37

    xG 0.45–0.20 (69%)attempts 20–9goals 0–0

  4. Thorburn – Burmistrov – Copp6:17

    xG 0.35–0.84 (30%)attempts 9–8goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestMyers – Chiarot15:43

    xG 0.88–0.25 (78%)attempts 24–14goals 2–0

  2. Enstrom – Byfuglien16:03

    xG 0.97–0.52 (65%)attempts 25–11goals 1–0

  3. Stuart – Trouba13:38

    xG 0.48–0.79 (38%)attempts 12–17goals 0–1

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestDuchene – Grigorenko – MacKinnon13:01

    xG 1.09–0.49 (69%)attempts 18–15goals 1–2

  2. Iginla – Tanguay – Wagner3:30

    xG 0.17–0.04 (81%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  3. McLeod – Wagner – Martinsen2:16

    xG 0.01–0.03 (28%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  4. Mitchell – McLeod – Martinsen4:41

    xG 0.02–0.36 (5%)attempts 3–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBodnarchuk – Bigras11:21

    xG 0.62–0.50 (55%)attempts 13–11goals 1–0

  2. Johnson – Bigras2:52

    xG 0.08–0.05 (61%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  3. Beauchemin – Holden3:29

    xG 0.05–0.23 (18%)attempts 4–6goals 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.

COL 2.3 xGWPG 2.8 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLWPG

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 45/100 · #650 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.32 · 6 goals in reachComeback index 28% (winner's lowest chance)
WPG 100%5050%50COL 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, Winnipeg Jets win this game 58% of the time.

COL winsWPG wins

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

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