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Sat, Oct 13, 2018·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Los Angeles Kings 1, Ottawa Senators 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 65% of the time.

OTT winsLAK wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
LAK05120012137
OTT381618522

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 6:29OTTChris TierneyAssists: Dylan DeMelo, Thomas Chabot · Tip-in, 0.18 xG0–1
  2. P1 11:50OTTChris WidemanGWGAssists: Brady Tkachuk, Mikkel Boedker · Backhand, 0.11 xG0–2
  3. P1 16:19OTTMark StonePPAssists: Matt Duchene, Thomas Chabot · Backhand, 0.21 xG0–3
  4. P2 10:01OTTColin WhiteAssists: Maxime Lajoie, Christian Jaros · Snap, 0.04 xG0–4
  5. P2 15:53LAKTrevor LewisAssists: Drew Doughty, Jake Muzzin · Backhand, 0.09 xG1–4
  6. P3 11:03OTTChris WidemanAssists: Matt Duchene, Brady Tkachuk · Slap, 0.05 xG1–5
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 7:01OTTMark Stone: Holding2 min
  2. P1 9:17OTTDylan DeMelo: Holding2 min
  3. P1 14:31LAKDerek Forbort: Hooking2 min · PPG
  4. P2 5:27OTTThomas Chabot: Hooking2 min
  5. P2 17:26OTTMark Borowiecki: Tripping2 min
  6. P3 19:40OTTColin White: 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.

LAK00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0OTT
46% to win54% to win
← LAK attackOTT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Tierney won the faceoff against Kopitar
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

LAKOTT
37Shots on goal22
2.2Expected goals1.6
80Shot attempts35
25Faceoffs won30
5Power plays1
2Penalty minutes10
23Hits19
9Blocked shots27
15Giveaways6
14Takeaways12

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.

Los Angeles Kings

Forward lines

  1. bestThompson – Lewis – Clifford6:16

    xG 0.18–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

  2. Toffoli – Pearson – Kempe2:44

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

  3. Carter – Amadio – Anderson-Dolan11:16

    xG 0.29–0.19 (61%)attempts 16–8goals 0–1

  4. Kovalchuk – Pearson – Kempe7:10

    xG 0.29–0.21 (58%)attempts 9–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPhaneuf – Martinez8:31

    xG 0.28–0.07 (79%)attempts 15–6goals 0–1

  2. Doughty – Forbort6:09

    xG 0.18–0.05 (79%)attempts 6–3goals 0–0

  3. Muzzin – Martinez5:50

    xG 0.24–0.18 (57%)attempts 6–4goals 0–1

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestStone – Tierney – Tkachuk2:17

    xG 0.18–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 1–0

  2. Pyatt – Carey – Paajarvi2:59

    xG 0.12–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–0goals 0–0

  3. Ryan – Paajarvi – Tierney5:52

    xG 0.03–0.01 (73%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  4. Smith – Stone – Tkachuk7:33

    xG 0.14–0.14 (50%)attempts 5–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDeMelo – Chabot14:09

    xG 0.58–0.24 (70%)attempts 10–13goals 1–0

  2. Wideman – Chabot2:28

    xG 0.24–0.13 (64%)attempts 3–4goals 1–1

  3. Wideman – Lajoie2:32

    xG 0.00–0.03 (15%)attempts 2–4goals 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.

OTT 1.6 xGLAK 2.2 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTLAK

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 13/100 · #1079 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.56 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
LAK 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +15 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 65% of the time.

OTT winsLAK wins

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

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