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Thu, Jan 12, 2023·TD Garden, Boston

Seattle Kraken 3, Boston Bruins 0

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 58% of the time.

BOS winsSEA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
SEA1141918331
BOS0801009027

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 7:14SEABrandon TanevGWGAssists: Daniel Sprong · Tip-in, 0.18 xG1–0
  2. P2 19:21SEAEeli TolvanenAssists: Oliver Bjorkstrand, Yanni Gourde · Wrist, 0.05 xG2–0
  3. P3 18:10SEAJaden SchwartzENAssists: Vince Dunn, Adam Larsson · Wrist, 0.40 xG3–0
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 1:50BOSHampus Lindholm: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 11:21BOSCraig Smith: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 17:39SEAJustin Schultz: Tripping2 min
  4. P2 11:59BOSBrad Marchand: Hooking2 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 SOG0BOS
49% to win51% to win
← SEA attackBOS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Koppanen won the faceoff against Gourde
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

SEABOS
31Shots on goal27
3.3Expected goals2.8
48Shot attempts60
11Faceoffs won30
3Power plays1
2Penalty minutes6
26Hits30
19Blocked shots11
8Giveaways10
12Takeaways8

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 – Wennberg – McCann9:19

    xG 0.90–0.16 (85%)attempts 11–4goals 0–0

  2. Donato – Sprong – Tanev7:14

    xG 0.36–0.07 (83%)attempts 4–4goals 1–0

  3. Gourde – Bjorkstrand – Tolvanen9:09

    xG 0.28–0.78 (26%)attempts 7–11goals 1–0

  4. Eberle – Burakovsky – Beniers10:06

    xG 0.27–0.84 (24%)attempts 5–17goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSchultz – Oleksiak13:26

    xG 1.03–0.47 (69%)attempts 17–10goals 1–0

  2. Larsson – Oleksiak2:22

    xG 0.00–0.03 (0%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  3. Larsson – Dunn17:10

    xG 0.88–1.14 (44%)attempts 15–16goals 1–0

Boston Bruins

Forward lines

  1. bestCoyle – Hall – Frederic5:35

    xG 0.72–0.11 (87%)attempts 8–6goals 0–0

  2. Bergeron – Marchand – Pastrnak6:59

    xG 0.52–0.08 (87%)attempts 7–2goals 0–0

  3. Bergeron – Marchand – Smith3:13

    xG 0.08–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

  4. Foligno – Nosek – Koppanen3:50

    xG 0.25–0.21 (54%)attempts 4–2goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestLindholm – Clifton3:58

    xG 0.53–0.22 (71%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  2. Lindholm – McAvoy4:15

    xG 0.34–0.10 (77%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  3. Grzelcyk – Clifton2:20

    xG 0.28–0.05 (84%)attempts 4–2goals 0–1

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 2.8 xGSEA 3.3 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

BOSSEA

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 SEA. Dots are goals.

Excitement 10/100 · #1229 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.79 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 48% (winner's lowest chance)
SEA 100%5050%50BOS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +16 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 58% of the time.

BOS winsSEA wins

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

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