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Sat, Oct 15, 2016·Scottrade Center, St. Louis

New York Rangers 2, St. Louis Blues 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, New York Rangers win this game 75% of the time.

STL winsNYR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
NYR18112015235
STL2111700318

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:13STLVladimir TarasenkoAssists: Colton Parayko · Wrist, 0.21 xG0–1
  2. P1 5:25NYRChris KreiderAssists: Mika Zibanejad, Dan Girardi · Wrist, 0.06 xG1–1
  3. P1 17:32STLPaul StastnyAssists: Robby Fabbri, Alexander Steen · Wrist, 0.40 xG1–2
  4. P2 2:28STLAlex PietrangeloPPGWGAssists: Paul Stastny, Vladimir Tarasenko · Snap, 0.10 xG1–3
  5. P2 2:58NYRMika ZibanejadAssists: Chris Kreider, Nick Holden · Backhand, 0.06 xG2–3
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 7:34NYRDan Girardi: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 13:11STLNail Yakupov: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 2:22NYRJ.T. Miller: High sticking2 min · PPG
  4. P2 8:27NYRJesper Fast: Holding2 min
  5. P2 12:51NYRRyan McDonagh: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  6. P3 5:27NYRChris Kreider: Too many men on the ice2 min
  7. P3 8:40STLColton Parayko: Holding2 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.

NYR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
44% to win56% to win
← NYR attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Zibanejad won the faceoff against Stastny
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

NYRSTL
35Shots on goal18
3.0Expected goals1.6
62Shot attempts30
33Faceoffs won24
2Power plays5
10Penalty minutes4
23Hits14
7Blocked shots13
2Giveaways2
6Takeaways7

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.

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. bestKreider – Zibanejad – Buchnevich11:05

    xG 0.77–0.65 (54%)attempts 18–5goals 2–1

  2. Stepan – Zuccarello – Vesey12:13

    xG 0.25–0.18 (57%)attempts 9–9goals 0–0

  3. Nash – Hayes – Miller7:53

    xG 0.38–0.32 (54%)attempts 7–4goals 0–1

  4. Grabner – Pirri – Fast5:18

    xG 0.00–0.05 (4%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMcDonagh – Clendening6:35

    xG 1.12–0.12 (90%)attempts 14–2goals 0–0

  2. Holden – Skjei3:31

    xG 0.07–0.03 (68%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  3. Staal – McDonagh4:17

    xG 0.07–0.04 (66%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSteen – Stastny – Fabbri7:59

    xG 0.65–0.27 (70%)attempts 6–11goals 1–1

  2. Perron – Lehtera – Tarasenko7:19

    xG 0.35–0.15 (70%)attempts 5–8goals 1–0

  3. Upshall – Brodziak – Reaves2:00

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–0goals 0–0

  4. Upshall – Stastny – Perron4:23

    xG 0.00–0.27 (0%)attempts 0–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Shattenkirk – Gunnarsson9:13

    xG 0.11–0.17 (40%)attempts 4–7goals 0–0

  2. Edmundson – Parayko12:44

    xG 0.47–0.60 (44%)attempts 7–19goals 1–1

  3. Bouwmeester – Pietrangelo15:10

    xG 0.68–1.01 (40%)attempts 11–20goals 1–1

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.

STL 1.6 xGNYR 3.0 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLNYR

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 34/100 · #771 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.15 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 55% (winner's lowest chance)
NYR 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +19 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, New York Rangers win this game 75% of the time.

STL winsNYR wins

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

-7
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-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).