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Tue, Dec 3, 2019·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Ottawa Senators 2, Vancouver Canucks 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 71% of the time.

VAN winsOTT wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
OTT016112114242
VAN4150618529

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:50VANAntoine RousselAssists: Adam Gaudette · Backhand, 0.16 xG0–1
  2. P1 4:28VANTanner PearsonAssists: Chris Tanev · Tip-in, 0.12 xG0–2
  3. P1 13:58VANElias PetterssonPPGWGAssists: Brock Boeser, J.T. Miller · Tip-in, 0.16 xG0–3
  4. P1 17:23VANZack MacEwenAssists: Jordie Benn, Chris Tanev · Deflected, 0.13 xG0–4
  5. P2 11:59OTTJean-Gabriel PageauAssists: Brady Tkachuk, Anthony Duclair · Wrist, 0.15 xG1–4
  6. P3 0:40OTTTyler EnnisAssists: Thomas Chabot, Colin White · Deflected, 0.04 xG2–4
  7. P3 7:34VANOscar FantenbergAssists: Jake Virtanen, Adam Gaudette · Slap, 0.01 xG2–5
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 9:28VANTanner Pearson: Interference2 min
  2. P1 13:13OTTDylan DeMelo: Tripping2 min · PPG
  3. P2 18:35VANChris Tanev: Delaying game smothering puck2 min
  4. P3 1:59OTTErik Brannstrom: Delaying game2 min
  5. P3 12:34VANBrock Boeser: 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.

OTT00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0VAN
45% to win55% to win
← OTT attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Paul won the faceoff against Horvat
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

OTTVAN
42Shots on goal29
4.2Expected goals2.9
67Shot attempts49
30Faceoffs won25
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
21Hits23
13Blocked shots16
3Giveaways8
6Takeaways11

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.

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestPageau – Duclair – Tkachuk6:58

    xG 1.22–0.56 (69%)attempts 11–6goals 1–0

  2. Brown – Paul – Brown3:47

    xG 0.22–0.05 (83%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  3. Anisimov – Namestnikov – White8:48

    xG 0.33–0.38 (47%)attempts 8–7goals 0–1

  4. Pageau – Brown – Paul4:15

    xG 0.08–0.13 (37%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestChabot – Zaitsev2:29

    xG 0.67–0.03 (96%)attempts 10–1goals 1–0

  2. Hainsey – Chabot15:19

    xG 0.71–0.62 (53%)attempts 18–12goals 0–0

  3. DeMelo – Brannstrom9:44

    xG 0.29–0.39 (43%)attempts 8–4goals 0–2

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestRoussel – Virtanen – Gaudette9:51

    xG 0.81–0.31 (72%)attempts 10–7goals 2–0

  2. Leivo – Pearson – Horvat10:39

    xG 0.86–0.57 (60%)attempts 14–8goals 1–0

  3. Eriksson – Schaller – MacEwen6:41

    xG 0.22–0.01 (94%)attempts 9–2goals 1–0

  4. Miller – Boeser – Pettersson13:59

    xG 0.37–1.02 (27%)attempts 8–16goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStecher – Fantenberg17:03

    xG 0.77–0.71 (52%)attempts 13–19goals 1–0

  2. Benn – Tanev14:35

    xG 0.94–1.23 (43%)attempts 13–15goals 2–1

  3. Myers – Hughes15:30

    xG 0.78–1.10 (41%)attempts 18–16goals 1–0

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.

VAN 2.9 xGOTT 4.2 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANOTT

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 62/100 · #417 of 1082 this seasonSwing 0.68 · 6 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
OTT 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +13 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 71% of the time.

VAN winsOTT wins

Simulated goal difference (VAN − OTT), 10,000 replays

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