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Mon, Mar 13, 2017·Gila River Arena, Glendale

Colorado Avalanche 0, Arizona Coyotes 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Arizona Coyotes win this game 82% of the time.

ARI winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL0407011022
ARI05119011135

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 3:49ARIBrendan PerliniGWGAssists: Peter Holland, Tobias Rieder · Wrist, 0.08 xG0–1
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 4:33ARITony DeAngelo: Holding2 min
  2. P1 4:33ARITony DeAngelo: Slashing2 min
  3. P1 8:49COLMatt Duchene: Interference2 min
  4. P2 18:35COLNathan MacKinnon: Tripping2 min
  5. P3 7:43ARIRadim Vrbata: Tripping2 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 SOG0ARI
44% to win56% to win
← COL attackARI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Martinook won the faceoff against Duchene
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLARI
22Shots on goal35
2.6Expected goals4.8
59Shot attempts57
30Faceoffs won34
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
15Hits22
7Blocked shots13
4Giveaways2
3Takeaways3

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. bestSoderberg – Nieto – Grigorenko7:16

    xG 0.19–0.09 (68%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  2. Mitchell – Comeau – Compher8:49

    xG 0.17–0.45 (27%)attempts 5–10goals 0–0

  3. Colborne – Andrighetto – MacKinnon9:54

    xG 0.18–0.99 (15%)attempts 11–14goals 0–1

  4. Duchene – Landeskog – Rantanen14:07

    xG 0.40–1.67 (19%)attempts 8–17goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Tyutin – Barrie12:30

    xG 0.25–0.25 (51%)attempts 9–9goals 0–0

  2. Barberio – Barrie2:31

    xG 0.10–0.13 (44%)attempts 7–3goals 0–0

  3. Beauchemin – Goloubef12:05

    xG 0.30–0.36 (46%)attempts 7–11goals 0–1

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestVrbata – Domi – Dvorak11:14

    xG 0.93–0.17 (85%)attempts 14–6goals 0–0

  2. Rieder – Martinook – Perlini10:40

    xG 0.54–0.25 (68%)attempts 8–7goals 0–0

  3. Doan – Jooris – Crouse7:24

    xG 0.30–0.06 (84%)attempts 10–5goals 0–0

  4. McGinn – Holland – Duclair9:15

    xG 0.07–0.30 (19%)attempts 2–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGoligoski – Murphy14:13

    xG 1.83–0.37 (83%)attempts 18–10goals 0–0

  2. DeAngelo – Chychrun9:11

    xG 0.41–0.17 (71%)attempts 9–6goals 0–0

  3. Schenn – Ekman-Larsson15:03

    xG 0.36–0.23 (61%)attempts 10–9goals 1–0

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.

ARI 4.8 xGCOL 2.6 xG
012345P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

ARICOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 1/100 · #1220 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.58 · 1 goal in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50ARI 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +22 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Arizona Coyotes win this game 82% of the time.

ARI winsCOL wins

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

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