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Fri, Mar 15, 2013·Rexall Place, Edmonton

Detroit Red Wings 3, Edmonton Oilers 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 52% of the time.

EDM winsDET wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
DET050921312329
EDM1101160600232

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

Every goal, with the change it made to the home team's win probability.

  1. P1 3:34EDMTaylor HallAssists: Shawn Horcoff, Ales Hemsky · Snap, 0.08 xG0–1
  2. P2 16:18EDMSam GagnerAssists: Nail Yakupov, Taylor Hall · Snap, 0.32 xG0–2
  3. P3 4:27DETValtteri FilppulaAssists: Henrik Zetterberg · Backhand, 0.05 xG1–2
  4. P3 14:07DETNiklas KronwallPPUnassisted · Wrist, 0.34 xG2–2
  5. OT 3:39DETPavel DatsyukGWGAssists: Johan Franzen, Niklas Kronwall · Snap, 0.06 xG3–2
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 5:47DETBrendan Smith: Interference2 min
  2. P1 12:47EDMLadislav Smid: Hooking2 min
  3. P1 16:27DETDaniel Cleary: Boarding2 min
  4. P2 8:27DETJakub Kindl: Slashing2 min
  5. P2 9:06EDMTaylor Hall: High sticking2 min
  6. P2 11:43EDMMike Brown: Fighting5 min
  7. P2 11:43DETJordin Tootoo: Fighting5 min
  8. P3 5:01EDMTeemu Hartikainen: Boarding2 min
  9. P3 8:11EDMShawn Horcoff: Delaying game face off violation2 min
  10. P3 13:26EDMMike Brown: High sticking2 min · PPG

Replay

Watch the game unfold on the ice: every shot, hit, turnover and faceoff appears as it happened, then fades. Drag the timeline to jump; goals are marked on it.

DET00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0EDM
43% to win57% to win
← DET attackEDM attack →
  1. P1 20:00Zetterberg won the faceoff against Horcoff
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DETEDM
29Shots on goal32
3.1Expected goals3.2
64Shot attempts45
34Faceoffs won23
5Power plays3
11Penalty minutes15
11Hits14
7Blocked shots20
2Giveaways9
8Takeaways6

Line combinations that worked

Model-based

Each team's forward lines and defence pairs at 5-on-5 (two minutes or more together), best first by expected goals for minus against.

Detroit Red Wings

Forward lines

  1. bestDatsyuk – Franzen – Abdelkader5:38

    xG 0.22–0.03 (89%)attempts 9–2goals 0–0

  2. Cleary – Andersson – Nyquist5:49

    xG 0.66–0.64 (51%)attempts 7–5goals 0–0

  3. Tootoo – Miller – Emmerton5:43

    xG 0.09–0.17 (35%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  4. Cleary – Abdelkader – Andersson3:56

    xG 0.00–0.17 (0%)attempts 0–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestQuincey – Smith12:09

    xG 0.38–0.08 (82%)attempts 10–7goals 0–0

  2. Kronwall – Lashoff4:47

    xG 0.33–0.16 (67%)attempts 5–6goals 0–0

  3. Ericsson – Kindl6:16

    xG 0.08–0.12 (40%)attempts 4–3goals 1–0

Edmonton Oilers

Forward lines

  1. bestHorcoff – Hemsky – Hall10:22

    xG 0.90–0.36 (71%)attempts 12–10goals 1–1

  2. Gagner – Paajarvi – Yakupov7:33

    xG 0.33–0.12 (74%)attempts 4–6goals 0–0

  3. Eberle – Hartikainen – Nugent-Hopkins7:42

    xG 0.81–0.61 (57%)attempts 7–5goals 0–0

  4. Smyth – Brown – Petrell4:58

    xG 0.17–0.13 (57%)attempts 4–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSmid – Petry16:07

    xG 0.85–0.23 (79%)attempts 11–11goals 2–0

  2. Schultz – Potter13:37

    xG 0.70–0.31 (69%)attempts 13–12goals 0–0

  3. Whitney – Schultz13:36

    xG 1.31–0.96 (58%)attempts 13–13goals 0–1

How the game flowed

Model-based

Chance quality for each side, minute by minute, with pressure underneath.

Expected goals flow

Running total of expected goals for each team. Steep climbs are spells of pressure; dots are goals. Shaded bands mark power plays (team colour), 4-on-4 or 3-on-3 (grey) and empty nets.

EDM 3.2 xGDET 3.1 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

EDMDET

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

EDM's chance of winning through the game. Above the middle line EDM is favoured, below it DET. Dots are goals.

Excitement 77/100 · #173 of 720 this seasonSwing 1.91 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 6% (winner's lowest chance)
DET 100%5050%50EDM 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +39 pts

Did the better team win?

Every shot replayed 10,000 times, scoring with its expected-goal probability.

Based on shot quality alone, Edmonton Oilers win this game 52% of the time.

EDM winsDET wins

Simulated goal difference (EDM − DET), 10,000 replays

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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).