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Wed, Oct 30, 2019·Gila River Arena, Glendale

Montréal Canadiens 4, Arizona Coyotes 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Montréal Canadiens win this game 58% of the time.

ARI winsMTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MTL113110213436
ARI01408111133

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:22MTLBrendan GallagherAssists: Tomas Tatar, Shea Weber · Wrist, 0.17 xG1–0
  2. P2 0:24MTLShea WeberGWGAssists: Victor Mete, Phillip Danault · Slap, 0.03 xG2–0
  3. P3 1:17MTLNick CousinsAssists: Nick Suzuki, Jeff Petry · Wrist, 0.30 xG3–0
  4. P3 4:47ARIJakob ChychrunAssists: Phil Kessel, Alex Goligoski · Wrist, 0.06 xG3–1
  5. P3 11:03MTLJonathan DrouinUnassisted · Wrist, 0.26 xG4–1
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 4:00ARIIlya Lyubushkin: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 9:49MTLTomas Tatar: Slashing2 min
  3. P2 1:54MTLMike Reilly: Holding2 min
  4. P2 11:18ARIJason Demers: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 13:14MTLShea Weber: 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.

MTL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0ARI
45% to win55% to win
← MTL attackARI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Danault won the faceoff against Soderberg
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MTLARI
36Shots on goal33
3.0Expected goals2.6
60Shot attempts63
35Faceoffs won32
2Power plays3
6Penalty minutes4
38Hits20
18Blocked shots10
10Giveaways13
5Takeaways7

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. bestTatar – Gallagher – Danault9:20

    xG 0.81–0.34 (70%)attempts 16–7goals 2–0

  2. Thompson – Cousins – Suzuki9:09

    xG 0.44–0.28 (61%)attempts 10–7goals 1–0

  3. Byron – Danault – Lehkonen2:05

    xG 0.10–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

  4. Tatar – Gallagher – Kotkaniemi2:44

    xG 0.05–0.01 (78%)attempts 3–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPetry – Chiarot17:33

    xG 0.76–0.42 (64%)attempts 17–16goals 1–1

  2. Weber – Mete15:17

    xG 0.71–0.66 (52%)attempts 19–19goals 2–0

  3. Reilly – Fleury12:15

    xG 0.75–0.88 (46%)attempts 10–16goals 1–0

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestGrabner – Stepan – Hinostroza4:23

    xG 0.53–0.01 (98%)attempts 10–3goals 0–0

  2. Kessel – Dvorak – Keller5:58

    xG 0.41–0.15 (74%)attempts 9–1goals 0–0

  3. Soderberg – Crouse – Garland4:05

    xG 0.18–0.01 (95%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  4. Soderberg – Fischer – Crouse4:36

    xG 0.32–0.33 (49%)attempts 4–8goals 0–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestGoligoski – Chychrun16:33

    xG 0.92–0.48 (66%)attempts 23–10goals 1–0

  2. Ness – Lyubushkin9:26

    xG 0.42–0.42 (50%)attempts 13–11goals 0–0

  3. Demers – Ekman-Larsson15:17

    xG 0.44–0.99 (31%)attempts 12–25goals 0–3

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 2.6 xGMTL 3.0 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

ARIMTL

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 MTL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 25/100 · #844 of 1082 this seasonSwing 0.79 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 45% (winner's lowest chance)
MTL 100%5050%50ARI 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +18 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Montréal Canadiens win this game 58% of the time.

ARI winsMTL wins

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

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