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Sat, Jan 12, 2019·American Airlines Center, Dallas

St. Louis Blues 3, Dallas Stars 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 82% of the time.

DAL winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
STL21007111328
DAL0100814122

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:34STLVladimir TarasenkoAssists: Jaden Schwartz, Colton Parayko · Wrist, 0.04 xG1–0
  2. P1 9:54STLPatrick MaroonGWGAssists: Oskar Sundqvist, Robert Bortuzzo · Tip-in, 0.11 xG2–0
  3. P3 8:35DALErik CondraAssists: Mattias Janmark, John Klingberg · Wrist, 0.08 xG2–1
  4. P3 12:38STLVladimir TarasenkoPPAssists: David Perron, Oskar Sundqvist · Wrist, 0.11 xG3–1
Penalties (3)
  1. P2 10:23STLJoel Edmundson: Holding2 min
  2. P2 11:44DALRadek Faksa: Interference2 min
  3. P3 11:52DALJason Spezza: Interference2 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.

STL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0DAL
46% to win54% to win
← STL attackDAL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Seguin won the faceoff against Schenn
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLDAL
28Shots on goal22
3.2Expected goals1.5
46Shot attempts39
29Faceoffs won28
2Power plays1
2Penalty minutes4
15Hits26
13Blocked shots13
12Giveaways32
5Takeaways6

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.

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestMaroon – Sundqvist – Fabbri8:20

    xG 0.39–0.18 (68%)attempts 5–6goals 1–0

  2. Perron – O'Reilly – Sanford13:15

    xG 0.26–0.08 (76%)attempts 9–6goals 0–0

  3. MacEachern – Barbashev – Blais5:56

    xG 0.03–0.10 (20%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  4. Perron – O'Reilly – Sundqvist2:22

    xG 0.00–0.10 (0%)attempts 0–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBouwmeester – Parayko22:29

    xG 1.03–0.59 (64%)attempts 19–15goals 2–0

  2. Pietrangelo – Edmundson18:43

    xG 0.25–0.20 (56%)attempts 11–10goals 0–0

  3. Bortuzzo – Dunn8:56

    xG 0.13–0.25 (35%)attempts 7–7goals 0–1

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestShore – Nichushkin – Hintz5:44

    xG 0.18–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–0goals 0–0

  2. Comeau – Pitlick – Faksa7:59

    xG 0.02–0.08 (19%)attempts 3–5goals 0–0

  3. Radulov – Benn – Seguin14:19

    xG 0.51–0.62 (45%)attempts 12–14goals 0–1

  4. Spezza – Condra – Janmark11:24

    xG 0.19–0.57 (25%)attempts 6–7goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestKlingberg – Lindell12:24

    xG 0.78–0.53 (59%)attempts 11–10goals 0–1

  2. Fedun – Lindell3:12

    xG 0.00–0.01 (0%)attempts 0–1goals 0–0

  3. Fedun – Heiskanen4:53

    xG 0.00–0.01 (0%)attempts 0–2goals 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.

DAL 1.5 xGSTL 3.2 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DALSTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 17/100 · #1045 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.84 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 46% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50DAL 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, St. Louis Blues win this game 82% of the time.

DAL winsSTL wins

Simulated goal difference (DAL − STL), 10,000 replays

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