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Sat, Oct 14, 2023·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Seattle Kraken 1, St. Louis Blues 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 55% of the time.

STL winsSEA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
SEA0911109020131
STL0419011011225

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 0:40SEAJaden SchwartzPPAssists: Oliver Bjorkstrand, Vince Dunn · Tip-in, 0.16 xG1–0
  2. P2 7:49STLJordan KyrouAssists: Robert Thomas · Snap, 0.12 xG1–1

Shootout

  1. 1. STL Brayden Schenn stopped
  2. 2. SEA Matty Beniers stopped
  3. 3. STL Jordan Kyrou stopped
  4. 4. SEA Oliver Bjorkstrand stopped
  5. 5. STL Robert Thomas scored
  6. 6. SEA Jordan Eberle stopped
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 6:55SEAVince Dunn: Slashing2 min
  2. P1 16:28SEAAlexander Wennberg: Hooking2 min
  3. P1 18:47STLSammy Blais: Too many men on the ice2 min · PPG
  4. P2 16:14SEAJustin Schultz: Tripping2 min
  5. P3 4:00SEAVince Dunn: Interference2 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 SOG0STL
46% to win54% to win
← SEA attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Beniers won the faceoff against Thomas
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

SEASTL
31Shots on goal25
3.2Expected goals2.9
65Shot attempts57
31Faceoffs won21
1Power plays4
8Penalty minutes2
23Hits21
13Blocked shots17
8Giveaways14
8Takeaways13

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. bestBellemare – Yamamoto – Kartye6:26

    xG 0.55–0.30 (65%)attempts 9–5goals 0–0

  2. Gourde – Bjorkstrand – Tolvanen9:44

    xG 0.51–0.31 (62%)attempts 8–7goals 0–0

  3. Eberle – McCann – Beniers11:48

    xG 0.65–0.54 (55%)attempts 19–12goals 0–1

  4. Schwartz – Burakovsky – Wennberg11:43

    xG 0.10–0.44 (18%)attempts 8–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestOleksiak – Borgen13:20

    xG 0.76–0.55 (58%)attempts 13–10goals 0–0

  2. Larsson – Dunn18:28

    xG 0.74–0.62 (55%)attempts 20–13goals 0–0

  3. Schultz – Dumoulin11:15

    xG 0.49–0.40 (55%)attempts 14–13goals 0–0

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestHayes – Vrana – Blais7:02

    xG 0.67–0.16 (80%)attempts 10–2goals 0–0

  2. Schenn – Kapanen – Toropchenko4:04

    xG 0.25–0.11 (69%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  3. Saad – Kyrou – Thomas9:49

    xG 0.47–0.36 (57%)attempts 13–8goals 1–0

  4. Schenn – Saad – Kapanen3:04

    xG 0.07–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestScandella – Tucker8:24

    xG 0.54–0.26 (68%)attempts 9–3goals 1–0

  2. Faulk – Krug15:41

    xG 0.41–0.54 (43%)attempts 9–16goals 0–0

  3. Leddy – Parayko18:41

    xG 0.56–1.33 (30%)attempts 20–30goals 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.

STL 2.9 xGSEA 3.2 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLSEA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 37/100 · #860 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.26 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 33% (winner's lowest chance)
SEA 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest 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, Seattle Kraken win this game 55% of the time.

STL winsSEA wins

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

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