Arizona Coyotes vs. Vegas Golden KnightsMar 28, 2018

FinalWednesday, Mar 28, 2018· T-Mobile Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
ARI	2	1	0	3		ARI	15	13	4	32
VGK	1	1	0	2		VGK	5	11	13	29

: ARI 56VGK 65
: ARI 2.25VGK 2.67
PP goals: ARI 0VGK 1
Hits: ARI 42VGK 40
Blocks: ARI 19VGK 16
PIM: ARI 10VGK 6
: ARI 60%VGK 40%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Arizona Coyotes edge Vegas Golden Knights 3–2

Arizona Coyotes beat Vegas Golden Knights 3–2 at VGK. Kevin Connauton (ARI) led the scoring with 2G 0A. VGK's first power-play unit (Karlsson, Marchessault, Theodore, Carpenter and Tuch) scored 1 power-play goal on 7 attempts in 2:14 together.

Points
Kevin Connauton had two goals (2 points) on 4 shots in 18:37.Connauton
PP1
VGK's first power-play unit (Karlsson, Marchessault, Theodore, Carpenter and Tuch) scored 1 power-play goal on 7 attempts in 2:14 together.Karlsson Marchessault Theodore Carpenter Tuch
New line
New look for VGK: Neal–Tatar–Haula skated 10:52 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (45.8% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Neal Tatar Haula
Usage
Jonathan Marchessault (VGK) played 22:17, +4:51 up on his 17:27 season average over 76 games.Marchessault
New line
New look for ARI: Rinaldo–Domi–Dvorak skated 8:39 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (65% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Rinaldo Domi Dvorak
New line
New look for VGK: Reaves–Eakin–Lindberg skated 7:12 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (57.1% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Reaves Eakin Lindberg
Usage
Luke Schenn (ARI) played 22:34, +6:17 up on his 16:17 season average over 63 games.Schenn
Usage
Kevin Connauton (ARI) played 18:37, +3:29 up on his 15:08 season average over 72 games.Connauton

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

← ARI attacks left (bottom on phones)VGK attacks right (top on phones) →

VGK
ARI
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 121 of 121 attempts · VGK 65 · ARI 56

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

VGK
ARI
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

VGK pressure
ARI pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: ARI 23% of the game, VGK 32%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

VGK

ARI

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	ARI	VGK
	56	50
	2.30	1.50
	2.16	1.42
	14	4
	6	5
	17	12
	+0.082	−0.082
	23%	32%

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.

Arizona Coyotes

L1Richardson – Cousins – Martinook
11:2841% CF
L2Stepan – Panik – Keller
11:0567% CF
L3Perlini – Fischer – Strome
8:4650% CF
L4Rinaldo – Domi – Dvorak
8:3965% CF
D1Schenn – Ekman-Larsson
14:1660% CF
D2Goligoski – Chychrun
14:1546% CF
D3Connauton – Murphy
9:2962% CF

PP1Stepan – Ekman-Larsson – Panik – Keller – Chychrun
1:27100% CF
PK1FStepan – Dvorak
1:41
PK2FRichardson – Martinook
0:57
PK1DSchenn – Ekman-Larsson
1:53
PK2DGoligoski – Connauton
1:10

Current ARI line combinations →

Vegas Golden Knights

L1Karlsson – Marchessault – Tuch
11:0847% CF
L2Neal – Tatar – Haula
10:5246% CF
L3Carpenter – Bellemare – Nosek
9:2242% CF
L4Reaves – Eakin – Lindberg
7:1257% CF
D1Merrill – Miller
14:5352% CF
D2Engelland – Theodore
11:5648% CF
D3McNabb – Schmidt
11:3224% CF

PP1Karlsson – Marchessault – Theodore – Carpenter – Tuch
2:14100% CF
PP2Neal – Tatar – Haula – Miller – Schmidt
1:17100% CF
PK1FEakin – Haula
1:03
PK1DEngelland – McNabb
1:32

Current VGK line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

6:22
ARIKevin Connauton (Christian Dvorak, Oliver Ekman-Larsson)backhand0.17 xG
ARI: Ekman-Larsson, Connauton, Domi, DvorakVGK: Engelland, Haula, Schmidt, Tuch
ARI 1 – 0 VGK
11:23
VGKErik Haula (James Neal)snap0.09 xG
ARI: Goligoski, Stepan, Keller, ChychrunVGK: Neal, Haula, Miller, Theodore
ARI 1 – 1 VGK
17:09
ARIRichard Panik (Clayton Keller)backhand0.07 xG
ARI: Stepan, Panik, Connauton, Murphy, KellerVGK: McNabb, Schmidt, Carpenter, Bellemare, Nosek
ARI 2 – 1 VGK

