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Sat, Feb 13, 2021·Gila River Arena, Glendale

St. Louis Blues 5, Arizona Coyotes 4 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 56% of the time.

ARI winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
STL2141611312535
ARI1161142501436

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:21ARIConor GarlandUnassisted · Wrist, 0.05 xG0–1
  2. P1 5:46STLKyle CliffordAssists: Jacob de la Rose · Wrist, 0.05 xG1–1
  3. P1 13:22STLZachary SanfordAssists: Ivan Barbashev, Torey Krug · Wrist, 0.06 xG2–1
  4. P2 5:27ARIBarrett HaytonAssists: Clayton Keller, Jakob Chychrun · Wrist, 0.03 xG2–2
  5. P2 7:09STLIvan BarbashevAssists: Ryan O'Reilly, David Perron · Wrist, 0.18 xG3–2
  6. P3 1:50ARINick SchmaltzAssists: Jason Demers, Oliver Ekman-Larsson · Wrist, 0.10 xG3–3
  7. P3 11:23ARIDryden HuntAssists: Christian Fischer · Wrist, 0.19 xG3–4
  8. P3 14:23STLJordan KyrouAssists: Mike Hoffman · Wrist, 0.05 xG4–4
  9. OT 1:49STLMike HoffmanGWGAssists: Oskar Sundqvist, Vince Dunn · Wrist, 0.06 xG5–4
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 6:54ARIJakob Chychrun: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 9:16STLJustin Faulk: Hooking2 min
  3. P1 10:18ARIPhil Kessel: High sticking2 min
  4. P1 13:28STLMike Hoffman: 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.

STL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0ARI
46% to win54% to win
← STL attackARI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Sundqvist won the faceoff against Schmaltz
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLARI
35Shots on goal36
3.3Expected goals3.0
68Shot attempts58
31Faceoffs won29
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
18Hits40
6Blocked shots20
7Giveaways12
8Takeaways6

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.

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestPerron – O'Reilly – Barbashev15:24

    xG 1.05–0.77 (58%)attempts 17–16goals 1–0

  2. Clifford – MacEachern – de la Rose6:04

    xG 0.39–0.18 (68%)attempts 9–4goals 1–0

  3. Schenn – Sundqvist – Sanford3:00

    xG 0.24–0.12 (66%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  4. Hoffman – Schenn – Kyrou10:19

    xG 0.45–0.35 (57%)attempts 10–11goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBortuzzo – Dunn11:54

    xG 0.87–0.25 (78%)attempts 17–7goals 1–1

  2. Faulk – Krug19:20

    xG 1.05–0.96 (52%)attempts 22–20goals 2–1

  3. Parayko – Dunn4:47

    xG 0.04–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestKessel – Pitlick – Dvorak7:39

    xG 0.57–0.23 (71%)attempts 7–12goals 0–0

  2. Schmaltz – Garland – Keller13:35

    xG 0.97–0.71 (58%)attempts 18–10goals 2–1

  3. Fasching – Fischer – Hayton2:49

    xG 0.16–0.08 (67%)attempts 2–4goals 0–1

  4. Brassard – Kessel – Hunt4:55

    xG 0.05–0.06 (46%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestOesterle – Lyubushkin4:23

    xG 0.81–0.21 (80%)attempts 8–5goals 1–1

  2. Demers – Oesterle7:33

    xG 0.40–0.21 (66%)attempts 7–8goals 1–0

  3. Demers – Ekman-Larsson10:15

    xG 0.55–0.80 (41%)attempts 8–10goals 1–0

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.

ARI 3.0 xGSTL 3.3 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

ARISTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 96/100 · #26 of 868 this seasonSwing 2.68 · 9 goals in reachComeback index 13% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50ARI 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +34 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 56% of the time.

ARI winsSTL wins

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

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

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