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Tue, Mar 28, 2023·United Center, Chicago

Dallas Stars 4, Chicago Blackhawks 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 73% of the time.

CHI winsDAL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
DAL29114110433
CHI040618118

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 5:45DALTyler SeguinAssists: Jani Hakanpää, Radek Faksa · Wrist, 0.09 xG1–0
  2. P1 18:59DALColin MillerPPGWGAssists: Evgenii Dadonov, Max Domi · Wrist, 0.03 xG2–0
  3. P2 11:24DALJoe PavelskiAssists: Joel Hanley, Ryan Suter · Tip-in, 0.09 xG3–0
  4. P3 7:04DALLuke GlendeningSHAssists: Ty Dellandrea, Esa Lindell · Snap, 0.21 xG4–0
  5. P3 10:33CHITyler JohnsonAssists: Jason Dickinson, Wyatt Kaiser · Wrist, 0.20 xG4–1
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 17:00CHIConnor Murphy: Tripping2 min · PPG
  2. P2 12:45CHIAndreas Athanasiou: Too many men on the ice2 min
  3. P3 0:59CHITaylor Raddysh: High sticking2 min
  4. P3 6:30DALJoel Kiviranta: Tripping2 min
  5. P3 11:45CHIAlex Stalock: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  6. P3 16:23CHIAlex Stalock: Game misconduct10 min
  7. P3 16:29CHIConnor Murphy: Fighting5 min
  8. P3 16:29DALTy Dellandrea: Fighting5 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.

DAL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0CHI
49% to win51% to win
← DAL attackCHI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Athanasiou won the faceoff against Faksa
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DALCHI
33Shots on goal18
2.6Expected goals1.4
57Shot attempts32
31Faceoffs won23
4Power plays1
7Penalty minutes23
8Hits23
8Blocked shots12
8Giveaways15
5Takeaways8

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.

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestPavelski – Hintz – Robertson10:33

    xG 0.42–0.12 (78%)attempts 11–5goals 1–0

  2. Seguin – Faksa – Domi11:24

    xG 0.54–0.31 (64%)attempts 10–5goals 1–0

  3. Benn – Dadonov – Johnston9:47

    xG 0.35–0.38 (48%)attempts 6–7goals 0–1

  4. Glendening – Dellandrea – Kiviranta8:38

    xG 0.16–0.28 (36%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMiller – Heiskanen14:20

    xG 0.81–0.34 (70%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  2. Suter – Heiskanen2:31

    xG 0.06–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  3. Suter – Hanley11:22

    xG 0.09–0.13 (41%)attempts 3–5goals 1–0

Chicago Blackhawks

Forward lines

  1. bestAthanasiou – Bjork – Reichel11:09

    xG 0.30–0.18 (63%)attempts 11–5goals 0–0

  2. Johnson – Dickinson – Raddysh9:18

    xG 0.31–0.29 (51%)attempts 5–8goals 1–1

  3. Anderson – Katchouk – Entwistle3:31

    xG 0.02–0.08 (23%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  4. Entwistle – Johnson – Hardman2:38

    xG 0.02–0.15 (11%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMitchell – Kaiser2:55

    xG 0.42–0.02 (95%)attempts 4–1goals 1–0

  2. Jones – Mitchell4:45

    xG 0.24–0.01 (96%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

  3. Jones – Jones8:56

    xG 0.16–0.14 (55%)attempts 8–7goals 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.

CHI 1.4 xGDAL 2.6 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

CHIDAL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 13/100 · #1183 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.60 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 48% (winner's lowest chance)
DAL 100%5050%50CHI 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +15 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 73% of the time.

CHI winsDAL wins

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

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