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Sat, Dec 7, 2019·TD Garden, Boston

Colorado Avalanche 4, Boston Bruins 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 59% of the time.

BOS winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL192516420
BOS1404012120

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 13:14BOSChris WagnerAssists: John Moore, Anders Bjork · Tip-in, 0.05 xG0–1
  2. P1 17:25COLValeri NichushkinAssists: Matt Nieto · Backhand, 0.15 xG1–1
  3. P2 9:17COLIan ColeGWGAssists: Mark Barberio, Joonas Donskoi · Slap, 0.04 xG2–1
  4. P2 18:21COLAndre BurakovskyAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Joonas Donskoi · Wrist, 0.06 xG3–1
  5. P3 19:57COLGabriel LandeskogENAssists: Pierre-Edouard Bellemare · Wrist, 0.56 xG4–1
Penalties (4)
  1. P3 5:54COLRyan Graves: High sticking2 min
  2. P3 8:02BOSBrad Marchand: Hooking2 min
  3. P3 8:27COLJoonas Donskoi: High sticking2 min
  4. P3 17:39COLGabriel Landeskog: High sticking2 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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0BOS
45% to win55% to win
← COL attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Kuraly won the faceoff against MacKinnon
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLBOS
20Shots on goal20
2.0Expected goals1.7
39Shot attempts56
22Faceoffs won15
1Power plays3
6Penalty minutes2
34Hits36
21Blocked shots10
13Giveaways7
12Takeaways10

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.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestLandeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen14:36

    xG 0.75–0.26 (74%)attempts 19–13goals 0–1

  2. Nieto – Nichushkin – Bellemare10:41

    xG 0.21–0.19 (52%)attempts 6–8goals 1–0

  3. Donskoi – Burakovsky – Compher10:56

    xG 0.19–0.29 (40%)attempts 5–11goals 0–0

  4. Tynan – Kamenev – Jost7:07

    xG 0.00–0.20 (0%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestZadorov – Girard17:02

    xG 0.61–0.27 (69%)attempts 14–12goals 1–0

  2. Graves – Makar14:58

    xG 0.41–0.38 (52%)attempts 12–13goals 1–1

  3. Cole – Barberio10:45

    xG 0.04–0.05 (44%)attempts 2–7goals 1–0

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestKrejci – Heinen – DeBrusk4:53

    xG 0.15–0.00 (100%)attempts 7–0goals 0–0

  2. Ritchie – Bjork – Lindholm5:56

    xG 0.30–0.15 (66%)attempts 5–4goals 0–1

  3. Marchand – Coyle – Pastrnak2:36

    xG 0.35–0.24 (60%)attempts 7–3goals 0–0

  4. Pastrnak – Bjork – Lindholm2:30

    xG 0.00–0.06 (0%)attempts 1–1goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Moore – Grzelcyk14:15

    xG 0.24–0.20 (54%)attempts 10–8goals 1–1

  2. Chara – Carlo2:23

    xG 0.04–0.18 (17%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  3. Chara – McAvoy15:22

    xG 0.21–0.36 (36%)attempts 12–15goals 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.

BOS 1.7 xGCOL 2.0 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 26/100 · #827 of 1082 this seasonSwing 0.87 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 31% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +24 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 59% of the time.

BOS winsCOL wins

Simulated goal difference (BOS − COL), 10,000 replays

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