Skip to content
Ice Lab

Sat, Mar 25, 2017·Rogers Place, Edmonton

Colorado Avalanche 1, Edmonton Oilers 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 61% of the time.

EDM winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL1110707125
EDM29010210429

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:54EDMBenoit PouliotAssists: Matt Benning, Zack Kassian · Tip-in, 0.05 xG0–1
  2. P1 2:39COLSven AndrighettoAssists: Mark Barberio · Backhand, 0.15 xG1–1
  3. P1 10:47EDMLeon DraisaitlGWGAssists: Drake Caggiula, Connor McDavid · Slap, 0.05 xG1–2
  4. P3 8:46EDMDrake CaggiulaPPAssists: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Andrej Sekera · Tip-in, 0.16 xG1–3
  5. P3 15:34EDMRyan Nugent-HopkinsPPAssists: Andrej Sekera, Kris Russell · Wrist, 0.23 xG1–4
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 6:21COLFedor Tyutin: Slashing2 min
  2. P1 13:16EDMZack Kassian: Roughing2 min
  3. P1 13:16COLFrancois Beauchemin: Roughing2 min
  4. P1 19:58EDMMilan Lucic: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 4:34COLMatt Duchene: Hooking2 min
  6. P2 18:32EDMDavid Desharnais: Hooking2 min
  7. P3 8:09COLJoe Colborne: Tripping2 min · PPG
  8. P3 13:35COLRene Bourque: Cross checking2 min · PPG
  9. P3 19:46EDMDrake Caggiula: Cross checking2 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 SOG0EDM
44% to win56% to win
← COL attackEDM attack →
  1. P1 20:00MacKinnon won the faceoff against McDavid
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLEDM
25Shots on goal29
2.4Expected goals2.9
58Shot attempts48
31Faceoffs won27
3Power plays4
10Penalty minutes8
18Hits31
13Blocked shots26
8Giveaways13
7Takeaways6

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 – Soderberg – Bourque7:51

    xG 0.48–0.10 (83%)attempts 11–3goals 0–0

  2. Duchene – Nieto – Landeskog11:25

    xG 0.64–0.61 (51%)attempts 19–8goals 0–1

  3. Colborne – Grigorenko – Compher6:28

    xG 0.25–0.32 (44%)attempts 7–6goals 0–1

  4. Andrighetto – MacKinnon – Rantanen12:50

    xG 0.46–0.57 (45%)attempts 10–10goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJohnson – Barberio12:43

    xG 0.95–0.36 (72%)attempts 18–6goals 1–0

  2. Beauchemin – Barrie3:20

    xG 0.38–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  3. Barberio – Barrie3:30

    xG 0.08–0.02 (78%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestMaroon – Draisaitl – McDavid10:20

    xG 0.87–0.47 (65%)attempts 7–13goals 0–1

  2. Letestu – Khaira – Caggiula6:15

    xG 0.16–0.24 (41%)attempts 2–8goals 0–0

  3. Pouliot – Desharnais – Kassian8:32

    xG 0.29–0.46 (39%)attempts 4–8goals 1–0

  4. Lucic – Eberle – Nugent-Hopkins11:10

    xG 0.17–0.60 (22%)attempts 7–15goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBenning – Nurse11:10

    xG 0.35–0.17 (67%)attempts 8–6goals 1–0

  2. Sekera – Russell11:49

    xG 0.40–0.37 (53%)attempts 4–15goals 1–0

  3. Larsson – Nurse2:12

    xG 0.02–0.18 (11%)attempts 1–4goals 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.

EDM 2.9 xGCOL 2.4 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

EDMCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 25/100 · #875 of 1230 this seasonSwing 0.81 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 55% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50EDM 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +17 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 61% of the time.

EDM winsCOL wins

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

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7

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