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Fri, Nov 10, 2017·Ericsson Globe, StockholmNeutral site

Ottawa Senators 4, Colorado Avalanche 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 54% of the time.

COL winsOTT wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
OTT2911201011432
COL111131500319

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 8:16COLNail YakupovPPAssists: Alexander Kerfoot, Colin Wilson · Snap, 0.14 xG0–1
  2. P1 8:36OTTFredrik ClaessonAssists: Mike Hoffman, Erik Karlsson · Slap, 0.02 xG1–1
  3. P1 15:10OTTMark StoneAssists: Johnny Oduya, Chris Wideman · Tip-in, 0.14 xG2–1
  4. P2 9:41COLAlexander KerfootAssists: Blake Comeau, Samuel Girard · Tip-in, 0.06 xG2–2
  5. P2 13:21OTTChristopher DiDomenicoAssists: Dion Phaneuf, Tom Pyatt · Wrist, 0.33 xG3–2
  6. P3 12:53COLNathan MacKinnonAssists: Mikko Rantanen, Gabriel Landeskog · Wrist, 0.13 xG3–3
  7. OT 0:59OTTMark StoneGWGAssists: Derick Brassard, Erik Karlsson · Snap, 0.13 xG4–3
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 1:15OTTMike Hoffman: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  2. P1 6:46OTTAlexandre Burrows: High sticking2 min · PPG
  3. P2 14:19COLJ.T. Compher: Roughing2 min
  4. P2 16:56COLGabriel Bourque: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 18:33OTTChris Wideman: Penalty shot slash on breakaway0 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.

OTT00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0COL
46% to win54% to win
← OTT attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Thompson won the faceoff against MacKinnon
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

OTTCOL
32Shots on goal19
2.8Expected goals2.5
68Shot attempts51
34Faceoffs won20
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
18Hits26
13Blocked shots17
5Giveaways10
5Takeaways5

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.

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestPyatt – DiDomenico – Pageau3:11

    xG 0.47–0.02 (96%)attempts 6–1goals 1–0

  2. Brassard – Stone – Dzingel13:00

    xG 0.78–0.38 (67%)attempts 22–11goals 1–0

  3. Smith – Hoffman – Duchene4:38

    xG 0.29–0.23 (56%)attempts 7–5goals 0–1

  4. DiDomenico – Hoffman – Duchene4:37

    xG 0.25–0.23 (53%)attempts 7–3goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestKarlsson – Claesson12:53

    xG 0.45–0.23 (67%)attempts 17–7goals 1–1

  2. Oduya – Ceci3:18

    xG 0.23–0.05 (83%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  3. Oduya – Phaneuf9:44

    xG 0.60–0.51 (54%)attempts 10–11goals 1–0

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestWilson – Bourque – Grimaldi6:39

    xG 0.38–0.16 (70%)attempts 8–7goals 0–0

  2. Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen15:46

    xG 0.48–0.37 (56%)attempts 10–13goals 1–0

  3. Yakupov – Kerfoot – Andrighetto9:34

    xG 0.27–0.60 (31%)attempts 8–13goals 0–0

  4. Comeau – Nieto – Compher12:26

    xG 0.07–0.93 (7%)attempts 8–19goals 0–3

Defence pairs

  1. Johnson – Barberio15:01

    xG 0.52–0.54 (49%)attempts 11–16goals 0–1

  2. Barberio – Bigras2:22

    xG 0.10–0.18 (36%)attempts 3–7goals 0–0

  3. Johnson – Zadorov4:29

    xG 0.05–0.15 (24%)attempts 5–5goals 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 2.5 xGOTT 2.8 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLOTT

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 OTT. Dots are goals.

Excitement 88/100 · #164 of 1271 this seasonSwing 2.32 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 25% (winner's lowest chance)
OTT 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +38 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 54% of the time.

COL winsOTT wins

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

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