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Thu, Dec 15, 2016·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Arizona Coyotes 3, Toronto Maple Leafs 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 51% of the time.

TOR winsARI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
ARI0728012031330
TOR12118013040246

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 19:52TORAuston MatthewsPPAssists: William Nylander, Jake Gardiner · Snap, 0.07 xG0–1
  2. P2 1:10ARIJordan MartinookAssists: Radim Vrbata, Brendan Perlini · Snap, 0.28 xG1–1
  3. P2 3:24ARIOliver Ekman-LarssonPPAssists: Tobias Rieder, Tony DeAngelo · Snap, 0.09 xG2–1
  4. P2 13:56TORMitch MarnerAssists: Roman Polak, Matt Hunwick · Wrist, 0.05 xG2–2

Shootout

  1. 1. TOR Tyler Bozak stopped
  2. 2. ARI Anthony Duclair stopped
  3. 3. TOR Mitch Marner stopped
  4. 4. ARI Radim Vrbata stopped
  5. 5. TOR James van Riemsdyk stopped
  6. 6. ARI Peter Holland scored
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 15:31ARILuke Schenn: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 19:17ARIMichael Stone: Holding2 min · PPG
  3. P2 2:09TORBen Smith: Hooking2 min · PPG
  4. P2 2:42TORZach Hyman: Cross checking2 min
  5. P2 16:09ARIMartin Hanzal: Slashing2 min
  6. P2 17:24ARILuke Schenn: Boarding2 min
  7. P3 2:45TORAuston Matthews: High sticking double minor4 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.

ARI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ARITOR
30Shots on goal46
4.0Expected goals4.0
59Shot attempts85
24Faceoffs won35
4Power plays4
8Penalty minutes8
33Hits29
23Blocked shots13
18Giveaways15
10Takeaways14

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.

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestDoan – Rieder – Martinook9:53

    xG 0.57–0.41 (58%)attempts 9–14goals 0–1

  2. McGinn – Holland – Duclair10:41

    xG 0.48–0.43 (53%)attempts 14–15goals 0–0

  3. Vrbata – Hanzal – Perlini9:44

    xG 0.10–0.49 (17%)attempts 6–12goals 0–0

  4. White – Dvorak – Crouse7:21

    xG 0.10–0.75 (11%)attempts 5–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStone – Chychrun10:29

    xG 0.75–0.39 (66%)attempts 12–10goals 0–0

  2. Goligoski – Stone2:51

    xG 0.00–0.10 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

  3. Schenn – Ekman-Larsson16:57

    xG 0.29–0.82 (26%)attempts 10–28goals 0–1

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestKomarov – Kadri – Brown9:33

    xG 0.80–0.12 (87%)attempts 15–7goals 0–0

  2. Martin – Smith – Soshnikov4:19

    xG 0.53–0.02 (96%)attempts 8–3goals 0–0

  3. van Riemsdyk – Bozak – Marner13:40

    xG 0.58–0.48 (55%)attempts 17–8goals 1–0

  4. Hyman – Nylander – Matthews10:57

    xG 0.47–0.53 (47%)attempts 14–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGardiner – Carrick18:37

    xG 1.01–0.50 (67%)attempts 23–17goals 0–0

  2. Rielly – Zaitsev14:42

    xG 0.87–1.01 (46%)attempts 20–16goals 0–1

  3. Polak – Hunwick11:24

    xG 0.51–0.77 (40%)attempts 17–10goals 1–0

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.

TOR 4.0 xGARI 4.0 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORARI

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 ARI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 50/100 · #562 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.65 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 25% (winner's lowest chance)
ARI 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +21 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Toronto Maple Leafs win this game 51% of the time.

TOR winsARI wins

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

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