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Thu, Oct 23, 2025·American Airlines Center, Dallas

Los Angeles Kings 3, Dallas Stars 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 52% of the time.

DAL winsLAK wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
LAK151100911325
DAL081141801231

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 18:48LAKCorey PerryPPAssists: Kevin Fiala, Quinton Byfield · Snap, 0.37 xG1–0
  2. P2 4:58DALJason RobertsonPPAssists: Roope Hintz, Wyatt Johnston · Snap, 0.05 xG1–1
  3. P2 6:27LAKCody CeciAssists: Adrian Kempe, Alex Laferriere · Slap, 0.13 xG2–1
  4. P3 2:32DALWyatt JohnstonPPAssists: Roope Hintz, Mikko Rantanen · Snap, 0.13 xG2–2
  5. OT 0:37LAKAdrian KempeGWGAssists: Quinton Byfield · Snap, 0.18 xG3–2
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 13:06LAKDarcy Kuemper: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 17:01DALMikko Rantanen: Cross checking2 min · PPG
  3. P1 18:26DALIlya Lyubushkin: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 2:16DALTyler Seguin: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 4:46LAKJeff Malott: Hooking2 min · PPG
  6. P2 9:51LAKJoel Armia: High sticking2 min
  7. P3 0:56LAKJoel Armia: High sticking2 min · PPG
  8. P3 13:37LAKAdrian Kempe: 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.

LAK00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0DAL
47% to win53% to win
← LAK attackDAL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Johnston won the faceoff against Byfield
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

LAKDAL
25Shots on goal31
2.8Expected goals2.9
48Shot attempts58
40Faceoffs won27
3Power plays5
10Penalty minutes6
14Hits18
16Blocked shots14
20Giveaways15
5Takeaways5

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.

Los Angeles Kings

Forward lines

  1. bestDanault – Foegele – Moore7:56

    xG 0.45–0.03 (94%)attempts 16–4goals 0–0

  2. Armia – Kempe – Laferriere2:43

    xG 0.27–0.05 (83%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  3. Perry – Turcotte – Malott4:06

    xG 0.09–0.01 (90%)attempts 7–1goals 0–0

  4. Perry – Fiala – Byfield2:39

    xG 0.10–0.03 (78%)attempts 3–1goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Ceci – Anderson12:42

    xG 0.36–0.50 (42%)attempts 10–14goals 1–0

  2. Edmundson – Clarke12:14

    xG 0.05–0.33 (13%)attempts 10–12goals 0–0

  3. Doughty – Dumoulin15:14

    xG 0.38–0.73 (34%)attempts 13–12goals 0–0

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestRantanen – Hintz – Steel7:46

    xG 0.37–0.01 (98%)attempts 10–1goals 0–0

  2. Rantanen – Hintz – Hryckowian2:52

    xG 0.23–0.02 (93%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  3. Robertson – Bourque – Johnston11:45

    xG 0.54–0.42 (56%)attempts 10–15goals 0–1

  4. Faksa – Bastian – Hryckowian2:16

    xG 0.07–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLindell – Heiskanen13:07

    xG 0.55–0.10 (84%)attempts 13–9goals 0–0

  2. Lyubushkin – Harley11:59

    xG 0.66–0.45 (59%)attempts 15–11goals 0–1

  3. Heiskanen – Harley2:13

    xG 0.10–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–1goals 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.

DAL 2.9 xGLAK 2.8 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DALLAK

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 55/100 · #628 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.69 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 47% (winner's lowest chance)
LAK 100%5050%50DAL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +21 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 52% of the time.

DAL winsLAK wins

Simulated goal difference (DAL − LAK), 10,000 replays

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