Hockey Match Report

Analyst’s Diary Match Report

Switzerland vs Latvia

16 May 2026
IIHF World Championship 2026 – Group Stage
Switzerland (SUI) 4:2 Latvia (LAT)

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

  • Switzerland generated the higher official shots-on-goal volume.
  • Switzerland produced the stronger location-based Shot Quality Index.
  • Switzerland got more attempts from the inner-slot / high-danger area.
  • Switzerland led in high-danger chances based on the distance-and-lane proxy.
Shots On Goal
LAT: 23 | SUI: 43
Blocked Shots
LAT: 12 | SUI: 14
Scoring Chances
LAT: 12 | SUI: 19

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: Switzerland vs Latvia
16 May 2026 — Shot Quality Index is a location-based proxy, not a trained xG model.
Metric SUI LAT
OCR detected attempts 38.00 22.0
Corsi attempts 38.00 22.0
Fenwick attempts 26.00 20.0
Scoring chances 19.00 12.0
High-danger chances 10.00 6.0
Shot Quality Index 2.81 1.7

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.

  • Switzerland showed the highest aggression profile while leading, based on chance rate, slot access and net-front pressure.
  • Latvia had the strongest danger-oriented shot style: slot-heavy / chance-driven.
  • Switzerland generated the clearest central-access pattern: strong central-lane access.
  • Switzerland produced the strongest pressure window between shot sequence 54 and 59.
  • Switzerland had the highest goals-per-SQI finishing efficiency and efficient finishing relative to 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
SUI 79 3 1 2 2 1 0 0 0.38 30.5 Switzerland
LAT 21 2 2 2 2 1 0 1 0.36 17.9 Latvia
LAT 23 3 2 3 1 0 0 0 0.32 32.8 Latvia
SUI 90 4 3 2 1 0 0 1 0.29 38.5 Switzerland
SUI 86 7 2 3 0 0 0 0 0.29 48.4 Switzerland
SUI 17 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0.25 27.0 Switzerland
SUI 28 2 1 2 1 1 1 0 0.25 22.1 Switzerland
SUI 85 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 0.25 20.1 Switzerland
LAT 17 2 2 1 1 1 0 1 0.20 35.0 Latvia
SUI 14 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0.20 33.5 Switzerland
LAT 02 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0.18 22.2 Latvia
LAT 44 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0.18 13.8 Latvia

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