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Thu, Oct 13, 2022·Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles

Seattle Kraken 4, Los Angeles Kings 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 60% of the time.

LAK winsSEA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
SEA172619422
LAK1809010127

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 5:21SEAJaden SchwartzPPAssists: Jordan Eberle, Andre Burakovsky · Backhand, 0.17 xG1–0
  2. P1 7:43LAKAlex IafalloPPUnassisted · Wrap-around, 0.09 xG1–1
  3. P2 6:08SEABrandon TanevGWGAssists: Will Borgen · Wrist, 0.12 xG2–1
  4. P2 13:08SEAAlexander WennbergAssists: Matty Beniers, Oliver Bjorkstrand · Wrist, 0.14 xG3–1
  5. P3 18:59SEAAdam LarssonENUnassisted · Wrist, 0.58 xG4–1
Penalties (17)
  1. P1 1:44LAKArthur Kaliyev: Too many men on the ice2 min
  2. P1 3:53LAKBlake Lizotte: Tripping2 min · PPG
  3. P1 7:39SEAWill Borgen: Interference2 min · PPG
  4. P1 10:16SEACarson Soucy: Holding2 min
  5. P2 11:06LAKAlexander Edler: Holding2 min
  6. P2 15:37SEAJamie Oleksiak: Illegal check to head2 min
  7. P3 6:52LAKDrew Doughty: Slashing2 min
  8. P3 7:19SEAVince Dunn: Hooking2 min
  9. P3 10:49LAKArthur Kaliyev: Hooking2 min
  10. P3 10:55LAKAlex Iafallo: Hooking2 min
  11. P3 17:27SEABrandon Tanev: Cross checking2 min
  12. P3 19:15LAKBrendan Lemieux: Fighting5 min
  13. P3 19:15SEAYanni Gourde: Fighting5 min
  14. P3 0:00SEARyan Donato: Roughing2 min
  15. P3 0:00SEARyan Donato: Roughing2 min
  16. P3 0:00LAKJonathan Quick: Goalie leave crease2 min
  17. P3 0:00LAKGabriel Vilardi: Roughing2 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.

SEA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0LAK
49% to win51% to win
← SEA attackLAK attack →
  1. P1 20:00Byfield won the faceoff against Gourde
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

SEALAK
22Shots on goal27
3.1Expected goals2.5
42Shot attempts54
22Faceoffs won30
6Power plays5
19Penalty minutes21
44Hits28
15Blocked shots9
8Giveaways12
2Takeaways2

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.

Seattle Kraken

Forward lines

  1. bestSchwartz – Bjorkstrand – Wennberg8:04

    xG 0.45–0.10 (81%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  2. Eberle – Gourde – Tanev7:17

    xG 0.41–0.34 (55%)attempts 8–6goals 1–0

  3. Donato – Geekie – Kuhlman5:30

    xG 0.06–0.02 (79%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  4. Burakovsky – McCann – Beniers10:22

    xG 0.45–0.44 (50%)attempts 5–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSoucy – Borgen10:42

    xG 0.60–0.49 (55%)attempts 9–7goals 1–0

  2. Schultz – Oleksiak10:47

    xG 0.45–0.38 (54%)attempts 6–12goals 0–0

  3. Larsson – Dunn14:42

    xG 0.12–0.49 (20%)attempts 7–14goals 0–0

Los Angeles Kings

Forward lines

  1. bestLemieux – Lizotte – Kaliyev3:20

    xG 0.15–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  2. Vilardi – Iafallo – Byfield6:49

    xG 0.28–0.13 (68%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  3. Kopitar – Fiala – Kempe7:56

    xG 0.22–0.14 (62%)attempts 7–2goals 0–1

  4. Danault – Fiala – Moore3:30

    xG 0.14–0.07 (65%)attempts 8–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDoughty – Anderson13:28

    xG 0.30–0.12 (72%)attempts 9–3goals 0–1

  2. Edler – Clarke7:27

    xG 0.35–0.26 (57%)attempts 5–7goals 0–0

  3. Edler – Roy2:39

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 2–1goals 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.

LAK 2.5 xGSEA 3.1 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

LAKSEA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 33/100 · #954 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.11 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 45% (winner's lowest chance)
SEA 100%5050%50LAK 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +21 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 60% of the time.

LAK winsSEA wins

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

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
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+7

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