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Mon, Jan 27, 2020·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

St. Louis Blues 1, Vancouver Canucks 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 54% of the time.

VAN winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
STL19016012137
VAN0102818326

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:06STLZachary SanfordAssists: David Perron · Slap, 0.30 xG1–0
  2. P2 2:16VANJ.T. MillerAssists: Chris Tanev, Jake Virtanen · Snap, 0.12 xG1–1
  3. P2 11:12VANJ.T. MillerGWGAssists: Jake Virtanen, Elias Pettersson · Slap, 0.10 xG1–2
  4. P3 19:59VANBo HorvatENAssists: Loui Eriksson, Chris Tanev · Wrist, 0.66 xG1–3
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 8:24VANQuinn Hughes: Too many men on the ice2 min
  2. P2 6:27STLDavid Perron: Hooking2 min
  3. P2 18:23VANLoui Eriksson: Hooking2 min
  4. P3 3:55STLColton Parayko: Tripping2 min
  5. P3 6:46VANBrandon Sutter: Tripping2 min
  6. P3 16:09STLBrayden Schenn: High sticking2 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.

STL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0VAN
45% to win55% to win
← STL attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Horvat won the faceoff against O'Reilly
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLVAN
37Shots on goal26
4.3Expected goals4.0
74Shot attempts51
22Faceoffs won35
3Power plays3
6Penalty minutes6
22Hits21
16Blocked shots23
3Giveaways9
8Takeaways6

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.

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestPerron – O'Reilly – Sanford11:34

    xG 1.14–0.24 (83%)attempts 24–5goals 1–0

  2. Schenn – Schwartz – Kyrou9:55

    xG 1.08–0.66 (62%)attempts 14–9goals 0–0

  3. Steen – Bozak – Thomas9:32

    xG 0.10–0.34 (22%)attempts 9–5goals 0–2

  4. Sundqvist – de la Rose – Barbashev6:26

    xG 0.06–0.70 (8%)attempts 4–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPietrangelo – Faulk15:14

    xG 1.53–0.62 (71%)attempts 26–9goals 1–1

  2. Parayko – Dunn2:55

    xG 0.04–0.02 (69%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  3. Bortuzzo – Dunn7:36

    xG 0.21–0.28 (42%)attempts 8–6goals 0–1

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestEriksson – Pearson – Horvat10:03

    xG 1.02–0.28 (78%)attempts 14–10goals 0–0

  2. Miller – Virtanen – Pettersson9:39

    xG 0.84–1.03 (45%)attempts 12–13goals 2–0

  3. Sutter – Beagle – Motte9:13

    xG 0.05–0.36 (12%)attempts 3–11goals 0–0

  4. Roussel – Boeser – Gaudette6:23

    xG 0.02–0.56 (4%)attempts 1–9goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestMyers – Fantenberg13:32

    xG 1.06–0.82 (56%)attempts 15–17goals 1–0

  2. Edler – Stecher13:25

    xG 0.29–0.38 (43%)attempts 8–15goals 0–0

  3. Tanev – Hughes15:14

    xG 0.70–1.38 (34%)attempts 13–21goals 1–1

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.

VAN 4.0 xGSTL 4.3 xG
012345P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANSTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 22/100 · #878 of 1082 this seasonSwing 1.11 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 31% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +22 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 54% of the time.

VAN winsSTL wins

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

-7
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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).