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Sat, Dec 21, 2024·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Ottawa Senators 5, Vancouver Canucks 4 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 52% of the time.

VAN winsOTT wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
OTT211260411522
VAN261811100425

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 1:45OTTClaude GirouxAssists: Thomas Chabot · Tip-in, 0.08 xG1–0
  2. P1 16:22OTTShane PintoAssists: Michael Amadio, Nick Cousins · Snap, 0.22 xG2–0
  3. P1 18:04VANBrock BoeserAssists: Quinn Hughes, Phillip Di Giuseppe · Snap, 0.31 xG2–1
  4. P1 19:42VANQuinn HughesAssists: Conor Garland, J.T. Miller · Wrist, 0.01 xG2–2
  5. P2 4:24OTTShane PintoAssists: Drake Batherson, Jake Sanderson · Wrist, 0.19 xG3–2
  6. P2 13:36VANJake DeBruskAssists: Quinn Hughes, Tyler Myers · Deflected, 0.08 xG3–3
  7. P2 15:30OTTJosh NorrisSHAssists: Claude Giroux, Jake Sanderson · Snap, 0.18 xG4–3
  8. P3 15:10VANBrock BoeserAssists: Pius Suter, Phillip Di Giuseppe · Snap, 0.22 xG4–4
  9. OT 0:15OTTJake SandersonGWGAssists: Tim Stützle, Shane Pinto · Wrist, 0.14 xG5–4
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 4:33VANPhillip Di Giuseppe: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 11:44VANTyler Myers: Interference2 min
  3. P1 0:00OTTTravis Hamonic: Roughing2 min
  4. P2 10:02VANDanton Heinen: Interference2 min
  5. P2 15:20OTTThomas Chabot: Interference2 min
  6. P3 18:08VANNoah Juulsen: High sticking double minor4 min
  7. P3 19:10OTTClaude Giroux: Interference2 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.

OTT00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0VAN
43% to win57% to win
← OTT attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Pinto won the faceoff against Blueger
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

OTTVAN
22Shots on goal25
3.1Expected goals2.9
53Shot attempts57
31Faceoffs won21
4Power plays2
6Penalty minutes10
13Hits28
16Blocked shots11
13Giveaways9
1Takeaways3

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.

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestGiroux – Tkachuk – Stützle11:01

    xG 0.74–0.52 (59%)attempts 12–9goals 1–1

  2. Cousins – Amadio – Pinto8:09

    xG 0.27–0.16 (63%)attempts 3–7goals 1–1

  3. Gaudette – Gregor – Ostapchuk3:42

    xG 0.01–0.05 (16%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

  4. Cousins – Gregor – Pinto3:14

    xG 0.03–0.11 (22%)attempts 1–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJensen – Chabot17:11

    xG 1.19–0.43 (73%)attempts 20–12goals 2–1

  2. Bernard-Docker – Kleven11:54

    xG 0.52–1.13 (31%)attempts 8–16goals 1–2

  3. Hamonic – Sanderson14:41

    xG 0.10–0.73 (12%)attempts 8–16goals 0–1

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestJoshua – Suter – Karlsson6:46

    xG 0.14–0.01 (93%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

  2. DeBrusk – Garland – Pettersson11:33

    xG 0.32–0.22 (59%)attempts 10–7goals 0–0

  3. Blueger – Heinen – Sherwood9:01

    xG 0.22–0.40 (36%)attempts 10–8goals 0–1

  4. Miller – Di Giuseppe – Boeser8:28

    xG 0.50–0.84 (37%)attempts 6–12goals 1–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestMyers – Hughes14:59

    xG 1.26–0.64 (66%)attempts 18–9goals 2–1

  2. Desharnais – Hughes3:23

    xG 0.05–0.07 (41%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  3. Forbort – Desharnais11:48

    xG 0.18–0.27 (40%)attempts 8–8goals 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.

VAN 2.9 xGOTT 3.1 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANOTT

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 99/100 · #22 of 1312 this seasonSwing 3.02 · 9 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 41% (winner's lowest chance)
OTT 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +41 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 52% of the time.

VAN winsOTT wins

Simulated goal difference (VAN − OTT), 10,000 replays

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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).