Game Recap: COL 2, WPG 6, December 16, 2023

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Game Recap

COL2

FinalSat, Dec 16, 2023Every game that night

WPG6

WPG beat COL 6-2, and the chances backed it up: 3.65 expected goals to 2.42. G. Vilardi led the way with 2 points (2 G, 0 A). C. Hellebuyck stopped 30 of 32.

Scoring

	1st	2nd	3rd	T
COL	0	0	2	2
WPG	2	1	3	6

1st 13:56WPGG. Vilardi0.11 xG
1st 15:38WPGV. NamestnikovPP0.18 xG
2nd 8:43WPGA. Iafallo0.07 xG
3rd 2:07COLJ. DrouinPP0.47 xG
3rd 3:40WPGG. Vilardi0.37 xG
3rd 8:48WPGN. Niederreiter0.13 xG
3rd 10:41COLJ. Johnson0.09 xG
3rd 17:57WPGN. EhlersEN0.95 xG

Team Stats

COLWPG

32Shots on goal25

2.42Expected goals3.65

61Shot attempts56

195v5 shots on goal20

1/4Power play1/2

31Hits21

17Blocked shots16

4Penalty minutes8

8Giveaways12

1Takeaways9

Expected goals: the chance each unblocked shot had of going in, by our model, added up.

Expected Goals Over the Game

COL 2.42 xGWPG 3.65 xGGoal

Each step up is a shot: how likely it was to go in. A team well above the other had the better chances, whatever the score.

Shot Map

COL31 on goal, 2 scored

WPG24 on goal, 6 scored

GoalSavedMissedBlockedBigger: a better chance

Box Score

COL Skaters

Player	Pos	G	A	P	SOG	HIT	BLK	+/-	PIM	TOI	PP TOI
N. MacKinnon	C	0	2	2	4	1	1	-1	0	25:38	7:23
V. Nichushkin	RW	0	1	1	5	2	0	0	0	27:21	7:22
M. Rantanen	RW	0	1	1	2	4	0	0	0	25:42	7:23
J. Drouin	LW	1	0	1	4	0	0	-1	0	18:27	7:22
R. Johansen	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	15:08	1:15
L. O'Connor	RW	0	0	0	1	5	0	-1	0	12:36	0:00
B. Meyers	C	0	0	0	0	4	0	-1	0	12:20	0:00
M. Wood	LW	0	0	0	2	1	1	-2	0	12:01	0:02
A. Cogliano	C	0	0	0	2	0	0	-2	0	10:44	0:00
R. Colton	C	0	0	0	1	1	0	-2	0	10:09	0:03
F. Olofsson	LW	0	0	0	1	0	1	-2	0	9:43	0:00
J. Kiviranta	LW	0	0	0	0	2	1	-1	0	7:59	0:00
J. Johnson	D	1	0	1	2	1	4	0	0	16:00	0:00
D. Toews	D	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	2	24:49	7:20
B. Byram	D	0	0	0	2	2	1	-2	0	20:57	0:05
S. Malinski	D	0	0	0	1	1	2	-3	0	20:25	0:02
J. Manson	D	0	0	0	1	3	3	-2	2	19:27	0:00
C. Jones	D	0	0	0	2	1	2	-1	0	11:05	0:00

Goalie	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
I. Prosvetov	24	19	5	.792	56:16	Loss
A. Georgiev	0	0	0	–	0:00

WPG Skaters

Player	Pos	G	A	P	SOG	HIT	BLK	+/-	PIM	TOI	PP TOI
M. Scheifele	C	0	2	2	1	0	1	+2	0	18:53	2:18
G. Vilardi	C	2	0	2	4	0	0	+2	0	16:47	2:18
V. Namestnikov	C	1	1	2	1	0	0	+2	0	16:31	0:55
N. Ehlers	LW	1	1	2	4	0	1	+2	2	16:05	2:19
A. Iafallo	LW	1	1	2	1	0	1	+1	0	13:58	0:54
N. Niederreiter	RW	1	0	1	1	1	2	+1	0	14:23	0:55
M. Appleton	C	0	1	1	0	1	0	+1	0	12:41	0:00
A. Lowry	C	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	15:53	0:00
C. Perfetti	C	0	0	0	2	0	0	+1	0	14:43	2:18
M. Barron	C	0	0	0	3	4	0	0	0	14:16	0:00
A. Jonsson-Fjallby	LW	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	10:14	0:00
D. Gustafsson	C	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	10:08	0:00
J. Morrissey	D	0	2	2	0	0	2	+3	2	21:37	2:29
N. Pionk	D	0	1	1	1	3	1	+1	2	20:52	0:55
B. Dillon	D	0	0	0	1	4	2	+1	0	22:15	0:00
D. DeMelo	D	0	0	0	1	3	3	+2	0	19:38	0:00
N. Schmidt	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	+1	0	17:12	0:44
D. Samberg	D	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	16:29	0:00

Goalie	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
C. Hellebuyck	32	30	2	.938	60:00	Win
L. Brossoit	0	0	0	–	0:00