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Mon, Feb 5, 2024·Madison Square Garden, New York

Colorado Avalanche 1, New York Rangers 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 60% of the time.

NYR winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
COL1140100702133
NYR0110611111229

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 18:12COLNathan MacKinnonAssists: Cale Makar, Josh Manson · Snap, 0.09 xG1–0
  2. P3 11:17NYRArtemi PanarinAssists: K'Andre Miller, Braden Schneider · Snap, 0.03 xG1–1
  3. OT 1:53NYRAlexis LafrenièreGWGAssists: Mika Zibanejad, Jonathan Quick · Snap, 0.26 xG1–2
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 1:36NYRErik Gustafsson: Holding2 min
  2. P1 5:33NYRKaapo Kakko: Tripping2 min
  3. P1 10:53COLMikko Rantanen: Roughing2 min
  4. P1 10:53NYRK'Andre Miller: Roughing2 min
  5. P1 10:53COLMikko Rantanen: Cross checking2 min
  6. P1 12:24NYRAlexis Lafrenière: 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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0NYR
46% to win54% to win
← COL attackNYR attack →
  1. P1 20:00Colton won the faceoff against Trocheck
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLNYR
33Shots on goal29
3.3Expected goals2.7
60Shot attempts56
20Faceoffs won25
3Power plays1
4Penalty minutes8
21Hits18
10Blocked shots10
5Giveaways7
7Takeaways10

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.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestWood – Colton – O'Connor11:17

    xG 0.75–0.09 (90%)attempts 20–4goals 0–0

  2. MacKinnon – Drouin – Rantanen12:27

    xG 1.07–0.65 (62%)attempts 13–18goals 1–1

  3. Parise – Johansen – Lehkonen6:44

    xG 0.16–0.02 (90%)attempts 8–2goals 0–0

  4. Cogliano – Olofsson – Kiviranta6:09

    xG 0.02–0.19 (10%)attempts 2–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMakar – Byram2:04

    xG 0.51–0.11 (83%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

  2. Manson – Girard10:16

    xG 0.39–0.12 (76%)attempts 12–5goals 0–0

  3. Johnson – Manson4:44

    xG 0.24–0.08 (75%)attempts 7–5goals 0–0

New York Rangers

Forward lines

  1. bestBrodzinski – Kakko – Cuylle9:35

    xG 0.45–0.31 (59%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

  2. Trocheck – Panarin – Lafrenière14:08

    xG 0.56–0.59 (49%)attempts 13–12goals 0–0

  3. Pitlick – Goodrow – Vesey5:24

    xG 0.11–0.24 (31%)attempts 3–7goals 0–1

  4. Wheeler – Kreider – Zibanejad11:44

    xG 0.52–0.69 (43%)attempts 13–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMiller – Schneider16:06

    xG 0.85–0.50 (63%)attempts 19–13goals 1–1

  2. Gustafsson – Jones14:17

    xG 0.53–0.59 (47%)attempts 14–13goals 0–0

  3. Fox – Lindgren14:00

    xG 0.41–0.52 (44%)attempts 11–14goals 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.

NYR 2.7 xGCOL 3.3 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYRCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 38/100 · #851 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.30 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 19% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50NYR 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +34 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 60% of the time.

NYR winsCOL wins

Simulated goal difference (NYR − COL), 10,000 replays

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