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Mon, Jan 22, 2024·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Chicago Blackhawks 0, Vancouver Canucks 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 57% of the time.

VAN winsCHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CHI09010012031
VAN21207010229

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:47VANPius SuterGWGAssists: Andrei Kuzmenko, Noah Juulsen · Wrist, 0.12 xG0–1
  2. P1 6:40VANQuinn HughesAssists: Ilya Mikheyev, Andrei Kuzmenko · Wrist, 0.06 xG0–2
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 9:16VANTeddy Blueger: Interference2 min
  2. P1 12:19CHIJason Dickinson: Cross checking2 min
  3. P2 8:55VANNikita Zadorov: Tripping2 min
  4. P2 9:41CHINick Foligno: Holding2 min
  5. P2 13:05VANSam Lafferty: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  6. P2 14:40CHISeth Jones: High sticking2 min
  7. P2 18:34VANConor Garland: Too many men on the ice2 min
  8. P3 14:01VANTeddy Blueger: 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.

CHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CHIVAN
31Shots on goal29
3.3Expected goals3.7
50Shot attempts59
21Faceoffs won17
5Power plays3
6Penalty minutes10
26Hits28
9Blocked shots9
5Giveaways12
4Takeaways8

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.

Chicago Blackhawks

Forward lines

  1. bestFoligno – Raddysh – Kurashev9:42

    xG 0.61–0.46 (57%)attempts 10–9goals 0–0

  2. Donato – Pitlick – Entwistle6:29

    xG 0.16–0.26 (38%)attempts 4–5goals 0–1

  3. Sanford – Katchouk – Johnson8:09

    xG 0.16–0.55 (23%)attempts 5–11goals 0–1

  4. Blackwell – Dickinson – Anderson7:28

    xG 0.21–0.63 (25%)attempts 6–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Megna – Korchinski4:31

    xG 0.18–0.19 (49%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  2. Jones – Vlasic15:04

    xG 0.72–0.82 (47%)attempts 12–18goals 0–0

  3. Megna – Phillips8:03

    xG 0.28–0.48 (37%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestSuter – Mikheyev – Kuzmenko8:05

    xG 0.88–0.41 (68%)attempts 12–5goals 2–0

  2. Lafferty – Hoglander – Aman7:19

    xG 0.39–0.04 (91%)attempts 12–2goals 0–0

  3. Blueger – Joshua – Garland10:51

    xG 0.57–0.49 (54%)attempts 9–8goals 0–0

  4. Miller – Boeser – Pettersson7:15

    xG 0.29–0.39 (43%)attempts 7–12goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMyers – Hughes11:33

    xG 1.03–0.57 (64%)attempts 16–12goals 0–0

  2. Cole – Juulsen11:50

    xG 0.44–0.14 (76%)attempts 9–7goals 1–0

  3. Zadorov – Hronek12:40

    xG 0.62–0.51 (55%)attempts 18–8goals 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.

VAN 3.7 xGCHI 3.3 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANCHI

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 CHI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 1/100 · #1308 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.60 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
CHI 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +16 pts

Did the better team win?

Every shot replayed 10,000 times, scoring with its expected-goal probability.

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 57% of the time.

VAN winsCHI wins

Simulated goal difference (VAN − CHI), 10,000 replays

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