Hockey Match Report

Analyst’s Diary Match Report

Great Britain vs Austria

16 May 2026
IIHF World Championship 2026 – Group Stage
Great Britain (GB) 2:5 Austria (AUT)

Report generated from the match shot-location pipeline. Metrics marked as proxies are based on OCR-extracted shot coordinates and should be interpreted as transparent spatial indicators rather than official tracking data.

Prepared by Antonin Kremenak

Executive summary

  • Austria generated the higher official shots-on-goal volume.
  • Austria produced the stronger location-based Shot Quality Index.
  • Austria got more attempts from the inner-slot / high-danger area.
  • Austria led in high-danger chances based on the distance-and-lane proxy.
Shots On Goal
AUT: 33 | GB: 20
Blocked Shots
AUT: 9 | GB: 16
Scoring Chances
AUT: 18 | GB: 10

1. Public layer: simple match metrics

These visuals are designed as a simple entry point for wider audiences: official shots on goal, blocked shots, shot quality proxies and basic chance creation.

Public match summary metrics
Key Metrics: Great Britain vs Austria
16 May 2026 — Shot Quality Index is a location-based proxy, not a trained xG model.
Metric GB AUT
OCR detected attempts 21.00 29.00
Corsi attempts 21.00 29.00
Fenwick attempts 12.00 22.00
Scoring chances 10.00 18.00
High-danger chances 1.00 4.00
Shot Quality Index 1.03 1.92

2. Shot maps and spatial overview

Shot maps show where attempts came from, how dangerous they were spatially, and how shot locations changed across periods.

Shot map by period
Shot map with player numbers

3. Shot quality and territorial battle

This section moves from simple shot counts to spatial pressure: location quality, offensive-zone density and period-by-period territorial advantage.

Shot Quality Index by team
Territorial and shot-quality advantage

4. Offensive-zone density

Offensive-zone shot density
Team offensive-zone shot density
Full-rink shot location density

5. Advanced insider layer

The following metrics are proxy-based insider indicators built from the available shot-location sample. They are useful for storytelling, but they are not a substitute for full play-by-play or tracking data.

  • Austria showed the highest aggression profile while tied, based on chance rate, slot access and net-front pressure.
  • Austria had the strongest danger-oriented shot style: perimeter / point-shot oriented.
  • Austria generated the clearest central-access pattern: strong central-lane access.
  • Austria produced the strongest pressure window between shot sequence 4 and 9.
  • Austria had the highest goals-per-SQI finishing efficiency and finished well above spatial chance quality.
Score-state behavior
Shot-style profile
Finishing efficiency vs chance quality

6. Momentum

Shot-sequence momentum

7. Player layer

Player public leaders
Top players from the OCR-extracted shot sample
team player_no ocr_detected_attempts ocr_shots_on_goal scoring_chances high_danger_chances inner_slot_shots net_front_shots rebound_like_shots shot_quality_index avg_shot_distance team_name
AUT 70 6 5 4 2 1 0 1 0.54 39.6 Austria
AUT 48 5 3 4 1 1 1 0 0.41 32.5 Austria
AUT 8 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0.18 14.9 Austria
GB 27 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0.18 25.0 Great Britain
AUT 92 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0.18 52.1 Austria
GB 61 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0.14 32.8 Great Britain
GB 75 3 2 1 0 0 0 1 0.11 53.5 Great Britain
AUT 19 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.09 49.1 Austria
AUT 96 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.09 44.0 Austria
GB 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.09 50.2 Great Britain
GB 74 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.09 41.5 Great Britain
GB 9 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.09 46.1 Great Britain

#Source https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2026/wm/schedule