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Mon, Nov 20, 2023·Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle

Calgary Flames 4, Seattle Kraken 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 57% of the time.

SEA winsCGY wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
CGY270611612431
SEA1102170301331

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:16CGYElias LindholmAssists: Rasmus Andersson, MacKenzie Weegar · Wrist, 0.04 xG1–0
  2. P1 8:42SEAVince DunnAssists: Alexander Wennberg · Slap, 0.03 xG1–1
  3. P1 11:40CGYJonathan HuberdeauPPAssists: Rasmus Andersson, Nazem Kadri · Wrist, 0.03 xG2–1
  4. P2 8:21SEAJordan EberleAssists: Vince Dunn, Yanni Gourde · Backhand, 0.10 xG2–2
  5. P2 10:25SEAJared McCannAssists: Adam Larsson · Wrist, 0.25 xG2–3
  6. P3 15:53CGYAndrew MangiapaneAssists: Noah Hanifin, Chris Tanev · Wrist, 0.28 xG3–3
  7. OT 3:28CGYRasmus AnderssonGWGAssists: Mikael Backlund, Jonathan Huberdeau · Wrist, 0.12 xG4–3
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 11:31SEAPierre-Edouard Bellemare: Tripping2 min · PPG
  2. P2 5:59CGYNikita Zadorov: Cross checking2 min
  3. P2 16:41CGYNikita Zadorov: Tripping2 min
  4. P3 13:40SEAYanni Gourde: Cross checking2 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.

CGY00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0SEA
46% to win54% to win
← CGY attackSEA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Gourde won the faceoff against Backlund
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CGYSEA
31Shots on goal31
2.7Expected goals3.1
56Shot attempts67
29Faceoffs won34
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
23Hits26
20Blocked shots11
4Giveaways4
13Takeaways6

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.

Calgary Flames

Forward lines

  1. bestKadri – Pospisil – Zary8:03

    xG 0.37–0.19 (66%)attempts 5–9goals 0–0

  2. Greer – Dube – Duehr4:13

    xG 0.05–0.10 (31%)attempts 2–8goals 0–0

  3. Lindholm – Mangiapane – Greer2:55

    xG 0.03–0.09 (24%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

  4. Kadri – Dube – Pospisil4:30

    xG 0.13–0.31 (30%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestZadorov – DeSimone12:48

    xG 0.63–0.56 (53%)attempts 11–12goals 0–0

  2. Tanev – Hanifin17:33

    xG 0.81–0.76 (51%)attempts 12–22goals 1–2

  3. Weegar – Andersson17:49

    xG 0.38–0.84 (31%)attempts 17–21goals 1–1

Seattle Kraken

Forward lines

  1. bestEberle – McCann – Beniers10:12

    xG 0.31–0.02 (93%)attempts 13–4goals 0–0

  2. Gourde – Bjorkstrand – Tolvanen11:09

    xG 0.49–0.51 (49%)attempts 13–15goals 0–1

  3. Bellemare – Yamamoto – Kartye6:45

    xG 0.15–0.23 (40%)attempts 13–3goals 0–0

  4. Schwartz – Wennberg – Tanev10:22

    xG 0.16–0.81 (17%)attempts 10–10goals 1–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestLarsson – Dunn17:19

    xG 1.16–0.67 (63%)attempts 22–18goals 3–2

  2. Oleksiak – Borgen17:11

    xG 0.72–0.47 (61%)attempts 16–13goals 0–0

  3. Schultz – Dumoulin13:05

    xG 0.64–0.53 (55%)attempts 17–9goals 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.

SEA 3.1 xGCGY 2.7 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

SEACGY

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 86/100 · #228 of 1312 this seasonSwing 2.25 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 10% (winner's lowest chance)
CGY 100%5050%50SEA 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +37 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 57% of the time.

SEA winsCGY wins

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

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