Minnesota Wild vs. Los Angeles KingsNov 8, 2018

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
MIN	1	1	1	3		MIN	11	5	8	24
LAK	1	0	0	1		LAK	14	8	6	28

: MIN 52LAK 65
: MIN 2.96LAK 2.05
PP goals: MIN 1LAK 0
Hits: MIN 18LAK 18
Blocks: MIN 18LAK 14
PIM: MIN 6LAK 6
: MIN 47%LAK 53%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Minnesota Wild beat Los Angeles Kings 3–1

Minnesota Wild beat Los Angeles Kings 3–1 at LAK. Mikko Koivu (MIN) led the scoring with 0G 3A. MIN's first power-play unit (Koivu, Parise, Spurgeon, Niederreiter and Dumba) scored 1 power-play goal on 3 attempts in 2:30 together.

Points
Mikko Koivu had 3 assists (3 points) on 2 shots in 17:33.Koivu
Points
Zach Parise had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 4 shots in 16:10.Parise
PP1
MIN's first power-play unit (Koivu, Parise, Spurgeon, Niederreiter and Dumba) scored 1 power-play goal on 3 attempts in 2:30 together.Koivu Parise Spurgeon Niederreiter Dumba
New line
New look for MIN: Staal–Zucker–Granlund skated 11:23 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (53.8% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Staal Zucker Granlund
New line
New look for MIN: Koivu–Parise–Niederreiter skated 10:18 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (57.9% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Koivu Parise Niederreiter
Usage
Derek Forbort (LAK) played 14:21, −6:28 down on his 20:49 season average over 80 games.Forbort
Usage
Jared Spurgeon (MIN) played 19:04, −5:08 down on his 24:12 season average over 81 games.Spurgeon
Usage
Ilya Kovalchuk (LAK) played 20:48, +4:38 up on his 16:10 season average over 63 games.Kovalchuk

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

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

LAK
MIN
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 117 of 117 attempts · LAK 65 · MIN 52

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

LAK
MIN
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: MIN 34% of the game, LAK 27%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

LAK

MIN

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	MIN	LAK
	50	61
	1.69	1.99
	1.69	1.92
	6	8
	0	4
	16	13
	−0.009	+0.009
	34%	27%

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.

Minnesota Wild

L1Staal – Zucker – Granlund
11:2354% CF
L2Coyle – Greenway – Eriksson Ek
10:5348% CF
L3Koivu – Parise – Niederreiter
10:1858% CF
L4Fehr – Foligno – Brown
10:0526% CF
D1Suter – Dumba
18:2342% CF
D2Spurgeon – Brodin
14:1464% CF
D3Pateryn – Seeler
13:0127% CF

PP1Koivu – Parise – Spurgeon – Niederreiter – Dumba
2:3075% CF
PP2Staal – Suter – Zucker – Coyle – Granlund
2:11100% CF
PK1FKoivu – Parise
1:10
PK2FCoyle – Eriksson Ek
0:57
PK1DSuter – Dumba
1:53
PK2DSpurgeon – Brodin
1:47

Current MIN line combinations →

Los Angeles Kings

L1Kovalchuk – Carter – Toffoli
14:1768% CF
L2Brown – Kopitar – Iafallo
13:3142% CF
L3Pearson – Kempe – Luff
6:0375% CF
L4Thompson – Lewis – Clifford
5:1236% CF
D1Muzzin – Martinez
15:5058% CF
D2Phaneuf – Doughty
13:3555% CF
D3Forbort – Fantenberg
9:2253% CF

PP1Kovalchuk – Carter – Brown – Kopitar – Doughty
3:14100% CF
PP2Muzzin – Martinez – Toffoli – Pearson – Iafallo
0:37
PK1FThompson – Lewis
1:35
PK2FBrown – Kopitar
1:18
PK1DDoughty – Forbort
2:42
PK2DMuzzin – Martinez
2:00

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.

Minnesota Wild

MIN skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mikael Granlund C	L1	1	0	1	+1	1	0.93	0	1	0	17:01	—	—	56	64
Eric Staal C	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.13	0	0	0	14:43	—	—	50	51
Jason Zucker L	L1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.35	2	0	0	14:41	—	—	59	74
Charlie Coyle C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	2	1	0	17:29	—	—	43	40
Joel Eriksson Ek C	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.19	2	2	2	12:42	—	—	46	46
Jordan Greenway L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.15	0	0	0	12:07	—	—	43	44
Mikko Koivu C	L3	0	3	3	+2	2	0.36	0	2	0	17:33	—	—	57	60
Zach Parise L	L3	1	1	2	+1	4	0.20	1	0	0	16:10	—	—	52	44
Nino Niederreiter R	L3	1	0	1	0	2	0.24	0	1	0	14:26	—	—	58	68
Eric Fehr C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	1	2	14:31	—	—	25	16
Marcus Foligno L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	1	0	2	13:37	—	—	30	20
JT Brown R	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	3	0	0	11:17	—	—	24	18
Ryan Suter D	D1	0	0	0	+1	0	0.02	0	1	0	26:52	—	—	41	32
Mathew Dumba D	D1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.11	1	4	0	24:38	—	—	43	45
Jared Spurgeon D	D2	0	0	0	-1	2	0.09	1	1	0	19:04	—	—	66	74
Jonas Brodin D	D2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.05	0	0	0	18:48	—	—	58	62
Nick Seeler D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	3	0	14:15	—	—	30	25
Greg Pateryn D	D3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.09	2	1	0	14:12	—	—	27	25

MIN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Devan Dubnyk(start)	W	28	27	1	.964	2.05	60:00

Los Angeles Kings

LAK skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Jeff Carter C	L1	0	0	0	-2	5	0.60	0	0	2	22:15	—	—	65	50
Ilya Kovalchuk L	L1	0	0	0	-2	2	0.27	2	0	0	20:48	—	—	65	51
Tyler Toffoli C	L1	0	0	0	-2	2	0.10	0	0	0	20:34	—	—	72	53
Anze Kopitar C	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.12	0	1	0	21:23	—	—	46	69
Dustin Brown R	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.28	1	0	0	20:50	—	—	44	69
Alex Iafallo L	L2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.06	0	2	0	16:15	—	—	44	69
Adrian Kempe R	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.11	3	0	0	12:18	—	—	56	46
Tanner Pearson L	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.10	0	0	0	10:48	—	—	80	71
Matt Luff R	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	8:07	—	—	55	60
Trevor Lewis C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	2	0	0	11:37	—	—	37	25
Nate Thompson C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	9:07	—	—	36	25
Kyle Clifford L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.06	0	1	0	7:39	—	—	33	30
Jake Muzzin D	D1	1	0	1	+1	2	0.13	3	3	0	22:43	—	—	59	68
Alec Martinez D	D1	0	1	1	0	2	0.04	3	2	2	22:40	—	—	53	56
Drew Doughty D	D2	0	0	0	-1	4	0.14	0	1	0	26:26	—	—	54	53
Dion Phaneuf D	D2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.04	2	2	2	17:24	—	—	53	42
Derek Forbort D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	1	0	14:21	—	—	50	46
Oscar Fantenberg D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	11:22	—	—	60	58

LAK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jack Campbell(start)	L	23	21	2	.913	2.06	58:29

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.

Minnesota Wild vs. Los Angeles KingsNov 8, 2018

Fantasy takeaways

Minnesota Wild beat Los Angeles Kings 3–1

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Sequence card

Lines used

Minnesota Wild

Los Angeles Kings

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

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Los Angeles Kings