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Tue, Oct 22, 2024·Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle

Colorado Avalanche 3, Seattle Kraken 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 56% of the time.

SEA winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL1521706328
SEA01215110227

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 18:32COLJoel KivirantaAssists: Sam Malinski · Wrist, 0.06 xG1–0
  2. P2 11:57SEAJared McCannUnassisted · Backhand, 0.15 xG1–1
  3. P2 14:56COLJoel KivirantaAssists: Cale Makar, Ivan Ivan · Tip-in, 0.06 xG2–1
  4. P2 19:52COLNathan MacKinnonPPGWGAssists: Cale Makar, Casey Mittelstadt · Wrist, 0.09 xG3–1
  5. P3 19:55SEARyker EvansPPAssists: Eeli Tolvanen, Andre Burakovsky · Wrist, 0.08 xG3–2
Penalties (4)
  1. P2 6:43SEAEeli Tolvanen: Interference2 min
  2. P2 19:24SEAChandler Stephenson: Tripping2 min · PPG
  3. P3 0:29SEAJamie Oleksiak: Interference2 min
  4. P3 18:00COLJoel Kiviranta: Slashing2 min · PPG

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 SOG0SEA
43% to win57% to win
← COL attackSEA attack →
  1. P1 20:00MacKinnon won the faceoff against Gourde
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLSEA
28Shots on goal27
2.6Expected goals2.9
60Shot attempts73
21Faceoffs won35
3Power plays1
2Penalty minutes6
17Hits18
23Blocked shots17
13Giveaways21
3Takeaways4

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. bestMacKinnon – Rantanen – Colton14:14

    xG 0.89–0.52 (63%)attempts 16–12goals 0–0

  2. Kiviranta – Stienburg – Ivan4:11

    xG 0.29–0.10 (75%)attempts 7–5goals 1–0

  3. Mittelstadt – Kovalenko – O'Connor6:51

    xG 0.29–0.17 (63%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

  4. Wood – Kiviranta – Ivan3:35

    xG 0.10–0.11 (48%)attempts 5–3goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestManson – Girard13:40

    xG 0.75–0.49 (61%)attempts 15–15goals 0–1

  2. Toews – Makar18:09

    xG 0.83–0.87 (49%)attempts 17–18goals 1–0

  3. de Haan – Malinski11:53

    xG 0.17–0.32 (34%)attempts 11–15goals 1–0

Seattle Kraken

Forward lines

  1. bestGourde – Tanev – Kartye6:00

    xG 0.53–0.07 (89%)attempts 13–5goals 0–0

  2. Eberle – McCann – Wright9:16

    xG 0.55–0.24 (70%)attempts 7–9goals 1–2

  3. Schwartz – Stephenson – Tanev2:30

    xG 0.09–0.03 (74%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  4. Schwartz – Stephenson – Bjorkstrand7:09

    xG 0.21–0.29 (42%)attempts 6–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBorgen – Mahura9:06

    xG 0.53–0.17 (76%)attempts 12–10goals 1–1

  2. Oleksiak – Montour15:27

    xG 0.93–0.72 (56%)attempts 26–16goals 0–1

  3. Larsson – Montour2:56

    xG 0.07–0.05 (58%)attempts 1–3goals 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.

SEA 2.9 xGCOL 2.6 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

SEACOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 34/100 · #855 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.15 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 43% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50SEA 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +26 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 56% of the time.

SEA winsCOL wins

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

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