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Tue, Jan 23, 2018·Little Caesars Arena, Detroit

Philadelphia Flyers 3, Detroit Red Wings 2 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Detroit Red Wings win this game 50% of the time.

DET winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
PHI052180711331
DET140711000221

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 10:42DETJonathan EricssonAssists: Luke Glendening · Snap, 0.01 xG0–1
  2. P2 1:10PHIAndrew MacDonaldAssists: Jakub Voracek · Slap, 0.03 xG1–1
  3. P2 19:23PHIJakub VoracekPPAssists: Sean Couturier, Claude Giroux · Wrist, 0.30 xG2–1
  4. P3 10:44DETFrans NielsenAssists: Tomas Tatar, Luke Glendening · Wrist, 0.10 xG2–2
  5. OT 0:27PHITravis KonecnyGWGAssists: Sean Couturier · Snap, 0.06 xG3–2
Penalties (4)
  1. P2 9:23DETLuke Witkowski: Charging2 min
  2. P2 15:56PHIMichael Raffl: Holding2 min
  3. P2 19:11DETDylan Larkin: Tripping2 min · PPG
  4. P3 14:33PHIRobert Hagg: Boarding2 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.

PHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0DET
46% to win54% to win
← PHI attackDET attack →
  1. P1 20:00Couturier won the faceoff against Nielsen
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIDET
31Shots on goal21
2.2Expected goals2.2
53Shot attempts52
27Faceoffs won24
2Power plays2
4Penalty minutes4
18Hits20
17Blocked shots7
7Giveaways11
7Takeaways9

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.

Philadelphia Flyers

Forward lines

  1. bestFilppula – Voracek – Raffl7:54

    xG 0.27–0.06 (82%)attempts 8–6goals 1–0

  2. Lehtera – Laughton – Goulbourne4:39

    xG 0.15–0.12 (56%)attempts 4–6goals 0–1

  3. Giroux – Couturier – Konecny12:12

    xG 0.29–0.34 (46%)attempts 9–12goals 0–0

  4. Simmonds – Weal – Patrick10:42

    xG 0.27–0.42 (39%)attempts 9–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestManning – Gudas10:26

    xG 0.54–0.25 (69%)attempts 13–8goals 0–1

  2. Gostisbehere – Provorov14:42

    xG 0.31–0.31 (50%)attempts 9–10goals 0–1

  3. MacDonald – Gostisbehere2:49

    xG 0.20–0.24 (45%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

Detroit Red Wings

Forward lines

  1. bestNielsen – Tatar – Glendening5:21

    xG 0.37–0.08 (82%)attempts 7–3goals 1–0

  2. Athanasiou – Bertuzzi – Larkin12:05

    xG 0.31–0.29 (52%)attempts 14–10goals 0–1

  3. Nielsen – Booth – Tatar6:00

    xG 0.00–0.12 (0%)attempts 2–4goals 0–0

  4. Zetterberg – Nyquist – Mantha15:12

    xG 0.38–0.52 (42%)attempts 11–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestEricsson – Ouellet12:21

    xG 1.08–0.13 (89%)attempts 16–9goals 1–0

  2. Jensen – DeKeyser16:45

    xG 0.36–0.24 (60%)attempts 14–7goals 0–0

  3. Ericsson – Green3:05

    xG 0.15–0.11 (57%)attempts 4–2goals 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 2.2 xGPHI 2.2 xG
00.511.52P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DETPHI

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 PHI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 72/100 · #380 of 1271 this seasonSwing 1.96 · 5 goals in reachComeback index 24% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50DET 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +35 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 50% of the time.

DET winsPHI wins

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

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