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Mon, Apr 19, 2021·Gila River Arena, Glendale

Minnesota Wild 5, Arizona Coyotes 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 70% of the time.

ARI winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN1921025524
ARI1701017224

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 9:19MINKirill KaprizovPPAssists: Nick Bonino, Kevin Fiala · Wrist, 0.10 xG1–0
  2. P1 14:28ARIChristian FischerUnassisted · Wrist, 0.13 xG1–1
  3. P2 3:37MINJordan GreenwayAssists: Marcus Foligno, Joel Eriksson Ek · Wrist, 0.18 xG2–1
  4. P2 9:38MINMarcus JohanssonPPGWGAssists: Mathew Dumba, Ryan Suter · Backhand, 0.29 xG3–1
  5. P3 1:15ARIAlex GoligoskiAssists: Jakob Chychrun, Clayton Keller · Slap, 0.01 xG3–2
  6. P3 6:20MINKevin FialaAssists: Carson Soucy, Ian Cole · Wrist, 0.04 xG4–2
  7. P3 17:53MINJonas BrodinENAssists: Mathew Dumba, Nick Bonino · Backhand, 0.50 xG5–2
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 7:53ARIJakob Chychrun: Hooking2 min · PPG
  2. P1 10:08ARIConor Garland: Cross checking2 min
  3. P1 18:58MINIan Cole: Hooking2 min
  4. P2 8:11ARIClayton Keller: Hooking2 min · PPG

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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINARI
24Shots on goal24
2.9Expected goals1.9
40Shot attempts56
17Faceoffs won37
3Power plays1
2Penalty minutes6
24Hits45
14Blocked shots10
5Giveaways13
6Takeaways7

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.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. Foligno – Greenway – Eriksson Ek12:37

    xG 0.30–0.37 (45%)attempts 6–10goals 1–0

  2. Johansson – Hartman – Fiala9:56

    xG 0.37–0.46 (45%)attempts 9–11goals 1–0

  3. Zuccarello – Rask – Kaprizov9:39

    xG 0.18–0.31 (37%)attempts 5–6goals 0–1

  4. Parise – Bonino – Sturm10:28

    xG 0.29–0.43 (40%)attempts 2–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCole – Soucy14:14

    xG 0.55–0.45 (55%)attempts 11–11goals 1–0

  2. Suter – Spurgeon14:33

    xG 0.49–0.42 (54%)attempts 11–8goals 0–1

  3. Brodin – Dumba17:18

    xG 0.22–0.68 (24%)attempts 5–20goals 0–0

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestKessel – Larsson – Hunt10:44

    xG 0.59–0.10 (85%)attempts 11–5goals 0–0

  2. Schmaltz – Garland – Keller12:30

    xG 0.59–0.32 (65%)attempts 12–7goals 0–1

  3. Dvorak – Fischer – Crouse8:59

    xG 0.25–0.22 (53%)attempts 8–5goals 1–1

  4. Hayden – Bunting – Pederson9:21

    xG 0.18–0.46 (28%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGoligoski – Chychrun18:04

    xG 1.00–0.63 (61%)attempts 23–7goals 2–1

  2. Hjalmarsson – Demers12:41

    xG 0.33–0.11 (74%)attempts 14–5goals 0–0

  3. Ekman-Larsson – Lyubushkin15:07

    xG 0.39–0.38 (50%)attempts 12–11goals 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.

ARI 1.9 xGMIN 2.9 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

ARIMIN

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 MIN. Dots are goals.

Excitement 55/100 · #378 of 868 this seasonSwing 1.35 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 44% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50ARI 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +22 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 70% of the time.

ARI winsMIN wins

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

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