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Sat, Nov 5, 2016·Pepsi Center, Denver

Minnesota Wild 0, Colorado Avalanche 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 56% of the time.

COL winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN01501205032
COL010012110132

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P3 10:23COLGabriel LandeskogPPGWGAssists: Matt Duchene, Mikko Rantanen · Wrist, 0.23 xG0–1
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 8:25COLNikita Zadorov: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 18:54COLFedor Tyutin: Interference2 min
  3. P2 0:37MINRyan Suter: Slashing2 min
  4. P2 0:37MINMathew Dumba: Cross checking2 min
  5. P2 4:18COLFedor Tyutin: Interference2 min
  6. P3 4:37COLGabriel Landeskog: Roughing2 min
  7. P3 4:37MINDevan Dubnyk: Slashing2 min
  8. P3 4:37MINDevan Dubnyk: Roughing2 min
  9. P3 9:30MINChristoph Bertschy: Holding the stick2 min · PPG

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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0COL
44% to win56% to win
← MIN attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Koivu won the faceoff against Duchene
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINCOL
32Shots on goal32
1.8Expected goals1.5
52Shot attempts47
32Faceoffs won35
3Power plays4
10Penalty minutes8
10Hits19
9Blocked shots12
5Giveaways2
8Takeaways8

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.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestStaal – Coyle – Niederreiter2:08

    xG 0.21–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

  2. Niederreiter – Graovac – Bertschy6:05

    xG 0.17–0.03 (85%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

  3. Staal – Zucker – Coyle10:26

    xG 0.37–0.27 (58%)attempts 11–11goals 0–0

  4. Koivu – Pominville – Granlund13:47

    xG 0.24–0.23 (51%)attempts 17–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrodin – Dumba2:11

    xG 0.08–0.02 (81%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  2. Spurgeon – Brodin2:34

    xG 0.08–0.04 (71%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  3. Suter – Spurgeon3:54

    xG 0.04–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestDuchene – MacKinnon – Rantanen13:53

    xG 0.45–0.11 (80%)attempts 16–10goals 0–0

  2. Bourque – Colborne – Grigorenko9:08

    xG 0.24–0.25 (49%)attempts 8–8goals 0–0

  3. Mitchell – Comeau – Martinsen5:25

    xG 0.02–0.09 (18%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

  4. Iginla – Soderberg – Landeskog9:38

    xG 0.05–0.42 (11%)attempts 3–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestTyutin – Barrie14:03

    xG 0.35–0.17 (67%)attempts 14–13goals 0–0

  2. Beauchemin – Zadorov2:04

    xG 0.00–0.04 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

  3. Beauchemin – Wiercioch10:57

    xG 0.13–0.24 (36%)attempts 6–7goals 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 1.5 xGMIN 1.8 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLMIN

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 MIN. Dots are goals.

Excitement 9/100 · #1101 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.75 · 1 goal in reachComeback index 53% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +30 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 56% of the time.

COL winsMIN wins

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

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