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Mon, Apr 2, 2018·STAPLES Center, Los Angeles

Colorado Avalanche 1, Los Angeles Kings 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 69% of the time.

LAK winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL07110011128
LAK2501119325

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 9:29LAKTorrey MitchellAssists: Nate Thompson, Drew Doughty · Wrist, 0.32 xG0–1
  2. P1 12:32LAKDustin BrownSHGWGAssists: Anze Kopitar, Alec Martinez · Wrist, 0.03 xG0–2
  3. P2 4:31COLAlexander KerfootPPAssists: Sven Andrighetto, Colin Wilson · Wrist, 0.07 xG1–2
  4. P3 2:00LAKKyle CliffordAssists: Trevor Lewis, Adrian Kempe · Backhand, 0.10 xG1–3
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 9:49LAKDion Phaneuf: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 9:49COLNikita Zadorov: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 11:51LAKChristian Folin: Tripping2 min
  4. P1 17:57LAKDion Phaneuf: Boarding2 min
  5. P2 2:51LAKTorrey Mitchell: Tripping2 min · PPG
  6. P2 7:01COLNathan MacKinnon: Tripping2 min
  7. P3 19:35COLBlake Comeau: Slashing2 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 SOG0LAK
46% to win54% to win
← COL attackLAK attack →
  1. P1 20:00Soderberg won the faceoff against Carter
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLLAK
28Shots on goal25
1.8Expected goals2.7
54Shot attempts51
28Faceoffs won29
3Power plays2
9Penalty minutes11
20Hits45
12Blocked shots18
10Giveaways17
1Takeaways3

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. bestLandeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen14:25

    xG 0.37–0.30 (55%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  2. Comeau – Soderberg – Nieto12:02

    xG 0.43–0.55 (44%)attempts 12–12goals 0–0

  3. Kerfoot – Andrighetto – Jost9:34

    xG 0.25–0.39 (39%)attempts 10–9goals 0–1

  4. Wilson – Bourque – Compher6:22

    xG 0.16–0.50 (24%)attempts 3–11goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBarrie – Girard6:27

    xG 0.27–0.04 (88%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  2. Warsofsky – Nemeth2:29

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–1goals 0–0

  3. Alt – Nemeth2:30

    xG 0.22–0.23 (48%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

Los Angeles Kings

Forward lines

  1. bestThompson – Mitchell – Amadio6:37

    xG 0.52–0.06 (89%)attempts 6–6goals 1–0

  2. Brown – Kopitar – Pearson11:40

    xG 0.50–0.11 (82%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

  3. Carter – Toffoli – Rieder10:15

    xG 0.36–0.20 (64%)attempts 15–6goals 0–0

  4. Lewis – Clifford – Kempe6:07

    xG 0.40–0.33 (55%)attempts 8–5goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPhaneuf – Doughty14:47

    xG 0.49–0.19 (72%)attempts 9–8goals 0–0

  2. Martinez – Folin11:54

    xG 0.49–0.38 (56%)attempts 10–12goals 0–0

  3. Doughty – Folin2:59

    xG 0.03–0.07 (29%)attempts 1–3goals 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.

LAK 2.7 xGCOL 1.8 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

LAKCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 16/100 · #1065 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.79 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50LAK 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +20 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 69% of the time.

LAK winsCOL wins

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

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