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Sat, Mar 25, 2023·American Airlines Center, Dallas

Vancouver Canucks 3, Dallas Stars 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 75% of the time.

DAL winsVAN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
VAN11021103324
DAL1130409126

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 11:28DALRyan SuterAssists: Tyler Seguin, Ty Dellandrea · Slap, 0.02 xG0–1
  2. P1 18:24VANDakota JoshuaSHAssists: Nils Aman · Wrist, 0.22 xG1–1
  3. P2 3:57VANBrock BoeserGWGAssists: J.T. Miller, Filip Hronek · Wrist, 0.09 xG2–1
  4. P2 5:30VANJack RathboneAssists: Andrei Kuzmenko, Elias Pettersson · Snap, 0.19 xG3–1
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 3:01DALTy Dellandrea: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 7:18VANConor Garland: High sticking2 min
  3. P1 17:18VANEthan Bear: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 14:56DALJamie Benn: Cross checking2 min
  5. P2 15:44DALTyler Seguin: Tripping2 min
  6. P3 3:04VANTyler Myers: Cross checking2 min
  7. P3 13:24VANDakota Joshua: Tripping2 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.

VAN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0DAL
49% to win51% to win
← VAN attackDAL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Miller won the faceoff against Johnston
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

VANDAL
24Shots on goal26
3.6Expected goals2.1
43Shot attempts54
29Faceoffs won28
3Power plays4
8Penalty minutes6
16Hits13
21Blocked shots7
5Giveaways14
6Takeaways8

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. bestBeauvillier – Garland – Dries7:21

    xG 0.54–0.15 (78%)attempts 9–10goals 0–0

  2. Miller – Di Giuseppe – Boeser9:56

    xG 0.32–0.31 (51%)attempts 10–5goals 1–0

  3. Pettersson – Podkolzin – Kuzmenko8:09

    xG 0.18–0.28 (39%)attempts 2–5goals 0–0

  4. Joshua – Kravtsov – Aman5:30

    xG 0.10–0.21 (32%)attempts 6–8goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBurroughs – Rathbone4:23

    xG 0.38–0.11 (78%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  2. Burroughs – Hughes4:23

    xG 0.25–0.02 (91%)attempts 6–2goals 0–0

  3. Bear – Rathbone2:30

    xG 0.19–0.09 (68%)attempts 1–2goals 1–0

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestPavelski – Domi – Hintz2:00

    xG 0.11–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

  2. Glendening – Faksa – Kiviranta5:25

    xG 0.08–0.17 (33%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

  3. Benn – Dadonov – Johnston8:19

    xG 0.11–0.23 (32%)attempts 5–6goals 0–0

  4. Pavelski – Hintz – Robertson7:15

    xG 0.13–0.29 (31%)attempts 7–9goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestMiller – Heiskanen11:53

    xG 0.40–0.23 (64%)attempts 18–8goals 0–1

  2. Suter – Heiskanen4:03

    xG 0.02–0.15 (10%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  3. Hakanpää – Lindell12:05

    xG 0.07–0.35 (16%)attempts 5–9goals 0–1

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.

DAL 2.1 xGVAN 3.6 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DALVAN

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 33/100 · #945 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.18 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 26% (winner's lowest chance)
VAN 100%5050%50DAL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +20 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 75% of the time.

DAL winsVAN wins

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

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