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Thu, Mar 23, 2023·Bridgestone Arena, Nashville

Seattle Kraken 1, Nashville Predators 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 54% of the time.

NSH winsSEA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
SEA1709011010128
NSH0311005062224

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:28SEADaniel SprongAssists: Morgan Geekie, Vince Dunn · Wrist, 0.04 xG1–0
  2. P2 14:01NSHKiefer SherwoodAssists: Tyson Barrie, Tommy Novak · Wrist, 0.08 xG1–1

Shootout

  1. 1. NSH Matt Duchene scored
  2. 2. SEA Jared McCann stopped
  3. 3. NSH Luke Evangelista stopped
  4. 4. SEA Jordan Eberle stopped
  5. 5. NSH Philip Tomasino scored
Penalties (4)
  1. P2 9:36NSHJeremy Lauzon: Holding2 min
  2. P2 14:31SEAAdam Larsson: Tripping2 min
  3. P3 9:47NSHCal Foote: Cross checking2 min
  4. P3 18:29SEABrandon Tanev: Boarding2 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.

SEA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0NSH
49% to win51% to win
← SEA attackNSH attack →
  1. P1 20:00Gourde won the faceoff against Glass
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

SEANSH
28Shots on goal24
2.5Expected goals2.3
57Shot attempts61
20Faceoffs won25
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
29Hits31
17Blocked shots13
8Giveaways8
6Takeaways9

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.

Seattle Kraken

Forward lines

  1. bestSprong – Tanev – Geekie10:53

    xG 0.46–0.21 (68%)attempts 11–15goals 1–0

  2. Schwartz – Wennberg – Froden9:40

    xG 0.43–0.30 (59%)attempts 7–13goals 0–1

  3. Eberle – McCann – Beniers9:11

    xG 0.34–0.24 (59%)attempts 9–5goals 0–0

  4. Gourde – Bjorkstrand – Tolvanen10:18

    xG 0.35–0.36 (50%)attempts 12–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLarsson – Dunn17:31

    xG 0.83–0.38 (69%)attempts 21–16goals 0–0

  2. Oleksiak – Borgen14:49

    xG 0.61–0.42 (60%)attempts 16–13goals 0–1

  3. Schultz – Soucy10:16

    xG 0.22–0.17 (57%)attempts 4–6goals 0–0

Nashville Predators

Forward lines

  1. bestNovak – Sherwood – Evangelista13:14

    xG 0.50–0.06 (89%)attempts 21–3goals 1–0

  2. Jankowski – Asplund – Afanasyev6:28

    xG 0.09–0.15 (39%)attempts 6–4goals 0–1

  3. Sissons – Trenin – Smith11:46

    xG 0.26–0.46 (36%)attempts 6–12goals 0–0

  4. Duchene – Glass – Tomasino13:23

    xG 0.26–0.81 (24%)attempts 6–20goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMcDonagh – Foote2:27

    xG 0.06–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  2. McDonagh – Fabbro16:31

    xG 0.33–0.37 (47%)attempts 13–16goals 0–1

  3. Lauzon – Foote13:35

    xG 0.25–0.29 (46%)attempts 11–6goals 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.

NSH 2.3 xGSEA 2.5 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NSHSEA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 36/100 · #911 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.25 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 28% (winner's lowest chance)
SEA 100%5050%50NSH 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +24 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 54% of the time.

NSH winsSEA wins

Simulated goal difference (NSH − SEA), 10,000 replays

-7
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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).