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Fri, Mar 31, 2017·Pepsi Center, Denver

St. Louis Blues 1, Colorado Avalanche 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 69% of the time.

COL winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
STL1130406050128
COL05115010022232

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 12:29STLRyan ReavesAssists: Scottie Upshall, Jordan Schmaltz · Tip-in, 0.09 xG1–0
  2. P2 11:49COLJ.T. CompherPPAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Tyson Barrie · Wrist, 0.31 xG1–1

Shootout

  1. 1. COL Matt Duchene scored
  2. 2. STL Alexander Steen stopped
  3. 3. COL Tyson Jost stopped
  4. 4. STL Vladimir Tarasenko stopped
  5. 5. COL Nathan MacKinnon scored
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 19:23COLCarl Soderberg: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 11:25STLScottie Upshall: High sticking2 min · PPG
  3. P2 13:44STLJordan Schmaltz: Interference2 min
  4. P2 17:33COLRene Bourque: Hooking2 min
  5. P3 8:05COLSven Andrighetto: 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.

STL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0COL
44% to win56% to win
← STL attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Compher won the faceoff against Berglund
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLCOL
28Shots on goal32
1.4Expected goals2.2
51Shot attempts66
24Faceoffs won29
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
16Hits17
22Blocked shots18
1Giveaways4
5Takeaways10

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. bestYakupov – Sanford – Barbashev8:26

    xG 0.15–0.08 (65%)attempts 7–7goals 0–0

  2. Steen – Tarasenko – Schwartz13:45

    xG 0.22–0.30 (43%)attempts 14–15goals 0–0

  3. Upshall – Brodziak – Reaves10:24

    xG 0.18–0.26 (41%)attempts 6–9goals 1–0

  4. Berglund – Perron – Paajarvi13:03

    xG 0.18–0.63 (22%)attempts 10–19goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBortuzzo – Schmaltz4:11

    xG 0.18–0.03 (86%)attempts 6–2goals 1–0

  2. Pietrangelo – Parayko2:18

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 1–3goals 0–0

  3. Bouwmeester – Edmundson2:07

    xG 0.03–0.04 (40%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestDuchene – Landeskog – Compher12:47

    xG 0.24–0.07 (78%)attempts 12–4goals 0–0

  2. Bourque – Nieto – Jost9:44

    xG 0.23–0.18 (57%)attempts 11–8goals 0–0

  3. Andrighetto – MacKinnon – Rantanen13:26

    xG 0.28–0.28 (50%)attempts 13–16goals 0–0

  4. Comeau – Soderberg – Grigorenko7:35

    xG 0.06–0.15 (27%)attempts 10–6goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBeauchemin – Lindholm13:55

    xG 0.58–0.12 (83%)attempts 13–5goals 0–0

  2. Johnson – Barberio12:33

    xG 0.31–0.20 (61%)attempts 13–10goals 0–1

  3. Tyutin – Barrie12:43

    xG 0.35–0.29 (54%)attempts 17–9goals 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.

COL 2.2 xGSTL 1.4 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLSTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 33/100 · #785 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.17 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 34% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest 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, Colorado Avalanche win this game 69% of the time.

COL winsSTL wins

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

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