Skip to content
Ice Lab

Sat, Jan 13, 2024·Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul

Arizona Coyotes 6, Minnesota Wild 0

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Minnesota Wild win this game 61% of the time.

MIN winsARI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
ARI31129113633
MIN08016014038

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 5:07ARIAlexander KerfootPPGWGAssists: Clayton Keller, Sean Durzi · Snap, 0.13 xG1–0
  2. P1 11:47ARINick BjugstadAssists: Michael Kesselring · Snap, 0.17 xG2–0
  3. P1 17:21ARINick BjugstadPPAssists: Lawson Crouse, Jason Zucker · Tip-in, 0.16 xG3–0
  4. P2 1:51ARIClayton KellerAssists: Sean Durzi, Jack McBain · Wrist, 0.04 xG4–0
  5. P2 6:40ARINick BjugstadAssists: Jason Zucker, Troy Stecher · Wrist, 0.08 xG5–0
  6. P3 0:38ARIClayton KellerAssists: Jack McBain, Nick Schmaltz · Wrist, 0.12 xG6–0
Penalties (12)
  1. P1 2:42ARILiam O'Brien: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 2:42MINBrandon Duhaime: Fighting5 min · PPG
  3. P1 4:30MINJon Merrill: Holding2 min
  4. P1 15:34MINJoel Eriksson Ek: Roughing2 min · PPG
  5. P1 19:25ARIJack McBain: Interference2 min
  6. P2 1:58MINJon Merrill: Hooking2 min
  7. P2 4:19ARILawson Crouse: Roughing2 min
  8. P2 4:19MINJake Middleton: Roughing2 min
  9. P2 15:32ARIJoshua Brown: Roughing2 min
  10. P3 5:21MINMarcus Foligno: Fighting5 min
  11. P3 5:21ARIJoshua Brown: Fighting5 min
  12. P3 7:24ARITroy Stecher: 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.

ARI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0MIN
46% to win54% to win
← ARI attackMIN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Hartman won the faceoff against Bjugstad
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

ARIMIN
33Shots on goal38
2.8Expected goals3.4
53Shot attempts73
25Faceoffs won32
3Power plays3
18Penalty minutes18
17Hits32
18Blocked shots9
8Giveaways8
6Takeaways7

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.

Arizona Coyotes

Forward lines

  1. bestBjugstad – Guenther – Cooley8:03

    xG 0.57–0.16 (79%)attempts 10–6goals 0–0

  2. Zucker – Bjugstad – O'Brien2:19

    xG 0.28–0.21 (58%)attempts 6–2goals 1–0

  3. Zucker – O'Brien – Cooley2:13

    xG 0.02–0.11 (13%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

  4. Schmaltz – Keller – McBain8:47

    xG 0.37–0.63 (37%)attempts 7–13goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDumba – Dermott9:39

    xG 0.31–0.16 (65%)attempts 9–10goals 0–0

  2. Stecher – Kesselring11:15

    xG 0.70–0.73 (49%)attempts 10–15goals 2–0

  3. Dumba – Stecher2:10

    xG 0.00–0.20 (0%)attempts 2–1goals 0–0

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestMaroon – Duhaime – Dewar5:32

    xG 0.56–0.05 (91%)attempts 9–2goals 0–0

  2. Zuccarello – Kaprizov – Rossi7:08

    xG 0.38–0.07 (85%)attempts 7–2goals 0–0

  3. Zuccarello – Hartman – Kaprizov4:41

    xG 0.31–0.21 (60%)attempts 2–5goals 0–0

  4. Foligno – Hartman – Gaudreau3:41

    xG 0.26–0.18 (59%)attempts 5–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMiddleton – Faber12:20

    xG 0.73–0.20 (79%)attempts 12–5goals 0–0

  2. Merrill – Mermis11:20

    xG 0.28–0.09 (75%)attempts 12–10goals 0–0

  3. Bogosian – Middleton2:08

    xG 0.25–0.11 (69%)attempts 3–2goals 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.

MIN 3.4 xGARI 2.8 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

MINARI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 5/100 · #1257 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.59 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 46% (winner's lowest chance)
ARI 100%5050%50MIN 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, Minnesota Wild win this game 61% of the time.

MIN winsARI wins

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

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7

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