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Thu, Feb 20, 2020·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Arizona Coyotes 0, St. Louis Blues 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 82% of the time.

STL winsARI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ARI080402014
STL09019118146

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P3 12:00STLRyan O'ReillyGWGAssists: Brayden Schenn, Colton Parayko · Backhand, 0.10 xG0–1
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 2:11ARILawson Crouse: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 8:31STLJustin Faulk: Holding2 min
  3. P1 9:38STLOskar Sundqvist: Slashing2 min
  4. P2 8:54ARIJordan Oesterle: Cross checking2 min
  5. P2 16:31STLAlex Pietrangelo: Tripping2 min
  6. P3 12:26ARIConor Garland: High sticking2 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 SOG0STL
45% to win55% to win
← ARI attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Stepan won the faceoff against Barbashev
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ARISTL
14Shots on goal46
1.6Expected goals3.7
36Shot attempts76
29Faceoffs won22
3Power plays3
6Penalty minutes6
10Hits16
11Blocked shots13
4Giveaways7
6Takeaways10

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. Hall – Dvorak – Garland10:34

    xG 0.33–0.48 (40%)attempts 8–14goals 0–0

  2. Richardson – Fischer – Crouse7:56

    xG 0.08–0.39 (17%)attempts 3–13goals 0–1

  3. Soderberg – Kessel – Hayton8:20

    xG 0.27–0.61 (30%)attempts 5–14goals 0–0

  4. Stepan – Schmaltz – Keller11:55

    xG 0.36–0.95 (27%)attempts 11–13goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Ness – Lyubushkin10:09

    xG 0.08–0.61 (12%)attempts 4–17goals 0–0

  2. Goligoski – Ekman-Larsson17:05

    xG 0.76–1.29 (37%)attempts 18–23goals 0–0

  3. Hjalmarsson – Oesterle15:36

    xG 0.16–0.81 (16%)attempts 6–20goals 0–1

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSundqvist – Barbashev – Blais11:58

    xG 0.97–0.34 (74%)attempts 17–11goals 0–0

  2. Steen – Bozak – Kyrou7:23

    xG 0.58–0.09 (86%)attempts 17–3goals 0–0

  3. Perron – Sanford – Thomas10:19

    xG 0.53–0.23 (69%)attempts 15–6goals 0–0

  4. O'Reilly – Schenn – Schwartz11:31

    xG 0.57–0.43 (57%)attempts 10–10goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestScandella – Parayko12:34

    xG 1.28–0.37 (78%)attempts 21–6goals 1–0

  2. Gunnarsson – Pietrangelo14:58

    xG 0.72–0.28 (72%)attempts 18–11goals 0–0

  3. Faulk – Dunn11:46

    xG 0.53–0.18 (75%)attempts 17–7goals 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.

STL 3.7 xGARI 1.6 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLARI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 9/100 · #996 of 1082 this seasonSwing 0.72 · 1 goal in reachComeback index 51% (winner's lowest chance)
ARI 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +33 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 82% of the time.

STL winsARI wins

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

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