Skip to content
Ice Lab

Tue, Jan 14, 2020·Pepsi Center, Denver

Dallas Stars 3, Colorado Avalanche 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 83% of the time.

COL winsDAL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
DAL0411211212330
COL21601301400243

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 9:04COLNikita ZadorovAssists: Nathan MacKinnon · Deflected, 0.01 xG0–1
  2. P1 15:27COLGabriel LandeskogAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Ryan Graves · Tip-in, 0.09 xG0–2
  3. P2 9:54DALDenis GurianovPPAssists: Roope Hintz, John Klingberg · Wrist, 0.04 xG1–2
  4. P3 14:37DALJason DickinsonAssists: Andrew Cogliano, Blake Comeau · Backhand, 0.12 xG2–2
  5. OT 1:54DALEsa LindellGWGAssists: Joe Pavelski · Wrist, 0.10 xG3–2
Penalties (7)
  1. P2 4:34COLTyson Jost: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 8:16COLMikko Rantanen: Tripping2 min · PPG
  3. P2 13:21DALRoman Polak: Tripping2 min
  4. P3 1:28COLErik Johnson: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  5. P3 1:32DALJamie Benn: Interference2 min
  6. P3 3:56COLMatt Calvert: Fighting5 min
  7. P3 3:56DALJamie Benn: Fighting5 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.

DAL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DALCOL
30Shots on goal43
1.6Expected goals3.6
56Shot attempts73
32Faceoffs won27
3Power plays2
9Penalty minutes11
28Hits14
23Blocked shots14
5Giveaways6
6Takeaways18

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. Shift data for this game is incomplete, so treat these as rough.

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestRadulov – Dowling – Janmark3:57

    xG 0.13–0.01 (91%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

  2. Benn – Seguin – Kiviranta3:36

    xG 0.00–0.01 (0%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  3. Dowling – Janmark – Kiviranta2:03

    xG 0.01–0.11 (7%)attempts 1–4goals 0–0

  4. Comeau – Cogliano – Dickinson5:11

    xG 0.04–0.15 (21%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Oleksiak – Heiskanen7:23

    xG 0.13–0.12 (50%)attempts 5–6goals 0–0

  2. Lindell – Heiskanen2:05

    xG 0.00–0.04 (0%)attempts 0–4goals 0–1

  3. Sekera – Polak7:42

    xG 0.21–0.36 (37%)attempts 6–10goals 0–1

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestLandeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen10:16

    xG 0.54–0.18 (75%)attempts 15–5goals 2–0

  2. Kadri – Burakovsky – Nichushkin7:07

    xG 0.41–0.06 (87%)attempts 11–7goals 0–0

  3. Compher – Kamenev – Jost3:25

    xG 0.11–0.04 (72%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  4. Calvert – Nieto – Bellemare6:05

    xG 0.13–0.14 (49%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCole – Zadorov9:34

    xG 0.40–0.10 (80%)attempts 15–6goals 1–0

  2. Graves – Makar9:44

    xG 0.31–0.02 (93%)attempts 10–2goals 1–0

  3. Johnson – Girard8:53

    xG 0.45–0.27 (63%)attempts 12–9goals 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 3.6 xGDAL 1.6 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLDAL

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 DAL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 72/100 · #312 of 1082 this seasonSwing 1.73 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 13% (winner's lowest chance)
DAL 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +37 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 83% of the time.

COL winsDAL wins

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

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7

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