St. Louis Blues vs. Los Angeles KingsJan 21, 2019

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
STL	2	0	1	3		STL	13	14	9	36
LAK	1	2	1	4		LAK	14	9	6	29

: STL 61LAK 49
: STL 3.39LAK 3.16
PP goals: STL 1LAK 1
Hits: STL 21LAK 28
Blocks: STL 11LAK 13
PIM: STL 10LAK 4
: STL 52%LAK 48%

Fantasy takeaways

Generated from the play-by-play, shifts and season context. No opinions, just what changed.

Los Angeles Kings edge St. Louis Blues 4–3

Los Angeles Kings beat St. Louis Blues 4–3 at home. Anze Kopitar (LAK) led the scoring with 1G 1A. LAK's first power-play unit (Kovalchuk, Carter, Brown, Kopitar and Doughty) scored 1 power-play goal on 5 attempts in 4:18 together.

Points
Anze Kopitar had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 4 shots in 23:58.Kopitar
Points
Tyler Toffoli had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 16:34.Toffoli
Points
Alex Pietrangelo had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 21:36.Pietrangelo
Points
Brendan Leipsic had 2 assists (2 points) in 15:50.Leipsic
Points
Ivan Barbashev had 2 assists (2 points) in 13:58.Barbashev
PP1
LAK's first power-play unit (Kovalchuk, Carter, Brown, Kopitar and Doughty) scored 1 power-play goal on 5 attempts in 4:18 together.Kovalchuk Carter Brown Kopitar Doughty
PP1
STL's first power-play unit (Maroon, Pietrangelo, O'Reilly, Tarasenko and Sundqvist) scored 1 power-play goal on 5 attempts in 2:26 together.Maroon Pietrangelo O'Reilly Tarasenko Sundqvist
New line
New look for LAK: Brown–Kopitar–Iafallo skated 13:35 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (69.6% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Brown Kopitar Iafallo

Shot map

Both teams on one rink, filtered by strength and period.

Shot map

Every attempt, sized by expected goals. Goals are rings, shots on goal dots, misses hollow, blocks crosses.

Strength

Period

Team

← STL attacks left (bottom on phones)LAK attacks right (top on phones) →

LAK
STL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 110 of 110 attempts · LAK 49 · STL 61

Game flow

Cumulative expected goals and shot attempts, with power plays shaded and goals marked.

Cumulative shot attempts

LAK
STL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

LAK pressure
STL pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: STL 40% of the game, LAK 31%.

Shift chart

Every shift, grouped by line and pair; bars are coloured by strength state. Click a player to highlight.

Shifts

LAK

STL

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Sequence card

5-on-5 possession-chain numbers from the sequence engine (Draw Equity and control cover all situations).

Sequence card
Stat	STL	LAK
	60	46
	3.05	2.48
	3.02	2.41
	10	8
	0	2
	12	6
	−0.008	+0.008
	40%	31%

Definitions: sequence xG, transition attempts, Draw Equity, control and the Pressure Index.

Lines used

Detected from who actually shared the ice, with time together. Percentages are the unit's share of shot attempts.

St. Louis Blues

L1Maroon – O'Reilly – Tarasenko
12:4153% CF
L2Steen – Schenn – Schwartz
9:5872% CF
L3Nolan – MacEachern – Barbashev
6:3456% CF
L4Sundqvist – Blais – Kyrou
3:1933% CF
D1Bouwmeester – Parayko
17:5357% CF
D2Bortuzzo – Dunn
13:3050% CF
D3Gunnarsson – Pietrangelo
12:0552% CF

PP1Maroon – Pietrangelo – O'Reilly – Tarasenko – Sundqvist
2:26100% CF
PP2Steen – Schenn – Schwartz – Parayko – Dunn
0:16
PK1FO'Reilly – Sundqvist
1:32
PK2FSteen – Barbashev
0:55
PK1DGunnarsson – Pietrangelo
1:19
PK2DBouwmeester – Bortuzzo
1:17

Current STL line combinations →

Los Angeles Kings

L1Brown – Kopitar – Iafallo
13:3570% CF
L2Carter – Toffoli – Leipsic
11:0321% CF
L3Kovalchuk – Hagelin – Kempe
8:2844% CF
L4Thompson – Clifford – Wagner
6:3538% CF
D1Doughty – Forbort
17:2834% CF
D2Muzzin – Martinez
14:0354% CF
D3Phaneuf – LaDue
7:0436% CF

PP1Kovalchuk – Carter – Brown – Kopitar – Doughty
4:1863% CF
PP2Muzzin – Toffoli – Leipsic – Kempe – Iafallo
1:21
PK1FThompson – Hagelin
1:08
PK2FBrown – Kopitar
0:42
PK1DDoughty – Forbort
2:42

Current LAK line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

Box score

Skaters grouped by the line they played on; CF% is the 5v5 share of shot attempts while on the ice.

