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Tue, Nov 8, 2016·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Los Angeles Kings 7, Toronto Maple Leafs 0

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 87% of the time.

TOR winsLAK wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
LAK115416212743
TOR050608019

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 13:56LAKDustin BrownGWGAssists: Nic Dowd · Snap, 0.05 xG1–0
  2. P2 3:23LAKTanner PearsonAssists: Anze Kopitar, Kevin Gravel · Slap, 0.06 xG2–0
  3. P2 5:13LAKTyler ToffoliAssists: Drew Doughty, Derek Forbort · Snap, 0.10 xG3–0
  4. P2 13:33LAKJeff CarterAssists: Dwight King, Matt Greene · Snap, 0.07 xG4–0
  5. P2 18:13LAKJeff CarterAssists: Tyler Toffoli, Derek Forbort · Snap, 0.53 xG5–0
  6. P3 15:59LAKKyle CliffordAssists: Derek Forbort · Tip-in, 0.06 xG6–0
  7. P3 19:13LAKDwight KingAssists: Trevor Lewis, Jake Muzzin · Wrap-around, 0.03 xG7–0
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 7:06TORNikita Zaitsev: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  2. P1 17:41TORRoman Polak: Holding2 min
  3. P2 9:47TORWilliam Nylander: Holding2 min
  4. P2 15:00LAKDevin Setoguchi: Hooking2 min
  5. P3 9:19TORNazem Kadri: Elbowing2 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.

LAK00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0TOR
44% to win56% to win
← LAK attackTOR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Kadri won the faceoff against Kopitar
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

LAKTOR
43Shots on goal19
3.9Expected goals1.5
75Shot attempts38
29Faceoffs won28
4Power plays1
2Penalty minutes8
39Hits39
10Blocked shots18
12Giveaways14
6Takeaways10

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.

Los Angeles Kings

Forward lines

  1. bestCarter – King – Toffoli10:19

    xG 0.94–0.13 (88%)attempts 9–5goals 3–0

  2. Brown – Setoguchi – Dowd9:34

    xG 0.48–0.39 (55%)attempts 12–8goals 1–0

  3. Lewis – Clifford – Shore11:35

    xG 0.40–0.38 (51%)attempts 12–8goals 1–0

  4. Kopitar – Purcell – Pearson10:42

    xG 0.26–0.31 (46%)attempts 13–9goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDoughty – Forbort15:50

    xG 1.24–0.23 (84%)attempts 17–6goals 3–0

  2. Greene – Gravel13:56

    xG 0.34–0.35 (49%)attempts 13–13goals 1–0

  3. Muzzin – Martinez14:06

    xG 0.40–0.59 (40%)attempts 15–12goals 1–0

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestHyman – Nylander – Matthews5:03

    xG 0.21–0.11 (67%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

  2. Komarov – Kadri – Soshnikov4:14

    xG 0.11–0.07 (61%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  3. Martin – Smith – Soshnikov5:19

    xG 0.11–0.08 (58%)attempts 4–3goals 0–1

  4. Hyman – Marner – Matthews5:16

    xG 0.17–0.15 (53%)attempts 4–4goals 0–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestGardiner – Carrick2:38

    xG 0.07–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 0–0

  2. Rielly – Carrick2:02

    xG 0.01–0.12 (10%)attempts 1–3goals 0–1

  3. Marincin – Carrick8:15

    xG 0.28–0.43 (40%)attempts 8–11goals 0–3

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.

TOR 1.5 xGLAK 3.9 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORLAK

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 5/100 · #1148 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.60 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 44% (winner's lowest chance)
LAK 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +17 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 87% of the time.

TOR winsLAK wins

Simulated goal difference (TOR − LAK), 10,000 replays

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