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Sat, Jan 21, 2017·SAP Center at San Jose, San Jose

Colorado Avalanche 2, San Jose Sharks 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, San Jose Sharks win this game 56% of the time.

SJS winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
COL01311011000233
SJS191110713330

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 5:36SJSJoel WardPPAssists: Joe Thornton, Marc-Edouard Vlasic · Tip-in, 0.16 xG0–1
  2. P2 10:30COLMikhail GrigorenkoAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Cody Goloubef · Wrist, 0.19 xG1–1
  3. P2 15:01SJSMelker KarlssonAssists: Ryan Carpenter · Deflected, 0.02 xG1–2
  4. P3 10:24COLFrancois BeaucheminUnassisted · Slap, 0.04 xG2–2
  5. OT 1:18SJSDavid SchlemkoGWGAssists: Logan Couture, Kevin Labanc · Wrist, 0.48 xG2–3
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 4:16COLFrancois Beauchemin: High sticking2 min · PPG
  2. P1 15:52SJSJustin Braun: Holding2 min
  3. P1 15:52COLMatt Duchene: Delaying game face off violation2 min
  4. P2 6:24COLGabriel Landeskog: Boarding2 min
  5. P2 18:52COLGabriel Landeskog: Tripping2 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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0SJS
44% to win56% to win
← COL attackSJS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Thornton won the faceoff against Duchene
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLSJS
33Shots on goal30
2.3Expected goals2.5
64Shot attempts59
25Faceoffs won33
0Power plays3
8Penalty minutes2
29Hits13
21Blocked shots20
15Giveaways26
8Takeaways9

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.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestGrigorenko – MacKinnon – Rantanen13:56

    xG 1.50–0.28 (84%)attempts 23–11goals 2–0

  2. Comeau – Soderberg – Martinsen9:16

    xG 0.20–0.13 (60%)attempts 11–8goals 0–0

  3. Duchene – Nieto – Landeskog14:23

    xG 0.31–0.30 (51%)attempts 14–9goals 0–1

  4. Iginla – Mitchell – Colborne8:14

    xG 0.15–0.18 (45%)attempts 7–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestTyutin – Wiercioch4:51

    xG 0.57–0.19 (75%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  2. Beauchemin – Goloubef17:33

    xG 0.72–0.39 (65%)attempts 31–15goals 1–1

  3. Tyutin – Zadorov13:55

    xG 0.34–0.28 (55%)attempts 11–12goals 0–0

San Jose Sharks

Forward lines

  1. Wingels – Carpenter – Karlsson10:45

    xG 0.23–0.22 (51%)attempts 9–5goals 1–0

  2. Ward – Couture – Labanc4:15

    xG 0.04–0.11 (27%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

  3. Couture – Boedker – Donskoi6:32

    xG 0.20–0.29 (40%)attempts 7–8goals 0–0

  4. Boedker – Donskoi – Tierney5:00

    xG 0.01–0.17 (8%)attempts 2–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMartin – Burns17:24

    xG 0.57–0.51 (53%)attempts 19–17goals 0–1

  2. Schlemko – Dillon11:31

    xG 0.37–0.41 (47%)attempts 10–15goals 0–0

  3. Vlasic – Braun18:14

    xG 0.08–1.06 (7%)attempts 9–23goals 1–1

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.

SJS 2.5 xGCOL 2.3 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

SJSCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 58/100 · #479 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.75 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 52% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50SJS 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +36 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, San Jose Sharks win this game 56% of the time.

SJS winsCOL wins

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

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