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Sun, Feb 19, 2017·Pepsi Center, Denver

Tampa Bay Lightning 3, Colorado Avalanche 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Tampa Bay Lightning win this game 64% of the time.

COL winsTBL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
TBL1171130713340
COL080621401229

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 18:18TBLBrayden PointAssists: Alex Killorn, Victor Hedman · Wrist, 0.10 xG1–0
  2. P2 10:09TBLVladislav NamestnikovAssists: Valtteri Filppula, Brian Boyle · Wrist, 0.06 xG2–0
  3. P3 2:46COLMikko RantanenAssists: Blake Comeau, Matt Duchene · Wrist, 0.23 xG2–1
  4. P3 19:18COLMatt DucheneAssists: Tyson Barrie, Nathan MacKinnon · Slap, 0.03 xG2–2
  5. OT 2:27TBLJonathan DrouinGWGUnassisted · Backhand, 0.15 xG3–2
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 6:47TBLValtteri Filppula: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 12:01COLBlake Comeau: Roughing2 min
  3. P1 18:38TBLJake Dotchin: Slashing2 min
  4. P2 3:31COLNikita Zadorov: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 12:46TBLJT Brown: Slashing2 min
  6. P3 4:57TBLJonathan Drouin: Cross checking2 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.

TBL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0COL
44% to win56% to win
← TBL attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Duchene won the faceoff against Point
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TBLCOL
40Shots on goal29
3.5Expected goals2.7
64Shot attempts61
33Faceoffs won39
2Power plays4
8Penalty minutes4
15Hits13
15Blocked shots12
6Giveaways13
12Takeaways5

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.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Forward lines

  1. bestJohnson – Palat – Kucherov11:21

    xG 1.55–0.08 (95%)attempts 24–6goals 0–0

  2. Dumont – Brown – Paquette7:20

    xG 0.17–0.05 (76%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

  3. Killorn – Drouin – Point10:20

    xG 0.53–0.55 (49%)attempts 10–9goals 1–1

  4. Filppula – Boyle – Namestnikov9:04

    xG 0.34–0.47 (43%)attempts 12–10goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCoburn – Sustr13:04

    xG 1.29–0.51 (72%)attempts 16–13goals 0–1

  2. Hedman – Dotchin15:09

    xG 0.72–0.53 (58%)attempts 19–13goals 2–0

  3. Stralman – Garrison14:42

    xG 0.46–0.44 (51%)attempts 13–13goals 0–0

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestComeau – Duchene – Rantanen8:01

    xG 0.70–0.48 (59%)attempts 10–10goals 1–1

  2. Soderberg – Colborne – Martinsen4:05

    xG 0.02–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 0–0

  3. Iginla – Mitchell – Grigorenko6:19

    xG 0.16–0.22 (43%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  4. Nieto – Landeskog – MacKinnon10:26

    xG 0.36–0.60 (37%)attempts 9–15goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Beauchemin – Tyutin3:53

    xG 0.16–0.21 (43%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  2. Wiercioch – Barberio4:39

    xG 0.06–0.12 (34%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

  3. Wiercioch – Zadorov3:56

    xG 0.06–0.14 (31%)attempts 4–2goals 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.

COL 2.7 xGTBL 3.5 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLTBL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 85/100 · #154 of 1230 this seasonSwing 2.17 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 43% (winner's lowest chance)
TBL 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +48 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Tampa Bay Lightning win this game 64% of the time.

COL winsTBL wins

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

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