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Sun, Mar 19, 2023·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Winnipeg Jets 0, St. Louis Blues 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 62% of the time.

STL winsWPG wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
WPG01308013034
STL171416317

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:04STLKasperi KapanenGWGAssists: Nick Leddy · Tip-in, 0.13 xG0–1
  2. P2 10:34STLNathan WalkerAssists: Justin Faulk, Logan Brown · Wrist, 0.13 xG0–2
  3. P3 12:00STLJakub VranaAssists: Kasperi Kapanen · Wrist, 0.09 xG0–3
Penalties (15)
  1. P1 9:10WPGVladislav Namestnikov: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 13:24STLTorey Krug: Roughing2 min
  3. P1 13:24STLTorey Krug: Roughing2 min
  4. P1 13:24STLTorey Krug: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  5. P1 13:24WPGKevin Stenlund: Roughing2 min
  6. P1 13:24STLTorey Krug: Misconduct10 min
  7. P1 13:24STLTorey Krug: Game misconduct10 min
  8. P2 17:19STLBrayden Schenn: Slashing2 min
  9. P2 17:19WPGNikolaj Ehlers: Slashing2 min
  10. P2 17:19STLBrayden Schenn: Fighting5 min
  11. P2 17:19WPGNikolaj Ehlers: Fighting5 min
  12. P3 3:03WPGMark Scheifele: Hooking2 min
  13. P3 6:45STLMarco Scandella: Tripping2 min
  14. P3 16:57WPGBlake Wheeler: Tripping2 min
  15. P3 0:00WPGVladislav Namestnikov: High sticking2 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.

WPG00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
49% to win51% to win
← WPG attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Schenn won the faceoff against Lowry
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

WPGSTL
34Shots on goal17
2.7Expected goals2.0
66Shot attempts34
31Faceoffs won18
3Power plays3
17Penalty minutes35
14Hits18
8Blocked shots16
6Giveaways11
14Takeaways10

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.

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestNiederreiter – Scheifele – Ehlers6:20

    xG 0.36–0.09 (81%)attempts 9–1goals 0–0

  2. Wheeler – Connor – Dubois7:54

    xG 0.47–0.28 (62%)attempts 13–5goals 0–0

  3. Maenalanen – Stenlund – Barron4:57

    xG 0.26–0.15 (64%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  4. Niederreiter – Namestnikov – Dubois3:16

    xG 0.05–0.10 (36%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSchmidt – Morrissey5:27

    xG 0.41–0.00 (100%)attempts 10–0goals 0–0

  2. Schmidt – Samberg8:59

    xG 0.48–0.25 (65%)attempts 11–4goals 0–0

  3. DeMelo – Morrissey9:55

    xG 0.53–0.34 (61%)attempts 16–6goals 0–2

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. Leivo – Walker – Brown4:34

    xG 0.13–0.13 (50%)attempts 1–4goals 1–0

  2. Vrana – Kyrou – Thomas10:23

    xG 0.46–0.53 (46%)attempts 7–16goals 0–0

  3. Schenn – Saad – Blais9:49

    xG 0.26–0.36 (42%)attempts 4–10goals 0–0

  4. Buchnevich – Kapanen – Toropchenko10:51

    xG 0.32–0.56 (36%)attempts 7–17goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBortuzzo – Faulk2:29

    xG 0.14–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  2. Leddy – Parayko11:36

    xG 0.51–0.44 (53%)attempts 6–17goals 1–0

  3. Bortuzzo – Scandella2:35

    xG 0.08–0.05 (60%)attempts 3–1goals 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.

STL 2.0 xGWPG 2.7 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLWPG

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 6/100 · #1269 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.64 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 51% (winner's lowest chance)
WPG 100%5050%50STL 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, Winnipeg Jets win this game 62% of the time.

STL winsWPG wins

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

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