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Fri, Feb 21, 2020·Honda Center, Anaheim

Colorado Avalanche 1, Anaheim Ducks 0

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 72% of the time.

ANA winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL01011405129
ANA01005011026

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 16:38COLJ.T. CompherGWGAssists: Martin Kaut · Slap, 0.18 xG1–0
Penalties (3)
  1. P1 13:29COLRyan Graves: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 17:23ANANick Ritchie: Elbowing2 min
  3. P3 8:31COLVladislav Kamenev: Interference bench2 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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0ANA
45% to win55% to win
← COL attackANA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Grant won the faceoff against MacKinnon
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLANA
29Shots on goal26
2.9Expected goals1.8
61Shot attempts48
25Faceoffs won30
1Power plays2
4Penalty minutes2
28Hits31
9Blocked shots21
10Giveaways13
4Takeaways5

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. Shift data for this game is incomplete, so treat these as rough.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestLandeskog – Burakovsky – MacKinnon14:46

    xG 0.88–0.32 (73%)attempts 21–8goals 0–0

  2. Donskoi – Compher – Nichushkin8:05

    xG 0.42–0.16 (72%)attempts 8–3goals 0–0

  3. Kamenev – Jost – Dries4:59

    xG 0.23–0.11 (67%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  4. Nieto – Bellemare – Kaut8:53

    xG 0.10–0.21 (33%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestZadorov – Girard11:24

    xG 0.76–0.19 (80%)attempts 12–8goals 1–0

  2. Girard – Makar5:03

    xG 0.53–0.01 (98%)attempts 12–1goals 0–0

  3. Johnson – Cole13:40

    xG 0.66–0.30 (69%)attempts 15–6goals 0–0

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. Grant – Deslauriers – Rowney9:49

    xG 0.21–0.22 (49%)attempts 7–8goals 0–0

  2. Getzlaf – Rakell – Jones9:59

    xG 0.12–0.52 (19%)attempts 8–11goals 0–0

  3. Silfverberg – Shore – Steel9:14

    xG 0.29–0.76 (28%)attempts 6–15goals 0–1

  4. Henrique – Ritchie – Terry13:00

    xG 0.40–0.89 (31%)attempts 8–15goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Manson – Lindholm18:50

    xG 0.60–0.78 (44%)attempts 17–17goals 0–0

  2. Del Zotto – Guhle16:46

    xG 0.44–0.71 (38%)attempts 13–12goals 0–0

  3. Holzer – Larsson14:29

    xG 0.16–0.70 (18%)attempts 3–21goals 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.

ANA 1.8 xGCOL 2.9 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

ANACOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 10/100 · #988 of 1082 this seasonSwing 0.78 · 1 goal in reachComeback index 44% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50ANA 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +26 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 72% of the time.

ANA winsCOL wins

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

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