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Fri, Oct 28, 2022·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Pittsburgh Penguins 1, Vancouver Canucks 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 53% of the time.

VAN winsPIT wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PIT05115015135
VAN11019310529

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 13:52VANTanner PearsonAssists: Ilya Mikheyev, Conor Garland · Tip-in, 0.10 xG0–1
  2. P2 0:32VANBo HorvatPPGWGAssists: Andrei Kuzmenko · Wrist, 0.05 xG0–2
  3. P2 16:03PITRickard RakellPPAssists: Bryan Rust, Evgeni Malkin · Backhand, 0.22 xG1–2
  4. P3 10:28VANAndrei KuzmenkoAssists: Luke Schenn, Ilya Mikheyev · Tip-in, 0.15 xG1–3
  5. P3 16:42VANBo HorvatPPAssists: Oliver Ekman-Larsson · Tip-in, 0.08 xG1–4
  6. P3 17:50VANJ.T. MillerENAssists: Tyler Myers, Guillaume Brisebois · Snap, 0.38 xG1–5
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 7:32PITJosh Archibald: Holding2 min
  2. P1 8:10VANJ.T. Miller: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 11:45PITPierre-Olivier Joseph: Slashing2 min
  4. P1 19:29PITEvgeni Malkin: Hooking2 min · PPG
  5. P2 7:18VANKyle Burroughs: Holding the stick2 min
  6. P2 14:33VANJ.T. Miller: High sticking2 min · PPG
  7. P2 17:08VANTyler Myers: Roughing2 min
  8. P3 16:28PITJosh Archibald: Boarding2 min · PPG
  9. P3 17:03PITBryan Rust: Roughing2 min
  10. P3 17:03VANOliver Ekman-Larsson: Interference2 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.

PIT00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0VAN
49% to win51% to win
← PIT attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Horvat won the faceoff against Crosby
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PITVAN
35Shots on goal29
3.2Expected goals3.4
64Shot attempts45
27Faceoffs won28
4Power plays4
10Penalty minutes10
22Hits23
9Blocked shots19
8Giveaways10
3Takeaways4

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.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Forward lines

  1. bestArchibald – Caggiula – Poehling4:29

    xG 0.18–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

  2. Crosby – Rust – Rakell4:19

    xG 0.10–0.07 (60%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  3. Carter – Malkin – Rakell6:47

    xG 0.29–0.32 (48%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

  4. Carter – Malkin – Heinen3:14

    xG 0.04–0.13 (25%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJoseph – Rutta6:00

    xG 0.32–0.12 (73%)attempts 12–2goals 0–0

  2. Letang – Dumoulin10:49

    xG 0.63–0.44 (59%)attempts 14–7goals 0–1

  3. Petry – Dumoulin3:23

    xG 0.05–0.05 (46%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestJoshua – Podkolzin – Aman6:15

    xG 0.12–0.04 (73%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  2. Miller – Horvat – Garland9:04

    xG 0.31–0.28 (53%)attempts 5–9goals 0–0

  3. Pearson – Dries – Hoglander5:49

    xG 0.05–0.03 (66%)attempts 1–5goals 0–0

  4. Pettersson – Mikheyev – Kuzmenko7:17

    xG 0.46–0.48 (49%)attempts 7–10goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSchenn – Brisebois10:10

    xG 1.22–0.36 (77%)attempts 12–11goals 1–0

  2. Burroughs – Rathbone10:54

    xG 0.30–0.22 (58%)attempts 4–14goals 0–0

  3. Myers – Ekman-Larsson15:07

    xG 0.35–0.55 (39%)attempts 8–16goals 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.

VAN 3.4 xGPIT 3.2 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANPIT

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 32/100 · #975 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.09 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 49% (winner's lowest chance)
PIT 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +19 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 53% of the time.

VAN winsPIT wins

Simulated goal difference (VAN − PIT), 10,000 replays

-7
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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).