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Sat, Oct 6, 2018·Pepsi Center, Denver

Philadelphia Flyers 2, Colorado Avalanche 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 76% of the time.

COL winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PHI112113012237
COL21411427535

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:35COLColin WilsonAssists: Alexander Kerfoot, Erik Johnson · Wrist, 0.20 xG0–1
  2. P1 7:30PHISean CouturierAssists: Travis Konecny, Claude Giroux · Backhand, 0.20 xG1–1
  3. P1 12:58COLJ.T. CompherAssists: Samuel Girard · Wrist, 0.05 xG1–2
  4. P2 2:00PHIMikhail VorobyevUnassisted · Wrist, 0.07 xG2–2
  5. P2 7:18COLGabriel LandeskogGWGAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Erik Johnson · Tip-in, 0.19 xG2–3
  6. P3 16:21COLColin WilsonPPAssists: Carl Soderberg, Alexander Kerfoot · Wrist, 0.13 xG2–4
  7. P3 18:45COLNathan MacKinnonENAssists: Mikko Rantanen, Erik Johnson · Wrist, 0.74 xG2–5
Penalties (11)
  1. P1 9:12COLMatt Nieto: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 16:16COLJ.T. Compher: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 2:29PHIScott Laughton: Holding2 min
  4. P2 5:49PHIJakub Voracek: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 5:49COLJ.T. Compher: Slashing2 min
  6. P2 8:26PHIRobert Hagg: Hooking2 min
  7. P2 18:42COLNikita Zadorov: Roughing2 min
  8. P2 18:42PHITravis Konecny: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  9. P3 3:20COLIan Cole: Interference2 min
  10. P3 12:54PHITravis Konecny: Too many men on the ice2 min
  11. P3 14:38PHIChristian Folin: Hooking2 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.

PHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHICOL
37Shots on goal35
2.5Expected goals4.2
64Shot attempts66
30Faceoffs won29
3Power plays4
12Penalty minutes10
17Hits14
23Blocked shots17
3Giveaways6
2Takeaways9

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.

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestGiroux – Couturier – Konecny7:09

    xG 0.57–0.04 (93%)attempts 8–3goals 1–0

  2. van Riemsdyk – Simmonds – Vorobyev3:03

    xG 0.11–0.07 (62%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  3. Giroux – Voracek – Couturier4:12

    xG 0.09–0.15 (37%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

  4. Lehtera – Laughton – Raffl5:51

    xG 0.04–0.21 (15%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestFolin – Sanheim11:18

    xG 0.68–0.40 (63%)attempts 15–12goals 2–1

  2. MacDonald – Hagg9:23

    xG 0.30–0.23 (56%)attempts 12–7goals 0–0

  3. Hagg – Provorov2:05

    xG 0.03–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestWilson – Kerfoot – Jost7:55

    xG 0.48–0.15 (76%)attempts 13–5goals 1–1

  2. Calvert – Compher – Dries4:37

    xG 0.33–0.06 (84%)attempts 5–4goals 1–0

  3. Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen10:33

    xG 0.18–0.18 (49%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

  4. Soderberg – Bourque – Nieto5:04

    xG 0.08–0.12 (41%)attempts 3–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJohnson – Girard14:10

    xG 0.96–0.31 (76%)attempts 18–15goals 2–0

  2. Cole – Barrie11:45

    xG 0.51–0.28 (65%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

  3. Barberio – Zadorov9:01

    xG 0.06–0.25 (20%)attempts 7–8goals 0–1

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 4.2 xGPHI 2.5 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLPHI

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 PHI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 55/100 · #572 of 1271 this seasonSwing 1.34 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 51% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +22 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 76% of the time.

COL winsPHI wins

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

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