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Sun, Mar 29, 2015·Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale

Detroit Red Wings 4, New York Islanders 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, New York Islanders win this game 61% of the time.

NYI winsDET wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
DET3911105425
NYI31021205527

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 0:39DETTomas TatarAssists: Danny DeKeyser · Tip-in, 0.11 xG1–0
  2. P1 1:46DETDrew MillerAssists: Tomas Jurco, Luke Glendening · Wrist, 0.21 xG2–0
  3. P1 4:01NYIBrock NelsonPPAssists: Lubomir Visnovsky, Travis Hamonic · Wrist, 0.14 xG2–1
  4. P1 5:38NYIRyan StromeAssists: John Tavares · Tip-in, 0.11 xG2–2
  5. P1 9:02NYIKyle OkposoPPAssists: John Tavares, Nick Leddy · Tip-in, 0.21 xG2–3
  6. P1 9:54DETNiklas KronwallAssists: Pavel Datsyuk · Wrist, 0.05 xG3–3
  7. P2 0:16NYIFrans NielsenPPAssists: John Tavares, Nick Leddy · Wrist, 0.09 xG3–4
  8. P2 3:57NYICal ClutterbuckSHGWGUnassisted · Wrist, 0.25 xG3–5
  9. P2 10:20DETPavel DatsyukPPAssists: Tomas Tatar, Marek Zidlicky · Backhand, 0.40 xG4–5
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 2:12DETDarren Helm: Hooking2 min · PPG
  2. P1 7:59DETDanny DeKeyser: Holding2 min · PPG
  3. P1 12:02NYICasey Cizikas: Hooking2 min
  4. P1 13:19NYICal Clutterbuck: Roughing2 min
  5. P1 13:19DETJustin Abdelkader: Roughing2 min
  6. P1 19:26DETDrew Miller: High sticking2 min · PPG
  7. P2 3:30NYIBrian Strait: Hooking2 min
  8. P2 5:30DETJustin Abdelkader: Tripping2 min
  9. P2 9:25NYINick Leddy: Holding2 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 SOG0NYI
46% to win54% to win
← DET attackNYI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Nielsen won the faceoff against Datsyuk
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DETNYI
25Shots on goal27
2.0Expected goals2.5
51Shot attempts53
24Faceoffs won31
3Power plays4
10Penalty minutes8
20Hits18
17Blocked shots17
6Giveaways19
5Takeaways17

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. Miller – Jurco – Glendening7:30

    xG 0.25–0.31 (44%)attempts 2–9goals 1–0

  2. Weiss – Andersson – Pulkkinen5:33

    xG 0.05–0.23 (17%)attempts 7–7goals 0–0

  3. Datsyuk – Helm – Tatar11:24

    xG 0.14–0.34 (29%)attempts 9–9goals 0–1

  4. Zetterberg – Abdelkader – Nyquist12:31

    xG 0.08–0.42 (16%)attempts 8–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestZidlicky – Smith13:46

    xG 0.60–0.48 (56%)attempts 14–10goals 1–0

  2. Kronwall – Ericsson15:15

    xG 0.24–0.32 (43%)attempts 12–11goals 1–0

  3. Quincey – DeKeyser14:05

    xG 0.21–0.51 (29%)attempts 7–14goals 1–1

New York Islanders

Forward lines

  1. bestKulemin – Tavares – Strome11:56

    xG 0.51–0.12 (81%)attempts 10–7goals 1–0

  2. Clutterbuck – Martin – Cizikas9:30

    xG 0.22–0.23 (48%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

  3. Kennedy – Lee – Nelson6:14

    xG 0.25–0.30 (45%)attempts 7–5goals 0–2

  4. Nielsen – Okposo – Bailey10:23

    xG 0.04–0.38 (10%)attempts 7–14goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestVisnovsky – Hickey13:05

    xG 0.54–0.26 (68%)attempts 11–12goals 1–1

  2. Strait – Hamonic17:37

    xG 0.31–0.17 (65%)attempts 12–10goals 0–0

  3. Boychuk – Leddy13:37

    xG 0.41–0.49 (46%)attempts 10–12goals 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.

NYI 2.5 xGDET 2.0 xG
00.511.522.5P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

NYIDET

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 89/100 · #113 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.94 · 9 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 22% (winner's lowest chance)
DET 100%5050%50NYI 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +18 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, New York Islanders win this game 61% of the time.

NYI winsDET wins

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

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