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Mon, Jan 13, 2020·Capital One Arena, Washington

Carolina Hurricanes 0, Washington Capitals 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Washington Capitals win this game 74% of the time.

WSH winsCAR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CAR0601007023
WSH21405011230

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 11:58WSHAlex OvechkinGWGAssists: Tom Wilson · Wrist, 0.16 xG0–1
  2. P1 17:18WSHAlex OvechkinPPAssists: Jakub Vrana, John Carlson · Slap, 0.06 xG0–2
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 7:11CARAndrei Svechnikov: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 14:22CARWarren Foegele: Slashing2 min
  3. P1 17:01CARDougie Hamilton: Delaying game puck over glass2 min · PPG
  4. P1 17:18CARJordan Staal: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 5:33WSHDmitry Orlov: Interference2 min
  6. P2 9:32WSHLars Eller: Hooking2 min
  7. P2 12:06WSHEvgeny Kuznetsov: Hooking2 min
  8. P3 5:23CARJake Gardiner: Tripping2 min
  9. P3 6:38CARDougie Hamilton: Slashing2 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 SOG0WSH
45% to win55% to win
← CAR attackWSH attack →
  1. P1 20:00Staal won the faceoff against Eller
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CARWSH
23Shots on goal30
1.6Expected goals3.0
47Shot attempts52
28Faceoffs won34
3Power plays6
12Penalty minutes6
16Hits21
11Blocked shots15
4Giveaways12
7Takeaways5

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 – Svechnikov10:33

    xG 0.20–0.15 (57%)attempts 5–7goals 0–0

  2. Martinook – McGinn – Wallmark6:26

    xG 0.38–0.38 (50%)attempts 10–7goals 0–0

  3. Haula – Dzingel – Necas7:29

    xG 0.05–0.46 (9%)attempts 4–9goals 0–1

  4. Niederreiter – Teravainen – Aho9:03

    xG 0.27–0.69 (28%)attempts 9–12goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Hamilton – Slavin11:48

    xG 0.41–0.51 (45%)attempts 13–11goals 0–0

  2. Gardiner – Pesce12:00

    xG 0.24–0.67 (26%)attempts 8–13goals 0–1

  3. Edmundson – van Riemsdyk11:31

    xG 0.08–0.72 (10%)attempts 4–14goals 0–0

Washington Capitals

Forward lines

  1. bestHagelin – Eller – Panik10:22

    xG 0.58–0.05 (93%)attempts 12–2goals 0–0

  2. Oshie – Kuznetsov – Vrana9:03

    xG 0.64–0.34 (65%)attempts 11–8goals 0–0

  3. Dowd – Leipsic – Hathaway5:29

    xG 0.30–0.02 (93%)attempts 11–5goals 0–0

  4. Ovechkin – Backstrom – Wilson9:13

    xG 0.27–0.07 (80%)attempts 5–6goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGudas – Siegenthaler9:16

    xG 0.84–0.02 (97%)attempts 11–7goals 1–0

  2. Carlson – Orlov2:11

    xG 0.32–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–0goals 0–0

  3. Carlson – Kempny13:28

    xG 0.53–0.29 (65%)attempts 11–7goals 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.

WSH 3.0 xGCAR 1.6 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

WSHCAR

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 1/100 · #1078 of 1082 this seasonSwing 0.63 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
CAR 100%5050%50WSH 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +15 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Washington Capitals win this game 74% of the time.

WSH winsCAR wins

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

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