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Mon, Mar 8, 2021·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Montréal Canadiens 1, Vancouver Canucks 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 58% of the time.

VAN winsMTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
MTL1801209010130
VAN01006111021229

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:37MTLJeff PetryPPAssists: Tomas Tatar, Jesperi Kotkaniemi · Snap, 0.02 xG1–0
  2. P3 19:19VANAdam GaudetteAssists: Bo Horvat, Quinn Hughes · Slap, 0.08 xG1–1

Shootout

  1. 1. VAN Brock Boeser stopped
  2. 2. MTL Nick Suzuki stopped
  3. 3. VAN J.T. Miller stopped
  4. 4. MTL Jonathan Drouin stopped
  5. 5. VAN Bo Horvat scored
  6. 6. MTL Tomas Tatar stopped
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 3:11VANJake Virtanen: Too many men on the ice2 min · PPG
  2. P1 16:36MTLCorey Perry: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 17:12MTLPaul Byron: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  4. P2 15:35VANNils Hoglander: Interference2 min
  5. P3 10:24MTLNick Suzuki: Tripping2 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.

MTL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0VAN
46% to win54% to win
← MTL attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Kotkaniemi won the faceoff against Horvat
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MTLVAN
30Shots on goal29
3.2Expected goals3.6
65Shot attempts52
24Faceoffs won33
2Power plays3
6Penalty minutes4
24Hits17
10Blocked shots22
2Giveaways11
3Takeaways9

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.

Montréal Canadiens

Forward lines

  1. bestTatar – Gallagher – Danault10:05

    xG 0.68–0.12 (85%)attempts 9–4goals 0–0

  2. Toffoli – Anderson – Kotkaniemi9:03

    xG 0.60–0.25 (71%)attempts 11–6goals 0–0

  3. Perry – Byron – Evans6:22

    xG 0.08–0.14 (37%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

  4. Armia – Drouin – Suzuki10:28

    xG 0.49–0.55 (47%)attempts 16–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestWeber – Chiarot14:53

    xG 0.65–0.21 (76%)attempts 18–7goals 0–0

  2. Petry – Edmundson16:43

    xG 0.80–0.54 (60%)attempts 20–11goals 0–0

  3. Chiarot – Edmundson2:07

    xG 0.02–0.03 (33%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestMiller – Gaudette – Hoglander4:37

    xG 0.24–0.13 (65%)attempts 4–7goals 0–0

  2. Sutter – Boeser – Michaelis2:25

    xG 0.12–0.10 (55%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  3. Beagle – Roussel – Hawryluk6:14

    xG 0.17–0.19 (47%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  4. Pearson – Horvat – Boeser2:15

    xG 0.03–0.10 (25%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHamonic – Hughes13:02

    xG 0.76–0.57 (57%)attempts 13–18goals 0–0

  2. Schmidt – Hughes2:13

    xG 0.08–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  3. Edler – Hughes2:03

    xG 0.15–0.14 (51%)attempts 3–4goals 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 3.6 xGMTL 3.2 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANMTL

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 MTL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 56/100 · #368 of 868 this seasonSwing 1.71 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 5% (winner's lowest chance)
MTL 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +49 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 58% of the time.

VAN winsMTL wins

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

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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).