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Sat, Jan 29, 2022·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Winnipeg Jets 4, St. Louis Blues 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 73% of the time.

STL winsWPG wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
WPG1102816424
STL11102016129

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 6:08STLVladimir TarasenkoPPAssists: Brayden Schenn, Justin Faulk · Wrist, 0.08 xG0–1
  2. P1 14:23WPGPaul StastnyUnassisted · Backhand, 0.14 xG1–1
  3. P2 7:57WPGKyle ConnorGWGAssists: Pierre-Luc Dubois · Wrist, 0.08 xG2–1
  4. P2 12:35WPGNate SchmidtPPAssists: Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor · Slap, 0.05 xG3–1
  5. P3 17:25WPGPaul StastnyENAssists: Neal Pionk · Wrist, 0.79 xG4–1
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 4:25WPGJohnathan Kovacevic: Holding2 min · PPG
  2. P2 3:31WPGBlake Wheeler: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 12:03STLVladimir Tarasenko: High sticking2 min · PPG
  4. P2 15:50WPGPierre-Luc Dubois: Roughing2 min
  5. P2 15:50STLNiko Mikkola: Roughing2 min
  6. P3 2:05STLTorey Krug: Holding2 min
  7. P3 2:57WPGPierre-Luc Dubois: Holding2 min
  8. P3 9:37WPGNeal Pionk: Roughing2 min
  9. P3 12:13WPGPaul Stastny: Hooking2 min
  10. P3 13:11STLBrayden Schenn: Slashing2 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.

WPG00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
48% to win52% to win
← WPG attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00O'Reilly won the faceoff against Scheifele
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

WPGSTL
24Shots on goal29
3.9Expected goals2.5
48Shot attempts55
26Faceoffs won22
3Power plays5
12Penalty minutes8
9Hits19
11Blocked shots9
8Giveaways13
13Takeaways12

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.

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestStastny – Lowry – Poganski8:19

    xG 0.50–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–3goals 1–0

  2. Wheeler – Scheifele – Copp9:44

    xG 0.44–0.39 (53%)attempts 7–7goals 0–0

  3. Connor – Dubois – Perfetti8:41

    xG 0.39–0.41 (49%)attempts 9–9goals 1–0

  4. Toninato – Harkins – Vesalainen4:29

    xG 0.00–0.23 (0%)attempts 0–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPionk – Heinola13:40

    xG 0.66–0.38 (63%)attempts 11–11goals 0–0

  2. Dillon – Schmidt13:17

    xG 0.89–0.64 (58%)attempts 14–13goals 1–0

  3. Kovacevic – Chisholm9:19

    xG 0.39–0.42 (48%)attempts 5–9goals 1–0

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. Bozak – Sundqvist – Kostin7:04

    xG 0.16–0.17 (48%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  2. Tarasenko – Kyrou – Thomas6:10

    xG 0.34–0.37 (48%)attempts 5–5goals 0–2

  3. O'Reilly – Buchnevich – Barbashev7:25

    xG 0.04–0.16 (22%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  4. Perron – Schenn – Saad7:54

    xG 0.15–0.49 (23%)attempts 6–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestParayko – Mikkola15:14

    xG 0.54–0.29 (65%)attempts 13–6goals 0–0

  2. Faulk – Krug12:26

    xG 0.54–0.76 (42%)attempts 10–13goals 0–1

  3. Bortuzzo – Scandella8:35

    xG 0.14–0.79 (15%)attempts 7–10goals 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.

STL 2.5 xGWPG 3.9 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLWPG

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 33/100 · #927 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.11 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 26% (winner's lowest chance)
WPG 100%5050%50STL 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, Winnipeg Jets win this game 73% of the time.

STL winsWPG wins

Simulated goal difference (STL − WPG), 10,000 replays

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