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Sat, Dec 3, 2022·TD Garden, Boston

Colorado Avalanche 1, Boston Bruins 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 81% of the time.

BOS winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL0140516125
BOS213115212540

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 13:49BOSDavid PastrnakPPAssists: Brad Marchand, Charlie McAvoy · Wrist, 0.01 xG0–1
  2. P1 18:51BOSTrent FredericGWGAssists: Charlie McAvoy, Pavel Zacha · Wrist, 0.17 xG0–2
  3. P2 4:48BOSDavid PastrnakAssists: David Krejci · Snap, 0.21 xG0–3
  4. P3 6:32COLAndrew CoglianoUnassisted · Wrist, 0.16 xG1–3
  5. P3 15:32BOSTrent FredericAssists: Taylor Hall, Charlie Coyle · Wrist, 0.04 xG1–4
  6. P3 15:42BOSJake DeBruskAssists: Derek Forbort, Patrice Bergeron · Wrist, 0.15 xG1–5
Penalties (12)
  1. P1 10:07COLJean-Luc Foudy: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 13:20COLDryden Hunt: Tripping2 min · PPG
  3. P1 15:24COLAndreas Englund: Fighting5 min
  4. P1 15:24BOSNick Foligno: Roughing2 min
  5. P1 15:24BOSNick Foligno: Fighting5 min
  6. P2 7:38BOSHampus Lindholm: Holding2 min
  7. P2 17:09COLJacob MacDonald: Penalty shot tripping on breakaway0 min
  8. P2 19:13COLErik Johnson: Hooking2 min
  9. P3 2:25COLJacob MacDonald: Holding2 min
  10. P3 4:00BOSNick Foligno: Hooking2 min
  11. P3 4:16COLJean-Luc Foudy: Slashing2 min
  12. P3 17:07BOSA.J. Greer: 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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0BOS
49% to win51% to win
← COL attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00MacKinnon won the faceoff against Bergeron
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLBOS
25Shots on goal40
1.8Expected goals3.8
46Shot attempts63
24Faceoffs won40
3Power plays5
15Penalty minutes13
27Hits24
13Blocked shots14
11Giveaways7
5Takeaways14

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. bestMacKinnon – Rantanen – Newhook2:47

    xG 0.10–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

  2. Galchenyuk – Newhook – Foudy2:27

    xG 0.11–0.02 (84%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  3. Megna – Blidh – Hunt3:51

    xG 0.09–0.02 (81%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  4. Compher – MacKinnon – Rantanen3:06

    xG 0.02–0.06 (26%)attempts 1–2goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestGirard – Makar3:41

    xG 0.49–0.02 (97%)attempts 7–3goals 0–0

  2. Johnson – Englund4:30

    xG 0.25–0.19 (56%)attempts 4–2goals 1–0

  3. Englund – MacDonald5:37

    xG 0.00–0.27 (0%)attempts 0–6goals 0–0

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestBergeron – Marchand – DeBrusk10:10

    xG 1.16–0.49 (70%)attempts 15–11goals 1–0

  2. Krejci – Pastrnak – Zacha9:49

    xG 0.69–0.17 (80%)attempts 11–5goals 1–0

  3. Coyle – Hall – Frederic6:44

    xG 0.30–0.09 (77%)attempts 9–5goals 1–0

  4. Foligno – Nosek – Greer6:22

    xG 0.35–0.23 (60%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestForbort – Clifton8:36

    xG 0.76–0.14 (84%)attempts 11–6goals 2–0

  2. Grzelcyk – Carlo11:19

    xG 0.80–0.23 (77%)attempts 10–7goals 0–0

  3. Lindholm – McAvoy15:28

    xG 1.00–0.72 (58%)attempts 18–17goals 1–0

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.

BOS 3.8 xGCOL 1.8 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 24/100 · #1072 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.75 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 51% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +15 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Boston Bruins win this game 81% of the time.

BOS winsCOL wins

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

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