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Thu, Oct 20, 2016·Amalie Arena, Tampa

Colorado Avalanche 4, Tampa Bay Lightning 0

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 63% of the time.

TBL winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL171722416
TBL05010012027

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 19:35COLMatt DucheneGWGAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Fedor Tyutin · Wrist, 0.27 xG1–0
  2. P2 19:08COLMatt DucheneAssists: Patrick Wiercioch, Mikhail Grigorenko · Tip-in, 0.08 xG2–0
  3. P3 7:53COLAndreas MartinsenAssists: Joe Colborne, Patrick Wiercioch · Wrist, 0.01 xG3–0
  4. P3 12:22COLCarl SoderbergAssists: Matt Duchene, Nikita Zadorov · Snap, 0.04 xG4–0
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 2:22TBLBrian Boyle: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 2:22COLCody McLeod: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 2:38COLMikhail Grigorenko: Tripping2 min
  4. P1 4:43TBLValtteri Filppula: Hooking2 min
  5. P1 17:23COLJarome Iginla: Tripping2 min
  6. P2 11:52COLJarome Iginla: Hooking2 min
  7. P3 9:50TBLSteven Stamkos: 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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0TBL
44% to win56% to win
← COL attackTBL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Soderberg won the faceoff against Filppula
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLTBL
16Shots on goal27
2.7Expected goals2.1
36Shot attempts60
27Faceoffs won28
2Power plays3
11Penalty minutes9
32Hits29
19Blocked shots7
5Giveaways6
4Takeaways10

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.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. McLeod – Smith – Bourque3:26

    xG 0.02–0.05 (23%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

  2. Comeau – Colborne – Martinsen8:33

    xG 0.07–0.14 (32%)attempts 4–9goals 1–0

  3. Iginla – Landeskog – MacKinnon11:52

    xG 0.34–0.46 (43%)attempts 10–12goals 0–0

  4. Soderberg – Duchene – Grigorenko8:30

    xG 0.17–0.40 (30%)attempts 5–7goals 2–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBarrie – Zadorov2:51

    xG 0.17–0.04 (80%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  2. Beauchemin – Barrie2:29

    xG 0.06–0.03 (69%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  3. Johnson – Zadorov8:35

    xG 0.06–0.09 (39%)attempts 3–4goals 1–0

Tampa Bay Lightning

Forward lines

  1. bestFilppula – Namestnikov – Point10:46

    xG 0.51–0.27 (65%)attempts 8–7goals 0–0

  2. Stamkos – Palat – Kucherov3:57

    xG 0.27–0.04 (87%)attempts 8–2goals 0–1

  3. Killorn – Johnson – Drouin4:38

    xG 0.06–0.06 (50%)attempts 6–3goals 0–1

  4. Boyle – Brown – Paquette7:17

    xG 0.08–0.10 (44%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStralman – Hedman10:52

    xG 0.49–0.19 (72%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

  2. Coburn – Sustr5:05

    xG 0.28–0.09 (76%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  3. Garrison – Sustr6:06

    xG 0.27–0.13 (67%)attempts 6–3goals 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.

TBL 2.1 xGCOL 2.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TBLCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 9/100 · #1106 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.72 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 43% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50TBL 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, Colorado Avalanche win this game 63% of the time.

TBL winsCOL wins

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

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