Laval Rocket at Springfield Thunderbirds

MassMutual Center · Springfield, MA

Laval Rocket

1:3

Final

Springfield Thunderbirds

The sheet

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

Deserve to winexpected goals

65%35%

xG: 3.22.7
High danger: 64
Chances: 168
Shots: 3026

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

SPR above the lineLAV belowDots are goals. Pre-game 51% SPR.

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

30Shots on goal26

16Scoring chances8

6High-danger chances4

3.20Expected goals2.72

By period

Per	SOG	SC	HD	xG
1st	15–7	10–3	6–1	2.0–0.8
2nd	9–13	3–4	0–2	0.7–1.3
3rd	6–6	3–1	0–1	0.5–0.6

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
LAV	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

Vadim Zherenko

Shots faced: 30
Saves: 29
Allowed: 1
xGA: 3.20
GSAx: +2.20

Connor Hughes

Shots faced: 25
Saves: 23
Allowed: 2
xGA: 2.64
GSAx: +0.64

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 0:48Penalty
1st 3:07Penalty
1st 3:07Penalty
1st 3:52Penalty
1st 6:19Penalty
1st 12:00Penalty
1st 14:33Penalty
2nd 1:51Jared Davidson (1–0)medium · 18 ft · beat Vadim Zherenko
2nd 11:23Dalibor Dvorský (1–1)low · 27 ft · beat Connor Hughes
2nd 12:01Penalty
2nd 12:01Penalty
3rd 1:25Hugh McGing (1–2)high · 15 ft · beat Connor Hughes
3rd 3:46Penalty
3rd 7:36Penalty
3rd 15:49Penalty
3rd 19:37Nikita Alexandrov (1–3)empty net · low · 32 ft