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Wed, Nov 24, 2021·Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle

Carolina Hurricanes 1, Seattle Kraken 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Carolina Hurricanes win this game 72% of the time.

SEA winsCAR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CAR19016011136
SEA071916222

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 18:32CARBrendan SmithAssists: Tony DeAngelo · Slap, 0.02 xG1–0
  2. P2 4:16SEAJared McCannPPAssists: Vince Dunn, Yanni Gourde · Snap, 0.05 xG1–1
  3. P3 16:52SEAMarcus JohanssonGWGUnassisted · Wrist, 0.05 xG1–2
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 15:41CARVincent Trocheck: Hooking2 min
  2. P2 2:58CARJaccob Slavin: Holding2 min · PPG
  3. P2 9:51SEAMorgan Geekie: Hooking2 min
  4. P3 1:55CARBrendan Smith: Hooking2 min
  5. P3 3:13SEAJoonas Donskoi: Holding2 min
  6. P3 10:00SEAVince Dunn: Fighting5 min
  7. P3 10:00CARAndrei Svechnikov: Fighting5 min
  8. P3 10:00CARAndrei Svechnikov: 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.

CAR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0SEA
48% to win52% to win
← CAR attackSEA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Staal won the faceoff against Gourde
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CARSEA
36Shots on goal22
3.2Expected goals1.9
68Shot attempts45
37Faceoffs won24
2Power plays4
13Penalty minutes9
17Hits26
9Blocked shots20
5Giveaways9
1Takeaways2

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.

Carolina Hurricanes

Forward lines

  1. bestNiederreiter – Necas – Kotkaniemi8:24

    xG 1.33–0.34 (80%)attempts 16–5goals 0–0

  2. Staal – Fast – Svechnikov7:54

    xG 0.24–0.11 (69%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  3. Martinook – Aho – Jarvis8:23

    xG 0.52–0.44 (54%)attempts 18–6goals 0–0

  4. Trocheck – Teravainen – Lorentz8:43

    xG 0.10–0.10 (49%)attempts 5–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSkjei – Pesce13:30

    xG 1.00–0.15 (87%)attempts 17–9goals 0–0

  2. Slavin – DeAngelo12:57

    xG 0.90–0.62 (59%)attempts 16–13goals 0–1

  3. Smith – Pesce2:45

    xG 0.04–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 0–0

Seattle Kraken

Forward lines

  1. bestEberle – Johansson – Wennberg10:16

    xG 0.42–0.19 (69%)attempts 9–10goals 0–0

  2. Donskoi – Blackwell – Geekie7:26

    xG 0.34–0.27 (56%)attempts 9–8goals 0–0

  3. McCann – Appleton – Tanev8:03

    xG 0.05–0.05 (46%)attempts 4–10goals 0–0

  4. Schwartz – Donskoi – Gourde2:57

    xG 0.02–0.04 (33%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Soucy – Dunn10:33

    xG 0.33–0.30 (52%)attempts 4–11goals 0–0

  2. Oleksiak – Dunn2:17

    xG 0.18–0.19 (48%)attempts 1–4goals 0–1

  3. Giordano – Oleksiak14:00

    xG 0.35–0.87 (28%)attempts 15–18goals 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.

SEA 1.9 xGCAR 3.2 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

SEACAR

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 38/100 · #867 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.30 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 34% (winner's lowest chance)
CAR 100%5050%50SEA 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +39 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Carolina Hurricanes win this game 72% of the time.

SEA winsCAR wins

Simulated goal difference (SEA − CAR), 10,000 replays

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