Syracuse Crunch at Utica Comets

Adirondack Bank Center · Utica, NY

Syracuse Crunch

2:1

Final / OT

Utica Comets

The sheet

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

Deserve to winexpected goals

71%29%

xG: 1.91.3
High danger: 21
Chances: 54
Shots: 2023

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

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

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

20Shots on goal23

5Scoring chances4

2High-danger chances1

1.86Expected goals1.29

By period

Per	SOG	SC	HD	xG
1st	7–9	2–1	0–0	0.6–0.5
2nd	3–7	0–2	0–1	0.0–0.4
3rd	9–7	3–1	2–0	1.2–0.3
OT	1–0	0–0	0–0	0.1–0.0

Away–home, in that order.

Pulling the goalie

Nobody trailed late enough in the third for the goalie to be a decision.

In goal

Brandon Halverson

Shots faced: 23
Saves: 22
Allowed: 1
xGA: 1.29
GSAx: +0.29

Nico Daws

Shots faced: 20
Saves: 18
Allowed: 2
xGA: 1.86
GSAx: -0.14

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 11:36Maxim Groshev (1–0)medium · 20 ft · beat Nico Daws
1st 15:23Penalty
2nd 5:31Penalty
2nd 10:31Xavier Parent (1–1)high · 7 ft · beat Brandon Halverson
2nd 19:38Penalty
3rd 4:03Penalty
3rd 5:49Penalty
OT 0:38Max Crozier (2–1)low · 42 ft · beat Nico Daws