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Mon, May 3, 2021·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Winnipeg Jets 1, Ottawa Senators 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 60% of the time.

OTT winsWPG wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
WPG0601716129
OTT160418218

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 11:31OTTConnor BrownSHAssists: Nick Paul · Snap, 0.19 xG0–1
  2. P3 9:46WPGJosh MorrisseyAssists: Neal Pionk, Blake Wheeler · Wrist, 0.08 xG1–1
  3. P3 18:47OTTNikita ZaitsevGWGAssists: Drake Batherson, Connor Brown · Slap, 0.04 xG1–2
Penalties (11)
  1. P1 2:37OTTBrady Tkachuk: Too many men on the ice2 min
  2. P1 10:38OTTNikita Zaitsev: Charging2 min
  3. P1 14:30WPGLogan Stanley: Roughing2 min
  4. P1 19:55OTTTim Stützle: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 5:18OTTJoshua Brown: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  6. P2 9:11OTTDrake Batherson: Hooking2 min
  7. P2 9:55WPGJosh Morrissey: Slashing2 min
  8. P2 12:17OTTNikita Zaitsev: Tripping2 min
  9. P2 19:43WPGPierre-Luc Dubois: Tripping2 min
  10. P3 9:02OTTJoshua Brown: Roughing2 min
  11. P3 9:02WPGMathieu Perreault: Roughing2 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.

WPG00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

WPGOTT
29Shots on goal18
1.9Expected goals1.5
62Shot attempts32
33Faceoffs won19
6Power plays3
8Penalty minutes14
27Hits30
10Blocked shots20
6Giveaways7
4Takeaways7

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.

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestWheeler – Scheifele – Connor13:36

    xG 0.37–0.15 (70%)attempts 16–7goals 0–0

  2. Thompson – Lewis – Vesalainen5:29

    xG 0.10–0.03 (79%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  3. Stastny – Perreault – Dubois7:19

    xG 0.10–0.10 (51%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  4. Lowry – Copp – Appleton6:25

    xG 0.10–0.19 (33%)attempts 5–4goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestDeMelo – Stanley9:23

    xG 0.27–0.03 (90%)attempts 9–4goals 0–0

  2. Forbort – Pionk5:55

    xG 0.17–0.00 (100%)attempts 7–0goals 0–0

  3. Poolman – Morrissey4:06

    xG 0.12–0.05 (71%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestDzingel – Tierney – Brown5:18

    xG 0.19–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  2. Paul – Formenton – Pinto4:11

    xG 0.02–0.05 (23%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

  3. Norris – Batherson – Tkachuk7:32

    xG 0.00–0.23 (0%)attempts 3–12goals 0–0

  4. Dadonov – White – Stützle7:38

    xG 0.00–0.24 (0%)attempts 0–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBrown – Brannstrom3:46

    xG 0.13–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 0–0

  2. Mete – Zaitsev5:57

    xG 0.18–0.09 (65%)attempts 5–7goals 1–0

  3. Brannstrom – Zub5:48

    xG 0.07–0.01 (88%)attempts 1–2goals 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.

OTT 1.5 xGWPG 1.9 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTWPG

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 WPG. Dots are goals.

Excitement 40/100 · #498 of 868 this seasonSwing 1.37 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 52% (winner's lowest chance)
WPG 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +42 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 60% of the time.

OTT winsWPG wins

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

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