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Thu, Jan 30, 2020·Gila River Arena, Glendale

Los Angeles Kings 3, Arizona Coyotes 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Arizona Coyotes win this game 50% of the time.

ARI winsLAK wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
LAK1120811611337
ARI0122130300228

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 8:37LAKAlex IafalloAssists: Ben Hutton, Dustin Brown · Slap, 0.07 xG1–0
  2. P2 11:22ARINick SchmaltzAssists: Jason Demers, Carl Soderberg · Wrist, 0.03 xG1–1
  3. P2 19:04ARIChristian DvorakAssists: Taylor Hall, Conor Garland · Wrist, 0.24 xG1–2
  4. P3 17:06LAKAlex IafalloPPAssists: Adrian Kempe, Anze Kopitar · Wrist, 0.10 xG2–2
  5. OT 0:24LAKAlex IafalloGWGAssists: Anze Kopitar, Sean Walker · Wrist, 0.10 xG3–2
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 12:48LAKJoakim Ryan: Hooking2 min
  2. P2 2:43ARIOliver Ekman-Larsson: Penalty shot tripping on breakaway0 min
  3. P2 4:19ARIConor Garland: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 4:19LAKDustin Brown: Interference2 min
  5. P2 9:15LAKJeff Carter: Interference2 min
  6. P3 15:48ARIJakob Chychrun: Tripping2 min · PPG

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.

LAK00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0ARI
45% to win55% to win
← LAK attackARI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Kopitar won the faceoff against Stepan
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

LAKARI
37Shots on goal28
2.5Expected goals2.6
63Shot attempts60
22Faceoffs won32
1Power plays2
6Penalty minutes4
28Hits23
16Blocked shots15
6Giveaways2
2Takeaways3

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.

Los Angeles Kings

Forward lines

  1. bestCarter – Toffoli – Kempe3:32

    xG 0.26–0.00 (100%)attempts 8–0goals 0–0

  2. Lewis – Clifford – Amadio9:29

    xG 0.18–0.07 (72%)attempts 7–6goals 0–0

  3. Kempe – Wagner – Lizotte6:29

    xG 0.33–0.23 (59%)attempts 4–11goals 0–0

  4. Brown – Kopitar – Iafallo14:15

    xG 0.49–0.55 (47%)attempts 15–10goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHutton – Roy15:24

    xG 0.66–0.41 (62%)attempts 20–10goals 1–0

  2. Forbort – Walker15:24

    xG 0.69–0.58 (54%)attempts 18–16goals 0–0

  3. Martinez – Ryan18:02

    xG 0.28–0.99 (22%)attempts 13–19goals 0–2

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestHall – Dvorak – Garland12:19

    xG 0.89–0.21 (81%)attempts 13–9goals 1–0

  2. Hinostroza – Schmaltz – Crouse9:57

    xG 0.39–0.45 (47%)attempts 9–15goals 0–1

  3. Kessel – Stepan – Keller13:28

    xG 0.44–0.67 (39%)attempts 15–12goals 0–0

  4. Soderberg – Grabner – Fischer9:02

    xG 0.06–0.37 (13%)attempts 3–13goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDemers – Chychrun3:20

    xG 0.51–0.01 (97%)attempts 5–1goals 2–0

  2. Goligoski – Hjalmarsson6:15

    xG 0.52–0.03 (94%)attempts 9–4goals 0–0

  3. Chychrun – Lyubushkin9:14

    xG 0.48–0.30 (61%)attempts 10–11goals 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.

ARI 2.6 xGLAK 2.5 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

ARILAK

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 68/100 · #350 of 1082 this seasonSwing 1.92 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 8% (winner's lowest chance)
LAK 100%5050%50ARI 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +42 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Arizona Coyotes win this game 50% of the time.

ARI winsLAK wins

Simulated goal difference (ARI − LAK), 10,000 replays

-7
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-1
0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).