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Fri, Nov 26, 2021·American Airlines Center, Dallas

Colorado Avalanche 1, Dallas Stars 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 53% of the time.

DAL winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL04013120137
DAL2121901322

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:12DALJoe PavelskiAssists: Jason Robertson, John Klingberg · Tip-in, 0.11 xG0–1
  2. P1 1:31DALJoe PavelskiGWGAssists: Roope Hintz · Wrist, 0.10 xG0–2
  3. P2 14:26DALDenis GurianovPPAssists: Miro Heiskanen, Ryan Suter · Wrist, 0.16 xG0–3
  4. P3 16:39COLCale MakarAssists: Gabriel Landeskog, Devon Toews · Wrist, 0.03 xG1–3
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 11:48DALTyler Seguin: Holding2 min
  2. P1 14:52DALJamie Benn: Holding2 min
  3. P2 4:25COLKiefer Sherwood: Too many men on the ice2 min
  4. P2 8:46COLMikko Rantanen: Cross checking2 min
  5. P2 12:38COLNicolas Aube-Kubel: Interference goalkeeper2 min · PPG
  6. P3 11:03DALRoope Hintz: 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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0DAL
48% to win52% to win
← COL attackDAL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Rantanen won the faceoff against Benn
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLDAL
37Shots on goal22
2.9Expected goals3.1
59Shot attempts51
20Faceoffs won28
3Power plays3
6Penalty minutes6
14Hits15
11Blocked shots9
6Giveaways11
3Takeaways7

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.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestKadri – Landeskog – Rantanen3:05

    xG 0.75–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–0goals 0–0

  2. Landeskog – Rantanen – O'Connor8:48

    xG 0.06–0.15 (30%)attempts 4–6goals 0–0

  3. Helm – Megna – Sherwood4:15

    xG 0.09–0.19 (33%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  4. Aube-Kubel – Jost – Newhook4:43

    xG 0.04–0.34 (11%)attempts 4–7goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestToews – Girard3:57

    xG 0.90–0.14 (86%)attempts 8–4goals 0–0

  2. Johnson – Murray3:11

    xG 0.32–0.02 (94%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  3. Girard – Makar4:19

    xG 0.13–0.10 (58%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestPavelski – Hintz – Robertson9:09

    xG 0.72–0.14 (84%)attempts 10–8goals 2–0

  2. Benn – Raffl – Gurianov7:19

    xG 0.48–0.29 (62%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  3. Radulov – Faksa – Peterson7:49

    xG 0.27–0.57 (32%)attempts 7–10goals 0–0

  4. Seguin – Glendening – Kiviranta5:19

    xG 0.23–0.80 (22%)attempts 5–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHakanpää – Hanley7:06

    xG 0.44–0.15 (75%)attempts 8–8goals 1–0

  2. Lindell – Heiskanen13:42

    xG 0.57–0.38 (60%)attempts 9–10goals 0–0

  3. Hakanpää – Lindell3:18

    xG 0.04–0.42 (8%)attempts 2–6goals 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.

DAL 3.1 xGCOL 2.9 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DALCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 13/100 · #1145 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.60 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 52% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50DAL 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, Dallas Stars win this game 53% of the time.

DAL winsCOL wins

Simulated goal difference (DAL − COL), 10,000 replays

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