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Thu, Feb 6, 2020·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Colorado Avalanche 4, Ottawa Senators 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 60% of the time.

OTT winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL113210111434
OTT15010011126

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 7:57COLValeri NichushkinAssists: Andre Burakovsky · Wrist, 0.09 xG1–0
  2. P1 19:10OTTBrady TkachukAssists: Chris Tierney, Connor Brown · Wrist, 0.13 xG1–1
  3. P2 4:08COLMatt NietoGWGAssists: Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, Tyson Jost · Snap, 0.16 xG2–1
  4. P2 8:03COLCale MakarPPAssists: Mikko Rantanen, Nathan MacKinnon · Slap, 0.04 xG3–1
  5. P3 3:38COLJ.T. CompherAssists: Cale Makar, Ryan Graves · Wrist, 0.12 xG4–1
Penalties (3)
  1. P1 13:16COLGabriel Landeskog: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 16:55COLNikita Zadorov: Holding the stick2 min
  3. P2 6:26OTTMike Reilly: High sticking2 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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0OTT
45% to win55% to win
← COL attackOTT attack →
  1. P1 20:00MacKinnon won the faceoff against Pageau
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLOTT
34Shots on goal26
2.6Expected goals2.1
51Shot attempts60
36Faceoffs won29
1Power plays2
4Penalty minutes2
26Hits36
17Blocked shots10
3Giveaways7
7Takeaways2

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.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestLandeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen14:51

    xG 0.73–0.35 (67%)attempts 13–12goals 0–1

  2. Calvert – Donskoi – Compher10:39

    xG 0.37–0.04 (89%)attempts 13–6goals 1–0

  3. Nieto – Bellemare – Jost8:06

    xG 0.51–0.36 (58%)attempts 6–7goals 1–0

  4. Kadri – Burakovsky – Nichushkin13:14

    xG 0.55–0.62 (47%)attempts 11–11goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCole – Zadorov14:02

    xG 0.81–0.45 (64%)attempts 15–11goals 0–0

  2. Graves – Makar17:35

    xG 0.64–0.43 (60%)attempts 14–19goals 1–0

  3. Johnson – Girard15:58

    xG 0.73–0.53 (58%)attempts 14–14goals 2–0

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestTierney – Batherson – Tkachuk4:33

    xG 0.24–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–0goals 0–0

  2. Ennis – Tierney – Brown2:28

    xG 0.14–0.11 (55%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  3. Sabourin – White – Chlapik3:55

    xG 0.09–0.21 (30%)attempts 1–4goals 0–1

  4. Ennis – Pageau – Brown4:03

    xG 0.12–0.26 (32%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Borowiecki – DeMelo16:12

    xG 0.67–0.66 (50%)attempts 13–11goals 0–1

  2. Reilly – Zaitsev16:40

    xG 0.38–0.78 (33%)attempts 16–18goals 1–0

  3. Hainsey – Chabot16:51

    xG 0.23–0.83 (21%)attempts 12–17goals 0–2

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.

OTT 2.1 xGCOL 2.6 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 32/100 · #752 of 1082 this seasonSwing 1.09 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 45% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50OTT 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, Colorado Avalanche win this game 60% of the time.

OTT winsCOL wins

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

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