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Sat, Feb 15, 2020·Falcon Stadium, Colorado SpringsOutdoor game

Los Angeles Kings 3, Colorado Avalanche 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 56% of the time.

COL winsLAK wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
LAK1705211323
COL01511107133

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 14:01LAKTyler ToffoliAssists: Alex Iafallo, Joakim Ryan · Backhand, 0.24 xG1–0
  2. P2 19:18COLSamuel GirardAssists: Mikko Rantanen · Wrist, 0.05 xG1–1
  3. P3 19:05LAKTyler ToffoliGWGAssists: Anze Kopitar · Wrist, 0.07 xG2–1
  4. P3 19:55LAKTyler ToffoliENAssists: Anze Kopitar, Alex Iafallo · Wrist, 0.65 xG3–1
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 7:07LAKJeff Carter: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 7:10COLGabriel Landeskog: Tripping2 min
  3. P3 9:10LAKBlake Lizotte: Holding2 min
  4. P3 9:27COLAndre Burakovsky: Interference2 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.

LAK00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0COL
45% to win55% to win
← LAK attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00MacKinnon won the faceoff against Kopitar
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

LAKCOL
23Shots on goal33
2.5Expected goals2.3
56Shot attempts55
25Faceoffs won31
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
25Hits24
9Blocked shots18
5Giveaways6
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.

Los Angeles Kings

Forward lines

  1. bestKopitar – Toffoli – Iafallo11:33

    xG 0.57–0.41 (58%)attempts 17–12goals 2–0

  2. Lewis – Amadio – Wagner4:33

    xG 0.03–0.09 (23%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  3. Brown – Moore – Lizotte8:40

    xG 0.33–0.40 (45%)attempts 7–7goals 0–0

  4. Carter – Frk – Kempe7:21

    xG 0.16–0.28 (37%)attempts 7–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMartinez – Walker16:44

    xG 0.74–0.31 (71%)attempts 22–13goals 0–0

  2. Doughty – Ryan18:51

    xG 0.59–1.51 (28%)attempts 14–26goals 2–0

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestNieto – Kamenev – Jost8:22

    xG 0.62–0.21 (75%)attempts 7–5goals 0–0

  2. Donskoi – Landeskog – Compher10:58

    xG 0.34–0.21 (62%)attempts 10–10goals 0–1

  3. Calvert – Nichushkin – Bellemare9:13

    xG 0.27–0.23 (54%)attempts 10–5goals 0–0

  4. Burakovsky – MacKinnon – Rantanen13:47

    xG 0.28–0.56 (33%)attempts 12–16goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestCole – Zadorov15:43

    xG 0.62–0.26 (70%)attempts 15–9goals 0–0

  2. Johnson – Girard16:13

    xG 0.64–0.38 (63%)attempts 14–15goals 1–1

  3. Graves – Makar15:55

    xG 0.37–0.25 (59%)attempts 11–13goals 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.

COL 2.3 xGLAK 2.5 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLLAK

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 22/100 · #876 of 1082 this seasonSwing 1.12 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 45% (winner's lowest chance)
LAK 100%5050%50COL 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, Los Angeles Kings win this game 56% of the time.

COL winsLAK wins

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

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