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Mon, Jan 13, 2020·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Anaheim Ducks 1, St. Louis Blues 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 62% of the time.

STL winsANA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ANA1501006121
STL1522217434

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 7:53STLAlexander SteenAssists: Robert Bortuzzo, Brayden Schenn · Slap, 0.10 xG0–1
  2. P1 15:23ANAMaxime ComtoisUnassisted · Wrist, 0.02 xG1–1
  3. P2 2:21STLTyler BozakGWGAssists: Mackenzie MacEachern, Robert Thomas · Snap, 0.13 xG1–2
  4. P2 9:41STLJaden SchwartzPPAssists: Brayden Schenn, Alex Pietrangelo · Tip-in, 0.14 xG1–3
  5. P3 10:29STLIvan BarbashevUnassisted · Backhand, 0.15 xG1–4
Penalties (5)
  1. P2 7:49ANAJosh Manson: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min · PPG
  2. P2 7:49STLDavid Perron: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  3. P2 9:34ANAMax Jones: Hooking2 min
  4. P3 3:33STLDavid Perron: Hooking2 min
  5. P3 5:59STLDavid Perron: 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.

ANA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
45% to win55% to win
← ANA attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00O'Reilly won the faceoff against Getzlaf
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ANASTL
21Shots on goal34
1.9Expected goals2.6
31Shot attempts50
22Faceoffs won29
2Power plays1
4Penalty minutes6
18Hits16
10Blocked shots7
6Giveaways7
9Takeaways12

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.

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. bestSprong – Steel – Jones2:12

    xG 0.12–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 0–0

  2. Getzlaf – Henrique – Rakell3:00

    xG 0.19–0.10 (65%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  3. Kase – Steel – Jones9:51

    xG 0.14–0.12 (54%)attempts 5–5goals 0–0

  4. Getzlaf – Henrique – Sprong7:47

    xG 0.12–0.29 (29%)attempts 5–5goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestFowler – Gudbranson10:38

    xG 0.30–0.18 (63%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  2. Manson – Lindholm11:32

    xG 0.20–0.15 (56%)attempts 8–5goals 1–0

  3. Fowler – Manson6:22

    xG 0.33–0.35 (49%)attempts 4–6goals 0–1

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestMacEachern – de la Rose – Barbashev10:48

    xG 0.88–0.12 (88%)attempts 10–6goals 1–0

  2. Schenn – Schwartz – Sundqvist11:20

    xG 0.45–0.10 (82%)attempts 8–2goals 0–0

  3. Perron – O'Reilly – Sanford12:25

    xG 0.35–0.36 (50%)attempts 13–7goals 0–1

  4. Steen – Bozak – Thomas10:07

    xG 0.14–0.17 (44%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBortuzzo – Mikkola13:33

    xG 1.16–0.22 (84%)attempts 17–5goals 1–1

  2. Pietrangelo – Dunn17:21

    xG 0.59–0.22 (72%)attempts 11–3goals 1–0

  3. Bouwmeester – Faulk17:05

    xG 0.45–0.37 (55%)attempts 10–12goals 1–0

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.

STL 2.6 xGANA 1.9 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLANA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 25/100 · #845 of 1082 this seasonSwing 0.79 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 53% (winner's lowest chance)
ANA 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +17 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 62% of the time.

STL winsANA wins

Simulated goal difference (STL − ANA), 10,000 replays

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