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Thu, Feb 13, 2020·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Arizona Coyotes 2, Ottawa Senators 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 52% of the time.

OTT winsARI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ARI09113112234
OTT21008113331

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:50OTTVladislav NamestnikovAssists: Drake Batherson, Chris Tierney · Snap, 0.18 xG0–1
  2. P1 6:41OTTBrady TkachukAssists: Thomas Chabot, Connor Brown · Deflected, 0.23 xG0–2
  3. P2 16:40ARIOliver Ekman-LarssonPPAssists: Taylor Hall, Nick Schmaltz · Slap, 0.08 xG1–2
  4. P3 6:50OTTNick PaulGWGAssists: Artem Anisimov · Wrist, 0.02 xG1–3
  5. P3 9:01ARIJordan OesterleUnassisted · Wrist, 0.03 xG2–3
Penalties (5)
  1. P2 0:51ARITaylor Hall: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 8:44OTTBrady Tkachuk: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 12:55ARIOliver Ekman-Larsson: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 16:31OTTNikita Zaitsev: Hooking2 min · PPG
  5. P3 18:07ARINick Schmaltz: Too many men on the ice2 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.

ARI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ARIOTT
34Shots on goal31
2.8Expected goals2.9
76Shot attempts60
26Faceoffs won28
2Power plays3
6Penalty minutes4
20Hits34
12Blocked shots32
12Giveaways16
3Takeaways8

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. bestHall – Dvorak – Garland5:31

    xG 0.34–0.00 (100%)attempts 10–1goals 0–0

  2. Hall – Hinostroza – Dvorak9:02

    xG 0.40–0.18 (68%)attempts 14–6goals 0–0

  3. Stepan – Crouse – Garland5:53

    xG 0.49–0.30 (62%)attempts 9–9goals 0–0

  4. Stepan – Hinostroza – Crouse4:41

    xG 0.06–0.12 (31%)attempts 5–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestOesterle – Lyubushkin13:35

    xG 0.90–0.67 (57%)attempts 23–15goals 1–0

  2. Hjalmarsson – Ekman-Larsson14:30

    xG 0.69–0.55 (56%)attempts 20–11goals 0–0

  3. Goligoski – Chychrun18:34

    xG 0.40–0.55 (42%)attempts 14–17goals 0–2

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestEnnis – White – Chlapik4:54

    xG 0.57–0.24 (70%)attempts 9–5goals 0–1

  2. Namestnikov – Tierney – Batherson11:11

    xG 0.60–0.28 (68%)attempts 12–10goals 1–0

  3. Pageau – Brown – Tkachuk14:00

    xG 0.45–0.29 (61%)attempts 11–14goals 1–0

  4. Anisimov – Duclair – Paul8:01

    xG 0.29–0.16 (64%)attempts 9–7goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHainsey – Chabot16:02

    xG 1.20–0.90 (57%)attempts 24–17goals 1–0

  2. Hainsey – DeMelo2:07

    xG 0.07–0.07 (51%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

  3. Reilly – Zaitsev15:03

    xG 0.51–0.80 (39%)attempts 12–22goals 1–0

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.

OTT 2.9 xGARI 2.8 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTARI

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 ARI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 32/100 · #754 of 1082 this seasonSwing 1.09 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
ARI 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +15 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 52% of the time.

OTT winsARI wins

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

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