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Thu, Mar 23, 2017·Scottrade Center, St. Louis

Vancouver Canucks 1, St. Louis Blues 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 70% of the time.

STL winsVAN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
VAN1901108128
STL110112212434

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 13:38VANHenrik SedinAssists: Alexander Edler, Troy Stecher · Wrist, 0.11 xG1–0
  2. P1 17:32STLMagnus PaajarviAssists: Ivan Barbashev, Nail Yakupov · Wrist, 0.21 xG1–1
  3. P2 17:13STLKyle BrodziakGWGAssists: Alex Pietrangelo · Wrist, 0.07 xG1–2
  4. P3 9:41STLMagnus PaajarviAssists: Patrik Berglund, Carl Gunnarsson · Wrist, 0.08 xG1–3
  5. P3 17:25STLAlex PietrangeloENAssists: Jaden Schwartz, Vladimir Tarasenko · Wrist, 0.68 xG1–4
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 1:21STLAlexander Steen: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 18:46VANJack Skille: Hooking2 min
  3. P2 10:53VANNikita Tryamkin: Roughing2 min
  4. P2 19:10STLRobert Bortuzzo: Holding2 min
  5. P3 1:01STLDavid Perron: Hooking2 min
  6. P3 4:31VANDrew Shore: Hooking2 min
  7. P3 11:05STLScottie Upshall: Tripping2 min
  8. P3 18:20STLRyan Reaves: Fighting5 min
  9. P3 18:20VANJoseph LaBate: Fighting5 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.

VAN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

VANSTL
28Shots on goal34
2.2Expected goals3.2
47Shot attempts60
34Faceoffs won29
4Power plays3
11Penalty minutes13
13Hits26
21Blocked shots9
3Giveaways2
4Takeaways9

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.

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestSkille – Chaput – Goldobin2:05

    xG 0.29–0.21 (58%)attempts 2–5goals 0–0

  2. Sedin – Sedin – Chaput8:19

    xG 0.29–0.25 (54%)attempts 7–6goals 1–0

  3. Boucher – Baertschi – Horvat11:10

    xG 0.37–0.34 (52%)attempts 10–10goals 0–0

  4. Sedin – Sedin – Sutter2:15

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

Defence pairs

  1. bestEdler – Stecher9:21

    xG 0.54–0.18 (75%)attempts 12–5goals 1–0

  2. Hutton – Tryamkin11:34

    xG 0.22–0.54 (29%)attempts 7–15goals 0–1

  3. Sbisa – Tanev11:33

    xG 0.16–0.57 (22%)attempts 5–13goals 0–0

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestPaajarvi – Yakupov – Barbashev3:47

    xG 0.37–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–0goals 1–0

  2. Steen – Tarasenko – Schwartz12:12

    xG 0.47–0.20 (70%)attempts 18–7goals 0–1

  3. Berglund – Perron – Paajarvi3:23

    xG 0.30–0.10 (75%)attempts 6–4goals 1–0

  4. Upshall – Brodziak – Reaves9:47

    xG 0.55–0.41 (57%)attempts 8–8goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGunnarsson – Bortuzzo11:38

    xG 0.74–0.14 (84%)attempts 17–3goals 1–0

  2. Bouwmeester – Pietrangelo15:34

    xG 1.04–0.65 (61%)attempts 22–14goals 2–1

  3. Edmundson – Parayko13:46

    xG 0.30–0.52 (36%)attempts 11–12goals 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 3.2 xGVAN 2.2 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLVAN

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 VAN. Dots are goals.

Excitement 29/100 · #831 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.99 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 39% (winner's lowest chance)
VAN 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +28 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 70% of the time.

STL winsVAN wins

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

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