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Sun, Mar 26, 2017·Joe Louis Arena, Detroit

Minnesota Wild 2, Detroit Red Wings 3 (OT)

Expected result

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

DET winsMIN wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
MIN110180701226
DET18061312319

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 9:43MINEric StaalAssists: Zach Parise, Jonas Brodin · Wrist, 0.06 xG1–0
  2. P1 19:41DETMike GreenAssists: Niklas Kronwall, Frans Nielsen · Wrist, 0.01 xG1–1
  3. P2 16:14MINNate ProsserUnassisted · Wrist, 0.01 xG2–1
  4. P3 0:55DETTomas TatarPPAssists: Gustav Nyquist, Henrik Zetterberg · Wrist, 0.07 xG2–2
  5. OT 1:52DETAndreas AthanasiouGWGAssists: Gustav Nyquist · Wrist, 0.22 xG2–3
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 13:00MINEric Staal: Slashing2 min
  2. P1 13:59DETJustin Abdelkader: High sticking2 min
  3. P2 1:43DETNiklas Kronwall: Interference goalkeeper2 min
  4. P2 19:15MINMikko Koivu: 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.

MIN00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0DET
44% to win56% to win
← MIN attackDET attack →
  1. P1 20:00Zetterberg won the faceoff against Koivu
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

MINDET
26Shots on goal19
1.4Expected goals1.5
51Shot attempts34
31Faceoffs won24
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
26Hits23
6Blocked shots15
9Giveaways13
4Takeaways0

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.

Minnesota Wild

Forward lines

  1. bestWhite – Schroeder – Haula7:16

    xG 0.28–0.00 (100%)attempts 7–1goals 0–0

  2. Staal – Parise – Coyle13:16

    xG 0.22–0.27 (45%)attempts 11–8goals 2–1

  3. Pominville – Hanzal – Zucker12:54

    xG 0.16–0.28 (36%)attempts 13–7goals 0–0

  4. Koivu – Granlund – Niederreiter14:32

    xG 0.15–0.37 (30%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestSuter – Spurgeon18:34

    xG 0.44–0.20 (68%)attempts 19–12goals 0–1

  2. Prosser – Brodin11:41

    xG 0.17–0.15 (53%)attempts 8–6goals 2–0

  3. Scandella – Dumba17:58

    xG 0.29–0.49 (37%)attempts 9–7goals 0–0

Detroit Red Wings

Forward lines

  1. bestZetterberg – Nyquist – Tatar15:24

    xG 0.37–0.16 (70%)attempts 9–8goals 0–0

  2. Miller – Glendening – Nosek6:40

    xG 0.14–0.04 (79%)attempts 2–7goals 0–0

  3. Nielsen – Abdelkader – Mantha2:08

    xG 0.02–0.02 (52%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

  4. Sheahan – Athanasiou – Larkin3:04

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–0goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestJensen – DeKeyser14:54

    xG 0.29–0.18 (62%)attempts 10–11goals 0–2

  2. Kronwall – Green14:44

    xG 0.40–0.38 (51%)attempts 10–9goals 1–0

  3. Green – Ouellet2:28

    xG 0.03–0.07 (27%)attempts 1–4goals 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 1.5 xGMIN 1.4 xG
00.511.5P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DETMIN

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 MIN. Dots are goals.

Excitement 44/100 · #645 of 1230 this seasonSwing 1.40 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 30% (winner's lowest chance)
MIN 100%5050%50DET 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +22 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.

DET winsMIN wins

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

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