Coachella Valley Firebirds at Ontario Reign

Toyota Arena · Ontario, CA

Coachella Valley Firebirds

3:2

Final

Ontario Reign

The sheet

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

Deserve to winexpected goals

36%64%

xG: 1.82.4
High danger: 23
Chances: 56
Shots: 2324

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

ONT above the lineCV belowDots are goals. Pre-game 54% ONT.

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

23Shots on goal24

5Scoring chances6

2High-danger chances3

1.79Expected goals2.43

By period

Per	SOG	SC	HD	xG
1st	9–9	1–2	0–1	0.5–0.8
2nd	8–8	2–4	1–2	0.6–1.2
3rd	6–7	2–0	1–0	0.7–0.4

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
ONT	1	16:56 of the 3rd	3:04	3:04	+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

Chris Driedger

Shots faced: 24
Saves: 22
Allowed: 2
xGA: 2.43
GSAx: +0.43

Erik Portillo

Shots faced: 23
Saves: 20
Allowed: 3
xGA: 1.79
GSAx: -1.21

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 6:17Alex Turcotte (0–1)medium · 19 ft · beat Chris Driedger
1st 13:02Tyler Madden (0–2)grade A · rebound · 3 ft · beat Chris Driedger
1st 16:23Penalty
1st 19:35Penalty
2nd 5:41Kole Lind (1–2)low · 40 ft · beat Erik Portillo
2nd 11:37Jimmy Schuldt (2–2)grade A · rebound · 21 ft · beat Erik Portillo
2nd 14:22Penalty
3rd 0:46Kole Lind (3–2)high · 10 ft · beat Erik Portillo
3rd 9:20Penalty
3rd 17:49Penalty