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Sat, Dec 22, 2018·Little Caesars Arena, Detroit

Florida Panthers 2, Detroit Red Wings 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Detroit Red Wings win this game 77% of the time.

DET winsFLA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
FLA290707223
DET01018016134

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 3:09FLAMike HoffmanPPAssists: Jonathan Huberdeau, Aleksander Barkov · Snap, 0.11 xG1–0
  2. P1 17:21FLAEvgenii DadonovGWGAssists: Jonathan Huberdeau, Aleksander Barkov · Wrist, 0.20 xG2–0
  3. P2 10:00DETThomas VanekAssists: Dylan Larkin, Nick Jensen · Wrist, 0.14 xG2–1
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 3:00DETDennis Cholowski: Holding2 min · PPG
  2. P1 9:40FLAMicheal Haley: Charging2 min
  3. P1 9:40DETNiklas Kronwall: Roughing2 min
  4. P1 18:08FLAJared McCann: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 0:34FLAAleksander Barkov: Holding2 min
  6. P3 1:42FLAFrank Vatrano: Holding2 min
  7. P3 9:02DETNick Jensen: Delaying game puck over glass2 min
  8. P3 11:28FLATroy Brouwer: Slashing2 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.

FLA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

FLADET
23Shots on goal34
1.6Expected goals3.2
41Shot attempts66
32Faceoffs won29
2Power plays4
10Penalty minutes6
21Hits11
15Blocked shots8
11Giveaways11
2Takeaways4

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.

Florida Panthers

Forward lines

  1. bestDadonov – Huberdeau – Barkov12:43

    xG 0.45–0.14 (77%)attempts 9–7goals 1–0

  2. Sceviour – Haley – Hawryluk4:46

    xG 0.11–0.12 (49%)attempts 2–3goals 0–0

  3. Brouwer – McCann – Malgin9:39

    xG 0.31–0.39 (45%)attempts 8–12goals 0–1

  4. Hoffman – Vatrano – Borgstrom11:07

    xG 0.21–0.67 (24%)attempts 10–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestYandle – Ekblad15:08

    xG 0.70–0.21 (77%)attempts 12–9goals 1–0

  2. Matheson – Weegar15:25

    xG 0.50–0.91 (35%)attempts 16–17goals 0–1

  3. Pysyk – Kiselevich13:38

    xG 0.06–0.65 (8%)attempts 6–16goals 0–0

Detroit Red Wings

Forward lines

  1. bestAbdelkader – Nyquist – Larkin11:03

    xG 0.69–0.40 (63%)attempts 17–5goals 0–1

  2. de la Rose – Ehn – Rasmussen6:32

    xG 0.24–0.14 (63%)attempts 3–6goals 0–0

  3. Nielsen – Glendening – Bertuzzi8:40

    xG 0.11–0.14 (43%)attempts 4–6goals 0–0

  4. Vanek – Megan – Frk2:27

    xG 0.01–0.18 (3%)attempts 2–2goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKronwall – Jensen12:44

    xG 1.07–0.39 (73%)attempts 16–8goals 1–0

  2. Kronwall – Hronek5:38

    xG 0.24–0.18 (57%)attempts 9–5goals 0–0

  3. Daley – Hronek2:21

    xG 0.03–0.00 (100%)attempts 2–0goals 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 3.2 xGFLA 1.6 xG
0123P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DETFLA

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 FLA. Dots are goals.

Excitement 18/100 · #1017 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.97 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 46% (winner's lowest chance)
FLA 100%5050%50DET 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +17 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 77% of the time.

DET winsFLA wins

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

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