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Thu, Mar 6, 2014·Joe Louis Arena, Detroit

Colorado Avalanche 3, Detroit Red Wings 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Detroit Red Wings win this game 57% of the time.

DET winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
COL08171713325
DET11311101201237

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 12:33DETNiklas KronwallAssists: Joakim Andersson, Jonathan Ericsson · Backhand, 0.05 xG0–1
  2. P2 10:11COLMatt DucheneAssists: Erik Johnson, Ryan O'Reilly · Wrist, 0.17 xG1–1
  3. P2 12:10DETTomas JurcoPPAssists: Riley Sheahan, Danny DeKeyser · Wrist, 0.19 xG1–2
  4. P3 5:49COLPA ParenteauAssists: Matt Duchene, Ryan O'Reilly · Backhand, 0.08 xG2–2
  5. OT 4:28COLAndre BenoitGWGAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Erik Johnson · Snap, 0.05 xG3–2
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 14:40DETBrian Lashoff: Hooking2 min
  2. P2 10:27COLNick Holden: Tripping2 min · PPG
  3. OT 0:55DETNiklas Kronwall: Holding2 min
  4. OT 2:03COLPaul Stastny: Tripping2 min

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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

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P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0DET
48% to win52% to win
← COL attackDET attack →
  1. P1 20:00Legwand won the faceoff against Stastny
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLDET
25Shots on goal37
1.6Expected goals1.9
42Shot attempts58
29Faceoffs won26
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
22Hits21
13Blocked shots11
7Giveaways9
4Takeaways6

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.

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestStastny – Landeskog – MacKinnon13:57

    xG 0.44–0.23 (65%)attempts 8–13goals 0–0

  2. Talbot – Mitchell – McGinn11:44

    xG 0.24–0.07 (77%)attempts 6–2goals 0–0

  3. Parenteau – O'Reilly – Duchene13:36

    xG 0.51–0.50 (50%)attempts 15–18goals 2–0

  4. Bordeleau – McLeod – Cliche5:30

    xG 0.07–0.16 (31%)attempts 2–5goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestHejda – Johnson20:19

    xG 0.59–0.51 (54%)attempts 17–19goals 2–0

  2. Holden – Barrie17:13

    xG 0.61–0.55 (53%)attempts 10–18goals 0–1

  3. Sarich – Benoit14:22

    xG 0.06–0.58 (9%)attempts 4–15goals 0–0

Detroit Red Wings

Forward lines

  1. bestBertuzzi – Miller – Andersson9:28

    xG 0.38–0.14 (73%)attempts 12–3goals 1–0

  2. Tatar – Sheahan – Jurco13:12

    xG 0.62–0.40 (60%)attempts 20–9goals 0–0

  3. Alfredsson – Abdelkader – Glendening12:19

    xG 0.28–0.19 (61%)attempts 5–5goals 0–0

  4. Legwand – Franzen – Nyquist12:28

    xG 0.16–0.29 (37%)attempts 12–11goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestKronwall – Ericsson17:01

    xG 0.67–0.53 (56%)attempts 21–16goals 1–1

  2. Smith – Lashoff15:02

    xG 0.34–0.29 (55%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

  3. Kronwall – DeKeyser2:42

    xG 0.08–0.03 (73%)attempts 3–2goals 0–0

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.

DET 1.9 xGCOL 1.6 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DETCOL

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 49/100 · #563 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.60 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 21% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50DET 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +30 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Detroit Red Wings win this game 57% of the time.

DET winsCOL wins

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

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