2nd period

14:44
VGKAlex TuchPP (Jonathan Marchessault, William Karlsson)tip-in0.09 xG
ARI: Schenn, Rinaldo, Panik, ConnautonVGK: Karlsson, Marchessault, Theodore, Carpenter, Tuch
ARI 2 – 2 VGK
15:43
ARIKevin Connautonwrist0.00 xG
ARI: Connauton, Cousins, Domi, Murphy, DvorakVGK: Neal, McNabb, Haula, Lindberg, Schmidt
ARI 3 – 2 VGK

Box score

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

Arizona Coyotes

ARI skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Jordan Martinook L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.05	4	1	0	16:57	—	—	38	24
Brad Richardson R	L1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	2	15:59	—	—	41	26
Nick Cousins C	L1	0	0	0	+1	3	0.11	3	0	0	15:35	—	—	43	24
Derek Stepan C	L2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.04	0	3	0	18:51	—	—	60	83
Clayton Keller R	L2	0	1	1	+1	1	0.17	0	0	2	17:30	—	—	57	81
Richard Panik R	L2	1	0	1	+1	2	0.12	2	0	2	16:43	—	—	60	84
Dylan Strome C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.14	1	1	2	10:56	—	—	46	43
Brendan Perlini L	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	10:23	—	—	50	43
Christian Fischer R	L3	0	0	0	0	3	0.04	2	1	0	9:15	—	—	48	43
Christian Dvorak C	L4	0	1	1	+2	3	0.71	3	1	0	16:14	—	—	62	79
Max Domi C	L4	0	0	0	+2	3	0.24	0	0	0	13:48	—	—	60	84
Zac Rinaldo C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.06	2	0	0	9:49	—	—	67	85
Oliver Ekman-Larsson D	D1	0	1	1	+1	3	0.08	2	0	2	22:59	—	—	59	48
Luke Schenn D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	10	5	0	22:34	—	—	55	49
Alex Goligoski D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.10	1	3	0	22:18	—	—	47	53
Jakob Chychrun D	D2	0	0	0	0	3	0.10	4	2	0	21:23	—	—	47	51
Kevin Connauton D	D3	2	0	2	+3	4	0.21	5	1	0	18:37	—	—	56	77
Trevor Murphy D	D3	0	0	0	+2	1	0.08	1	0	0	12:06	—	—	56	78

ARI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Antti Raanta(start)	W	29	27	2	.931	2.67	60:00

Vegas Golden Knights

VGK skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Jonathan Marchessault R	L1	0	1	1	0	6	0.36	4	1	0	22:17	—	—	48	49
William Karlsson C	L1	0	1	1	0	1	0.23	2	0	0	21:10	—	—	50	54
Alex Tuch R	L1	1	0	1	-1	6	0.67	1	0	2	18:12	—	—	48	55
Erik Haula L	L2	1	0	1	-2	1	0.09	1	1	0	20:06	—	—	40	43
James Neal L	L2	0	1	1	-1	1	0.46	1	3	0	19:57	—	—	44	45
Tomas Tatar L	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.16	3	0	0	14:31	—	—	43	45
Ryan Carpenter C	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	3	0	0	12:10	—	—	42	26
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.04	1	0	2	11:25	—	—	53	28
Tomas Nosek L	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	1	0	10:55	—	—	50	28
Cody Eakin C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	2	10:18	—	—	53	28
Oscar Lindberg L	L4	0	0	0	-1	4	0.25	3	0	0	9:52	—	—	48	26
Ryan Reaves R	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	4	0	0	9:29	—	—	56	26
Colin Miller D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.07	1	3	0	22:14	—	—	59	68
Jon Merrill D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.04	2	2	0	18:29	—	—	50	55
Shea Theodore D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.15	2	0	0	21:28	—	—	44	39
Deryk Engelland D	D2	0	0	0	-1	2	0.13	3	1	0	19:20	—	—	58	42
Nate Schmidt D	D3	0	0	0	-3	2	0.02	2	3	0	19:28	—	—	33	17
Brayden McNabb D	D3	0	0	0	-2	0	0.00	6	1	0	14:47	—	—	28	20

VGK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Marc-Andre Fleury(start)	L	32	29	3	.906	2.25	57:52

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.