Skip to content
Ice Lab

Tue, Mar 5, 2019·STAPLES Center, Los Angeles

Montréal Canadiens 3, Los Angeles Kings 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 60% of the time.

LAK winsMTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MTL1101816324
LAK0706114127

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:11MTLBrendan GallagherAssists: Victor Mete, Shea Weber · Tip-in, 0.06 xG1–0
  2. P2 10:07MTLJordan WealGWGUnassisted · Snap, 0.12 xG2–0
  3. P3 0:41MTLShea WeberAssists: Phillip Danault, Victor Mete · Slap, 0.02 xG3–0
  4. P3 11:03LAKMatt LuffAssists: Drew Doughty, Dustin Brown · Snap, 0.06 xG3–1
Penalties (3)
  1. P2 15:55LAKSean Walker: High sticking2 min
  2. P3 1:49MTLJeff Petry: Hooking2 min
  3. P3 14:29MTLBrett Kulak: 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.

MTL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0LAK
46% to win54% to win
← MTL attackLAK attack →
  1. P1 20:00Kopitar won the faceoff against Danault
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MTLLAK
24Shots on goal27
1.8Expected goals2.2
47Shot attempts53
24Faceoffs won22
1Power plays2
4Penalty minutes2
17Hits19
16Blocked shots11
8Giveaways7
4Takeaways6

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.

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. bestWeal – Armia – Drouin12:02

    xG 0.66–0.24 (73%)attempts 14–6goals 1–1

  2. Tatar – Gallagher – Danault11:47

    xG 0.42–0.25 (63%)attempts 14–6goals 2–0

  3. Byron – Shaw – Domi13:07

    xG 0.30–0.21 (58%)attempts 10–12goals 0–0

  4. Thompson – Weise – Lehkonen10:43

    xG 0.02–0.57 (4%)attempts 2–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPetry – Kulak19:21

    xG 0.67–0.45 (60%)attempts 19–12goals 1–1

  2. Weber – Mete15:32

    xG 0.54–0.41 (57%)attempts 15–11goals 2–0

  3. Benn – Folin14:37

    xG 0.21–0.46 (31%)attempts 7–12goals 0–0

Los Angeles Kings

Forward lines

  1. Lewis – Clifford – Luff4:50

    xG 0.14–0.15 (47%)attempts 6–3goals 0–1

  2. Brodzinski – Kempe – Iafallo10:23

    xG 0.05–0.11 (30%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  3. Brown – Kopitar – Toffoli10:51

    xG 0.14–0.33 (30%)attempts 3–11goals 0–2

  4. Kovalchuk – Carter – Leipsic10:35

    xG 0.26–0.49 (35%)attempts 10–13goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPhaneuf – Forbort3:18

    xG 0.23–0.07 (76%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

  2. Doughty – Forbort12:54

    xG 0.33–0.28 (54%)attempts 9–7goals 0–1

  3. Martinez – Roy12:07

    xG 0.27–0.33 (44%)attempts 10–8goals 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.

LAK 2.2 xGMTL 1.8 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

LAKMTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 13/100 · #1070 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.61 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 46% (winner's lowest chance)
MTL 100%5050%50LAK 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, Los Angeles Kings win this game 60% of the time.

LAK winsMTL wins

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

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7

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