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Sat, Mar 2, 2019·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Dallas Stars 4, St. Louis Blues 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 55% of the time.

STL winsDAL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
DAL2711014421
STL01218010130

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 16:52DALJamie BennAssists: Taylor Fedun · Tip-in, 0.09 xG1–0
  2. P1 18:44DALJohn KlingbergGWGAssists: Blake Comeau, Mattias Janmark · Wrist, 0.05 xG2–0
  3. P2 15:40STLAlex PietrangeloAssists: Oskar Sundqvist, Joel Edmundson · Wrist, 0.03 xG2–1
  4. P2 17:11DALJamie BennPPAssists: Tyler Seguin, John Klingberg · Wrist, 0.05 xG3–1
  5. P3 19:31DALJamie BennENAssists: John Klingberg · Wrist, 0.55 xG4–1
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 7:23DALBlake Comeau: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 10:12DALBlake Comeau: Slashing2 min
  3. P2 1:37DALRoope Hintz: Holding2 min
  4. P2 16:17STLMackenzie MacEachern: Roughing2 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.

DAL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
46% to win54% to win
← DAL attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00L'Esperance won the faceoff against Bozak
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DALSTL
21Shots on goal30
2.0Expected goals1.9
40Shot attempts52
32Faceoffs won26
1Power plays3
6Penalty minutes2
24Hits23
13Blocked shots13
5Giveaways5
6Takeaways2

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.

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestSpezza – Hintz – L'Esperance2:09

    xG 0.22–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–0goals 0–0

  2. Ritchie – Dickinson – Nichushkin5:38

    xG 0.19–0.08 (71%)attempts 6–3goals 0–0

  3. Radulov – Seguin – Hintz5:28

    xG 0.15–0.09 (63%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  4. Comeau – Faksa – Janmark10:55

    xG 0.31–0.25 (55%)attempts 7–5goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLovejoy – Fedun4:41

    xG 0.24–0.04 (85%)attempts 4–2goals 1–1

  2. Polak – Lindell16:43

    xG 0.57–0.40 (59%)attempts 10–15goals 0–0

  3. Lovejoy – Heiskanen4:05

    xG 0.08–0.01 (86%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSteen – Sundqvist – Sanford5:00

    xG 0.20–0.00 (98%)attempts 10–2goals 1–0

  2. Bozak – Schwartz – Thomas5:46

    xG 0.16–0.10 (62%)attempts 6–3goals 0–0

  3. O'Reilly – Tarasenko – Blais3:26

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–1goals 0–0

  4. Sundqvist – Sanford – Thomas5:08

    xG 0.12–0.14 (45%)attempts 3–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBouwmeester – Parayko17:50

    xG 0.57–0.40 (59%)attempts 16–11goals 0–0

  2. Pietrangelo – Dunn3:11

    xG 0.06–0.03 (65%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  3. Parayko – Dunn2:59

    xG 0.01–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–1goals 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.

STL 1.9 xGDAL 2.0 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLDAL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 28/100 · #882 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.94 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 45% (winner's lowest chance)
DAL 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +19 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 55% of the time.

STL winsDAL wins

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

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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).