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Fri, Feb 12, 2016·Joe Louis Arena, Detroit

Colorado Avalanche 3, Detroit Red Wings 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Detroit Red Wings win this game 84% of the time.

DET winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
COL140718022321
DET013114114041245

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 9:27COLMatt DucheneAssists: Mikhail Grigorenko, Carl Soderberg · Wrist, 0.23 xG1–0
  2. P2 4:09DETJonathan EricssonAssists: Justin Abdelkader, Alexey Marchenko · Wrist, 0.01 xG1–1
  3. P3 5:30COLBlake ComeauAssists: Tyson Barrie, John Mitchell · Snap, 0.13 xG2–1
  4. P3 9:51DETPavel DatsyukPPAssists: Justin Abdelkader, Henrik Zetterberg · Backhand, 0.20 xG2–2

Shootout

  1. 1. DET Dylan Larkin stopped
  2. 2. COL Gabriel Landeskog stopped
  3. 3. DET Pavel Datsyuk scored
  4. 4. COL Matt Duchene stopped
  5. 5. DET Brad Richards stopped
  6. 6. COL Nathan MacKinnon scored
  7. 7. DET Gustav Nyquist stopped
  8. 8. COL Blake Comeau scored
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 12:36COLBlake Comeau: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 12:42DETRiley Sheahan: Hooking2 min
  3. P2 16:51COLChris Bigras: Hooking2 min
  4. P3 9:36COLCarl Soderberg: Slashing2 min · PPG
  5. P3 10:03COLAlex Tanguay: Tripping2 min
  6. P3 11:47DETDylan Larkin: Holding the stick2 min
  7. P3 15:53COLJohn Mitchell: Tripping2 min
  8. OT 3:28DETTomas Tatar: Holding2 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

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0DET
47% to win54% to win
← COL attackDET attack →
  1. P1 20:00MacKinnon won the faceoff against Datsyuk
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLDET
21Shots on goal45
2.5Expected goals5.2
35Shot attempts87
18Faceoffs won31
3Power plays5
10Penalty minutes6
28Hits19
25Blocked shots4
1Giveaways5
3Takeaways5

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. bestIginla – Wagner – Martinsen6:20

    xG 0.50–0.27 (65%)attempts 5–4goals 0–0

  2. Tanguay – McLeod – MacKinnon10:47

    xG 0.49–0.56 (47%)attempts 7–15goals 0–0

  3. Iginla – Tanguay – MacKinnon2:46

    xG 0.05–0.24 (18%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

  4. Comeau – Soderberg – Landeskog11:41

    xG 0.31–0.58 (35%)attempts 5–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHolden – Barrie12:46

    xG 0.80–0.49 (62%)attempts 8–21goals 2–0

  2. Beauchemin – Barrie2:26

    xG 0.18–0.24 (44%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  3. Johnson – Holden2:53

    xG 0.14–0.27 (34%)attempts 1–6goals 0–0

Detroit Red Wings

Forward lines

  1. bestHelm – Sheahan – Glendening8:45

    xG 0.82–0.14 (86%)attempts 13–3goals 0–0

  2. Richards – Tatar – Larkin9:54

    xG 0.61–0.33 (65%)attempts 17–4goals 0–1

  3. Datsyuk – Zetterberg – Abdelkader12:53

    xG 0.96–0.69 (58%)attempts 15–9goals 1–0

  4. Nyquist – Jurco – Athanasiou5:59

    xG 0.38–0.26 (59%)attempts 7–3goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestQuincey – DeKeyser20:06

    xG 1.33–0.60 (69%)attempts 24–9goals 0–1

  2. Ericsson – Marchenko11:11

    xG 0.74–0.17 (82%)attempts 20–4goals 1–1

  3. Green – Smith10:04

    xG 0.62–0.70 (47%)attempts 12–7goals 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 5.2 xGCOL 2.5 xG
0123456P1P2P3OTEndxG

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 88/100 · #141 of 1230 this seasonSwing 2.43 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 37% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50DET 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +33 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 84% 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).