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Mon, Mar 20, 2023·Ball Arena, Denver

Chicago Blackhawks 0, Colorado Avalanche 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 74% of the time.

COL winsCHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CHI01001205027
COL11127214532

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:41COLKurtis MacDermidGWGAssists: Brad Hunt, Matt Nieto · Wrist, 0.01 xG0–1
  2. P2 6:17COLDenis MalginAssists: Valeri Nichushkin · Wrist, 0.05 xG0–2
  3. P2 10:54COLMikko RantanenPPAssists: J.T. Compher, Bowen Byram · Wrist, 0.08 xG0–3
  4. P3 13:33COLLogan O'ConnorAssists: Denis Malgin, Samuel Girard · Slap, 0.08 xG0–4
  5. P3 13:47COLDenis MalginAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen · Wrist, 0.13 xG0–5
Penalties (3)
  1. P2 1:23COLBowen Byram: Closing hand on puck2 min
  2. P2 7:19COLEvan Rodrigues: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 9:54CHIJason Dickinson: Holding the stick2 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.

CHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0COL
49% to win51% to win
← CHI attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00MacKinnon won the faceoff against Khaira
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CHICOL
27Shots on goal32
1.9Expected goals3.2
52Shot attempts60
26Faceoffs won31
2Power plays1
2Penalty minutes4
22Hits15
16Blocked shots14
8Giveaways5
7Takeaways8

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.

Chicago Blackhawks

Forward lines

  1. Athanasiou – Kurashev – Reichel13:03

    xG 0.32–0.56 (36%)attempts 9–15goals 0–1

  2. Johnson – Dickinson – Raddysh12:57

    xG 0.40–0.70 (36%)attempts 13–10goals 0–0

  3. Robinson – Entwistle – Hardman8:00

    xG 0.05–0.47 (10%)attempts 5–14goals 0–1

  4. Khaira – Anderson – Katchouk11:21

    xG 0.52–0.97 (35%)attempts 10–11goals 0–2

Defence pairs

  1. Tinordi – Murphy17:35

    xG 0.90–0.91 (50%)attempts 18–13goals 0–0

  2. Jones – Jones17:10

    xG 0.71–1.04 (41%)attempts 15–17goals 0–1

  3. Zaitsev – Mitchell12:11

    xG 0.09–0.63 (12%)attempts 10–18goals 0–3

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestMacKinnon – Rantanen – Malgin3:49

    xG 0.55–0.00 (100%)attempts 8–1goals 1–0

  2. MacKinnon – Rantanen – Rodrigues9:41

    xG 0.80–0.57 (58%)attempts 12–9goals 0–0

  3. Nieto – Galchenyuk – Newhook2:44

    xG 0.23–0.05 (83%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  4. Cogliano – Eller – O'Connor6:34

    xG 0.10–0.04 (72%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestToews – Girard14:55

    xG 1.57–0.19 (89%)attempts 24–7goals 2–0

  2. Johnson – Girard2:14

    xG 0.12–0.03 (78%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  3. Johnson – Byram16:33

    xG 0.57–0.84 (40%)attempts 12–17goals 1–0

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.

COL 3.2 xGCHI 1.9 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLCHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 4/100 · #1291 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.58 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 51% (winner's lowest chance)
CHI 100%5050%50COL 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, Colorado Avalanche win this game 74% of the time.

COL winsCHI wins

Simulated goal difference (COL − CHI), 10,000 replays

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