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Mon, Feb 8, 2021·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Edmonton Oilers 3, Ottawa Senators 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 92% of the time.

OTT winsEDM wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
EDM08117210335
OTT0101909128

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 5:33OTTEvgenii DadonovUnassisted · Backhand, 0.13 xG0–1
  2. P2 15:11EDMLeon DraisaitlAssists: Dominik Kahun · Wrist, 0.10 xG1–1
  3. P3 6:09EDMTyler EnnisGWGAssists: William Lagesson, Leon Draisaitl · Wrist, 0.17 xG2–1
  4. P3 18:50EDMJosh ArchibaldENAssists: Connor McDavid · Wrist, 0.63 xG3–1
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 1:41EDMJujhar Khaira: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 1:41OTTAustin Watson: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 1:43EDMZack Kassian: Fighting5 min
  4. P1 1:43OTTErik Gudbranson: Fighting5 min
  5. P1 7:19OTTThomas Chabot: Tripping2 min
  6. P1 16:12OTTChris Tierney: Interference2 min
  7. P1 16:18EDMRyan Nugent-Hopkins: Broken stick2 min
  8. P2 7:44OTTNikita Zaitsev: Tripping2 min
  9. P2 11:32OTTTim Stützle: Hooking2 min
  10. P2 18:56EDMAdam Larsson: 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.

EDM00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0OTT
46% to win54% to win
← EDM attackOTT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Tierney won the faceoff against McDavid
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

EDMOTT
35Shots on goal28
5.4Expected goals2.2
64Shot attempts51
28Faceoffs won26
4Power plays2
14Penalty minutes18
23Hits17
17Blocked shots11
14Giveaways13
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.

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestDraisaitl – Yamamoto – Kahun11:00

    xG 0.82–0.16 (84%)attempts 15–5goals 1–0

  2. Nugent-Hopkins – McDavid – Puljujarvi9:54

    xG 0.54–0.15 (78%)attempts 9–10goals 0–0

  3. Ennis – Archibald – Khaira8:51

    xG 0.35–0.05 (89%)attempts 10–5goals 1–0

  4. Neal – Turris – Draisaitl2:59

    xG 0.08–0.05 (61%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBarrie – Nurse15:54

    xG 1.29–0.36 (78%)attempts 19–17goals 1–0

  2. Larsson – Lagesson14:28

    xG 0.60–0.16 (79%)attempts 12–7goals 1–1

  3. Russell – Bouchard12:18

    xG 0.51–0.44 (54%)attempts 10–10goals 0–0

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. Stepan – Watson – Galchenyuk2:31

    xG 0.04–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 0–0

  2. Paul – White – Batherson4:44

    xG 0.21–0.27 (44%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

  3. Dadonov – Norris – Tkachuk7:58

    xG 0.31–0.55 (36%)attempts 6–8goals 1–1

  4. Watson – Paul – White2:31

    xG 0.07–0.30 (18%)attempts 1–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestChabot – Zub2:02

    xG 0.17–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–0goals 0–0

  2. Gudbranson – Reilly3:25

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 2–0goals 0–0

  3. Chabot – Zaitsev13:11

    xG 0.68–0.90 (43%)attempts 13–17goals 0–1

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 2.2 xGEDM 5.4 xG
0123456P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTEDM

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 EDM. Dots are goals.

Excitement 32/100 · #551 of 868 this seasonSwing 1.16 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 24% (winner's lowest chance)
EDM 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +32 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 92% of the time.

OTT winsEDM wins

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

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