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Wed, Apr 20, 2022·Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle

Colorado Avalanche 2, Seattle Kraken 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 66% of the time.

SEA winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL11007110227
SEA31101206329

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:12SEAKole LindAssists: Will Borgen, Victor Rask · Backhand, 0.11 xG0–1
  2. P1 5:23SEAJordan EberleAssists: Matty Beniers, Ryan Donato · Snap, 0.07 xG0–2
  3. P1 14:44SEAYanni GourdeGWGAssists: Jared McCann, Karson Kuhlman · Deflected, 0.13 xG0–3
  4. P1 17:37COLCale MakarAssists: Nazem Kadri, J.T. Compher · Snap, 0.12 xG1–3
  5. P3 16:40COLArtturi LehkonenAssists: Valeri Nichushkin, Nathan MacKinnon · Wrist, 0.11 xG2–3
Penalties (3)
  1. P1 18:05COLJosh Manson: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 8:26SEACarson Soucy: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 16:40SEARyan Donato: 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 SOG0SEA
48% to win52% to win
← COL attackSEA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Gourde won the faceoff against MacKinnon
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLSEA
27Shots on goal29
2.1Expected goals2.8
63Shot attempts51
21Faceoffs won25
2Power plays1
2Penalty minutes4
24Hits17
11Blocked shots24
7Giveaways10
12Takeaways10

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. bestLehkonen – MacKinnon – Nichushkin12:30

    xG 0.59–0.31 (65%)attempts 16–12goals 1–0

  2. Cogliano – Helm – O'Connor5:53

    xG 0.21–0.01 (97%)attempts 6–2goals 0–0

  3. Compher – Sturm – Newhook2:50

    xG 0.19–0.00 (100%)attempts 7–0goals 0–0

  4. Sturm – Newhook – Meyers2:23

    xG 0.09–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMakar – Byram14:44

    xG 0.77–0.44 (63%)attempts 18–12goals 1–1

  2. Manson – Girard12:43

    xG 0.34–0.17 (66%)attempts 16–7goals 0–1

  3. Johnson – Girard2:02

    xG 0.11–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 1–0

Seattle Kraken

Forward lines

  1. bestRask – Wennberg – Lind12:22

    xG 0.93–0.08 (92%)attempts 13–8goals 1–0

  2. Gourde – McCann – Kuhlman14:52

    xG 0.43–0.15 (74%)attempts 17–15goals 1–0

  3. Eberle – Donato – Beniers9:15

    xG 0.24–0.27 (46%)attempts 6–10goals 1–0

  4. Sheahan – Donskoi – Sprong7:05

    xG 0.18–0.22 (44%)attempts 6–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLarsson – Dunn18:35

    xG 1.09–0.28 (79%)attempts 24–17goals 1–1

  2. Oleksiak – Borgen14:44

    xG 0.44–0.32 (58%)attempts 9–14goals 1–0

  3. Soucy – Fleury12:52

    xG 0.17–0.23 (42%)attempts 5–11goals 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.

SEA 2.8 xGCOL 2.1 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

SEACOL

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 COL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 61/100 · #581 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.85 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 52% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50SEA 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, Seattle Kraken win this game 66% of the time.

SEA winsCOL wins

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

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