Skip to content
Ice Lab

Fri, Nov 11, 2022·Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle

Minnesota Wild 1, Seattle Kraken 0

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 61% of the time.

SEA winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
MIN180706121
SEA0608014028

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 18:19MINMats ZuccarelloGWGAssists: Jon Merrill, Kirill Kaprizov · Wrist, 0.10 xG1–0
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 1:20MINJared Spurgeon: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 10:12SEAVince Dunn: Hooking2 min
  3. P1 14:34MINCalen Addison: Hooking2 min
  4. P1 0:00MINMathew Dumba: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 11:55SEAJustin Schultz: Hooking2 min
  6. P2 15:11SEAAndre Burakovsky: Hooking2 min
  7. P3 0:21MINJoel Eriksson Ek: 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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0SEA
49% to win51% to win
← MIN attackSEA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Gourde won the faceoff against Eriksson Ek
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINSEA
21Shots on goal28
1.9Expected goals2.5
35Shot attempts64
21Faceoffs won29
3Power plays4
8Penalty minutes6
20Hits29
22Blocked shots5
3Giveaways9
8Takeaways12

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.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestCramarossa – Steel – Beckman4:42

    xG 0.27–0.10 (73%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  2. Zuccarello – Gaudreau – Kaprizov9:22

    xG 0.46–0.32 (59%)attempts 10–9goals 1–0

  3. Shaw – Dewar – Rossi7:50

    xG 0.48–0.43 (53%)attempts 7–8goals 0–0

  4. Zuccarello – Kaprizov – Boldy2:32

    xG 0.00–0.05 (0%)attempts 1–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDumba – Middleton3:40

    xG 0.20–0.09 (69%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  2. Merrill – Addison10:23

    xG 0.43–0.46 (48%)attempts 7–12goals 1–0

  3. Spurgeon – Middleton11:49

    xG 0.38–0.47 (45%)attempts 7–16goals 0–0

Seattle Kraken

Forward lines

  1. bestGourde – McCann – Tanev7:08

    xG 0.31–0.01 (96%)attempts 13–2goals 0–0

  2. Eberle – Schwartz – Beniers9:03

    xG 0.40–0.21 (66%)attempts 8–6goals 0–0

  3. Gourde – Donato – Tanev2:58

    xG 0.01–0.10 (13%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  4. Donato – Sprong – Geekie2:56

    xG 0.12–0.23 (35%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLarsson – Dunn15:26

    xG 0.56–0.28 (67%)attempts 17–9goals 0–1

  2. Schultz – Soucy4:25

    xG 0.42–0.29 (59%)attempts 5–5goals 0–0

  3. Borgen – Fleury2:02

    xG 0.03–0.01 (71%)attempts 1–1goals 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.

SEA 2.5 xGMIN 1.9 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

SEAMIN

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 MIN. Dots are goals.

Excitement 12/100 · #1203 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.00 · 1 goal in reachComeback index 45% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50SEA 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +18 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 61% of the time.

SEA winsMIN wins

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

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

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