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Tue, Apr 4, 2023·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Seattle Kraken 5, Vancouver Canucks 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 64% of the time.

VAN winsSEA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
SEA1831812528
VAN270506218

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 4:31VANElias PetterssonAssists: Andrei Kuzmenko, Dakota Joshua · Tip-in, 0.14 xG0–1
  2. P1 13:09VANAnthony BeauvillierAssists: Conor Garland, Nils Aman · Wrist, 0.10 xG0–2
  3. P1 16:58SEAYanni GourdeAssists: Jesper Froden · Wrist, 0.02 xG1–2
  4. P2 5:07SEABrandon TanevSHAssists: Carson Soucy · Wrist, 0.08 xG2–2
  5. P2 10:40SEAJordan EberleGWGUnassisted · Wrist, 0.19 xG3–2
  6. P2 16:14SEAJaden SchwartzPPAssists: Jordan Eberle, Daniel Sprong · Tip-in, 0.14 xG4–2
  7. P3 19:00SEAMatty BeniersENAssists: Jared McCann · Wrist, 0.38 xG5–2
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 9:04VANConor Garland: Holding2 min
  2. P1 18:19SEAAdam Larsson: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 2:17SEAVince Dunn: Tripping2 min
  4. P2 3:23SEAAlexander Wennberg: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 15:11VANEthan Bear: Fighting5 min · PPG
  6. P2 15:11SEAWill Borgen: Fighting5 min
  7. P2 15:33VANElias Pettersson: Interference2 min
  8. P2 18:08VANPhillip Di Giuseppe: Elbowing2 min
  9. P3 7:51SEAAlexander Wennberg: High sticking double minor4 min
  10. P3 12:32VANDakota Joshua: Hooking2 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 SOG0VAN
49% to win51% to win
← SEA attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Miller won the faceoff against Beniers
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

SEAVAN
28Shots on goal18
3.2Expected goals2.4
49Shot attempts43
25Faceoffs won27
4Power plays5
15Penalty minutes13
27Hits43
11Blocked shots10
3Giveaways6
2Takeaways6

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. bestEberle – McCann – Beniers9:52

    xG 0.76–0.38 (67%)attempts 12–8goals 1–1

  2. Gourde – Tolvanen – Froden4:05

    xG 0.22–0.00 (98%)attempts 6–2goals 1–0

  3. Donato – Sprong – Tanev3:45

    xG 0.22–0.10 (68%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  4. Gourde – Donato – Tolvanen2:03

    xG 0.00–0.04 (0%)attempts 0–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLarsson – Dunn15:26

    xG 0.71–0.06 (93%)attempts 12–3goals 0–0

  2. Oleksiak – Borgen10:07

    xG 0.20–0.25 (45%)attempts 7–7goals 0–1

  3. Schultz – Soucy10:41

    xG 0.27–0.35 (43%)attempts 11–6goals 1–1

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestMiller – Di Giuseppe – Boeser8:00

    xG 0.37–0.18 (68%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  2. Studnicka – Dries – McDonough4:26

    xG 0.04–0.09 (33%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  3. Joshua – Pettersson – Kuzmenko8:59

    xG 0.19–0.31 (38%)attempts 4–6goals 1–1

  4. Beauvillier – Garland – Aman6:46

    xG 0.10–0.30 (26%)attempts 2–6goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBear – Rathbone9:27

    xG 0.44–0.16 (73%)attempts 8–6goals 1–1

  2. Myers – Rathbone2:15

    xG 0.04–0.20 (15%)attempts 1–4goals 0–0

  3. Myers – Hirose10:43

    xG 0.10–0.28 (27%)attempts 3–7goals 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.

VAN 2.4 xGSEA 3.2 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANSEA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 71/100 · #447 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.40 · 7 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 16% (winner's lowest chance)
SEA 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +23 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 64% of the time.

VAN winsSEA wins

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

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