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Sat, Apr 9, 2022·Rogers Place, Edmonton

Colorado Avalanche 2, Edmonton Oilers 1 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 73% of the time.

EDM winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
COL01105118001234
EDM0100161130110150

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P3 5:24EDMWarren FoegeleAssists: Darnell Nurse · Tip-in, 0.09 xG0–1
  2. P3 14:53COLNathan MacKinnonAssists: Valeri Nichushkin, Devon Toews · Backhand, 0.06 xG1–1

Shootout

  1. 1. EDM Connor McDavid stopped
  2. 2. COL Nathan MacKinnon scored
  3. 3. EDM Leon Draisaitl stopped
  4. 4. COL Mikko Rantanen stopped
  5. 5. EDM Ryan Nugent-Hopkins stopped
Penalties (4)
  1. P2 11:49COLAndre Burakovsky: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 13:47EDMEvan Bouchard: Slashing2 min
  3. P3 17:36EDMEvan Bouchard: Interference2 min
  4. OT 2:29COLNathan MacKinnon: 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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0EDM
48% to win52% to win
← COL attackEDM attack →
  1. P1 20:00MacKinnon won the faceoff against McDavid
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLEDM
34Shots on goal50
2.9Expected goals4.4
61Shot attempts76
22Faceoffs won33
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
25Hits32
18Blocked shots9
12Giveaways12
8Takeaways14

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.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestBurakovsky – Compher – Lehkonen4:46

    xG 0.28–0.04 (88%)attempts 7–1goals 0–0

  2. Cogliano – Helm – O'Connor7:45

    xG 0.24–0.14 (62%)attempts 9–6goals 0–0

  3. MacKinnon – Nichushkin – Rantanen6:02

    xG 0.20–0.21 (50%)attempts 6–6goals 1–1

  4. Compher – Lehkonen – Nichushkin6:33

    xG 0.40–0.46 (46%)attempts 6–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJohnson – Byram2:25

    xG 0.33–0.05 (88%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  2. Girard – Makar2:33

    xG 0.23–0.02 (91%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  3. Makar – Byram2:27

    xG 0.12–0.01 (93%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestHyman – Draisaitl – Yamamoto14:08

    xG 1.04–0.44 (70%)attempts 16–8goals 0–1

  2. Brassard – Kassian – McLeod7:10

    xG 0.26–0.06 (81%)attempts 11–3goals 0–0

  3. Kane – McDavid – Puljujarvi15:44

    xG 0.98–0.93 (51%)attempts 19–20goals 0–0

  4. Nugent-Hopkins – Foegele – Ryan9:55

    xG 0.36–0.36 (50%)attempts 10–12goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKeith – Bouchard14:37

    xG 0.94–0.69 (58%)attempts 18–14goals 0–0

  2. Ceci – Nurse20:45

    xG 0.90–0.84 (52%)attempts 20–21goals 1–1

  3. Barrie – Kulak15:36

    xG 0.55–0.52 (52%)attempts 18–14goals 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.

EDM 4.4 xGCOL 2.9 xG
012345P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

EDMCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 48/100 · #751 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.55 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 13% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50EDM 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +35 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 73% of the time.

EDM winsCOL wins

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

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