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Tue, Oct 10, 2023·T-Mobile Arena, Paradise

Seattle Kraken 1, Vegas Golden Knights 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Vegas Golden Knights win this game 55% of the time.

VGK winsSEA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
SEA013110010133
VGK21011117428

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 7:16VGKChandler StephensonAssists: Brett Howden, Mark Stone · Tip-in, 0.08 xG0–1
  2. P1 14:57VGKJonathan MarchessaultGWGUnassisted · Tip-in, 0.07 xG0–2
  3. P2 1:20VGKIvan BarbashevAssists: Brayden McNabb · Snap, 0.15 xG0–3
  4. P2 8:19SEAJared McCannAssists: Jordan Eberle · Wrist, 0.15 xG1–3
  5. P3 18:45VGKJack EichelENAssists: Mark Stone, Chandler Stephenson · Wrist, 0.52 xG1–4
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 3:12VGKPaul Cotter: Slashing2 min
  2. P1 8:45VGKWilliam Carrier: Holding2 min
  3. P2 8:50SEAAlexander Wennberg: Tripping2 min
  4. P2 12:39VGKBrayden Pachal: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 17:39SEAAdam Larsson: High sticking2 min
  6. P3 6:02VGKBrett Howden: Match penalty5 min
  7. P3 11:11SEAJared McCann: Cross checking2 min
  8. P3 16:14SEAJaden Schwartz: High sticking2 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 SOG0VGK
46% to win54% to win
← SEA attackVGK attack →
  1. P1 20:00Gourde won the faceoff against Roy
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

SEAVGK
33Shots on goal28
3.6Expected goals3.9
71Shot attempts61
20Faceoffs won29
4Power plays4
8Penalty minutes11
21Hits29
18Blocked shots21
4Giveaways13
6Takeaways16

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 – Beniers7:39

    xG 0.81–0.64 (56%)attempts 15–7goals 1–1

  2. Bellemare – Tanev – Yamamoto2:57

    xG 0.12–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–0goals 0–0

  3. Schwartz – Burakovsky – Wennberg9:07

    xG 0.21–0.28 (43%)attempts 10–6goals 0–1

  4. Gourde – Bjorkstrand – Tolvanen8:04

    xG 0.50–0.64 (44%)attempts 10–12goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLarsson – Dunn13:22

    xG 1.14–0.63 (64%)attempts 22–6goals 0–1

  2. Schultz – Dumoulin9:30

    xG 0.52–0.70 (43%)attempts 13–12goals 1–2

  3. Oleksiak – Borgen11:05

    xG 0.56–0.85 (40%)attempts 14–16goals 0–0

Vegas Golden Knights

Forward lines

  1. bestMarchessault – Barbashev – Eichel9:00

    xG 0.73–0.29 (71%)attempts 13–10goals 1–1

  2. Carrier – Kolesar – Roy4:37

    xG 0.51–0.10 (83%)attempts 7–6goals 0–0

  3. Kolesar – Roy – Cotter2:42

    xG 0.17–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  4. Karlsson – Amadio – Cotter6:25

    xG 0.45–0.31 (59%)attempts 6–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestPietrangelo – Hague14:30

    xG 0.75–0.39 (66%)attempts 16–10goals 1–1

  2. Hutton – Pachal10:28

    xG 0.61–0.51 (55%)attempts 10–13goals 0–0

  3. McNabb – Theodore11:55

    xG 0.70–0.62 (53%)attempts 12–17goals 2–0

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.

VGK 3.9 xGSEA 3.6 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VGKSEA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 25/100 · #1019 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.76 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 53% (winner's lowest chance)
SEA 100%5050%50VGK 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +17 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Vegas Golden Knights win this game 55% of the time.

VGK winsSEA wins

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

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