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Sun, Nov 11, 2018·Rogers Place, Edmonton

Colorado Avalanche 4, Edmonton Oilers 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 59% of the time.

EDM winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL21221006428
EDM0901018127

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:26COLMikko RantanenAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog · Backhand, 0.24 xG1–0
  2. P1 15:33COLCarl SoderbergGWGAssists: Tyson Barrie, Matt Calvert · Slap, 0.04 xG2–0
  3. P2 5:06COLAlexander KerfootPPAssists: Carl Soderberg, Samuel Girard · Wrist, 0.20 xG3–0
  4. P2 10:56COLTyson BarrieAssists: Mikko Rantanen, Nathan MacKinnon · Slap, 0.19 xG4–0
  5. P3 9:20EDMTy RattieAssists: Adam Larsson, Milan Lucic · Tip-in, 0.15 xG4–1
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 1:14COLMatt Calvert: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 3:07EDMDarnell Nurse: Holding2 min · PPG
  3. P2 13:57COLPatrik Nemeth: Slashing2 min
  4. P3 10:56COLGabriel Landeskog: Interference2 min
  5. P3 15:36EDMRyan Nugent-Hopkins: Hooking2 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 SOG0EDM
46% to win54% to win
← COL attackEDM attack →
  1. P1 20:00McDavid won the faceoff against MacKinnon
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLEDM
28Shots on goal27
2.8Expected goals2.3
40Shot attempts52
20Faceoffs won21
2Power plays3
6Penalty minutes4
18Hits36
19Blocked shots5
10Giveaways10
7Takeaways11

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. Bourque – Nieto – Kamenev7:16

    xG 0.14–0.10 (59%)attempts 5–6goals 0–0

  2. Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen14:23

    xG 0.70–0.72 (49%)attempts 11–13goals 2–0

  3. Wilson – Kerfoot – Jost10:16

    xG 0.34–0.41 (45%)attempts 5–11goals 0–0

  4. Soderberg – Calvert – Dries8:20

    xG 0.14–0.26 (36%)attempts 4–5goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJohnson – Girard14:09

    xG 0.45–0.11 (80%)attempts 8–6goals 1–0

  2. Cole – Barrie11:42

    xG 0.57–0.43 (57%)attempts 6–9goals 2–0

  3. Johnson – Cole3:16

    xG 0.02–0.01 (62%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestBrodziak – Kassian – Khaira10:22

    xG 0.87–0.10 (90%)attempts 14–6goals 0–0

  2. Lucic – Strome – Caggiula4:58

    xG 0.26–0.05 (83%)attempts 4–2goals 0–1

  3. Draisaitl – McDavid – Caggiula4:47

    xG 0.22–0.04 (86%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  4. Chiasson – Rieder – Nugent-Hopkins2:43

    xG 0.07–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestRussell – Nurse15:12

    xG 1.25–0.34 (79%)attempts 19–7goals 0–0

  2. Garrison – Benning9:57

    xG 0.15–0.28 (34%)attempts 12–5goals 0–1

  3. Larsson – Klefbom15:39

    xG 0.27–0.65 (29%)attempts 8–11goals 1–2

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.

EDM 2.3 xGCOL 2.8 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

EDMCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 13/100 · #1072 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.60 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 46% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50EDM 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +17 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 59% of the time.

EDM winsCOL wins

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

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