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Fri, Mar 3, 2017·MTS Centre, Winnipeg

St. Louis Blues 0, Winnipeg Jets 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 83% of the time.

WPG winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
STL01108010029
WPG111019210340

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 10:51WPGBlake WheelerPPGWGAssists: Mathieu Perreault, Dustin Byfuglien · Slap, 0.07 xG0–1
  2. P3 17:44WPGBryan LittleENAssists: Dustin Byfuglien, Blake Wheeler · Backhand, 0.73 xG0–2
  3. P3 18:51WPGBlake WheelerENAssists: Bryan Little, Jacob Trouba · Wrist, 0.63 xG0–3
Penalties (12)
  1. P1 9:45STLJori Lehtera: Hooking2 min · PPG
  2. P1 11:00WPGBryan Little: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 14:42STLVladimir Tarasenko: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 10:13STLRyan Reaves: Roughing2 min
  5. P2 15:00STLJoel Edmundson: Tripping2 min
  6. P2 16:48WPGJacob Trouba: Interference2 min
  7. P3 3:54STLRobert Bortuzzo: Roughing2 min
  8. P3 5:33STLScottie Upshall: Slashing2 min
  9. P3 5:33WPGMarko Dano: Roughing2 min
  10. P3 6:03WPGBlake Wheeler: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  11. P3 17:00STLDavid Perron: Roughing2 min
  12. P3 17:00WPGNikolaj Ehlers: Roughing2 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 SOG0WPG
44% to win56% to win
← STL attackWPG attack →
  1. P1 20:00Lehtera won the faceoff against Scheifele
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLWPG
29Shots on goal40
2.2Expected goals4.3
57Shot attempts65
38Faceoffs won31
3Power plays5
14Penalty minutes10
17Hits25
11Blocked shots18
15Giveaways9
8Takeaways8

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. bestLehtera – Tarasenko – Schwartz7:46

    xG 0.33–0.19 (63%)attempts 10–3goals 0–0

  2. Berglund – Paajarvi – Sanford6:41

    xG 0.12–0.09 (58%)attempts 3–9goals 0–0

  3. Steen – Stastny – Perron10:07

    xG 0.51–0.55 (48%)attempts 11–8goals 0–0

  4. Upshall – Reaves – Barbashev5:22

    xG 0.06–0.39 (14%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Bortuzzo – Edmundson12:13

    xG 0.36–0.58 (38%)attempts 12–20goals 0–0

  2. Gunnarsson – Parayko9:11

    xG 0.17–0.41 (29%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  3. Bouwmeester – Pietrangelo12:44

    xG 0.14–0.64 (18%)attempts 10–11goals 0–0

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestThorburn – Copp – Dano6:44

    xG 0.47–0.00 (100%)attempts 9–4goals 0–0

  2. Perreault – Scheifele – Laine9:53

    xG 0.35–0.19 (64%)attempts 8–12goals 0–0

  3. Matthias – Lowry – Armia8:06

    xG 0.23–0.18 (56%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  4. Wheeler – Little – Ehlers10:40

    xG 0.61–0.62 (50%)attempts 15–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestTrouba – Morrissey15:53

    xG 0.78–0.21 (78%)attempts 16–14goals 0–0

  2. Enstrom – Byfuglien14:48

    xG 0.89–0.76 (54%)attempts 12–15goals 0–0

  3. Postma – Chiarot9:20

    xG 0.21–0.16 (56%)attempts 15–7goals 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.

WPG 4.3 xGSTL 2.2 xG
012345P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

WPGSTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 6/100 · #1132 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.64 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 55% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50WPG 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +16 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 83% of the time.

WPG winsSTL wins

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

-7
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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).