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Sat, Mar 18, 2017·Joe Louis Arena, Detroit

Colorado Avalanche 1, Detroit Red Wings 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Detroit Red Wings win this game 68% of the time.

DET winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
COL0110518124
DET0616411523

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 16:43DETJustin AbdelkaderPPAssists: Henrik Zetterberg, Niklas Kronwall · Wrist, 0.10 xG0–1
  2. P3 3:44COLNathan MacKinnonAssists: Tyson Barrie, Sven Andrighetto · Deflected, 0.11 xG1–1
  3. P3 5:20DETTomas TatarGWGAssists: Luke Glendening · Wrist, 0.17 xG1–2
  4. P3 6:56DETTomas TatarAssists: Gustav Nyquist, Dylan Larkin · Wrist, 0.06 xG1–3
  5. P3 12:44DETDylan LarkinPPAssists: Tomas Tatar, Andreas Athanasiou · Wrist, 0.34 xG1–4
  6. P3 16:18DETGustav NyquistAssists: Henrik Zetterberg, Mike Green · Snap, 0.12 xG1–5
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 0:35COLMark Barberio: High sticking2 min
  2. P1 13:21DETLuke Glendening: Tripping2 min
  3. P2 16:25COLFedor Tyutin: Holding2 min · PPG
  4. P3 7:16DETDanny DeKeyser: Interference2 min
  5. P3 11:07COLBlake Comeau: Cross checking2 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
44% to win56% to win
← COL attackDET attack →
  1. P1 20:00MacKinnon won the faceoff against Larkin
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLDET
24Shots on goal23
2.1Expected goals3.0
48Shot attempts44
30Faceoffs won30
2Power plays3
6Penalty minutes4
20Hits15
7Blocked shots10
9Giveaways16
1Takeaways4

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. bestAndrighetto – MacKinnon – Rantanen12:20

    xG 0.82–0.38 (68%)attempts 17–6goals 1–1

  2. Bourque – Duchene – Landeskog11:10

    xG 0.52–0.14 (78%)attempts 10–5goals 0–1

  3. Mitchell – Comeau – Soderberg11:35

    xG 0.23–0.31 (43%)attempts 9–10goals 0–0

  4. Colborne – Nieto – Compher12:36

    xG 0.20–0.60 (25%)attempts 6–12goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestBeauchemin – Barrie9:42

    xG 0.62–0.34 (64%)attempts 12–8goals 1–0

  2. Tyutin – Barrie8:12

    xG 0.41–0.16 (73%)attempts 7–6goals 0–0

  3. Tyutin – Lindholm8:13

    xG 0.33–0.12 (73%)attempts 8–5goals 0–0

Detroit Red Wings

Forward lines

  1. bestNielsen – Helm – Mantha3:40

    xG 0.15–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–1goals 0–0

  2. Zetterberg – Nyquist – Tatar12:04

    xG 0.35–0.40 (47%)attempts 8–5goals 2–0

  3. Miller – Sheahan – Glendening6:41

    xG 0.15–0.20 (43%)attempts 8–5goals 0–0

  4. Abdelkader – Athanasiou – Larkin9:45

    xG 0.44–0.57 (44%)attempts 6–14goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestKronwall – Green14:32

    xG 1.21–0.93 (56%)attempts 16–13goals 2–1

  2. Russo – Ouellet15:14

    xG 0.54–0.30 (65%)attempts 14–14goals 1–0

  3. Jensen – DeKeyser18:30

    xG 0.04–0.41 (10%)attempts 5–13goals 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 3.0 xGCOL 2.1 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

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 35/100 · #759 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.18 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 53% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50DET 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest 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 68% 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).