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Thu, Apr 5, 2018·SAP Center at San Jose, San Jose

Colorado Avalanche 2, San Jose Sharks 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, San Jose Sharks win this game 78% of the time.

SJS winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL070929225
SJS111013312436

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:58SJSJustin BraunAssists: Logan Couture, Mikkel Boedker · Slap, 0.01 xG0–1
  2. P3 4:43COLMikko RantanenPPAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Tyson Barrie · Wrist, 0.15 xG1–1
  3. P3 6:00SJSLogan CouturePPAssists: Kevin Labanc, Joe Pavelski · Wrist, 0.05 xG1–2
  4. P3 10:14SJSJoonas DonskoiGWGAssists: Dylan DeMelo, Brenden Dillon · Backhand, 0.25 xG1–3
  5. P3 13:06COLBlake ComeauAssists: David Warsofsky, Matt Nieto · Deflected, 0.10 xG2–3
  6. P3 19:58SJSTomas HertlENUnassisted · Snap, 0.70 xG2–4
Penalties (3)
  1. P2 8:59COLBlake Comeau: Tripping2 min
  2. P3 3:50SJSJoe Pavelski: High sticking2 min · PPG
  3. P3 5:28COLBlake Comeau: High sticking2 min · PPG

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 SOG0SJS
46% to win54% to win
← COL attackSJS attack →
  1. P1 20:00MacKinnon won the faceoff against Hertl
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLSJS
25Shots on goal36
2.1Expected goals3.7
67Shot attempts68
27Faceoffs won32
1Power plays2
4Penalty minutes2
23Hits18
18Blocked shots28
6Giveaways6
4Takeaways11

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. bestWilson – Bourque – Compher4:36

    xG 0.15–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–2goals 0–0

  2. Comeau – Soderberg – Nieto11:38

    xG 0.30–0.40 (43%)attempts 13–13goals 1–0

  3. Kerfoot – Andrighetto – Jost11:08

    xG 0.14–0.26 (35%)attempts 8–13goals 0–0

  4. Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen16:11

    xG 0.69–0.88 (44%)attempts 20–15goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestWarsofsky – Girard2:39

    xG 0.28–0.01 (97%)attempts 6–1goals 1–0

  2. Warsofsky – Barberio5:35

    xG 0.44–0.18 (71%)attempts 8–6goals 0–0

  3. Nemeth – Girard9:10

    xG 0.13–0.07 (65%)attempts 8–7goals 0–0

San Jose Sharks

Forward lines

  1. bestPavelski – Donskoi – Meier12:51

    xG 0.74–0.18 (80%)attempts 14–10goals 1–0

  2. Sorensen – Tierney – Labanc9:55

    xG 0.45–0.34 (57%)attempts 11–10goals 0–0

  3. Couture – Boedker – Hertl12:09

    xG 0.32–0.35 (48%)attempts 10–13goals 1–0

  4. Ward – Hansen – Gambrell7:30

    xG 0.16–0.24 (41%)attempts 7–9goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestMartin – Burns16:48

    xG 1.01–0.31 (77%)attempts 21–13goals 0–0

  2. Dillon – DeMelo11:41

    xG 0.45–0.33 (58%)attempts 9–14goals 1–1

  3. Vlasic – Braun21:09

    xG 0.65–0.87 (43%)attempts 20–27goals 1–0

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.

SJS 3.7 xGCOL 2.1 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

SJSCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 46/100 · #684 of 1271 this seasonSwing 1.33 · 6 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50SJS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +27 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, San Jose Sharks win this game 78% of the time.

SJS winsCOL wins

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

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