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Mon, Feb 10, 2020·Centre Bell, Montreal

Arizona Coyotes 3, Montréal Canadiens 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Arizona Coyotes win this game 56% of the time.

MTL winsARI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ARI11111716334
MTL21003015228

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:51MTLJake EvansAssists: Nick Cousins, Nate Thompson · Wrist, 0.26 xG0–1
  2. P1 1:52MTLBrendan GallagherAssists: Tomas Tatar, Phillip Danault · Wrist, 0.16 xG0–2
  3. P1 5:08ARIDerek StepanAssists: Phil Kessel · Wrist, 0.06 xG1–2
  4. P2 16:36ARITaylor HallAssists: Christian Dvorak · Wrist, 0.12 xG2–2
  5. P3 19:00ARIJakob ChychrunPPGWGAssists: Clayton Keller, Derek Stepan · Slap, 0.05 xG3–2
Penalties (11)
  1. P1 5:33MTLBen Chiarot: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 11:26MTLNick Cousins: Cross checking2 min
  3. P1 12:56ARIChristian Dvorak: Holding2 min
  4. P1 18:08ARIOliver Ekman-Larsson: High sticking double minor4 min
  5. P1 18:29ARIDerek Stepan: Tripping2 min
  6. P2 4:41ARIClayton Keller: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  7. P2 6:34MTLJonathan Drouin: Interference2 min
  8. P2 8:36MTLBen Chiarot: Roughing2 min
  9. P2 9:08ARICarl Soderberg: High sticking2 min
  10. P3 9:19MTLBrett Kulak: Hooking2 min
  11. P3 17:37MTLJoel Armia: Hooking2 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.

ARI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MTL
45% to win55% to win
← ARI attackMTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Dvorak won the faceoff against Danault
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ARIMTL
34Shots on goal28
2.5Expected goals2.3
60Shot attempts52
24Faceoffs won35
6Power plays6
12Penalty minutes12
16Hits19
8Blocked shots14
15Giveaways16
6Takeaways5

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.

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestKessel – Stepan – Crouse4:14

    xG 0.18–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–0goals 1–0

  2. Hinostroza – Schmaltz – Keller7:54

    xG 0.21–0.22 (49%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  3. Soderberg – Kessel – Stepan2:04

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

  4. Hall – Dvorak – Garland9:34

    xG 0.32–0.53 (38%)attempts 9–12goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestOesterle – Lyubushkin10:31

    xG 0.34–0.22 (61%)attempts 9–8goals 0–0

  2. Hjalmarsson – Ekman-Larsson13:30

    xG 0.23–0.62 (27%)attempts 11–13goals 0–1

  3. Goligoski – Chychrun13:14

    xG 0.44–0.89 (33%)attempts 17–12goals 2–1

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. bestThompson – Cousins – Evans3:55

    xG 0.40–0.04 (92%)attempts 3–3goals 1–0

  2. Tatar – Gallagher – Danault3:28

    xG 0.41–0.09 (82%)attempts 6–4goals 1–0

  3. Tatar – Gallagher – Domi3:45

    xG 0.16–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  4. Kovalchuk – Armia – Domi2:10

    xG 0.03–0.02 (61%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestScandella – Ouellet8:34

    xG 0.64–0.05 (92%)attempts 7–3goals 1–0

  2. Petry – Kulak14:05

    xG 0.53–0.30 (64%)attempts 12–13goals 1–1

  3. Chiarot – Mete9:57

    xG 0.44–0.40 (52%)attempts 10–12goals 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.

MTL 2.3 xGARI 2.5 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MTLARI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 64/100 · #388 of 1082 this seasonSwing 1.49 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 19% (winner's lowest chance)
ARI 100%5050%50MTL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +48 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 56% of the time.

MTL winsARI wins

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

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