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Sun, Nov 19, 2017·Little Caesars Arena, Detroit

Colorado Avalanche 4, Detroit Red Wings 3 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 59% of the time.

DET winsCOL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
COL11201221112437
DET171711000324

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 14:01DETJustin AbdelkaderAssists: Dylan Larkin, Xavier Ouellet · Snap, 0.02 xG0–1
  2. P1 19:44COLErik JohnsonAssists: Tyson Barrie, Dominic Toninato · Slap, 0.02 xG1–1
  3. P2 19:03DETAndreas AthanasiouAssists: Tomas Tatar · Wrist, 0.05 xG1–2
  4. P3 11:07DETNiklas KronwallPPAssists: Gustav Nyquist, Justin Abdelkader · Slap, 0.09 xG1–3
  5. P3 13:45COLNail YakupovPPAssists: Colin Wilson, Erik Johnson · Slap, 0.04 xG2–3
  6. P3 19:14COLCarl SoderbergAssists: Nathan MacKinnon, Tyson Barrie · Tip-in, 0.02 xG3–3
  7. OT 2:55COLNathan MacKinnonGWGAssists: Gabriel Landeskog · Snap, 0.07 xG4–3
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 15:21DETDanny DeKeyser: Hooking2 min
  2. P2 7:22DETAnthony Mantha: Holding2 min
  3. P2 8:35DETFrans Nielsen: Tripping2 min
  4. P2 11:46DETMike Green: Roughing2 min
  5. P2 14:03COLMikko Rantanen: Tripping2 min
  6. P2 19:37COLMikko Rantanen: Tripping2 min
  7. P3 2:43DETGustav Nyquist: High sticking2 min
  8. P3 9:18COLMikko Rantanen: Interference2 min · PPG
  9. P3 13:31DETJonathan Ericsson: High sticking2 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
46% to win54% to win
← COL attackDET attack →
  1. P1 20:00Nielsen won the faceoff against MacKinnon
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

COLDET
37Shots on goal24
2.1Expected goals1.6
62Shot attempts45
24Faceoffs won42
6Power plays3
6Penalty minutes12
25Hits18
11Blocked shots14
7Giveaways11
4Takeaways11

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. bestComeau – Soderberg – Nieto7:34

    xG 0.25–0.00 (100%)attempts 8–0goals 0–0

  2. Yakupov – Toninato – Andrighetto7:02

    xG 0.44–0.23 (66%)attempts 10–8goals 0–0

  3. Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen12:43

    xG 0.19–0.12 (62%)attempts 8–4goals 0–0

  4. Wilson – Kerfoot – Compher5:23

    xG 0.08–0.24 (25%)attempts 3–6goals 0–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestBarberio – Zadorov8:20

    xG 0.43–0.13 (76%)attempts 8–5goals 0–1

  2. Johnson – Girard15:04

    xG 0.31–0.19 (62%)attempts 14–7goals 0–0

  3. Johnson – Barrie3:50

    xG 0.07–0.05 (57%)attempts 3–2goals 1–0

Detroit Red Wings

Forward lines

  1. bestZetterberg – Nyquist – Mantha4:24

    xG 0.20–0.06 (76%)attempts 5–2goals 0–0

  2. Zetterberg – Nyquist – Tatar5:10

    xG 0.22–0.10 (69%)attempts 7–4goals 0–0

  3. Nielsen – Helm – Glendening9:56

    xG 0.12–0.01 (89%)attempts 4–2goals 0–0

  4. Abdelkader – Mantha – Larkin2:28

    xG 0.08–0.00 (100%)attempts 1–0goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDaley – Ericsson13:37

    xG 0.19–0.13 (59%)attempts 6–8goals 1–0

  2. Kronwall – Green3:51

    xG 0.10–0.13 (45%)attempts 2–7goals 0–0

  3. Kronwall – Jensen9:01

    xG 0.20–0.25 (44%)attempts 5–6goals 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 1.6 xGCOL 2.1 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3OTEndxG

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 91/100 · #136 of 1271 this seasonSwing 2.29 · 7 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 2% (winner's lowest chance)
COL 100%5050%50DET 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +41 pts

Did the better team win?

Every shot replayed 10,000 times, scoring with its expected-goal probability.

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 59% 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).