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Tue, Nov 8, 2016·Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia

Detroit Red Wings 3, Philadelphia Flyers 2 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Detroit Red Wings win this game 53% of the time.

PHI winsDET wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
DET19010113031335
PHI160819020225

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 6:28PHIClaude GirouxPPAssists: Jakub Voracek, Brayden Schenn · Snap, 0.04 xG0–1
  2. P1 8:42DETTomas TatarAssists: Henrik Zetterberg · Wrist, 0.13 xG1–1
  3. P3 6:51PHISean CouturierAssists: Jakub Voracek, Mark Streit · Backhand, 0.24 xG1–2
  4. P3 11:11DETAndreas AthanasiouAssists: Danny DeKeyser, Mike Green · Wrist, 0.15 xG2–2

Shootout

  1. 1. PHI Travis Konecny stopped
  2. 2. DET Gustav Nyquist stopped
  3. 3. PHI Claude Giroux stopped
  4. 4. DET Frans Nielsen stopped
  5. 5. PHI Jakub Voracek stopped
  6. 6. DET Andreas Athanasiou scored
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 1:33PHIClaude Giroux: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 6:14DETJustin Abdelkader: Hooking2 min · PPG
  3. P1 19:44PHIBrandon Manning: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 5:39DETJonathan Ericsson: Fighting5 min
  5. P2 5:39PHIWayne Simmonds: Fighting5 min
  6. P2 7:40PHITravis Konecny: High sticking2 min
  7. P2 18:12DETDanny DeKeyser: 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.

DET00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0PHI
44% to win56% to win
← DET attackPHI attack →
  1. P1 20:00Zetterberg won the faceoff against Couturier
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DETPHI
35Shots on goal25
3.3Expected goals3.0
70Shot attempts60
24Faceoffs won34
3Power plays2
9Penalty minutes11
27Hits30
17Blocked shots19
8Giveaways9
7Takeaways4

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. bestNielsen – Athanasiou – Bertuzzi4:04

    xG 0.25–0.05 (83%)attempts 2–2goals 1–0

  2. Ott – Sheahan – Glendening4:46

    xG 0.13–0.07 (65%)attempts 4–4goals 0–0

  3. Abdelkader – Helm – Larkin7:46

    xG 0.29–0.31 (48%)attempts 12–8goals 0–0

  4. Zetterberg – Nyquist – Tatar11:01

    xG 0.42–0.46 (48%)attempts 10–11goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestEricsson – Marchenko10:42

    xG 0.67–0.37 (65%)attempts 14–8goals 1–0

  2. Green – DeKeyser17:49

    xG 0.52–0.42 (55%)attempts 15–12goals 1–0

  3. Kronwall – Smith13:16

    xG 0.68–1.27 (35%)attempts 13–19goals 0–1

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestVoracek – Couturier – Konecny15:30

    xG 1.24–0.82 (60%)attempts 18–17goals 1–0

  2. Weise – Schenn – Raffl9:17

    xG 0.35–0.41 (46%)attempts 8–11goals 0–1

  3. VandeVelde – Bellemare – Lyubimov7:13

    xG 0.20–0.26 (43%)attempts 6–4goals 0–1

  4. Giroux – Simmonds – Read10:21

    xG 0.16–0.45 (27%)attempts 8–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDel Zotto – Gostisbehere15:08

    xG 0.97–0.25 (79%)attempts 16–12goals 0–0

  2. Streit – Provorov15:52

    xG 0.84–0.78 (52%)attempts 17–15goals 1–0

  3. Manning – Gudas15:24

    xG 0.42–0.86 (32%)attempts 13–17goals 0–2

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.

PHI 3.0 xGDET 3.3 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

PHIDET

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 60/100 · #453 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.82 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 10% (winner's lowest chance)
DET 100%5050%50PHI 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +37 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 53% of the time.

PHI winsDET wins

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

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