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Sun, Mar 16, 2025·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Utah Hockey Club 3, Vancouver Canucks 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Utah Hockey Club win this game 72% of the time.

VAN winsUTA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
UTA0101726323
VAN041609119

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 2:37VANQuinn HughesPPAssists: Elias Pettersson, Jake DeBrusk · Wrist, 0.01 xG0–1
  2. P2 12:04UTAKevin StenlundAssists: Nick Bjugstad, Michael Carcone · Snap, 0.25 xG1–1
  3. P3 5:08UTALogan CooleyGWGAssists: Sean Durzi, Nick Schmaltz · Wrist, 0.04 xG2–1
  4. P3 19:29UTAClayton KellerENAssists: Nick Schmaltz · Wrist, 0.60 xG3–1
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 4:45VANTyler Myers: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  2. P1 6:30UTALawson Crouse: Roughing2 min
  3. P1 6:30VANTeddy Blueger: Roughing2 min
  4. P1 11:56UTADylan Guenther: Cross checking2 min
  5. P1 11:56VANDerek Forbort: Slashing2 min
  6. P1 19:15UTAMichael Carcone: Roughing2 min
  7. P1 19:15VANDakota Joshua: Interference2 min
  8. P2 1:59UTALawson Crouse: Hooking2 min · PPG
  9. P3 1:16UTALogan Cooley: Holding2 min
  10. P3 10:43UTAClayton Keller: High sticking double minor4 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.

UTA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

UTAVAN
23Shots on goal19
2.8Expected goals1.6
52Shot attempts53
35Faceoffs won20
1Power plays4
14Penalty minutes8
17Hits38
18Blocked shots20
10Giveaways12
5Takeaways0

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.

Utah Hockey Club

Forward lines

  1. bestBjugstad – Stenlund – Carcone5:30

    xG 0.36–0.06 (86%)attempts 9–4goals 1–0

  2. Kerfoot – Schmaltz – Keller11:33

    xG 0.51–0.22 (70%)attempts 11–11goals 0–0

  3. Crouse – McBain – Doan8:03

    xG 0.01–0.06 (10%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  4. Hayton – Guenther – Cooley9:45

    xG 0.31–0.47 (40%)attempts 9–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestMaatta – Durzi12:58

    xG 0.59–0.29 (67%)attempts 14–8goals 1–0

  2. Cole – Kesselring9:30

    xG 0.48–0.23 (67%)attempts 12–7goals 1–0

  3. Marino – Sergachev13:13

    xG 0.33–0.22 (60%)attempts 10–10goals 0–0

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestJoshua – Garland – Suter10:43

    xG 0.49–0.21 (70%)attempts 11–9goals 0–0

  2. O'Connor – Aman – Lekkerimäki5:58

    xG 0.14–0.01 (91%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  3. Blueger – Boeser – Sherwood7:00

    xG 0.06–0.26 (19%)attempts 5–6goals 0–0

  4. DeBrusk – Pettersson – Hoglander9:06

    xG 0.06–0.41 (13%)attempts 5–13goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. Forbort – Mancini9:15

    xG 0.04–0.04 (50%)attempts 2–10goals 0–0

  2. Hronek – Hughes16:16

    xG 0.46–0.48 (48%)attempts 12–7goals 0–1

  3. Myers – Pettersson13:03

    xG 0.12–0.96 (11%)attempts 7–20goals 0–1

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 1.6 xGUTA 2.8 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANUTA

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 UTA. Dots are goals.

Excitement 31/100 · #900 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.15 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 25% (winner's lowest chance)
UTA 100%5050%50VAN 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +31 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 72% of the time.

VAN winsUTA wins

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

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