St. Louis Blues

STL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Ryan O'Reilly C	L1	1	0	1	0	5	0.40	1	0	0	23:41	—	—	61	60
Vladimir Tarasenko R	L1	0	1	1	0	2	0.36	1	1	0	19:25	—	—	46	37
Patrick Maroon L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.22	5	0	0	18:30	—	—	52	47
Brayden Schenn C	L2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.08	0	1	0	17:46	—	—	67	71
Jaden Schwartz L	L2	0	0	0	-1	4	0.19	1	1	0	17:09	—	—	68	72
Alexander Steen L	L2	0	0	0	-1	6	0.67	0	1	0	16:50	—	—	68	69
Ivan Barbashev L	L3	0	2	2	+1	0	0.01	0	2	0	13:58	—	—	54	50
Jordan Nolan C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.25	1	0	0	10:27	—	—	54	57
Mackenzie MacEachern L	L3	1	0	1	+1	3	0.23	3	1	0	7:58	—	—	59	67
Oskar Sundqvist C	L4	1	0	1	-2	1	0.11	1	0	0	14:55	—	—	46	26
Sammy Blais L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.30	2	0	0	11:33	—	—	56	57
Jordan Kyrou R	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.10	0	0	2	4:55	—	—	43	39
Colton Parayko D	D1	0	0	0	-1	3	0.09	2	0	0	22:51	—	—	58	44
Jay Bouwmeester D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.07	1	0	2	21:42	—	—	62	47
Robert Bortuzzo D	D2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.21	2	1	4	18:02	—	—	55	64
Vince Dunn D	D2	0	1	1	+1	1	0.00	0	1	2	14:43	—	—	57	73
Alex Pietrangelo D	D3	0	2	2	-2	2	0.08	1	0	0	21:36	—	—	52	50
Carl Gunnarsson D	D3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	0	2	0	16:57	—	—	56	66

STL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jordan Binnington(start)	L	29	25	4	.862	3.16	57:57

Los Angeles Kings

LAK skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Anze Kopitar C	L1	1	1	2	+1	4	0.60	1	2	0	23:58	—	—	58	52
Dustin Brown R	L1	0	1	1	+1	2	0.24	3	2	0	22:24	—	—	62	59
Alex Iafallo L	L1	0	0	0	+1	3	0.14	0	0	0	18:31	—	—	65	73
Jeff Carter C	L2	0	1	1	0	4	0.83	2	0	0	18:53	—	—	25	28
Tyler Toffoli C	L2	1	1	2	+1	1	0.03	0	0	0	16:34	—	—	27	43
Brendan Leipsic L	L2	0	2	2	+1	0	0.00	2	0	0	15:50	—	—	27	43
Ilya Kovalchuk L	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.20	0	0	0	15:15	—	—	45	23
Adrian Kempe R	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.02	2	0	0	12:55	—	—	35	20
Carl Hagelin L	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.14	1	0	0	11:13	—	—	44	21
Nate Thompson C	L4	0	0	0	+1	0	0.09	0	0	0	11:21	—	—	40	42
Kyle Clifford L	L4	0	0	0	0	3	0.15	2	1	0	9:10	—	—	37	34
Austin Wagner L	L4	0	0	0	0	3	0.33	2	0	0	7:58	—	—	41	56
Drew Doughty D	D1	1	0	1	-1	2	0.30	4	2	0	28:26	—	—	31	32
Derek Forbort D	D1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	2	0	23:19	—	—	36	33
Jake Muzzin D	D2	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	2	1	2	22:04	—	—	54	55
Alec Martinez D	D2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	3	2	0	17:24	—	—	50	52
Paul LaDue D	D3	1	0	1	+1	1	0.08	2	1	0	11:40	—	—	55	62
Dion Phaneuf D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	2	0	2	10:24	—	—	32	32

LAK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jonathan Quick(start)	W	36	33	3	.917	3.39	59:59

Methodology

Shot locations come from the NHL play-by-play, normalised so each shooter attacks the same way, then flipped so the home team attacks right. On-ice stats and lines come from the shift charts: a unit is the exact set of skaters sharing the ice, and CF% is the share of all shot attempts while they were out. Head-to-head cells are 5v5 time against each opponent. Expected goals and the Pressure Index appear as their models are released.

St. Louis Blues vs. Los Angeles KingsJan 21, 2019

Fantasy takeaways

Los Angeles Kings edge St. Louis Blues 4–3

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Sequence card

Lines used

St. Louis Blues

Los Angeles Kings

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

St. Louis Blues

Los Angeles Kings