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Sun, Dec 21, 2014·Joe Louis Arena, Detroit

Colorado Avalanche 2, Detroit Red Wings 1 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Detroit Red Wings win this game 89% of the time.

DET winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
COL050719023223
DET010010114012135

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P3 4:52DETPavel DatsyukPPAssists: Riley Sheahan, Henrik Zetterberg · Snap, 0.09 xG0–1
  2. P3 15:45COLErik JohnsonPPAssists: Tyson Barrie, Gabriel Landeskog · Slap, 0.04 xG1–1

Shootout

  1. 1. COL Nathan MacKinnon scored
  2. 2. DET Pavel Datsyuk stopped
  3. 3. COL Matt Duchene scored
  4. 4. DET Gustav Nyquist scored
  5. 5. COL Alex Tanguay stopped
  6. 6. DET Tomas Tatar scored
  7. 7. COL Ryan O'Reilly stopped
  8. 8. DET Riley Sheahan stopped
  9. 9. COL Gabriel Landeskog stopped
  10. 10. DET Johan Franzen stopped
  11. 11. COL Daniel Brière stopped
  12. 12. DET Niklas Kronwall stopped
  13. 13. COL John Mitchell stopped
  14. 14. DET Henrik Zetterberg stopped
  15. 15. COL Tyson Barrie stopped
  16. 16. DET Tomas Jurco stopped
  17. 17. COL Jarome Iginla scored
  18. 18. DET Brendan Smith stopped
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 1:11DETNiklas Kronwall: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 3:25COLJohn Mitchell: Slashing2 min
  3. P1 16:34COLMax Talbot: High sticking double minor4 min
  4. P3 4:10COLNate Guenin: Tripping2 min · PPG
  5. P3 15:35DETTomas Jurco: Interference2 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.

COL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0DET
46% to win54% to win
← COL attackDET attack →
  1. P1 20:00Sheahan won the faceoff against O'Reilly
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLDET
23Shots on goal35
1.3Expected goals3.9
32Shot attempts71
29Faceoffs won37
2Power plays4
8Penalty minutes4
31Hits18
20Blocked shots5
8Giveaways14
4Takeaways7

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. McLeod – Cliche – Everberg5:17

    xG 0.13–0.18 (42%)attempts 3–4goals 0–0

  2. Brière – O'Reilly – Landeskog14:09

    xG 0.38–0.63 (38%)attempts 7–12goals 0–0

  3. Iginla – Tanguay – Mitchell14:35

    xG 0.32–0.77 (29%)attempts 8–16goals 0–0

  4. Talbot – Duchene – MacKinnon12:51

    xG 0.14–0.79 (15%)attempts 7–13goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Redmond – Barrie2:08

    xG 0.00–0.03 (0%)attempts 0–1goals 0–0

  2. Stuart – Redmond15:10

    xG 0.50–0.68 (42%)attempts 10–19goals 0–0

  3. Guenin – Barrie12:09

    xG 0.14–0.64 (18%)attempts 5–8goals 0–0

Detroit Red Wings

Forward lines

  1. bestDatsyuk – Zetterberg – Abdelkader12:34

    xG 0.70–0.13 (85%)attempts 15–5goals 0–0

  2. Tatar – Sheahan – Jurco13:17

    xG 0.83–0.42 (66%)attempts 13–9goals 0–0

  3. Franzen – Helm – Nyquist10:18

    xG 0.46–0.16 (74%)attempts 13–5goals 0–0

  4. Cleary – Miller – Glendening7:47

    xG 0.08–0.16 (34%)attempts 3–3goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKronwall – Ericsson14:35

    xG 0.55–0.24 (70%)attempts 11–9goals 0–0

  2. Kindl – Smith15:25

    xG 0.72–0.43 (63%)attempts 15–11goals 0–0

  3. Quincey – DeKeyser18:45

    xG 0.68–0.40 (63%)attempts 17–7goals 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 3.9 xGCOL 1.3 xG
01234P1P2P3OTEndxG

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 47/100 · #601 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.51 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 10% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50DET 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +40 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 89% of the time.

DET winsCOL wins

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

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