Hockey Match Report
Analyst’s Diary Match Report
Slovakia vs Norway
Slovakia (SVK) 2:1 Norway (NOR)
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
- Norway generated the higher official shots-on-goal volume.
- Slovakia produced the stronger location-based Shot Quality Index.
- Norway got more attempts from the inner-slot / high-danger area.
- Norway led in high-danger chances based on the distance-and-lane proxy.
Shots On Goal
NOR: 23 | SVK: 19
Blocked Shots
NOR: 9 | SVK: 16
Scoring Chances
NOR: 7 | SVK: 12
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.
| Key Metrics: Slovakia vs Norway | ||
| 16 May 2026 — Shot Quality Index is a location-based proxy, not a trained xG model. | ||
| Metric | SVK | NOR |
|---|---|---|
| OCR detected attempts | 29.00 | 19.00 |
| Corsi attempts | 29.00 | 19.00 |
| Fenwick attempts | 21.00 | 16.00 |
| Scoring chances | 12.00 | 7.00 |
| High-danger chances | 5.00 | 5.00 |
| Shot Quality Index | 1.73 | 1.28 |
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.
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.
4. Offensive-zone 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.
- Norway showed the highest aggression profile while tied, based on chance rate, slot access and net-front pressure.
- Norway had the strongest danger-oriented shot style: slot-heavy / chance-driven.
- Norway generated the clearest central-access pattern: strong central-lane access.
- Norway produced the strongest pressure window between shot sequence 24 and 29.
- Norway had the highest goals-per-SQI finishing efficiency and roughly aligned with chance quality.
6. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SVK | 27 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.36 | 18.4 | Slovakia |
| SVK | 22 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.27 | 34.5 | Slovakia |
| NOR | 44 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.25 | 28.6 | Norway |
| SVK | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.25 | 26.2 | Slovakia |
| NOR | 19 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.22 | 47.5 | Norway |
| NOR | 22 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.22 | 39.9 | Norway |
| SVK | 23 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.22 | 35.5 | Slovakia |
| NOR | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.18 | 13.3 | Norway |
| NOR | 24 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.18 | 7.9 | Norway |
| SVK | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.13 | 60.4 | Slovakia |
| NOR | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.09 | 47.2 | Norway |
| SVK | 64 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.08 | 60.8 | Slovakia |
Source
https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2026/wm/schedule