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Sun, Feb 5, 2017·Centre Bell, Montreal

Edmonton Oilers 1, Montréal Canadiens 0 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Montréal Canadiens win this game 56% of the time.

MTL winsEDM wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
EDM01501005021132
MTL080705020022

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. No goals in regulation or overtime.

Shootout

  1. 1. MTL Alexander Radulov stopped
  2. 2. EDM Leon Draisaitl scored
  3. 3. MTL Paul Byron stopped
  4. 4. EDM Mark Letestu stopped
  5. 5. MTL Max Pacioretty stopped
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 8:40MTLShea Weber: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 12:42MTLNathan Beaulieu: Hooking2 min
  3. P2 14:46MTLAlexei Emelin: Hooking2 min
  4. P2 16:29EDMDrake Caggiula: Interference2 min
  5. P3 10:06MTLAndrew Shaw: 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.

EDM00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MTL
44% to win56% to win
← EDM attackMTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Plekanec won the faceoff against McDavid
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

EDMMTL
32Shots on goal22
2.4Expected goals2.7
62Shot attempts49
27Faceoffs won33
4Power plays1
2Penalty minutes8
41Hits25
14Blocked shots21
14Giveaways13
8Takeaways5

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.

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestLetestu – Lander – Kassian6:20

    xG 0.11–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–2goals 0–0

  2. Pouliot – Slepyshev – Caggiula8:09

    xG 0.11–0.10 (53%)attempts 5–5goals 0–0

  3. Maroon – Draisaitl – McDavid14:41

    xG 0.69–0.86 (44%)attempts 17–14goals 0–0

  4. Lucic – Eberle – Nugent-Hopkins13:20

    xG 0.28–1.05 (21%)attempts 10–12goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGryba – Davidson12:26

    xG 0.73–0.66 (53%)attempts 16–7goals 0–0

  2. Sekera – Oesterle13:39

    xG 0.32–0.37 (46%)attempts 14–11goals 0–0

  3. Larsson – Klefbom17:14

    xG 0.21–1.03 (17%)attempts 15–14goals 0–0

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. bestPlekanec – Shaw – Lehkonen9:09

    xG 0.48–0.08 (85%)attempts 8–8goals 0–0

  2. Radulov – Pacioretty – Danault13:53

    xG 0.86–0.48 (64%)attempts 13–13goals 0–0

  3. Desharnais – Byron – Galchenyuk9:22

    xG 0.30–0.12 (72%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  4. Mitchell – Andrighetto – de la Rose8:15

    xG 0.24–0.33 (43%)attempts 7–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPetry – Beaulieu13:41

    xG 0.76–0.28 (73%)attempts 12–15goals 0–0

  2. Weber – Emelin14:28

    xG 0.75–0.41 (65%)attempts 16–14goals 0–0

  3. Emelin – Beaulieu2:38

    xG 0.39–0.19 (67%)attempts 3–1goals 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.

MTL 2.7 xGEDM 2.4 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MTLEDM

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 11/100 · #1082 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.91 · 0 goals in reachComeback index 42% (winner's lowest chance)
EDM 100%5050%50MTL 100%P1P2P3OTEnd

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Montréal Canadiens win this game 56% of the time.

MTL winsEDM wins

Simulated goal difference (MTL − EDM), 10,000 replays

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