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Sat, Nov 26, 2016·Pepsi Center, Denver

Vancouver Canucks 3, Colorado Avalanche 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 54% of the time.

COL winsVAN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
VAN1901118031331
COL07111113040235

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:46VANLoui ErikssonPPAssists: Markus Granlund, Ben Hutton · Wrist, 0.12 xG1–0
  2. P2 11:15COLMikhail GrigorenkoAssists: Matt Duchene, Carl Soderberg · Wrist, 0.14 xG1–1
  3. P3 1:26VANAlexandre BurrowsAssists: Bo Horvat · Wrist, 0.13 xG2–1
  4. P3 3:56COLJarome IginlaAssists: Fedor Tyutin, Blake Comeau · Wrist, 0.01 xG2–2

Shootout

  1. 1. COL Nathan MacKinnon stopped
  2. 2. VAN Markus Granlund scored
  3. 3. COL Mikko Rantanen stopped
  4. 4. VAN Loui Eriksson stopped
  5. 5. COL Matt Duchene stopped
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 2:00COLNikita Zadorov: Tripping2 min · PPG
  2. P1 13:28VANJoseph LaBate: Holding2 min
  3. P1 19:16VANTroy Stecher: Holding2 min
  4. P2 3:01VANJacob Markstrom: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 14:09COLCody McLeod: Fighting5 min
  6. P2 14:09VANJoseph LaBate: Fighting5 min
  7. P2 16:39COLJohn Mitchell: Holding2 min
  8. P3 5:39VANNikita Tryamkin: Hooking2 min
  9. OT 4:39COLCarl Soderberg: Slashing2 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 SOG0COL
44% to win56% to win
← VAN attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00MacKinnon won the faceoff against Sedin
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

VANCOL
31Shots on goal35
2.8Expected goals3.0
48Shot attempts66
23Faceoffs won35
3Power plays4
13Penalty minutes11
15Hits14
14Blocked shots7
1Giveaways5
9Takeaways6

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. bestBurrows – Megna – Horvat8:30

    xG 0.88–0.18 (83%)attempts 7–8goals 0–0

  2. Sedin – Sedin – Sutter13:03

    xG 0.51–0.24 (68%)attempts 7–9goals 0–0

  3. Skille – LaBate – Gaunce3:20

    xG 0.02–0.12 (13%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

  4. Eriksson – Chaput – Granlund9:55

    xG 0.18–0.51 (26%)attempts 9–12goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestEdler – Stecher3:01

    xG 0.10–0.02 (85%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  2. Hutton – Tryamkin7:08

    xG 0.14–0.07 (66%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  3. Sbisa – Tryamkin9:20

    xG 0.33–0.31 (52%)attempts 8–5goals 1–0

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestBourque – MacKinnon – Rantanen9:59

    xG 0.28–0.11 (71%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  2. McLeod – Colborne – Martinsen2:17

    xG 0.04–0.02 (67%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

  3. Soderberg – Duchene – Grigorenko9:38

    xG 0.29–0.35 (45%)attempts 7–6goals 1–1

  4. Mitchell – Comeau – Martinsen2:58

    xG 0.00–0.32 (0%)attempts 0–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestTyutin – Johnson13:12

    xG 0.51–0.25 (67%)attempts 16–7goals 1–0

  2. Beauchemin – Zadorov13:10

    xG 0.42–0.46 (48%)attempts 14–8goals 1–1

  3. Wiercioch – Barrie14:39

    xG 0.46–0.84 (35%)attempts 13–11goals 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 3.0 xGVAN 2.8 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLVAN

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 VAN. Dots are goals.

Excitement 59/100 · #460 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.80 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 41% (winner's lowest chance)
VAN 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +26 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 54% of the time.

COL winsVAN wins

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

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