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Thu, Nov 15, 2018·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Detroit Red Wings 1, Ottawa Senators 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 58% of the time.

OTT winsDET wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
DET09110016135
OTT11011808236

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 19:21OTTCody CeciAssists: Matt Duchene, Mark Stone · Wrist, 0.12 xG0–1
  2. P2 3:55DETMichael RasmussenAssists: Mike Green, Trevor Daley · Slap, 0.02 xG1–1
  3. P2 7:05OTTDrake BathersonPPGWGAssists: Matt Duchene · Wrist, 0.07 xG1–2
Penalties (11)
  1. P1 4:38DETJustin Abdelkader: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 4:38OTTBrady Tkachuk: Fighting5 min
  3. P1 6:42DETWade Megan: Hooking2 min
  4. P2 5:47DETDylan Larkin: Slashing2 min · PPG
  5. P2 7:45DETAnthony Mantha: Boarding2 min
  6. P2 8:53DETDylan Larkin: Tripping2 min
  7. P2 12:34OTTMark Borowiecki: Interference2 min
  8. P2 16:43OTTZack Smith: Tripping2 min
  9. P3 9:10OTTCody Ceci: Penalty shot holding on breakaway0 min
  10. P3 11:13DETMike Green: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  11. P3 15:59OTTChris Wideman: Penalty shot tripping on breakaway0 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 SOG0OTT
46% to win54% to win
← DET attackOTT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Glendening won the faceoff against White
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DETOTT
35Shots on goal36
3.2Expected goals3.8
74Shot attempts59
31Faceoffs won35
2Power plays5
15Penalty minutes9
30Hits12
10Blocked shots20
18Giveaways22
6Takeaways6

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. bestAbdelkader – Glendening – Bertuzzi7:45

    xG 0.50–0.16 (75%)attempts 12–5goals 0–0

  2. Nielsen – Nyquist – Athanasiou11:05

    xG 0.46–0.37 (55%)attempts 11–9goals 0–1

  3. Helm – Mantha – Larkin10:36

    xG 0.49–0.56 (46%)attempts 16–12goals 0–0

  4. Megan – Frk – Rasmussen2:27

    xG 0.01–0.17 (7%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDaley – Green14:13

    xG 1.02–0.53 (66%)attempts 22–14goals 1–1

  2. Kronwall – Cholowski10:35

    xG 0.46–0.23 (67%)attempts 7–8goals 0–0

  3. Jensen – DeKeyser13:10

    xG 0.45–0.60 (43%)attempts 19–13goals 0–0

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. Boedker – Duchene – Batherson4:34

    xG 0.15–0.21 (42%)attempts 5–6goals 0–1

  2. Ryan – Dzingel – Tierney9:34

    xG 0.21–0.36 (38%)attempts 6–12goals 0–0

  3. Pyatt – Smith – Paajarvi9:06

    xG 0.28–0.63 (31%)attempts 6–16goals 0–0

  4. Stone – White – Tkachuk8:27

    xG 0.23–0.63 (27%)attempts 6–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDeMelo – Chabot17:42

    xG 0.97–0.79 (55%)attempts 16–20goals 0–0

  2. Borowiecki – Wideman8:25

    xG 0.28–0.32 (47%)attempts 10–9goals 0–0

  3. Ceci – Lajoie13:14

    xG 0.22–0.89 (20%)attempts 9–19goals 1–0

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.

OTT 3.8 xGDET 3.2 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTDET

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 20/100 · #998 of 1271 this seasonSwing 1.05 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 52% (winner's lowest chance)
DET 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +21 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Ottawa Senators win this game 58% of the time.

OTT winsDET wins

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

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