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Fri, Mar 9, 2018·American Airlines Center, Dallas

Anaheim Ducks 1, Dallas Stars 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 75% of the time.

DAL winsANA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ANA11005012127
DAL09017211237

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 17:16ANARyan GetzlafAssists: Corey Perry, Rickard Rakell · Wrist, 0.05 xG1–0
  2. P3 8:50DALDevin ShorePPAssists: Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn · Tip-in, 0.08 xG1–1
  3. P3 14:23DALJamie BennPPGWGAssists: John Klingberg, Tyler Seguin · Tip-in, 0.02 xG1–2
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 0:47DALTyler Pitlick: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 4:26DALAntoine Roussel: Slashing2 min
  3. P3 6:52ANACorey Perry: Closing hand on puck2 min · PPG
  4. P3 13:48ANAMarcus Pettersson: Holding2 min · PPG
  5. P3 19:38DALStephen Johns: Delaying game2 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.

ANA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0DAL
46% to win54% to win
← ANA attackDAL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Getzlaf won the faceoff against Faksa
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ANADAL
27Shots on goal37
1.4Expected goals2.7
55Shot attempts70
27Faceoffs won27
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
17Hits17
23Blocked shots21
6Giveaways4
2Takeaways4

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.

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. Henrique – Ritchie – Kase11:51

    xG 0.39–0.34 (53%)attempts 17–9goals 0–0

  2. Kelly – Vermette – Brown5:30

    xG 0.10–0.13 (45%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  3. Getzlaf – Perry – Rakell13:14

    xG 0.32–0.46 (40%)attempts 12–15goals 1–0

  4. Kesler – Cogliano – Silfverberg10:04

    xG 0.20–1.12 (15%)attempts 7–18goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Beauchemin – Pettersson8:09

    xG 0.26–0.25 (52%)attempts 10–9goals 1–0

  2. Beauchemin – Lindholm3:37

    xG 0.08–0.12 (42%)attempts 7–3goals 0–0

  3. Fowler – Montour17:19

    xG 0.23–0.54 (29%)attempts 9–25goals 0–0

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestRadulov – Benn – Seguin8:43

    xG 1.21–0.35 (78%)attempts 23–7goals 0–0

  2. Spezza – Roussel – Ritchie9:01

    xG 0.63–0.30 (68%)attempts 14–11goals 0–0

  3. Smith – Dickinson – Elie6:10

    xG 0.16–0.10 (61%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  4. Radulov – Seguin – Shore5:46

    xG 0.04–0.02 (69%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKlingberg – Lindell16:26

    xG 1.31–0.32 (80%)attempts 23–11goals 0–0

  2. Johns – Honka7:02

    xG 0.33–0.26 (56%)attempts 14–8goals 0–0

  3. Johns – Lindell2:34

    xG 0.02–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–2goals 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.

DAL 2.7 xGANA 1.4 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DALANA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 35/100 · #822 of 1271 this seasonSwing 1.22 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 23% (winner's lowest chance)
ANA 100%5050%50DAL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +32 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 75% of the time.

DAL winsANA wins

Simulated goal difference (DAL − ANA), 10,000 replays

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