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Tue, Jan 20, 2026·Canada Life Centre, Winnipeg

St. Louis Blues 1, Winnipeg Jets 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 54% of the time.

WPG winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
STL0611106123
WPG260812316

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 9:52WPGJosh MorrisseyPPAssists: Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor · Slap, 0.04 xG0–1
  2. P1 11:25WPGMark ScheifelePPGWGAssists: Josh Morrissey · Snap, 0.18 xG0–2
  3. P2 17:23STLJordan KyrouPPAssists: Justin Faulk, Dalibor Dvorsky · Slap, 0.05 xG1–2
  4. P3 17:37WPGMark ScheifeleENAssists: Kyle Connor, Josh Morrissey · Wrist, 0.67 xG1–3
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 8:39STLNathan Walker: High sticking double minor4 min · PPG
  2. P1 19:28WPGJonathan Toews: Slashing2 min
  3. P2 16:35WPGVladislav Namestnikov: High sticking double minor4 min · PPG
  4. P3 2:27STLDalibor Dvorsky: Holding2 min
  5. P3 6:41WPGIsaak Phillips: High sticking2 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.

STL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0WPG
47% to win53% to win
← STL attackWPG attack →
  1. P1 20:00Schenn won the faceoff against Lowry
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLWPG
23Shots on goal16
2.4Expected goals2.5
69Shot attempts48
30Faceoffs won27
4Power plays3
6Penalty minutes8
20Hits16
12Blocked shots23
17Giveaways12
5Takeaways4

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.

St. Louis Blues

Forward lines

  1. bestBuchnevich – Kyrou – Neighbours10:24

    xG 0.29–0.16 (65%)attempts 13–7goals 0–0

  2. Schenn – Snuggerud – Stenberg8:36

    xG 0.40–0.27 (60%)attempts 11–7goals 0–0

  3. Fabbri – Berggren – Dvorsky7:29

    xG 0.31–0.24 (57%)attempts 11–8goals 0–0

  4. Bjugstad – Walker – Toropchenko6:46

    xG 0.16–0.09 (64%)attempts 9–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestParayko – Broberg13:58

    xG 0.69–0.17 (81%)attempts 20–8goals 0–0

  2. Tucker – Mailloux3:05

    xG 0.10–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  3. Faulk – Tucker8:39

    xG 0.31–0.26 (55%)attempts 7–7goals 0–0

Winnipeg Jets

Forward lines

  1. bestNyquist – Pearson – Barron6:42

    xG 0.21–0.15 (59%)attempts 7–9goals 0–0

  2. Toews – Vilardi – Perfetti9:08

    xG 0.19–0.20 (49%)attempts 8–9goals 0–0

  3. Scheifele – Connor – Iafallo11:23

    xG 0.24–0.37 (39%)attempts 10–17goals 0–0

  4. Niederreiter – Lowry – Namestnikov9:17

    xG 0.11–0.29 (28%)attempts 7–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Stanley – Phillips2:36

    xG 0.03–0.00 (86%)attempts 1–1goals 0–0

  2. Stanley – Samberg10:03

    xG 0.32–0.30 (51%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

  3. DeMelo – Samberg2:00

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–1goals 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.

WPG 2.5 xGSTL 2.4 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

WPGSTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 18/100 · #1136 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.91 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 52% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50WPG 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +15 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Winnipeg Jets win this game 54% of the time.

WPG winsSTL wins

Simulated goal difference (WPG − STL), 10,000 replays

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