Tue, Dec 20, 2016·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul
Colorado Avalanche 0, Minnesota Wild 2
Expected result
Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 94% of the time.
By period
Goals and shots on goal in each period.
| Team | P1 | P2 | P3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COL | 06 | 09 | 03 | 018 |
| MIN | 110 | 117 | 06 | 233 |
Goals, with shots on goal in grey.
Scoring
Every goal, with the change it made to the home team's win probability.
- P1 14:14MINCharlie CoylePPGWGAssists: Eric Staal, Mathew Dumba · Wrist, 0.25 xG0–1
- P2 8:21MINMikko KoivuAssists: Mathew Dumba, Mikael Granlund · Wrist, 0.17 xG0–2
Penalties (10)
- P1 12:56COLMikhail Grigorenko: Holding2 min · PPG
- P2 3:17MINJared Spurgeon: Tripping2 min
- P3 3:42MINMikael Granlund: Holding2 min
- P3 7:36MINJared Spurgeon: Hooking2 min
- P3 9:56MINJason Zucker: Roughing2 min
- P3 9:56COLBlake Comeau: Tripping2 min
- P3 9:56COLGabriel Landeskog: Roughing2 min
- P3 11:13MINNino Niederreiter: Holding2 min
- P3 15:30MINZach Parise: Tripping2 min
- P3 17:02COLNathan MacKinnon: Interference2 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.
20:00
P1
- P1 20:00Koivu won the faceoff against MacKinnon
- Goal
- Shot
- Miss
- Block
- Hit
- Takeaway
- Giveaway
- Faceoff
- Penalty
The numbers
Team totals, side by side.
Line combinations that worked
Model-basedEach 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
- Mitchell – McLeod – Colborne5:10
xG 0.00–0.12 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0
- Comeau – Soderberg – Grigorenko8:12
xG 0.09–0.22 (28%)attempts 7–4goals 0–1
- Bourque – Landeskog – MacKinnon11:50
xG 0.13–0.28 (32%)attempts 7–9goals 0–0
- Iginla – Duchene – Rantanen9:40
xG 0.22–0.60 (27%)attempts 10–16goals 0–0
Defence pairs
- Tyutin – Barrie11:46
xG 0.12–0.23 (35%)attempts 5–8goals 0–0
- Barrie – Zadorov6:32
xG 0.01–0.16 (8%)attempts 2–6goals 0–0
- Beauchemin – Goloubef8:30
xG 0.09–0.33 (22%)attempts 5–7goals 0–0
Minnesota Wild
Forward lines
- bestPominville – Staal – Parise10:07
xG 0.64–0.19 (77%)attempts 20–10goals 0–0
- Koivu – Zucker – Granlund8:55
xG 0.31–0.10 (75%)attempts 5–3goals 1–0
- Stewart – Cannone – Gabriel6:22
xG 0.13–0.01 (90%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0
- Coyle – Niederreiter – Graovac8:57
xG 0.11–0.12 (48%)attempts 6–8goals 0–0
Defence pairs
- bestBrodin – Dumba15:41
xG 0.59–0.15 (80%)attempts 12–13goals 1–0
- Suter – Spurgeon16:05
xG 0.66–0.24 (73%)attempts 19–9goals 0–0
- Scandella – Prosser10:13
xG 0.17–0.05 (78%)attempts 9–4goals 0–0
How the game flowed
Model-basedChance quality for each side, minute by minute, with pressure underneath.
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.
Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute
Win probability
Model-basedHow each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.
MIN's chance of winning through the game. Above the middle line MIN is favoured, below it COL. Dots are goals.
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 94% of the time.
Simulated goal difference (MIN − COL), 10,000 replays
The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).