Syracuse Crunch at Rochester Americans

Blue Cross Arena · Rochester, NY

Syracuse Crunch

5:2

Final

Rochester Americans

The sheet

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

Deserve to winexpected goals

71%29%

xG: 2.01.5
High danger: 41
Chances: 66
Shots: 3219

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

ROC above the lineSYR belowDots are goals. Pre-game 52% ROC.

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

32Shots on goal19

6Scoring chances6

4High-danger chances1

2.05Expected goals1.51

By period

Per	SOG	SC	HD	xG
1st	11–7	1–2	1–1	0.6–0.5
2nd	9–7	1–1	0–0	0.5–0.5
3rd	12–5	4–3	3–0	1.0–0.5

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
ROC	2	12:08 of the 3rd	7:52	7:52	+0.028 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

Devon Levi

Shots faced: 32
Saves: 27
Allowed: 5
xGA: 2.05
GSAx: -2.95

Matt Tomkins

Shots faced: 19
Saves: 17
Allowed: 2
xGA: 1.51
GSAx: -0.49

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 9:05Isak Rosén (0–1)high · 6 ft · beat Matt Tomkins
1st 10:40Penalty
2nd 2:16Michael Mersch (0–2)medium · 9 ft · beat Matt Tomkins
2nd 2:44Penalty
2nd 7:59Alex Barré-Boulet (1–2)low · 36 ft · beat Devon Levi
2nd 11:44Penalty
2nd 14:32Penalty
2nd 15:07Jack Finley (2–2)5v4 · medium · 34 ft · beat Devon Levi
2nd 17:11Penalty
3rd 8:33Gabriel Dumont (3–2)high · 11 ft · beat Devon Levi
3rd 10:23Penalty
3rd 11:15Shawn Element (4–2)4v5 · low · 47 ft · beat Devon Levi
3rd 12:53Penalty
3rd 12:53Penalty
3rd 18:26Gabriel Fortier (5–2)empty net · low · 82 ft · beat Devon Levi