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Fri, Mar 10, 2017·Scottrade Center, St. Louis

Anaheim Ducks 3, St. Louis Blues 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 66% of the time.

STL winsANA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ANA2606114326
STL11311329435

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:12STLVladimir TarasenkoAssists: Jaden Schwartz, Jay Bouwmeester · Wrist, 0.07 xG0–1
  2. P1 11:59ANARickard RakellAssists: Ryan Getzlaf, Sami Vatanen · Slap, 0.00 xG1–1
  3. P1 18:12ANAChris WagnerAssists: Jared Boll, Cam Fowler · Tip-in, 0.13 xG2–1
  4. P2 4:17STLRyan ReavesAssists: Jaden Schwartz, Paul Stastny · Wrist, 0.13 xG2–2
  5. P3 0:25STLPaul StastnyAssists: Vladimir Tarasenko, Alex Pietrangelo · Wrist, 0.07 xG2–3
  6. P3 9:24ANAJakob SilfverbergPPAssists: Rickard Rakell, Kevin Bieksa · Wrist, 0.11 xG3–3
  7. P3 19:40STLJoel EdmundsonGWGAssists: Robert Bortuzzo, Jake Allen · Wrist, 0.05 xG3–4
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 13:30ANAHampus Lindholm: Hooking2 min
  2. P2 6:04STLScottie Upshall: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  3. P2 13:16ANAKevin Bieksa: Hooking2 min
  4. P3 4:36ANAPatrick Eaves: Penalty shot slash on breakaway0 min
  5. P3 7:38STLDmitrij Jaskin: Too many men on the ice2 min · PPG

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.

ANA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
44% to win56% to win
← ANA attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Getzlaf won the faceoff against Stastny
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ANASTL
26Shots on goal35
2.0Expected goals2.9
52Shot attempts57
30Faceoffs won30
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
30Hits21
14Blocked shots13
2Giveaways6
6Takeaways2

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.

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. bestPerry – Thompson – Kase10:37

    xG 0.24–0.17 (59%)attempts 7–7goals 0–0

  2. Boll – Wagner – Shaw5:30

    xG 0.13–0.28 (32%)attempts 2–9goals 1–0

  3. Getzlaf – Eaves – Rakell13:38

    xG 0.46–0.71 (39%)attempts 16–13goals 0–2

  4. Kesler – Cogliano – Silfverberg12:03

    xG 0.07–0.77 (9%)attempts 8–14goals 0–2

Defence pairs

  1. Bieksa – Holzer13:15

    xG 0.64–0.67 (49%)attempts 15–12goals 1–1

  2. Vatanen – Fowler16:16

    xG 0.40–0.59 (40%)attempts 15–14goals 1–1

  3. Manson – Lindholm17:34

    xG 0.28–0.67 (29%)attempts 11–17goals 0–1

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSteen – Berglund – Perron13:05

    xG 0.67–0.17 (80%)attempts 15–10goals 0–0

  2. Lehtera – Paajarvi – Jaskin8:50

    xG 0.36–0.17 (67%)attempts 9–7goals 0–1

  3. Stastny – Tarasenko – Schwartz12:32

    xG 0.55–0.41 (57%)attempts 15–10goals 3–0

  4. Upshall – Brodziak – Reaves10:14

    xG 0.12–0.32 (28%)attempts 3–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestEdmundson – Parayko8:23

    xG 0.66–0.25 (73%)attempts 11–8goals 1–0

  2. Bouwmeester – Pietrangelo18:12

    xG 0.80–0.63 (56%)attempts 16–22goals 2–1

  3. Pietrangelo – Edmundson3:40

    xG 0.17–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–1goals 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.

STL 2.9 xGANA 2.0 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLANA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 79/100 · #232 of 1230 this seasonSwing 2.06 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 37% (winner's lowest chance)
ANA 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +47 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 66% of the time.

STL winsANA wins

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

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