Coachella Valley Firebirds at Tucson Roadrunners

Tucson Convention Center Arena · Tucson, AZ

Coachella Valley Firebirds

3:2

Final / SO

Tucson Roadrunners

The sheet

CVTUCSolid with a pale centre = goal · outline = saved · area = expected goals

Deserve to winexpected goals

79%21%

xG: 5.22.8
High danger: 94
Chances: 1811
Shots: 4429

Each club’s colour washes in from its own end; where they meet is what the chances say. Centre ice is the halfway mark, so the gap between the seam and the red line is the argument. Goals are excluded on purpose.

Expected goals, minute by minute

Cumulative expected goals · rings mark goals · dashed = goalie should be out, solid = goalie out

Win probability, as it happened

TUC above the lineCV belowDots are goals. Pre-game 52% TUC.

The same model the scoreboard runs during a live game, replayed from this game’s goal times. It knows the score, the clock and what the two clubs were expected to do before puck drop; on a live night it also reads the man advantage and an empty net.

Head to head

44Shots on goal29

18Scoring chances11

9High-danger chances4

5.20Expected goals2.77

By period

Per	SOG	SC	HD	xG
1st	16–13	7–7	2–3	1.7–1.4
2nd	10–9	5–3	3–1	1.1–0.7
3rd	16–3	6–1	4–0	2.3–0.3
OT	2–4	0–0	0–0	0.2–0.3

Away–home, in that order.

Pulling the goalie

Solid bar = net should be emptyDashed = league-median pullHollow dot = empty-net goal

Trailing	First behind by	Net empty from	Time left	Empty-net time	Worth
CV	1	16:56 of the 3rd	3:04	0:49	+0.052 pts

“Worth” is the standings points the empty net is expected to add, from that moment on, over pulling when AHL benches actually do. It is an expectation across every way the rest of the game could have gone, not a claim about this one result — a team can follow the rule perfectly and still lose by two.

In goal

Matthew Villalta

Shots faced: 44
Saves: 42
Allowed: 2
xGA: 5.20
GSAx: +3.20

Chris Driedger

Shots faced: 29
Saves: 27
Allowed: 2
xGA: 2.77
GSAx: +0.77

Goals saved above expected is what the chances faced were worth minus what actually went in, so a positive number is work the shot quality did not account for. Empty-net shots have no goaltender and are left out.

Scoring and penalties

1st 11:15Penalty
1st 13:18Penalty
1st 16:29Dylan Guenther (0–1)medium · 25 ft · beat Chris Driedger
2nd 3:48Patrik Koch (0–2)low · 51 ft · beat Chris Driedger
2nd 9:34Penalty
2nd 17:29Penalty
2nd 17:29Penalty
2nd 17:29Penalty
2nd 17:29Penalty
2nd 17:29Penalty
2nd 19:39Shane Wright (1–2)high · 7 ft · beat Matthew Villalta
3rd 1:17Penalty
3rd 17:45Marian Studenic (2–2)grade A · rebound · 12 ft · beat Matthew Villalta
OT 1:17Penalty