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Mon, Nov 20, 2023·Mullett Arena, Tempe

Los Angeles Kings 4, Arizona Coyotes 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Arizona Coyotes win this game 68% of the time.

ARI winsLAK wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
LAK21212111425
ARI0819014131

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:36LAKTrevor MooreSHAssists: Phillip Danault · Wrist, 0.16 xG1–0
  2. P1 8:20LAKAnze KopitarGWGAssists: Quinton Byfield · Wrist, 0.13 xG2–0
  3. P2 15:31LAKTrevor MooreUnassisted · Wrist, 0.26 xG3–0
  4. P2 18:55ARILawson CrouseAssists: Nick Bjugstad, Matias Maccelli · Wrist, 0.09 xG3–1
  5. P3 16:15LAKPhillip DanaultAssists: Alex Laferriere, Matt Roy · Wrist, 0.08 xG4–1
Penalties (12)
  1. P1 2:47LAKJaret Anderson-Dolan: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 12:02ARISean Durzi: Slashing2 min
  3. P1 17:57ARIJoshua Brown: Instigator2 min
  4. P1 17:57ARIJoshua Brown: Fighting5 min
  5. P1 17:57LAKAndreas Englund: Fighting5 min
  6. P1 17:57ARIJoshua Brown: Instigator misconduct10 min
  7. P2 4:36LAKAnze Kopitar: Hooking2 min
  8. P2 8:15LAKPierre-Luc Dubois: Roughing2 min
  9. P3 3:52ARIMathew Dumba: Hooking2 min
  10. P3 6:23ARITravis Boyd: Too many men on the ice2 min
  11. P3 7:51LAKAdrian Kempe: High sticking double minor4 min
  12. P3 18:49LAKPierre-Luc Dubois: Holding2 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.

LAK00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0ARI
46% to win54% to win
← LAK attackARI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Kopitar won the faceoff against Bjugstad
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

LAKARI
25Shots on goal31
2.5Expected goals3.6
50Shot attempts65
35Faceoffs won28
4Power plays6
17Penalty minutes23
20Hits24
15Blocked shots11
7Giveaways12
5Takeaways3

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.

Los Angeles Kings

Forward lines

  1. bestDanault – Fiala – Moore8:27

    xG 0.65–0.18 (78%)attempts 10–5goals 1–1

  2. Lewis – Grundstrom – Anderson-Dolan6:23

    xG 0.45–0.20 (70%)attempts 9–3goals 0–0

  3. Dubois – Kaliyev – Laferriere9:06

    xG 0.13–0.22 (37%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  4. Kopitar – Kempe – Byfield9:59

    xG 0.13–0.68 (16%)attempts 4–19goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestGavrikov – Roy9:42

    xG 0.77–0.55 (58%)attempts 8–16goals 1–0

  2. Doughty – Gavrikov2:58

    xG 0.19–0.02 (89%)attempts 4–2goals 1–0

  3. Roy – Anderson3:12

    xG 0.01–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–0goals 0–0

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestBjugstad – Crouse – Maccelli7:43

    xG 0.70–0.32 (69%)attempts 10–5goals 1–1

  2. Kerfoot – O'Brien – Kelemen5:01

    xG 0.15–0.13 (54%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  3. Kerfoot – Schmaltz – Keller2:27

    xG 0.02–0.08 (19%)attempts 1–2goals 0–1

  4. Boyd – Schmaltz – Keller7:49

    xG 0.28–0.40 (41%)attempts 8–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDurzi – Moser10:12

    xG 0.60–0.29 (67%)attempts 11–10goals 1–0

  2. Dumba – Stecher4:28

    xG 0.18–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

  3. Brown – Stecher8:09

    xG 0.45–0.39 (54%)attempts 6–7goals 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.

ARI 3.6 xGLAK 2.5 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

ARILAK

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 27/100 · #984 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.90 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 46% (winner's lowest chance)
LAK 100%5050%50ARI 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, Arizona Coyotes win this game 68% of the time.

ARI winsLAK wins

Simulated goal difference (ARI − LAK), 10,000 replays

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