Skip to content
Ice Lab

Wed, Mar 4, 2020·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Arizona Coyotes 4, Vancouver Canucks 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 61% of the time.

VAN winsARI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ARI116013311440
VAN012015211238

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 7:27ARICarl SoderbergPPUnassisted · Deflected, 0.03 xG1–0
  2. P3 3:19VANTyler ToffoliPPAssists: J.T. Miller, Quinn Hughes · Wrist, 0.13 xG1–1
  3. P3 6:16VANTanner PearsonAssists: Jake Virtanen · Wrist, 0.26 xG1–2
  4. P3 10:10ARINick SchmaltzAssists: Carl Soderberg · Wrist, 0.23 xG2–2
  5. P3 12:39ARILawson CrouseGWGAssists: Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Vinnie Hinostroza · Deflected, 0.10 xG3–2
  6. P3 19:25ARIOliver Ekman-LarssonENAssists: Niklas Hjalmarsson, Derek Stepan · Wrist, 0.45 xG4–2
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 5:39VANQuinn Hughes: Tripping2 min · PPG
  2. P1 9:08VANZack MacEwen: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  3. P2 2:57ARIJason Demers: Hooking2 min
  4. P2 12:49VANTyler Toffoli: Hooking2 min
  5. P2 17:26ARIAlex Goligoski: Tripping2 min
  6. P3 3:05ARIClayton Keller: Roughing2 min · PPG

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 SOG0VAN
45% to win55% to win
← ARI attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Horvat won the faceoff against Dvorak
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ARIVAN
40Shots on goal38
3.4Expected goals4.2
65Shot attempts66
21Faceoffs won37
3Power plays3
6Penalty minutes6
26Hits28
11Blocked shots16
3Giveaways8
2Takeaways7

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. bestRichardson – Soderberg – Schmaltz9:00

    xG 1.25–0.44 (74%)attempts 17–9goals 1–0

  2. Richardson – Soderberg – Kessel2:01

    xG 0.12–0.11 (54%)attempts 1–6goals 0–0

  3. Kessel – Garland – Hayton7:31

    xG 0.18–0.19 (49%)attempts 8–5goals 0–0

  4. Stepan – Hinostroza – Crouse9:12

    xG 0.26–0.40 (40%)attempts 10–8goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestEkman-Larsson – Lyubushkin15:23

    xG 1.06–0.43 (71%)attempts 16–12goals 2–0

  2. Goligoski – Hjalmarsson14:49

    xG 0.62–0.72 (46%)attempts 14–18goals 0–0

  3. Demers – Oesterle10:36

    xG 0.42–0.88 (33%)attempts 15–14goals 0–1

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestPearson – Horvat – Virtanen10:21

    xG 0.75–0.36 (68%)attempts 11–7goals 1–0

  2. Toffoli – Miller – Pettersson13:14

    xG 0.56–0.45 (56%)attempts 14–16goals 0–0

  3. Eriksson – Pearson – Horvat3:06

    xG 0.13–0.07 (66%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  4. Eriksson – Sutter – Motte6:20

    xG 0.17–0.21 (45%)attempts 6–6goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBenn – Fantenberg11:09

    xG 0.55–0.13 (81%)attempts 13–6goals 0–1

  2. Tanev – Hughes13:00

    xG 0.41–0.34 (55%)attempts 10–9goals 0–0

  3. Edler – Hughes4:18

    xG 0.09–0.04 (70%)attempts 2–1goals 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.

VAN 4.2 xGARI 3.4 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANARI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 70/100 · #328 of 1082 this seasonSwing 1.91 · 6 goals in reachComeback index 19% (winner's lowest chance)
ARI 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest 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, Vancouver Canucks win this game 61% of the time.

VAN winsARI wins

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

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7

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