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Tue, Mar 14, 2023·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Dallas Stars 2, Vancouver Canucks 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 52% of the time.

VAN winsDAL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
DAL0721307227
VAN241827519

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:35VANPhillip Di GiuseppeAssists: J.T. Miller, Brock Boeser · Tip-in, 0.13 xG0–1
  2. P1 6:00VANAndrei KuzmenkoPPAssists: Conor Garland, Brock Boeser · Wrist, 0.10 xG0–2
  3. P2 0:48DALWyatt JohnstonAssists: Jamie Benn, Miro Heiskanen · Snap, 0.13 xG1–2
  4. P2 11:53VANAnthony BeauvillierGWGAssists: Christian Wolanin, Elias Pettersson · Tip-in, 0.07 xG1–3
  5. P2 19:55DALJamie BennPPAssists: Miro Heiskanen · Wrist, 0.09 xG2–3
  6. P3 4:09VANGuillaume BriseboisAssists: Nils Aman, Conor Garland · Snap, 0.15 xG2–4
  7. P3 16:58VANJ.T. MillerAssists: Brock Boeser · Snap, 0.09 xG2–5
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 4:27DALJani Hakanpää: Interference2 min · PPG
  2. P1 7:52DALMax Domi: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 12:54DALRadek Faksa: Roughing2 min
  4. P1 12:54VANNoah Juulsen: Roughing2 min
  5. P1 12:54DALRadek Faksa: Roughing2 min
  6. P2 19:28VANPhillip Di Giuseppe: Closing hand on puck2 min · PPG
  7. P3 8:37VANJ.T. Miller: High sticking2 min
  8. P3 17:57VANChristian Wolanin: 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.

DAL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DALVAN
27Shots on goal19
2.3Expected goals2.4
61Shot attempts37
27Faceoffs won21
3Power plays3
8Penalty minutes8
26Hits23
10Blocked shots14
6Giveaways10
3Takeaways3

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.

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestFaksa – Domi – Dellandrea5:43

    xG 0.26–0.13 (66%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  2. Glendening – Olofsson – Kiviranta5:24

    xG 0.15–0.10 (58%)attempts 8–1goals 0–0

  3. Pavelski – Hintz – Robertson9:46

    xG 0.24–0.24 (50%)attempts 10–5goals 0–0

  4. Benn – Dadonov – Johnston10:21

    xG 0.49–0.54 (47%)attempts 11–6goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestMiller – Heiskanen16:08

    xG 0.83–0.48 (63%)attempts 23–6goals 1–3

  2. Suter – Hanley9:33

    xG 0.25–0.23 (52%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

  3. Hakanpää – Lindell14:26

    xG 0.21–0.24 (46%)attempts 12–10goals 0–0

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestMiller – Di Giuseppe – Boeser8:43

    xG 0.51–0.15 (78%)attempts 9–6goals 2–0

  2. Beauvillier – Pettersson – Kuzmenko10:02

    xG 0.30–0.10 (75%)attempts 7–8goals 1–0

  3. Joshua – Garland – Aman10:17

    xG 0.56–0.37 (60%)attempts 5–10goals 1–1

  4. Dries – Kravtsov – Podkolzin6:49

    xG 0.13–0.14 (48%)attempts 4–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJuulsen – Hughes13:17

    xG 0.88–0.67 (57%)attempts 12–11goals 1–1

  2. Burroughs – Brisebois3:24

    xG 0.14–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–3goals 0–0

  3. Myers – Hughes2:23

    xG 0.00–0.02 (0%)attempts 0–1goals 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 2.4 xGDAL 2.3 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANDAL

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 DAL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 53/100 · #694 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.19 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 51% (winner's lowest chance)
DAL 100%5050%50VAN 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, Vancouver Canucks win this game 52% of the time.

VAN winsDAL wins

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

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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).