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Wed, Mar 8, 2023·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Anaheim Ducks 2, Vancouver Canucks 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 78% of the time.

VAN winsANA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
ANA18170700222
VAN1911201211334

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:40ANATroy TerryAssists: Mason McTavish, Max Jones · Backhand, 0.09 xG1–0
  2. P1 14:44VANJ.T. MillerSHAssists: Elias Pettersson · Snap, 0.25 xG1–1
  3. P2 14:23VANAndrei KuzmenkoAssists: Anthony Beauvillier, Elias Pettersson · Backhand, 0.09 xG1–2
  4. P2 14:43ANABrock McGinnAssists: Trevor Zegras, Ryan Strome · Wrist, 0.15 xG2–2
  5. OT 0:20VANJ.T. MillerGWGAssists: Quinn Hughes · Wrist, 0.05 xG2–3
Penalties (2)
  1. P1 14:32VANGuillaume Brisebois: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 15:55VANKyle Burroughs: Delaying game puck over glass2 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.

ANA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0VAN
49% to win51% to win
← ANA attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Lundeström won the faceoff against Dries
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ANAVAN
22Shots on goal34
1.4Expected goals2.9
47Shot attempts63
20Faceoffs won27
2Power plays0
0Penalty minutes4
12Hits21
12Blocked shots15
3Giveaways1
3Takeaways5

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.

Anaheim Ducks

Forward lines

  1. Silfverberg – Vatrano – Lundeström10:29

    xG 0.28–0.35 (45%)attempts 12–11goals 0–0

  2. Strome – McGinn – Zegras10:35

    xG 0.40–0.50 (45%)attempts 10–12goals 1–0

  3. Terry – Jones – McTavish10:37

    xG 0.26–0.36 (41%)attempts 10–6goals 1–1

  4. Silfverberg – Jones – McTavish2:10

    xG 0.00–0.22 (0%)attempts 0–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestShattenkirk – Benoit17:18

    xG 0.44–0.23 (65%)attempts 13–12goals 1–0

  2. Beaulieu – White13:30

    xG 0.24–0.39 (38%)attempts 9–12goals 1–0

  3. Fowler – Harrington15:39

    xG 0.41–1.01 (29%)attempts 13–19goals 0–0

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestBeauvillier – Pettersson – Kuzmenko13:42

    xG 0.74–0.28 (72%)attempts 20–10goals 1–0

  2. Joshua – Garland – Aman8:55

    xG 0.46–0.24 (66%)attempts 12–9goals 0–1

  3. Dries – Kravtsov – Podkolzin9:34

    xG 0.37–0.16 (70%)attempts 5–8goals 0–0

  4. Miller – Di Giuseppe – Boeser13:16

    xG 0.58–0.44 (57%)attempts 13–12goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestJuulsen – Hughes12:19

    xG 0.66–0.19 (78%)attempts 16–8goals 1–1

  2. Burroughs – Wolanin15:01

    xG 0.72–0.38 (65%)attempts 18–14goals 0–0

  3. Myers – Wolanin2:44

    xG 0.22–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 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.

VAN 2.9 xGANA 1.4 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANANA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 39/100 · #885 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.31 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 35% (winner's lowest chance)
ANA 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +22 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 78% of the time.

VAN winsANA wins

Simulated goal difference (VAN − ANA), 10,000 replays

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