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Thu, Oct 24, 2024·Delta Center, Salt Lake City

Colorado Avalanche 5, Utah Hockey Club 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Utah Hockey Club win this game 54% of the time.

UTA winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL21221014526
UTA05010111126

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 9:54COLRoss ColtonPPAssists: Mikko Rantanen, Casey Mittelstadt · Snap, 0.22 xG1–0
  2. P1 18:20COLCale MakarGWGAssists: Mikko Rantanen, Nikolai Kovalenko · Snap, 0.07 xG2–0
  3. P2 14:25COLCasey MittelstadtAssists: Sam Malinski, Nikolai Kovalenko · Wrist, 0.15 xG3–0
  4. P2 17:33COLIvan IvanPPAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Casey Mittelstadt · Snap, 0.05 xG4–0
  5. P3 15:28UTALawson CrouseAssists: Matias Maccelli, Ian Cole · Backhand, 0.11 xG4–1
  6. P3 16:07COLJoel KivirantaUnassisted · Snap, 0.07 xG5–1
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 3:17COLJosh Manson: Holding2 min
  2. P1 7:36UTAMichael Kesselring: Hooking2 min
  3. P1 8:05UTAIan Cole: Tripping2 min · PPG
  4. P2 0:44COLJosh Manson: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 9:38UTALawson Crouse: Interference2 min
  6. P2 16:08UTADylan Guenther: Hooking2 min · PPG
  7. P2 18:17COLParker Kelly: 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 SOG0UTA
43% to win57% to win
← COL attackUTA attack →
  1. P1 20:00Hayton won the faceoff against MacKinnon
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLUTA
26Shots on goal26
2.2Expected goals2.3
42Shot attempts59
16Faceoffs won41
4Power plays3
6Penalty minutes8
27Hits15
19Blocked shots10
12Giveaways19
2Takeaways5

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 – Colton7:20

    xG 0.41–0.10 (81%)attempts 6–7goals 0–0

  2. Mittelstadt – Kovalenko – O'Connor6:23

    xG 0.39–0.11 (79%)attempts 8–1goals 1–1

  3. Wood – Kelly – Kiviranta6:42

    xG 0.13–0.14 (48%)attempts 7–8goals 0–0

  4. Wagner – Stienburg – Ivan3:20

    xG 0.00–0.12 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestToews – Makar13:53

    xG 0.71–0.22 (76%)attempts 12–11goals 1–0

  2. de Haan – Malinski12:04

    xG 0.32–0.33 (50%)attempts 7–13goals 2–1

  3. Manson – Girard16:28

    xG 0.21–0.73 (23%)attempts 10–13goals 0–0

Utah Hockey Club

Forward lines

  1. bestKeller – Hayton – Guenther7:41

    xG 0.55–0.11 (84%)attempts 12–1goals 0–0

  2. Kerfoot – Stenlund – Doan4:21

    xG 0.29–0.00 (100%)attempts 10–0goals 0–0

  3. Schmaltz – Keller – Hayton4:30

    xG 0.17–0.00 (100%)attempts 6–3goals 0–0

  4. Kerfoot – Crouse – Doan2:34

    xG 0.00–0.02 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSergachev – Kesselring15:05

    xG 0.79–0.41 (66%)attempts 24–7goals 0–0

  2. Cole – Lamoureux15:57

    xG 0.46–0.42 (53%)attempts 15–13goals 1–0

  3. Välimäki – Kolyachonok10:56

    xG 0.12–0.51 (19%)attempts 6–10goals 0–3

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.

UTA 2.3 xGCOL 2.2 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

UTACOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 16/100 · #1114 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.74 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 41% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50UTA 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +17 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Utah Hockey Club win this game 54% of the time.

UTA winsCOL wins

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

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