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Mon, Dec 6, 2021·Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle

Pittsburgh Penguins 6, Seattle Kraken 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Pittsburgh Penguins win this game 68% of the time.

SEA winsPIT wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PIT38213110631
SEA01019010129

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:47PITJeff CarterAssists: Danton Heinen, Jason Zucker · Wrist, 0.08 xG1–0
  2. P1 4:42PITSidney CrosbyGWGAssists: Jake Guentzel, Brian Dumoulin · Wrist, 0.13 xG2–0
  3. P1 5:07PITDanton HeinenAssists: John Marino, Marcus Pettersson · Wrist, 0.03 xG3–0
  4. P2 3:43SEAJordan EberleAssists: Alexander Wennberg, Jaden Schwartz · Wrist, 0.13 xG3–1
  5. P2 18:31PITJake GuentzelAssists: Evan Rodrigues, Sidney Crosby · Wrist, 0.07 xG4–1
  6. P2 18:54PITJeff CarterAssists: Kris Letang, Danton Heinen · Backhand, 0.18 xG5–1
  7. P3 8:29PITJake GuentzelAssists: Evan Rodrigues, Brian Dumoulin · Wrist, 0.08 xG6–1
Penalties (1)
  1. P2 4:11PITMike Matheson: High sticking2 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.

PIT00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PITSEA
31Shots on goal29
2.7Expected goals1.7
46Shot attempts48
32Faceoffs won24
0Power plays1
2Penalty minutes0
23Hits24
11Blocked shots6
4Giveaways16
5Takeaways5

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.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Forward lines

  1. bestCarter – Zucker – Heinen14:07

    xG 1.25–0.50 (72%)attempts 15–9goals 3–0

  2. Crosby – Guentzel – Rodrigues13:48

    xG 0.63–0.24 (72%)attempts 12–14goals 3–0

  3. Kapanen – Simon – O'Connor5:04

    xG 0.33–0.02 (95%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  4. Simon – Aston-Reese – O'Connor3:35

    xG 0.06–0.14 (31%)attempts 3–3goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestLetang – Dumoulin19:07

    xG 1.42–0.40 (78%)attempts 17–17goals 4–0

  2. Pettersson – Marino17:33

    xG 0.55–0.35 (61%)attempts 16–14goals 1–1

  3. Matheson – Ruhwedel18:27

    xG 0.48–0.85 (36%)attempts 8–15goals 1–0

Seattle Kraken

Forward lines

  1. McCann – Tanev – Geekie13:03

    xG 0.60–0.59 (50%)attempts 16–9goals 0–1

  2. Johansson – Wennberg – Appleton12:59

    xG 0.55–0.85 (39%)attempts 15–13goals 0–1

  3. Sheahan – Donskoi – Donato9:12

    xG 0.07–0.38 (15%)attempts 5–8goals 0–2

  4. Eberle – Schwartz – Gourde15:15

    xG 0.26–0.57 (31%)attempts 9–10goals 0–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestLauzon – Borgen15:20

    xG 0.63–0.11 (85%)attempts 10–6goals 0–2

  2. Larsson – Dunn21:38

    xG 0.57–0.84 (41%)attempts 23–10goals 1–1

  3. Oleksiak – Soucy16:22

    xG 0.30–1.42 (18%)attempts 7–23goals 0–2

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 1.7 xGPIT 2.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

SEAPIT

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 PIT. Dots are goals.

Excitement 24/100 · #1038 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.73 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 48% (winner's lowest chance)
PIT 100%5050%50SEA 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +15 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Pittsburgh Penguins win this game 68% of the time.

SEA winsPIT wins

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

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