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Sat, Mar 18, 2023·Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles

Vancouver Canucks 3, Los Angeles Kings 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 73% of the time.

LAK winsVAN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
VAN140218032317
LAK111112017000240

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 10:53VANBrock BoeserAssists: J.T. Miller, Quinn Hughes · Snap, 0.03 xG1–0
  2. P1 16:52LAKAlexander EdlerAssists: Gabriel Vilardi · Snap, 0.08 xG1–1
  3. P2 16:18LAKCarl GrundstromAssists: Rasmus Kupari, Arthur Kaliyev · Deflected, 0.09 xG1–2
  4. P3 11:33VANElias PetterssonPPAssists: Quinn Hughes, J.T. Miller · Wrist, 0.06 xG2–2

Shootout

  1. 1. LAK Gabriel Vilardi stopped
  2. 2. VAN Andrei Kuzmenko scored
  3. 3. LAK Trevor Moore stopped
  4. 4. VAN J.T. Miller scored
Penalties (4)
  1. P2 10:24VANGuillaume Brisebois: Penalty shot hooking on breakaway0 min
  2. P2 11:59VANKyle Burroughs: Tripping2 min
  3. P3 2:19VANKyle Burroughs: Cross checking2 min
  4. P3 11:26LAKMikey Anderson: Tripping2 min · PPG

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.

VAN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0LAK
49% to win51% to win
← VAN attackLAK attack →
  1. P1 20:00Pettersson won the faceoff against Kopitar
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

VANLAK
17Shots on goal40
2.1Expected goals3.4
41Shot attempts75
19Faceoffs won30
1Power plays2
4Penalty minutes2
32Hits17
19Blocked shots11
6Giveaways7
7Takeaways4

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.

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. Joshua – Garland – Aman9:51

    xG 0.17–0.41 (30%)attempts 2–14goals 0–0

  2. Beauvillier – Pettersson – Kuzmenko14:37

    xG 0.24–0.49 (33%)attempts 5–11goals 0–0

  3. Studnicka – Dries – Podkolzin6:52

    xG 0.27–0.56 (33%)attempts 5–13goals 0–1

  4. Miller – Di Giuseppe – Boeser13:57

    xG 0.37–1.28 (22%)attempts 16–17goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJuulsen – Hughes15:25

    xG 0.92–0.36 (72%)attempts 16–10goals 0–1

  2. Bear – Hughes4:34

    xG 0.18–0.01 (93%)attempts 5–3goals 1–0

  3. Bear – Wolanin2:53

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

Los Angeles Kings

Forward lines

  1. bestDanault – Arvidsson – Moore14:50

    xG 1.50–0.60 (71%)attempts 20–15goals 0–0

  2. Vilardi – Iafallo – Lizotte12:14

    xG 0.53–0.09 (85%)attempts 17–5goals 1–0

  3. Kopitar – Kempe – Byfield12:52

    xG 0.49–0.14 (77%)attempts 13–4goals 0–1

  4. Grundstrom – Kupari – Kaliyev7:25

    xG 0.20–0.41 (33%)attempts 6–5goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGavrikov – Roy18:10

    xG 1.47–0.36 (80%)attempts 26–12goals 0–0

  2. Edler – Spence11:43

    xG 0.76–0.23 (77%)attempts 19–4goals 2–0

  3. Doughty – Anderson20:46

    xG 0.65–0.63 (51%)attempts 18–13goals 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.

LAK 3.4 xGVAN 2.1 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

LAKVAN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 50/100 · #754 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.62 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 18% (winner's lowest chance)
VAN 100%5050%50LAK 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +27 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Los Angeles Kings win this game 73% of the time.

LAK winsVAN wins

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

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