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Sun, Feb 16, 2020·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Dallas Stars 3, Ottawa Senators 4 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 70% of the time.

OTT winsDAL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
DAL21201111501339
OTT21901411112446

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:03DALJohn KlingbergAssists: Jamie Benn, Jason Dickinson · Deflected, 0.01 xG1–0
  2. P1 7:36OTTJean-Gabriel PageauPPAssists: Brady Tkachuk, Thomas Chabot · Snap, 0.23 xG1–1
  3. P1 18:10OTTBrady TkachukAssists: Anthony Duclair, Jean-Gabriel Pageau · Wrist, 0.25 xG1–2
  4. P1 18:43DALStephen JohnsAssists: Miro Heiskanen, Tyler Seguin · Slap, 0.04 xG2–2
  5. P3 9:59OTTTyler EnnisUnassisted · Deflected, 0.12 xG2–3
  6. P3 14:49DALJoe PavelskiAssists: Tyler Seguin, Miro Heiskanen · Snap, 0.05 xG3–3
  7. OT 3:48OTTArtem AnisimovGWGAssists: Brady Tkachuk · Backhand, 0.29 xG3–4
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 6:43DALJamie Benn: Interference goalkeeper2 min · PPG
  2. P2 0:45DALCorey Perry: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 0:45OTTBrady Tkachuk: Embellishment2 min
  4. P3 0:39DALAnton Khudobin: 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.

DAL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DALOTT
39Shots on goal46
2.3Expected goals3.6
57Shot attempts75
37Faceoffs won31
0Power plays2
6Penalty minutes2
20Hits29
13Blocked shots9
6Giveaways12
6Takeaways8

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.

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestPerry – Dickinson – Hintz3:29

    xG 0.66–0.14 (82%)attempts 10–2goals 0–0

  2. Benn – Dickinson – Gurianov6:13

    xG 0.05–0.11 (34%)attempts 5–5goals 0–0

  3. Perry – Seguin – Hintz9:44

    xG 0.26–0.39 (40%)attempts 7–15goals 1–0

  4. Benn – Seguin – Gurianov4:24

    xG 0.30–0.57 (35%)attempts 7–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKlingberg – Oleksiak11:39

    xG 0.73–0.35 (68%)attempts 18–10goals 0–1

  2. Klingberg – Lindell7:07

    xG 0.35–0.18 (66%)attempts 7–6goals 1–0

  3. Polak – Oleksiak4:26

    xG 0.32–0.19 (62%)attempts 4–11goals 0–0

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestPageau – Duclair – Tkachuk13:17

    xG 1.09–0.49 (69%)attempts 19–9goals 1–0

  2. Ennis – White – Batherson10:04

    xG 0.45–0.24 (65%)attempts 9–9goals 1–1

  3. Anisimov – Sabourin – Paul6:00

    xG 0.12–0.05 (72%)attempts 6–5goals 0–1

  4. Namestnikov – Tierney – Brown14:30

    xG 0.55–0.65 (46%)attempts 21–18goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDeMelo – Chabot18:41

    xG 1.26–0.25 (84%)attempts 25–10goals 1–1

  2. Hainsey – Goloubef12:44

    xG 0.48–0.31 (61%)attempts 15–11goals 1–0

  3. Reilly – Zaitsev18:07

    xG 0.54–1.29 (30%)attempts 18–27goals 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 3.6 xGDAL 2.3 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTDAL

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 DAL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 82/100 · #190 of 1082 this seasonSwing 2.15 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 35% (winner's lowest chance)
DAL 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +37 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 70% of the time.

OTT winsDAL wins

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

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