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Wed, Apr 10, 2024·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Chicago Blackhawks 2, St. Louis Blues 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 56% of the time.

STL winsCHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CHI0111019220
STL490819526

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:04STLJordan KyrouAssists: Nick Leddy, Joel Hofer · Wrist, 0.08 xG0–1
  2. P1 2:46STLJordan KyrouAssists: Brandon Saad, Pavel Buchnevich · Wrist, 0.05 xG0–2
  3. P1 4:37STLTorey KrugGWGAssists: Matthew Kessel, Nikita Alexandrov · Wrist, 0.03 xG0–3
  4. P1 6:59STLZachary BolducAssists: Robert Thomas, Brayden Schenn · Wrist, 0.11 xG0–4
  5. P2 8:40CHIPhilipp KurashevAssists: Kevin Korchinski · Wrap-around, 0.08 xG1–4
  6. P3 10:01STLRobert ThomasAssists: Brayden Schenn, Zachary Bolduc · Wrist, 0.17 xG1–5
  7. P3 16:51CHILandon SlaggertAssists: Ryan Donato, MacKenzie Entwistle · Wrist, 0.16 xG2–5
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 13:11CHINikita Zaitsev: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 19:30STLScott Perunovich: Interference2 min
  3. P2 7:38CHISeth Jones: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 7:49STLRobert Thomas: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 18:31CHIAlex Vlasic: Roughing2 min
  6. P2 18:31STLTyler Tucker: Roughing2 min
  7. P3 5:06CHITaylor Raddysh: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  8. P3 19:30STLSammy Blais: Roughing2 min
  9. P3 19:30CHIJarred Tinordi: Roughing2 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 SOG0STL
46% to win54% to win
← CHI attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Thomas won the faceoff against Bedard
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CHISTL
20Shots on goal26
2.4Expected goals2.7
44Shot attempts56
21Faceoffs won24
2Power plays3
10Penalty minutes8
28Hits18
16Blocked shots10
2Giveaways11
12Takeaways13

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. bestDonato – Entwistle – Slaggert8:11

    xG 0.24–0.07 (77%)attempts 4–4goals 1–1

  2. Kurashev – Reichel – Bedard10:53

    xG 0.43–0.43 (50%)attempts 10–11goals 0–2

  3. Johnson – Athanasiou – Raddysh11:18

    xG 0.28–0.42 (40%)attempts 6–14goals 0–1

  4. Blackwell – Dickinson – Anderson8:34

    xG 0.04–0.26 (12%)attempts 8–9goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestJones – Korchinski2:48

    xG 0.25–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

  2. Jones – Vlasic11:42

    xG 0.56–0.43 (57%)attempts 11–11goals 1–2

  3. Tinordi – Megna2:14

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–0goals 0–0

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestWalker – Blais – Alexandrov11:00

    xG 0.50–0.02 (97%)attempts 17–3goals 1–0

  2. Schenn – Thomas – Bolduc8:20

    xG 0.38–0.27 (58%)attempts 6–8goals 2–0

  3. Kapanen – Toropchenko – Dean9:56

    xG 0.07–0.17 (28%)attempts 4–9goals 0–1

  4. Saad – Buchnevich – Kyrou11:10

    xG 0.26–0.53 (33%)attempts 11–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLeddy – Tucker7:47

    xG 0.41–0.04 (90%)attempts 9–2goals 1–0

  2. Krug – Kessel9:21

    xG 0.52–0.35 (59%)attempts 11–7goals 2–0

  3. Leddy – Kessel2:06

    xG 0.11–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–1goals 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.

STL 2.7 xGCHI 2.4 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLCHI

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 22/100 · #1054 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.55 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
CHI 100%5050%50STL 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, St. Louis Blues win this game 56% of the time.

STL winsCHI wins

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

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