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Tue, Dec 10, 2019·American Airlines Center, Dallas

New Jersey Devils 0, Dallas Stars 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 58% of the time.

DAL winsNJD wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
NJD0208016026
DAL21601207235

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:42DALRadek FaksaGWGAssists: Andrew Cogliano, Blake Comeau · Wrap-around, 0.03 xG0–1
  2. P1 11:50DALJoe PavelskiAssists: Roope Hintz, Alexander Radulov · Backhand, 0.17 xG0–2
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 18:50NJDKyle Palmieri: Slashing2 min
  2. P2 16:04DALJamie Benn: Slashing2 min
  3. P3 0:47NJDP.K. Subban: Roughing2 min
  4. P3 2:57NJDP.K. Subban: Charging2 min
  5. P3 8:36DALMiro Heiskanen: Interference2 min
  6. P3 10:54NJDTaylor Hall: Tripping2 min
  7. P3 13:09DALBlake Comeau: Hooking2 min
  8. P3 18:46NJDSami Vatanen: Tripping2 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.

NJD00 SOG · 0.0 xG

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P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0DAL
45% to win55% to win
← NJD attackDAL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Seguin won the faceoff against Zajac
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

NJDDAL
26Shots on goal35
2.5Expected goals3.0
45Shot attempts70
20Faceoffs won40
3Power plays5
10Penalty minutes6
26Hits20
28Blocked shots8
14Giveaways11
4Takeaways12

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.

New Jersey Devils

Forward lines

  1. bestPalmieri – Hall – Hughes9:15

    xG 0.56–0.38 (59%)attempts 10–10goals 0–0

  2. Zacha – Bratt – Boqvist6:56

    xG 0.03–0.13 (20%)attempts 3–6goals 0–1

  3. Simmonds – Wood – Rooney5:08

    xG 0.04–0.14 (20%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

  4. Simmonds – Wood – Zacha2:18

    xG 0.00–0.21 (0%)attempts 0–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSubban – Butcher2:41

    xG 0.13–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  2. Butcher – Mueller5:28

    xG 0.31–0.31 (50%)attempts 5–9goals 0–1

  3. Severson – Butcher2:02

    xG 0.00–0.26 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestPavelski – Radulov – Hintz8:46

    xG 0.44–0.22 (67%)attempts 9–5goals 1–0

  2. Comeau – Cogliano – Faksa8:28

    xG 0.41–0.23 (64%)attempts 14–2goals 1–0

  3. Perry – Dickinson – Gurianov6:54

    xG 0.25–0.17 (59%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

  4. Benn – Seguin – Janmark8:52

    xG 0.19–0.14 (57%)attempts 7–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSekera – Polak10:28

    xG 0.55–0.04 (94%)attempts 11–5goals 1–0

  2. Klingberg – Lindell15:24

    xG 0.63–0.45 (58%)attempts 19–11goals 0–0

  3. Oleksiak – Heiskanen11:57

    xG 0.20–0.17 (53%)attempts 12–5goals 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.

DAL 3.0 xGNJD 2.5 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DALNJD

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 0/100 · #1081 of 1082 this seasonSwing 0.49 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
NJD 100%5050%50DAL 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, Dallas Stars win this game 58% of the time.

DAL winsNJD wins

Simulated goal difference (DAL − NJD), 10,000 replays

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