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Thu, Feb 9, 2017·Air Canada Centre, Toronto

St. Louis Blues 2, Toronto Maple Leafs 1 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 58% of the time.

TOR winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
STL1170140811240
TOR0411401400132

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:15STLPatrik BerglundAssists: Magnus Paajarvi, Jaden Schwartz · Wrist, 0.13 xG1–0
  2. P2 18:56TORMorgan RiellyAssists: William Nylander, Nazem Kadri · Wrist, 0.21 xG1–1
  3. OT 0:20STLVladimir TarasenkoGWGAssists: Jori Lehtera, Kevin Shattenkirk · Snap, 0.16 xG2–1
Penalties (2)
  1. P1 12:23TORAuston Matthews: Hooking2 min
  2. P3 8:03STLAlex Pietrangelo: Holding the stick2 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.

STL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLTOR
40Shots on goal32
3.1Expected goals2.6
65Shot attempts63
25Faceoffs won34
1Power plays1
2Penalty minutes2
27Hits36
17Blocked shots15
9Giveaways18
6Takeaways3

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.

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestPerron – Lehtera – Agostino4:22

    xG 0.68–0.03 (96%)attempts 12–2goals 0–0

  2. Steen – Stastny – Tarasenko5:28

    xG 0.16–0.04 (79%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

  3. Upshall – Reaves – Barbashev6:19

    xG 0.10–0.10 (51%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  4. Berglund – Paajarvi – Schwartz8:19

    xG 0.56–0.59 (49%)attempts 13–11goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestShattenkirk – Gunnarsson14:39

    xG 0.53–0.07 (88%)attempts 16–6goals 1–0

  2. Edmundson – Parayko16:04

    xG 0.91–0.94 (49%)attempts 15–18goals 0–1

  3. Bouwmeester – Pietrangelo19:40

    xG 0.85–0.94 (47%)attempts 21–24goals 0–0

Toronto Maple Leafs

Forward lines

  1. bestKomarov – Kadri – Nylander8:27

    xG 0.70–0.29 (71%)attempts 13–5goals 1–0

  2. Martin – Smith – Leivo8:01

    xG 0.21–0.01 (94%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

  3. Hyman – Brown – Matthews7:10

    xG 0.38–0.34 (53%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  4. van Riemsdyk – Bozak – Marner12:43

    xG 0.46–0.60 (43%)attempts 16–20goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPolak – Hunwick14:24

    xG 0.93–0.23 (80%)attempts 18–9goals 0–0

  2. Rielly – Zaitsev18:39

    xG 1.05–1.09 (49%)attempts 19–19goals 1–0

  3. Gardiner – Carrick19:02

    xG 0.45–1.03 (30%)attempts 18–27goals 0–1

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.

TOR 2.6 xGSTL 3.1 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

TORSTL

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 STL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 34/100 · #775 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.19 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 41% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50TOR 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +23 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 58% of the time.

TOR winsSTL wins

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

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