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Sat, Oct 24, 2015·Rogers Arena, Vancouver

Detroit Red Wings 3, Vancouver Canucks 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Vancouver Canucks win this game 59% of the time.

VAN winsDET wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
DET070421215328
VAN1101130702232

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 13:03VANChris TanevPPAssists: Alexandre Burrows, Ben Hutton · Wrist, 0.10 xG0–1
  2. P2 8:02VANBrandon SutterPPAssists: Alexandre Burrows, Bo Horvat · Wrist, 0.16 xG0–2
  3. P3 4:25DETTeemu PulkkinenAssists: Tomas Tatar, Brendan Smith · Wrist, 0.13 xG1–2
  4. P3 6:59DETTomas TatarPPAssists: Niklas Kronwall, Henrik Zetterberg · Wrist, 0.13 xG2–2
  5. OT 3:50DETGustav NyquistGWGAssists: Petr Mrazek · Wrist, 0.06 xG3–2
Penalties (10)
  1. P1 9:43VANAlexander Edler: Holding2 min
  2. P1 11:32DETGustav Nyquist: Hooking2 min · PPG
  3. P2 1:31VANDan Hamhuis: Hooking2 min
  4. P2 3:54DETRiley Sheahan: High sticking2 min
  5. P2 6:35DETJonathan Ericsson: Tripping2 min · PPG
  6. P2 8:50VANJared McCann: Tripping2 min
  7. P3 6:05VANYannick Weber: High sticking2 min · PPG
  8. P3 9:30DETJakub Kindl: Interference2 min
  9. P3 10:56VANAlexander Edler: Holding2 min
  10. OT 0:13VANDaniel Sedin: 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.

DET00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0VAN
47% to win54% to win
← DET attackVAN attack →
  1. P1 20:00Sedin won the faceoff against Tatar
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DETVAN
28Shots on goal32
2.2Expected goals2.7
46Shot attempts58
23Faceoffs won37
6Power plays4
8Penalty minutes12
18Hits10
11Blocked shots9
5Giveaways10
5Takeaways7

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. bestZetterberg – Abdelkader – Nyquist13:16

    xG 0.35–0.14 (72%)attempts 9–6goals 0–0

  2. Helm – Sheahan – Glendening8:46

    xG 0.10–0.18 (37%)attempts 5–6goals 0–0

  3. Miller – Andersson – Ferraro5:13

    xG 0.05–0.33 (14%)attempts 2–8goals 0–0

  4. Tatar – Pulkkinen – Larkin9:28

    xG 0.29–0.65 (31%)attempts 4–14goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKindl – Smith10:36

    xG 0.31–0.24 (57%)attempts 9–11goals 1–0

  2. Marchenko – DeKeyser12:23

    xG 0.41–0.49 (46%)attempts 8–15goals 0–0

  3. Kronwall – Ericsson14:29

    xG 0.26–0.72 (27%)attempts 8–12goals 0–0

Vancouver Canucks

Forward lines

  1. bestSedin – Sedin – Vrbata14:37

    xG 0.68–0.36 (65%)attempts 13–9goals 0–0

  2. Baertschi – Horvat – Virtanen4:24

    xG 0.34–0.10 (77%)attempts 8–3goals 0–0

  3. Burrows – Hansen – Sutter8:32

    xG 0.22–0.19 (54%)attempts 8–4goals 0–1

  4. Prust – Dorsett – McCann9:31

    xG 0.13–0.27 (32%)attempts 8–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestEdler – Tanev18:17

    xG 0.73–0.29 (72%)attempts 14–10goals 0–0

  2. Hamhuis – Weber11:21

    xG 0.41–0.22 (64%)attempts 16–5goals 0–0

  3. Sbisa – Hutton11:16

    xG 0.37–0.44 (46%)attempts 8–9goals 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.

VAN 2.7 xGDET 2.2 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

VANDET

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 74/100 · #295 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.85 · 5 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 6% (winner's lowest chance)
DET 100%5050%50VAN 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, Vancouver Canucks win this game 59% of the time.

VAN winsDET wins

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

-7
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0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).