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Sun, Apr 14, 2024·Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Seattle Kraken 1, St. Louis Blues 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 68% of the time.

STL winsSEA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
SEA180507120
STL16011311428

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 14:24SEAJared McCannUnassisted · Wrist, 0.08 xG1–0
  2. P1 18:18STLKasperi KapanenAssists: Alexey Toropchenko · Snap, 0.03 xG1–1
  3. P3 0:59STLJordan KyrouGWGAssists: Matthew Kessel, Brandon Saad · Snap, 0.09 xG1–2
  4. P3 16:37STLBrayden SchennAssists: Nick Leddy, Nathan Walker · Wrist, 0.06 xG1–3
  5. P3 19:00STLNathan WalkerENUnassisted · Wrist, 0.55 xG1–4
Penalties (3)
  1. P1 18:43STLZach Dean: High sticking double minor4 min
  2. P3 7:25STLBrayden Schenn: Hooking2 min
  3. P3 13:49SEAJaden Schwartz: Hooking2 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.

SEA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0STL
46% to win54% to win
← SEA attackSTL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Thomas won the faceoff against Beniers
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

SEASTL
20Shots on goal28
2.0Expected goals2.9
58Shot attempts56
21Faceoffs won29
3Power plays1
2Penalty minutes6
11Hits20
16Blocked shots18
6Giveaways13
15Takeaways11

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.

Seattle Kraken

Forward lines

  1. bestSchwartz – McCann – Yamamoto11:30

    xG 0.72–0.37 (66%)attempts 12–9goals 1–1

  2. Bellemare – Tanev – Kartye8:11

    xG 0.10–0.12 (46%)attempts 5–6goals 0–0

  3. Gourde – Bjorkstrand – Tolvanen11:19

    xG 0.35–0.43 (45%)attempts 15–11goals 0–1

  4. Eberle – Burakovsky – Beniers12:19

    xG 0.16–0.79 (16%)attempts 10–16goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestLarsson – Evans16:51

    xG 0.48–0.26 (65%)attempts 16–8goals 1–0

  2. Dumoulin – Larsson2:09

    xG 0.04–0.03 (59%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

  3. Schultz – Dumoulin12:07

    xG 0.51–0.51 (50%)attempts 18–13goals 0–2

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestSaad – Buchnevich – Kyrou11:01

    xG 0.47–0.22 (68%)attempts 13–6goals 1–0

  2. Hayes – Kapanen – Toropchenko9:58

    xG 0.24–0.15 (62%)attempts 9–10goals 1–0

  3. Schenn – Thomas – Bolduc14:37

    xG 0.86–0.95 (48%)attempts 14–23goals 0–1

  4. Walker – Blais – Dean7:35

    xG 0.17–0.37 (32%)attempts 8–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLeddy – Kessel16:33

    xG 1.04–0.42 (71%)attempts 21–14goals 3–0

  2. Scandella – Tucker9:13

    xG 0.21–0.35 (37%)attempts 7–13goals 0–1

  3. Parayko – Perunovich16:11

    xG 0.37–0.76 (33%)attempts 11–19goals 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 2.9 xGSEA 2.0 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

STLSEA

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 SEA. Dots are goals.

Excitement 30/100 · #953 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.00 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 36% (winner's lowest chance)
SEA 100%5050%50STL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +25 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 68% of the time.

STL winsSEA wins

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

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