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Fri, Jan 14, 2022·Ball Arena, Denver

Arizona Coyotes 3, Colorado Avalanche 4 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 81% of the time.

COL winsARI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
ARI1811213030326
COL218014111041447

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:36COLMikko RantanenAssists: Devon Toews, Andre Burakovsky · Wrist, 0.16 xG0–1
  2. P1 12:03COLTyson JostAssists: Kurtis MacDermid · Wrist, 0.22 xG0–2
  3. P1 17:31ARIClayton KellerSHUnassisted · Wrist, 0.23 xG1–2
  4. P2 6:12ARIJohan LarssonAssists: Andrew Ladd, Phil Kessel · Snap, 0.08 xG2–2
  5. P3 0:39ARIShayne GostisbehereAssists: Phil Kessel, Lawson Crouse · Slap, 0.03 xG3–2
  6. P3 1:08COLAndre BurakovskyAssists: Devon Toews, Cale Makar · Wrist, 0.02 xG3–3

Shootout

  1. 1. ARI Andrew Ladd stopped
  2. 2. COL Nathan MacKinnon stopped
  3. 3. ARI Nick Schmaltz stopped
  4. 4. COL Mikko Rantanen stopped
  5. 5. ARI Clayton Keller stopped
  6. 6. COL Nazem Kadri scored
Penalties (11)
  1. P1 16:02ARIAndrew Ladd: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 1:04ARILiam O'Brien: High sticking2 min
  3. P2 2:05COLValeri Nichushkin: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 14:06ARIIlya Lyubushkin: Roughing2 min
  5. P2 14:06COLKurtis MacDermid: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  6. P2 14:06COLKurtis MacDermid: Roughing2 min
  7. P2 14:06COLMikhail Maltsev: Too many men on the ice2 min
  8. P2 16:27ARIJ.J. Moser: Hooking2 min
  9. P3 6:46ARIClayton Keller: Tripping2 min
  10. P3 9:33ARIJohan Larsson: Hooking2 min
  11. P3 18:15COLMikko Rantanen: 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.

ARI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0COL
48% to win52% to win
← ARI attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Kadri won the faceoff against Larsson
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ARICOL
26Shots on goal47
1.9Expected goals3.9
41Shot attempts85
26Faceoffs won32
4Power plays5
12Penalty minutes10
12Hits19
22Blocked shots12
1Giveaways3
6Takeaways10

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.

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. Kessel – Larsson – Crouse10:03

    xG 0.15–0.52 (22%)attempts 10–10goals 1–2

  2. Dzingel – O'Brien – Schmaltz3:42

    xG 0.05–0.49 (10%)attempts 3–7goals 0–0

  3. Nash – Roussel – Fischer8:24

    xG 0.32–0.77 (30%)attempts 3–17goals 0–0

  4. Ladd – Boyd – Keller8:44

    xG 0.02–0.49 (4%)attempts 3–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Lyubushkin – Moser13:14

    xG 0.20–0.24 (46%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

  2. Gostisbehere – Mayo15:28

    xG 0.49–0.87 (36%)attempts 14–22goals 2–1

  3. Soderstrom – Kolyachonok11:45

    xG 0.19–1.34 (12%)attempts 4–16goals 0–1

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestKadri – Nichushkin – Aube-Kubel10:22

    xG 0.92–0.06 (94%)attempts 18–4goals 0–1

  2. Burakovsky – MacKinnon – Rantanen13:09

    xG 0.69–0.08 (90%)attempts 21–9goals 2–0

  3. MacDermid – Jost – Maltsev4:49

    xG 0.59–0.27 (69%)attempts 9–5goals 1–1

  4. Compher – O'Connor – Newhook7:03

    xG 0.36–0.10 (79%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJohnson – Murray4:06

    xG 1.03–0.33 (76%)attempts 10–3goals 0–0

  2. Johnson – Girard8:55

    xG 0.42–0.05 (90%)attempts 9–5goals 0–1

  3. Toews – Makar13:34

    xG 0.78–0.44 (64%)attempts 19–15goals 3–1

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.

COL 3.9 xGARI 1.9 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLARI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 90/100 · #148 of 1312 this seasonSwing 2.34 · 6 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 25% (winner's lowest chance)
ARI 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +28 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 81% of the time.

COL winsARI wins

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

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