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Sat, Apr 11, 2026·United Center, Chicago

St. Louis Blues 5, Chicago Blackhawks 3

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 60% of the time.

CHI winsSTL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
STL11331015528
CHI19111114334

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 9:26STLJimmy SnuggerudAssists: Tyler Tucker, Dylan Holloway · Tip-in, 0.11 xG1–0
  2. P1 15:07CHIRyan GreeneAssists: Connor Bedard · Snap, 0.09 xG1–1
  3. P2 3:04CHIIlya MikheyevAssists: Sacha Boisvert · Wrist, 0.04 xG1–2
  4. P2 4:10STLAlexey ToropchenkoAssists: Pius Suter, Oskar Sundqvist · Backhand, 0.13 xG2–2
  5. P2 12:06STLJordan KyrouPPAssists: Logan Mailloux, Pavel Buchnevich · Wrist, 0.10 xG3–2
  6. P2 17:20STLCam FowlerGWGAssists: Jonatan Berggren, Tyler Tucker · Wrist, 0.16 xG4–2
  7. P3 7:04STLDalibor DvorskyAssists: Jake Neighbours, Jonatan Berggren · Snap, 0.10 xG5–2
  8. P3 13:35CHIIlya MikheyevAssists: Tyler Bertuzzi, Anton Frondell · Wrist, 0.12 xG5–3
Penalties (3)
  1. P1 0:37STLOskar Sundqvist: Tripping2 min
  2. P1 19:46STLRobert Thomas: Holding2 min
  3. P2 10:30CHITyler Bertuzzi: Tripping2 min · PPG

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 SOG0CHI
47% to win53% to win
← STL attackCHI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Suter won the faceoff against Boisvert
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

STLCHI
28Shots on goal34
3.7Expected goals3.1
49Shot attempts61
28Faceoffs won29
1Power plays2
4Penalty minutes2
14Hits9
9Blocked shots12
23Giveaways15
4Takeaways6

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. bestThomas – Holloway – Snuggerud12:57

    xG 1.28–0.77 (63%)attempts 17–14goals 1–2

  2. Berggren – Neighbours – Dvorsky10:11

    xG 0.79–0.43 (65%)attempts 11–6goals 2–1

  3. Buchnevich – Kyrou – Stenberg9:46

    xG 0.44–0.45 (50%)attempts 7–11goals 0–0

  4. Sundqvist – Toropchenko – Suter9:56

    xG 0.13–0.21 (37%)attempts 4–8goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestBroberg – Mailloux14:33

    xG 1.03–0.37 (74%)attempts 13–10goals 2–2

  2. Fowler – Tucker14:10

    xG 0.75–0.55 (58%)attempts 12–9goals 2–0

  3. Parayko – Lindstein15:41

    xG 0.20–0.78 (20%)attempts 11–19goals 0–0

Chicago Blackhawks

Forward lines

  1. bestBurakovsky – Donato – Nazar2:18

    xG 0.18–0.03 (85%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

  2. Burakovsky – Donato – Bedard4:57

    xG 0.12–0.28 (31%)attempts 3–8goals 0–1

  3. Teravainen – Mangiapane – Boisvert3:53

    xG 0.08–0.32 (20%)attempts 3–3goals 0–1

  4. Greene – Bedard – Lardis7:16

    xG 0.29–0.54 (35%)attempts 6–7goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestVlasic – Rinzel3:49

    xG 0.53–0.04 (93%)attempts 7–1goals 0–0

  2. Vlasic – Crevier12:38

    xG 0.53–0.11 (84%)attempts 15–5goals 0–0

  3. Kaiser – Korchinski4:37

    xG 0.32–0.02 (94%)attempts 6–1goals 2–0

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.

CHI 3.1 xGSTL 3.7 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

CHISTL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 69/100 · #469 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.49 · 8 goals in reachComeback index 28% (winner's lowest chance)
STL 100%5050%50CHI 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +22 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, St. Louis Blues win this game 60% of the time.

CHI winsSTL wins

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

-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
+1
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+3
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+5
+6
+7

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