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Fri, Jan 27, 2023·Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle

Calgary Flames 5, Seattle Kraken 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Calgary Flames win this game 68% of the time.

SEA winsCGY wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CGY31601329538
SEA1608116230

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 5:20SEAJohn HaydenAssists: Will Borgen, Daniel Sprong · Tip-in, 0.06 xG0–1
  2. P1 7:16CGYElias LindholmAssists: Tyler Toffoli, Dillon Dube · Poke, 0.12 xG1–1
  3. P1 13:28CGYTyler ToffoliAssists: Blake Coleman, Elias Lindholm · Snap, 0.21 xG2–1
  4. P1 19:55CGYNikita ZadorovGWGAssists: Elias Lindholm, MacKenzie Weegar · Snap, 0.12 xG3–1
  5. P3 10:36SEAEeli TolvanenAssists: Oliver Bjorkstrand, Adam Larsson · Wrist, 0.04 xG3–2
  6. P3 11:40CGYNoah HanifinAssists: Mikael Backlund, Blake Coleman · Snap, 0.11 xG4–2
  7. P3 18:40CGYBlake ColemanENAssists: Andrew Mangiapane, Mikael Backlund · Wrist, 0.71 xG5–2
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 10:54SEAEeli Tolvanen: Holding the stick2 min
  2. P1 12:23SEAWill Borgen: Roughing2 min
  3. P1 12:23CGYAndrew Mangiapane: Roughing2 min
  4. P1 15:59CGYJonathan Huberdeau: Slashing2 min
  5. P2 7:46SEADaniel Sprong: Too many men on the ice2 min
  6. P2 12:12CGYTyler Toffoli: Holding2 min
  7. P2 15:05CGYJonathan Huberdeau: Interference2 min
  8. P2 19:01CGYNikita Zadorov: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  9. P3 8:18CGYNikita Zadorov: 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.

CGY00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CGYSEA
38Shots on goal30
4.0Expected goals2.8
65Shot attempts61
38Faceoffs won24
2Power plays5
12Penalty minutes6
19Hits18
15Blocked shots15
9Giveaways7
9Takeaways4

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.

Calgary Flames

Forward lines

  1. bestBacklund – Coleman – Mangiapane8:05

    xG 0.59–0.28 (67%)attempts 13–7goals 1–0

  2. Kadri – Huberdeau – Pelletier11:02

    xG 0.44–0.18 (71%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

  3. Toffoli – Lindholm – Dube8:54

    xG 0.36–0.44 (45%)attempts 9–11goals 1–0

  4. Lewis – Lucic – Ruzicka6:24

    xG 0.16–0.39 (29%)attempts 6–10goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestHanifin – Andersson14:34

    xG 1.11–0.50 (69%)attempts 20–13goals 1–0

  2. Stone – Gilbert9:58

    xG 0.42–0.08 (83%)attempts 12–5goals 0–0

  3. Weegar – Zadorov15:34

    xG 0.55–0.76 (42%)attempts 12–20goals 2–1

Seattle Kraken

Forward lines

  1. bestEberle – Burakovsky – Geekie3:10

    xG 0.30–0.20 (60%)attempts 7–3goals 0–1

  2. Hayden – Sprong – Geekie4:35

    xG 0.27–0.23 (54%)attempts 7–4goals 1–0

  3. Wennberg – McCann – Donato2:18

    xG 0.04–0.02 (66%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  4. Gourde – Tanev – Geekie2:05

    xG 0.00–0.02 (0%)attempts 0–1goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Oleksiak – Borgen12:01

    xG 0.48–0.58 (45%)attempts 11–12goals 1–1

  2. Soucy – Fleury8:13

    xG 0.29–0.50 (37%)attempts 6–8goals 0–1

  3. Oleksiak – Dunn2:46

    xG 0.07–0.41 (15%)attempts 3–9goals 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 2.8 xGCGY 4.0 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

SEACGY

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 CGY. Dots are goals.

Excitement 56/100 · #633 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.42 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 30% (winner's lowest chance)
CGY 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, Calgary Flames win this game 68% of the time.

SEA winsCGY wins

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

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