Skip to content
Ice Lab

Tue, Mar 22, 2016·MTS Centre, Winnipeg

Vancouver Canucks 0, Winnipeg Jets 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 87% of the time.

WPG winsVAN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
VAN0100909028
WPG013019217249

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P3 2:30WPGAdam LowryGWGAssists: Matt Halischuk, Chris Thorburn · Backhand, 0.22 xG0–1
  2. P3 19:37WPGMark ScheifeleENAssists: Blake Wheeler · Wrist, 0.75 xG0–2
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 4:50VANJared McCann: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 9:24WPGMarko Dano: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 7:08VANNikita Tryamkin: Hooking2 min
  4. P2 14:46VANAlex Biega: Cross checking2 min
  5. P2 17:48WPGNic Petan: 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.

VAN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

VANWPG
28Shots on goal49
2.1Expected goals4.7
46Shot attempts73
19Faceoffs won28
2Power plays3
6Penalty minutes4
17Hits19
11Blocked shots10
5Giveaways7
7Takeaways9

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.

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. Baertschi – Horvat – Virtanen8:52

    xG 0.11–0.17 (39%)attempts 3–8goals 0–0

  2. Sedin – Sedin – Burrows9:53

    xG 0.30–0.60 (33%)attempts 10–10goals 0–0

  3. Higgins – Grenier – Gaunce8:51

    xG 0.32–0.78 (29%)attempts 9–11goals 0–1

  4. Vey – Etem – McCann9:58

    xG 0.16–0.70 (18%)attempts 4–13goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHamhuis – Tryamkin14:57

    xG 0.54–0.45 (55%)attempts 10–16goals 0–0

  2. Hamhuis – Bartkowski2:31

    xG 0.02–0.12 (13%)attempts 1–6goals 0–0

  3. Biega – Tryamkin2:06

    xG 0.01–0.13 (9%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestThorburn – Halischuk – Lowry8:30

    xG 1.20–0.08 (94%)attempts 21–4goals 1–0

  2. Wheeler – Scheifele – Petan14:52

    xG 1.05–0.58 (64%)attempts 25–14goals 0–0

  3. Stafford – Burmistrov – Dano11:41

    xG 0.48–0.29 (62%)attempts 9–6goals 0–0

  4. Kosmachuk – Copp – De Leo7:51

    xG 0.18–0.09 (67%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPostma – Chiarot12:08

    xG 0.95–0.11 (90%)attempts 18–8goals 1–0

  2. Byfuglien – Trouba15:32

    xG 0.99–0.49 (67%)attempts 21–14goals 0–0

  3. Myers – Melchiori15:24

    xG 0.41–0.30 (58%)attempts 14–9goals 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 4.7 xGVAN 2.1 xG
012345P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

WPGVAN

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 VAN. Dots are goals.

Excitement 10/100 · #1121 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.78 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 51% (winner's lowest chance)
VAN 100%5050%50WPG 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +29 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 87% of the time.

WPG winsVAN wins

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

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7

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