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Mon, Apr 26, 2021·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Colorado Avalanche 1, St. Louis Blues 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 69% of the time.

STL winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL07115010132
STL2521203420

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 9:25STLVladimir TarasenkoPPAssists: Torey Krug, Mike Hoffman · Snap, 0.26 xG0–1
  2. P1 13:34STLBrayden SchennGWGAssists: Ryan O'Reilly, David Perron · Snap, 0.16 xG0–2
  3. P2 7:02STLDavid PerronAssists: Justin Faulk, Ryan O'Reilly · Tip-in, 0.08 xG0–3
  4. P2 8:24COLNathan MacKinnonPPAssists: Gabriel Landeskog, Andre Burakovsky · Wrist, 0.08 xG1–3
  5. P2 10:53STLRobert ThomasAssists: David Perron, Marco Scandella · Wrist, 0.08 xG1–4
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 9:17COLPatrik Nemeth: Tripping2 min · PPG
  2. P1 18:52STLMike Hoffman: High sticking2 min
  3. P2 7:22STLJake Walman: Holding2 min · PPG
  4. P3 2:19STLRobert Bortuzzo: Slashing2 min
  5. P3 5:04COLMartin Kaut: Tripping2 min
  6. P3 18:43STLJake Walman: Delaying game puck over glass2 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 SOG0STL
46% to win54% to win
← COL attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00MacKinnon won the faceoff against O'Reilly
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLSTL
32Shots on goal20
3.0Expected goals2.0
71Shot attempts30
25Faceoffs won26
4Power plays2
4Penalty minutes8
36Hits28
4Blocked shots22
21Giveaways17
7Takeaways10

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.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestO'Brien – Bellemare – Sherwood5:25

    xG 0.97–0.04 (96%)attempts 14–4goals 0–0

  2. Soderberg – Nichushkin – Jost10:51

    xG 0.43–0.26 (63%)attempts 17–4goals 0–0

  3. Kadri – Sherwood – Kaut2:23

    xG 0.11–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–0goals 0–0

  4. O'Brien – Compher – Bellemare2:13

    xG 0.11–0.06 (64%)attempts 6–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestNemeth – Timmins10:17

    xG 0.82–0.54 (60%)attempts 15–8goals 0–0

  2. Toews – Girard12:31

    xG 0.28–0.23 (56%)attempts 12–3goals 0–0

  3. Toews – Makar2:29

    xG 0.02–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–0goals 0–0

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestBarbashev – Kyrou – Thomas11:16

    xG 0.53–0.10 (84%)attempts 7–6goals 0–0

  2. Perron – O'Reilly – Schenn10:52

    xG 0.31–0.12 (72%)attempts 5–8goals 2–0

  3. Bozak – Tarasenko – Schwartz12:19

    xG 0.38–0.29 (57%)attempts 6–19goals 0–0

  4. Hoffman – Blais – Thomas2:50

    xG 0.00–0.20 (0%)attempts 0–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestScandella – Faulk14:32

    xG 0.53–0.27 (67%)attempts 8–13goals 3–0

  2. Bortuzzo – Mikkola11:10

    xG 0.41–0.25 (63%)attempts 5–14goals 0–0

  3. Krug – Santini3:23

    xG 0.01–0.20 (6%)attempts 1–6goals 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 2.0 xGCOL 3.0 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLCOL

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 COL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 22/100 · #656 of 868 this seasonSwing 0.63 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +15 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 69% of the time.

STL winsCOL wins

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

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