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Tue, Feb 28, 2017·Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia

Colorado Avalanche 0, Philadelphia Flyers 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 68% of the time.

PHI winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL011012010033
PHI3141705426

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:04PHIWayne SimmondsSHGWGAssists: Andrew MacDonald · Snap, 0.05 xG0–1
  2. P1 8:07PHIWayne SimmondsPPAssists: Shayne Gostisbehere, Claude Giroux · Tip-in, 0.16 xG0–2
  3. P1 10:35PHIJakub VoracekPPAssists: Brayden Schenn, Claude Giroux · Snap, 0.09 xG0–3
  4. P2 7:16PHIJordan WealAssists: Radko Gudas, Mark Streit · Tip-in, 0.07 xG0–4
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 2:30PHIClaude Giroux: Slashing2 min
  2. P1 7:58COLFedor Tyutin: Holding2 min · PPG
  3. P1 10:11COLJoe Colborne: Tripping2 min · PPG
  4. P1 12:50COLGabriel Landeskog: Fighting5 min
  5. P1 12:50PHISean Couturier: Fighting5 min
  6. P1 17:37PHIMark Streit: Hooking2 min
  7. P2 5:13PHIRadko Gudas: Penalty shot hooking on breakaway0 min
  8. P2 12:52PHIChris VandeVelde: Cross checking2 min
  9. P2 14:50COLJarome Iginla: Too many men on the ice2 min
  10. P3 14:02PHIJordan Weal: Slashing2 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 SOG0PHI
44% to win56% to win
← COL attackPHI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Duchene won the faceoff against Giroux
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLPHI
33Shots on goal26
3.3Expected goals2.2
66Shot attempts53
23Faceoffs won25
4Power plays3
11Penalty minutes13
39Hits22
15Blocked shots16
13Giveaways11
6Takeaways9

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. bestComeau – Landeskog – MacKinnon8:04

    xG 0.75–0.14 (84%)attempts 12–3goals 0–0

  2. Duchene – Nieto – Rantanen9:05

    xG 0.54–0.39 (58%)attempts 9–10goals 0–0

  3. Bourque – Grigorenko – Martinsen8:30

    xG 0.29–0.14 (67%)attempts 8–7goals 0–0

  4. Iginla – Mitchell – Colborne10:06

    xG 0.42–0.29 (59%)attempts 11–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJohnson – Barberio8:31

    xG 0.90–0.23 (80%)attempts 13–6goals 0–0

  2. Johnson – Wiercioch5:59

    xG 0.56–0.21 (72%)attempts 7–5goals 0–0

  3. Beauchemin – Barrie7:34

    xG 0.39–0.25 (61%)attempts 8–5goals 0–0

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestGiroux – Simmonds – Weal9:20

    xG 0.62–0.05 (92%)attempts 12–7goals 1–0

  2. Voracek – Schenn – Cousins10:12

    xG 0.48–0.66 (42%)attempts 11–16goals 0–0

  3. VandeVelde – Read – Bellemare10:10

    xG 0.14–0.66 (18%)attempts 6–12goals 0–0

  4. Weise – Couturier – Raffl5:35

    xG 0.19–0.80 (19%)attempts 4–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMacDonald – Provorov13:15

    xG 0.69–0.56 (55%)attempts 13–13goals 0–0

  2. Streit – Gostisbehere13:28

    xG 0.48–0.72 (40%)attempts 12–18goals 0–0

  3. Del Zotto – Gudas17:07

    xG 0.32–0.69 (32%)attempts 13–16goals 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.

PHI 2.2 xGCOL 3.3 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

PHICOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 3/100 · #1200 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.46 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 56% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50PHI 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +14 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 68% of the time.

PHI winsCOL wins

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

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