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Sat, Nov 18, 2023·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Seattle Kraken 4, Vancouver Canucks 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 68% of the time.

VAN winsSEA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
SEA092829426
VAN181818324

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 5:34VANJ.T. MillerAssists: Tyler Myers, Phillip Di Giuseppe · Backhand, 0.06 xG0–1
  2. P2 5:43SEAJamie OleksiakAssists: Matty Beniers, Jordan Eberle · Slap, 0.10 xG1–1
  3. P2 13:04SEAJordan EberleAssists: Oliver Bjorkstrand, Justin Schultz · Wrist, 0.20 xG2–1
  4. P2 15:48VANQuinn HughesAssists: Filip Hronek, Elias Pettersson · Slap, 0.02 xG2–2
  5. P3 4:19SEAYanni GourdeAssists: Will Borgen, Eeli Tolvanen · Tip-in, 0.24 xG3–2
  6. P3 6:48SEAMatty BeniersGWGAssists: Jordan Eberle · Wrist, 0.22 xG4–2
  7. P3 19:49VANNils HoglanderAssists: Tyler Myers, Ilya Mikheyev · Tip-in, 0.10 xG4–3
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 15:25VANNoah Juulsen: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 11:03VANTeddy Blueger: Hooking2 min
  3. P3 5:17VANJ.T. Miller: Slashing2 min
  4. P3 5:38SEAKailer Yamamoto: Tripping2 min
  5. P3 10:54SEATye Kartye: 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.

SEA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0VAN
46% to win54% to win
← SEA attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Gourde won the faceoff against Blueger
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

SEAVAN
26Shots on goal24
2.8Expected goals1.8
46Shot attempts55
27Faceoffs won22
3Power plays2
4Penalty minutes6
29Hits34
17Blocked shots10
2Giveaways6
4Takeaways7

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. bestSchwartz – Wennberg – Tanev8:43

    xG 0.36–0.17 (68%)attempts 7–5goals 0–0

  2. Bellemare – Yamamoto – Kartye6:01

    xG 0.21–0.04 (85%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  3. Gourde – Bjorkstrand – Tolvanen11:46

    xG 0.46–0.35 (57%)attempts 7–10goals 1–0

  4. Eberle – McCann – Beniers9:40

    xG 0.36–0.35 (51%)attempts 12–9goals 1–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestOleksiak – Borgen11:38

    xG 0.55–0.06 (90%)attempts 11–4goals 2–1

  2. Dunn – Borgen2:05

    xG 0.16–0.01 (95%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

  3. Schultz – Dumoulin13:01

    xG 0.45–0.37 (55%)attempts 9–13goals 0–0

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestLafferty – Beauvillier – Hoglander5:39

    xG 0.43–0.29 (60%)attempts 9–6goals 0–0

  2. Miller – Di Giuseppe – Boeser9:23

    xG 0.46–0.41 (52%)attempts 9–9goals 1–1

  3. Blueger – Joshua – Garland8:42

    xG 0.23–0.19 (54%)attempts 5–5goals 0–0

  4. Pettersson – Mikheyev – Kuzmenko8:40

    xG 0.08–0.32 (21%)attempts 4–6goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCole – Myers2:41

    xG 0.27–0.10 (73%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

  2. Cole – Juulsen9:19

    xG 0.26–0.12 (69%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

  3. Myers – Hirose10:22

    xG 0.23–0.17 (58%)attempts 9–4goals 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 1.8 xGSEA 2.8 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

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 59/100 · #581 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.67 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 26% (winner's lowest chance)
SEA 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +28 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 68% 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).