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Thu, Dec 19, 2019·Pepsi Center, Denver

Carolina Hurricanes 3, Colorado Avalanche 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 51% of the time.

COL winsCAR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CAR016012312340
COL01101314128

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P3 4:05COLGabriel LandeskogPPAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Samuel Girard · Tip-in, 0.18 xG0–1
  2. P3 17:04CARAndrei SvechnikovAssists: Warren Foegele, Jordan Staal · Wrist, 0.17 xG1–1
  3. P3 18:21CARJaccob SlavinGWGAssists: Lucas Wallmark, Jordan Martinook · Snap, 0.06 xG2–1
  4. P3 19:54CARSebastian AhoENAssists: Jordan Martinook, Teuvo Teravainen · Wrist, 0.65 xG3–1
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 0:56CARJames Reimer: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 9:34CARLucas Wallmark: High sticking2 min
  3. P1 13:03CARAndrei Svechnikov: Too many men on the ice2 min
  4. P2 3:54COLTyson Jost: Too many men on the ice2 min
  5. P2 7:50CARDougie Hamilton: Hooking2 min
  6. P2 9:30CARWarren Foegele: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  7. P2 14:11COLNazem Kadri: Interference2 min
  8. P3 2:44CARBrian Gibbons: High sticking2 min · PPG
  9. P3 6:54COLGabriel Landeskog: Interference2 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.

CAR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0COL
45% to win55% to win
← CAR attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Staal won the faceoff against MacKinnon
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CARCOL
40Shots on goal28
3.2Expected goals3.3
64Shot attempts56
30Faceoffs won35
3Power plays6
12Penalty minutes6
21Hits9
17Blocked shots15
12Giveaways3
5Takeaways4

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.

Carolina Hurricanes

Forward lines

  1. bestStaal – Foegele – Svechnikov10:12

    xG 0.99–0.30 (77%)attempts 17–7goals 1–0

  2. Niederreiter – Teravainen – Aho8:37

    xG 0.12–0.06 (65%)attempts 7–5goals 0–0

  3. Gibbons – Martinook – McGinn4:50

    xG 0.05–0.04 (56%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

  4. Dzingel – Wallmark – Necas8:39

    xG 0.21–0.40 (34%)attempts 6–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGardiner – Pesce2:58

    xG 0.32–0.04 (89%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  2. Edmundson – Pesce9:16

    xG 0.19–0.03 (85%)attempts 7–4goals 0–0

  3. Hamilton – Slavin12:12

    xG 0.30–0.15 (67%)attempts 13–6goals 0–0

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. Donskoi – Compher – Nichushkin5:32

    xG 0.08–0.19 (29%)attempts 3–7goals 0–1

  2. Kadri – Burakovsky – Jost7:16

    xG 0.27–0.55 (32%)attempts 8–11goals 0–0

  3. Calvert – Nieto – Bellemare7:42

    xG 0.14–0.46 (23%)attempts 5–7goals 0–1

  4. Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen11:39

    xG 0.41–0.79 (34%)attempts 11–18goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJohnson – Lindholm5:03

    xG 0.25–0.15 (63%)attempts 4–8goals 0–0

  2. Cole – Zadorov5:09

    xG 0.22–0.19 (53%)attempts 9–4goals 0–0

  3. Johnson – Graves3:33

    xG 0.03–0.01 (78%)attempts 2–2goals 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.

COL 3.3 xGCAR 3.2 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLCAR

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 56/100 · #488 of 1082 this seasonSwing 1.71 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 8% (winner's lowest chance)
CAR 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +46 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 51% of the time.

COL winsCAR wins

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

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