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Sat, Nov 27, 2021·Gila River Arena, Glendale

Dallas Stars 3, Arizona Coyotes 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 65% of the time.

ARI winsDAL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
DAL21411005329
ARI1911107227

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:54DALRoope HintzAssists: Joe Pavelski, Jason Robertson · Wrist, 0.19 xG1–0
  2. P1 3:54ARIAntoine RousselAssists: Loui Eriksson, Anton Stralman · Snap, 0.28 xG1–1
  3. P1 18:36DALJacob PetersonAssists: Radek Faksa, Alexander Radulov · Wrist, 0.20 xG2–1
  4. P2 4:24ARITravis BoydAssists: Kyle Capobianco, Phil Kessel · Tip-in, 0.13 xG2–2
  5. P2 8:57DALJason RobertsonGWGAssists: Andrej Sekera, Joe Pavelski · Wrist, 0.10 xG3–2
Penalties (3)
  1. P2 10:32DALAndrej Sekera: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 11:35ARIBarrett Hayton: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 14:55DALMiro Heiskanen: Hooking2 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.

DAL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0ARI
48% to win52% to win
← DAL attackARI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Benn won the faceoff against Hayton
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DALARI
29Shots on goal27
2.7Expected goals1.9
52Shot attempts52
36Faceoffs won23
1Power plays2
4Penalty minutes2
22Hits19
16Blocked shots13
4Giveaways6
6Takeaways5

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.

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestSeguin – Glendening – Kiviranta8:18

    xG 0.43–0.06 (88%)attempts 8–2goals 0–0

  2. Pavelski – Hintz – Robertson10:56

    xG 0.68–0.66 (51%)attempts 12–13goals 2–1

  3. Benn – Raffl – Gurianov9:24

    xG 0.16–0.23 (41%)attempts 5–7goals 0–0

  4. Radulov – Faksa – Peterson7:35

    xG 0.23–0.61 (27%)attempts 4–12goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestLindell – Heiskanen21:57

    xG 1.32–0.40 (77%)attempts 21–17goals 1–0

  2. Sekera – Hakanpää8:29

    xG 0.18–0.08 (70%)attempts 5–4goals 1–0

  3. Suter – Heiskanen2:38

    xG 0.00–0.19 (0%)attempts 1–4goals 0–1

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestLadd – Crouse – Hayton8:41

    xG 0.37–0.05 (87%)attempts 9–4goals 0–0

  2. Eriksson – Roussel – Dzingel8:40

    xG 0.71–0.56 (56%)attempts 12–8goals 1–2

  3. Kessel – Boyd – Keller13:58

    xG 0.28–0.71 (29%)attempts 10–13goals 1–1

  4. Galchenyuk – O'Brien – Fasching7:50

    xG 0.14–0.68 (17%)attempts 5–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestStralman – Capobianco13:19

    xG 0.84–0.71 (54%)attempts 17–6goals 2–0

  2. Gostisbehere – Chychrun4:30

    xG 0.07–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  3. Gostisbehere – Mayo15:11

    xG 0.57–0.63 (47%)attempts 11–15goals 0–1

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 xGDAL 2.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

ARIDAL

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 DAL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 37/100 · #878 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.23 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 48% (winner's lowest chance)
DAL 100%5050%50ARI 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +21 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 65% of the time.

ARI winsDAL wins

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

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