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Sat, Dec 28, 2019·American Airlines Center, Dallas

Colorado Avalanche 2, Dallas Stars 3 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 62% of the time.

DAL winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
COL18119015010243
DAL112011110072340

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:08DALTyler SeguinAssists: Alexander Radulov, John Klingberg · Snap, 0.43 xG0–1
  2. P1 18:58COLJ.T. CompherAssists: Tyson Jost, Matt Nieto · Snap, 0.45 xG1–1
  3. P2 7:19COLIan ColeAssists: Matt Nieto, Erik Johnson · Wrist, 0.04 xG2–1
  4. P3 1:25DALDenis GurianovPPAssists: John Klingberg, Roope Hintz · Deflected, 0.03 xG2–2

Shootout

  1. 1. DAL Joe Pavelski scored
  2. 2. COL Nathan MacKinnon stopped
  3. 3. DAL Tyler Seguin stopped
  4. 4. COL Mikko Rantanen stopped
  5. 5. DAL Alexander Radulov scored
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 13:59DALAlexander Radulov: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 2:46COLAndre Burakovsky: Holding2 min
  3. P2 13:57DALCorey Perry: Interference2 min
  4. P2 14:25DALBlake Comeau: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 15:42COLGabriel Landeskog: Tripping2 min
  6. P2 19:52COLCale Makar: Delaying game puck over glass2 min · PPG
  7. P3 4:24COLNikita Zadorov: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  8. OT 2:47COLNathan MacKinnon: 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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLDAL
43Shots on goal40
3.7Expected goals4.5
73Shot attempts71
27Faceoffs won38
3Power plays5
10Penalty minutes6
21Hits31
17Blocked shots22
11Giveaways20
3Takeaways10

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 – Rantanen13:27

    xG 0.64–0.39 (62%)attempts 17–10goals 0–0

  2. Kadri – Donskoi – Burakovsky9:42

    xG 0.31–0.22 (59%)attempts 11–8goals 0–0

  3. Nieto – Compher – Jost6:33

    xG 0.59–0.56 (51%)attempts 8–8goals 1–0

  4. Calvert – Nichushkin – Bellemare7:44

    xG 0.20–0.48 (30%)attempts 9–4goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestGraves – Makar14:35

    xG 1.21–0.39 (76%)attempts 21–9goals 1–0

  2. Girard – Makar4:17

    xG 0.76–0.03 (96%)attempts 7–4goals 0–0

  3. Johnson – Cole14:02

    xG 0.20–0.27 (42%)attempts 9–14goals 0–0

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestRadulov – Benn – Seguin9:11

    xG 0.91–0.06 (94%)attempts 12–6goals 1–0

  2. Comeau – Cogliano – Faksa10:02

    xG 0.58–0.51 (53%)attempts 4–16goals 0–0

  3. Perry – Dickinson – Gurianov8:01

    xG 0.12–0.31 (27%)attempts 8–11goals 0–0

  4. Pavelski – Janmark – Hintz6:23

    xG 0.28–0.70 (29%)attempts 9–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKlingberg – Oleksiak14:30

    xG 0.91–0.79 (54%)attempts 22–16goals 1–1

  2. Klingberg – Lindell2:12

    xG 0.01–0.16 (6%)attempts 1–5goals 0–0

  3. Sekera – Polak9:16

    xG 0.48–0.68 (42%)attempts 6–10goals 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 4.5 xGCOL 3.7 xG
012345P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DALCOL

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 COL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 58/100 · #463 of 1082 this seasonSwing 1.76 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 24% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50DAL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +27 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 62% of the time.

DAL winsCOL wins

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

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