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Tue, Nov 30, 2021·American Airlines Center, Dallas

Carolina Hurricanes 1, Dallas Stars 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Carolina Hurricanes win this game 70% of the time.

DAL winsCAR wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CAR013010117140
DAL171525417

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:13DALRoope HintzAssists: Joe Pavelski · Wrist, 0.16 xG0–1
  2. P2 14:57DALRoope HintzGWGAssists: Joe Pavelski, Jason Robertson · Wrist, 0.11 xG0–2
  3. P3 9:31DALJoe PavelskiAssists: Jason Robertson · Tip-in, 0.15 xG0–3
  4. P3 16:27CARJesperi KotkaniemiAssists: Jaccob Slavin, Nino Niederreiter · Backhand, 0.09 xG1–3
  5. P3 17:10DALRoope HintzENAssists: Miro Heiskanen · Wrist, 0.52 xG1–4
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 3:37DALJason Robertson: Closing hand on puck2 min
  2. P1 7:01CARIan Cole: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 12:54DALJoel Kiviranta: High sticking2 min
  4. P1 14:43CARJesperi Kotkaniemi: Embellishment2 min
  5. P1 14:43DALJamie Benn: Hooking2 min
  6. P2 5:39CARTeuvo Teravainen: Holding2 min
  7. P3 13:54DALDenis Gurianov: 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.

CAR00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CARDAL
40Shots on goal17
3.3Expected goals2.1
75Shot attempts37
26Faceoffs won35
3Power plays2
6Penalty minutes8
18Hits25
11Blocked shots17
10Giveaways20
3Takeaways9

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. bestTrocheck – Svechnikov – Jarvis4:39

    xG 0.72–0.05 (94%)attempts 10–3goals 0–0

  2. Teravainen – Aho – Necas8:59

    xG 0.37–0.00 (100%)attempts 8–1goals 0–0

  3. Trocheck – Teravainen – Jarvis3:33

    xG 0.21–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

  4. Niederreiter – Martinook – Kotkaniemi3:49

    xG 0.36–0.15 (71%)attempts 12–1goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestCole – Slavin16:12

    xG 1.18–0.35 (77%)attempts 25–11goals 1–2

  2. Chatfield – Lajoie5:52

    xG 0.81–0.03 (96%)attempts 15–2goals 0–0

  3. Skjei – Chatfield9:44

    xG 0.58–0.28 (67%)attempts 15–5goals 0–1

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestPavelski – Hintz – Robertson9:10

    xG 0.72–0.29 (71%)attempts 15–7goals 3–0

  2. Benn – Seguin – Gurianov3:07

    xG 0.02–0.07 (25%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  3. Benn – Raffl – Gurianov5:30

    xG 0.00–0.08 (0%)attempts 1–7goals 0–0

  4. Seguin – Glendening – Kiviranta5:02

    xG 0.06–0.26 (19%)attempts 2–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Suter – Heiskanen2:37

    xG 0.02–0.04 (29%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

  2. Lindell – Heiskanen14:29

    xG 0.17–0.65 (21%)attempts 7–19goals 1–0

  3. Suter – Klingberg15:23

    xG 0.55–1.04 (34%)attempts 12–19goals 2–0

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 2.1 xGCAR 3.3 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DALCAR

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 CAR. Dots are goals.

Excitement 24/100 · #1052 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.68 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 52% (winner's lowest chance)
CAR 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, Carolina Hurricanes win this game 70% of the time.

DAL winsCAR wins

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

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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).