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Sat, Feb 6, 2021·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Arizona Coyotes 3, St. Louis Blues 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Arizona Coyotes win this game 59% of the time.

STL winsARI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ARI191317319
STL1110608125

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:50ARIJakob ChychrunAssists: Clayton Keller, Conor Garland · Wrist, 0.11 xG1–0
  2. P1 4:05STLRobert ThomasAssists: Colton Parayko, Torey Krug · Backhand, 0.11 xG1–1
  3. P2 10:44ARIClayton KellerPPGWGAssists: Phil Kessel, Jordan Oesterle · Backhand, 0.12 xG2–1
  4. P3 19:34ARIJakob ChychrunENAssists: Conor Garland · Snap, 0.71 xG3–1
Penalties (13)
  1. P1 9:36ARINick Schmaltz: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 17:03STLSammy Blais: Slashing2 min
  3. P2 0:53STLMike Hoffman: Slashing2 min
  4. P2 5:32ARIJason Demers: Holding2 min
  5. P2 8:57STLTorey Krug: Hooking2 min · PPG
  6. P2 11:39STLBrayden Schenn: Fighting5 min
  7. P2 11:39ARIJohan Larsson: Fighting5 min
  8. P2 17:35ARIChristian Dvorak: Hooking2 min
  9. P3 2:14STLCarl Gunnarsson: Slashing2 min
  10. P3 9:13ARINiklas Hjalmarsson: Hooking2 min
  11. P3 9:24STLDavid Perron: Tripping2 min
  12. P3 18:04STLJaden Schwartz: Interference2 min · PPG
  13. P3 19:34STLDavid Perron: 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.

ARI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
46% to win54% to win
← ARI attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Schenn won the faceoff against Dvorak
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ARISTL
19Shots on goal25
2.7Expected goals2.3
39Shot attempts47
21Faceoffs won29
7Power plays4
13Penalty minutes19
17Hits21
8Blocked shots11
10Giveaways8
10Takeaways7

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. Shift data for this game is incomplete, so treat these as rough.

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestLarsson – Chaput – Hayden5:05

    xG 0.30–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  2. Brassard – Kessel – Dvorak4:10

    xG 0.08–0.08 (51%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  3. Pitlick – Dvorak – Caggiula3:05

    xG 0.03–0.21 (14%)attempts 2–6goals 0–0

  4. Schmaltz – Garland – Keller10:00

    xG 0.20–0.48 (29%)attempts 6–8goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestOesterle – Chychrun2:26

    xG 0.13–0.01 (94%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

  2. Goligoski – Hjalmarsson12:33

    xG 0.26–0.20 (56%)attempts 6–8goals 0–0

  3. Chychrun – Lyubushkin10:21

    xG 0.16–0.16 (50%)attempts 5–6goals 1–0

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSundqvist – Barbashev – Thomas2:55

    xG 0.30–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–0goals 1–0

  2. Schenn – Schwartz – Kyrou10:13

    xG 0.48–0.36 (57%)attempts 9–8goals 0–1

  3. MacEachern – Barbashev – Blais2:00

    xG 0.01–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–0goals 0–0

  4. Schwartz – Sundqvist – Kyrou2:01

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–0goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Parayko – Dunn9:31

    xG 0.24–0.20 (54%)attempts 8–5goals 0–1

  2. Faulk – Walman2:03

    xG 0.00–0.01 (0%)attempts 0–1goals 0–0

  3. Faulk – Krug10:35

    xG 0.15–0.25 (37%)attempts 8–5goals 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 2.3 xGARI 2.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLARI

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 ARI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 31/100 · #564 of 868 this seasonSwing 1.14 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 44% (winner's lowest chance)
ARI 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +24 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Arizona Coyotes win this game 59% of the time.

STL winsARI wins

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

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