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Sun, Mar 31, 2019·Gila River Arena, Glendale

Minnesota Wild 0, Arizona Coyotes 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Arizona Coyotes win this game 79% of the time.

ARI winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN011012016039
ARI181728423

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 7:48ARIAlex GalchenyukGWGAssists: Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Nick Cousins · Wrist, 0.36 xG0–1
  2. P2 19:17ARIJosh ArchibaldAssists: Jason Demers, Derek Stepan · Wrist, 0.05 xG0–2
  3. P3 18:10ARIJosh ArchibaldENAssists: Lawson Crouse · Wrist, 0.76 xG0–3
  4. P3 19:51ARIVinnie HinostrozaENAssists: Josh Archibald · Wrist, 0.71 xG0–4
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 3:17MINJordan Greenway: Too many men on the ice2 min
  2. P1 13:58ARINiklas Hjalmarsson: Slashing2 min
  3. P1 19:29MINRyan Suter: Interference2 min
  4. P2 3:41ARIRichard Panik: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  5. P2 10:30ARIJason Demers: Tripping2 min
  6. P3 11:25MINLuke Kunin: 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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0ARI
46% to win54% to win
← MIN attackARI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Richardson won the faceoff against Staal
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINARI
39Shots on goal23
2.9Expected goals4.9
80Shot attempts54
32Faceoffs won33
3Power plays3
6Penalty minutes6
37Hits32
13Blocked shots27
4Giveaways7
1Takeaways11

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.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestRask – Fiala – Greenway7:07

    xG 0.87–0.68 (56%)attempts 16–5goals 0–1

  2. Donato – Eriksson Ek – Kunin6:39

    xG 0.39–0.33 (54%)attempts 9–9goals 0–1

  3. Fehr – Foligno – Brown4:14

    xG 0.05–0.01 (82%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  4. Staal – Zucker – Read7:37

    xG 0.28–0.27 (51%)attempts 10–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPateryn – Seeler10:13

    xG 0.56–0.36 (60%)attempts 13–12goals 0–0

  2. Brodin – Hunt15:09

    xG 0.52–0.50 (51%)attempts 22–12goals 0–0

  3. Suter – Spurgeon16:49

    xG 0.74–1.14 (39%)attempts 24–15goals 0–2

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestStepan – Panik – Keller9:42

    xG 0.55–0.10 (85%)attempts 13–7goals 0–0

  2. Cousins – Galchenyuk – Garland6:03

    xG 0.70–0.64 (52%)attempts 9–9goals 1–0

  3. Richardson – Grabner – Hinostroza10:55

    xG 0.20–0.35 (37%)attempts 8–17goals 0–0

  4. Archibald – Dvorak – Crouse8:28

    xG 0.28–0.56 (33%)attempts 3–16goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDemers – Ekman-Larsson13:57

    xG 0.78–0.34 (69%)attempts 15–19goals 2–0

  2. Demers – Oesterle3:08

    xG 0.24–0.02 (92%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  3. Goligoski – Hjalmarsson11:43

    xG 0.74–0.71 (51%)attempts 13–13goals 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.

ARI 4.9 xGMIN 2.9 xG
012345P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

ARIMIN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 6/100 · #1166 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.63 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 53% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50ARI 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, Arizona Coyotes win this game 79% of the time.

ARI winsMIN wins

Simulated goal difference (ARI − MIN), 10,000 replays

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