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Thu, Jan 26, 2023·Mullett Arena, Tempe

St. Louis Blues 0, Arizona Coyotes 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Arizona Coyotes win this game 72% of the time.

ARI winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
STL01201506033
ARI0102937526

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 10:55ARINick SchmaltzGWGAssists: Lawson Crouse, Troy Stecher · Wrist, 0.10 xG0–1
  2. P2 13:56ARINick SchmaltzUnassisted · Snap, 0.22 xG0–2
  3. P3 0:13ARINick SchmaltzUnassisted · Other, 1.00 xG0–3
  4. P3 5:02ARITravis BoydAssists: Christian Fischer, Nick Ritchie · Wrist, 0.15 xG0–4
  5. P3 7:16ARIBarrett HaytonPPAssists: Nick Ritchie, Nick Schmaltz · Wrist, 0.17 xG0–5
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 1:35STLRobert Thomas: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 9:51ARIDylan Guenther: Hooking2 min
  3. P2 16:39ARIBarrett Hayton: Holding2 min
  4. P3 6:23STLJosh Leivo: Roughing2 min · PPG
  5. P3 6:23ARIJ.J. Moser: Fighting5 min
  6. P3 6:23STLJosh Leivo: Fighting5 min
  7. P3 9:21ARIJoshua Brown: Tripping2 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.

STL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0ARI
49% to win51% to win
← STL attackARI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Bjugstad won the faceoff against Schenn
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLARI
33Shots on goal26
2.3Expected goals3.5
62Shot attempts45
30Faceoffs won23
3Power plays2
9Penalty minutes11
20Hits27
10Blocked shots17
9Giveaways5
6Takeaways7

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.

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestPitlick – Acciari – Toropchenko7:11

    xG 0.21–0.09 (70%)attempts 7–4goals 0–0

  2. Leivo – Brown – Toropchenko2:10

    xG 0.03–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  3. Saad – Barbashev – Brown2:32

    xG 0.17–0.15 (53%)attempts 4–2goals 0–1

  4. Leivo – Brown – Neighbours3:26

    xG 0.17–0.18 (50%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLeddy – Faulk2:21

    xG 0.06–0.00 (100%)attempts 5–0goals 0–0

  2. Krug – Parayko2:33

    xG 0.01–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 0–0

  3. Parayko – Mikkola2:00

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–2goals 0–0

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestSchmaltz – Keller – Hayton12:06

    xG 1.89–0.30 (86%)attempts 17–9goals 2–0

  2. Boyd – Ritchie – Fischer10:18

    xG 0.70–0.22 (76%)attempts 8–9goals 1–0

  3. Kassian – McBain – Maccelli10:02

    xG 0.36–0.11 (77%)attempts 10–7goals 0–0

  4. Bjugstad – Crouse – Guenther10:23

    xG 0.16–0.59 (22%)attempts 6–16goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestChychrun – Välimäki15:53

    xG 2.43–0.42 (85%)attempts 19–11goals 3–0

  2. Nemeth – Moser13:35

    xG 0.29–0.49 (38%)attempts 11–17goals 0–0

  3. Brown – Stecher12:25

    xG 0.17–0.45 (27%)attempts 5–15goals 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.

ARI 3.5 xGSTL 2.3 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

ARISTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 7/100 · #1261 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.67 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 49% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50ARI 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, Arizona Coyotes win this game 72% of the time.

ARI winsSTL wins

Simulated goal difference (ARI − STL), 10,000 replays

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

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