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Sat, Dec 29, 2018·American Airlines Center, Dallas

Detroit Red Wings 1, Dallas Stars 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 70% of the time.

DAL winsDET wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
DET0709118134
DAL01731629542

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 5:11DALBlake ComeauAssists: Radek Faksa, Taylor Fedun · Tip-in, 0.11 xG0–1
  2. P2 11:11DALAlexander RadulovGWGAssists: Mattias Janmark, Esa Lindell · Wrist, 0.04 xG0–2
  3. P2 14:43DALAlexander RadulovPPAssists: Jason Spezza, Tyler Seguin · Wrist, 0.41 xG0–3
  4. P3 0:31DALTyler PitlickAssists: Radek Faksa, Blake Comeau · Wrist, 0.02 xG0–4
  5. P3 2:20DALJason SpezzaUnassisted · Slap, 0.05 xG0–5
  6. P3 3:52DETDylan LarkinPPAssists: Gustav Nyquist, Frans Nielsen · Backhand, 0.31 xG1–5
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 19:23DETJustin Abdelkader: Slashing2 min
  2. P2 13:32DETJonathan Ericsson: Hooking2 min · PPG
  3. P3 3:05DALBrett Ritchie: Elbowing2 min · PPG
  4. P3 5:47DALBlake Comeau: Interference2 min
  5. P3 8:02DALJulius Honka: Hooking2 min
  6. P3 13:39DALRadek Faksa: Hooking2 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 SOG0DAL
46% to win54% to win
← DET attackDAL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Nielsen won the faceoff against Hintz
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DETDAL
34Shots on goal42
3.2Expected goals4.6
62Shot attempts70
31Faceoffs won40
4Power plays2
4Penalty minutes8
14Hits23
19Blocked shots22
10Giveaways9
1Takeaways1

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. Glendening – Bertuzzi – Rasmussen7:01

    xG 0.20–0.38 (35%)attempts 7–9goals 0–0

  2. Nielsen – Vanek – Nyquist8:30

    xG 0.20–0.39 (34%)attempts 10–10goals 0–2

  3. Abdelkader – Athanasiou – Larkin9:32

    xG 0.22–0.56 (28%)attempts 12–10goals 0–0

  4. Megan – de la Rose – Ehn8:21

    xG 0.27–0.78 (25%)attempts 6–13goals 0–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestJensen – Cholowski6:26

    xG 0.57–0.05 (91%)attempts 8–6goals 0–0

  2. Daley – Ericsson13:19

    xG 0.98–1.01 (49%)attempts 16–18goals 0–0

  3. Cholowski – Hronek5:49

    xG 0.27–0.41 (40%)attempts 9–5goals 0–0

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestComeau – Pitlick – Faksa9:03

    xG 0.70–0.26 (73%)attempts 12–9goals 2–0

  2. Spezza – Ritchie – Janmark4:52

    xG 0.41–0.17 (70%)attempts 9–4goals 0–0

  3. Seguin – Shore – Gurianov5:45

    xG 0.29–0.07 (82%)attempts 5–7goals 0–0

  4. Radulov – Janmark – Hintz4:55

    xG 0.18–0.03 (85%)attempts 3–3goals 1–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestFedun – Honka12:00

    xG 1.05–0.16 (87%)attempts 16–7goals 1–0

  2. Klingberg – Heiskanen4:24

    xG 0.30–0.04 (88%)attempts 8–4goals 0–0

  3. Klingberg – Honka2:05

    xG 0.19–0.01 (93%)attempts 3–1goals 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.

DAL 4.6 xGDET 3.2 xG
012345P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DALDET

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 13/100 · #1083 of 1271 this seasonSwing 0.55 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 52% (winner's lowest chance)
DET 100%5050%50DAL 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, Dallas Stars win this game 70% of the time.

DAL winsDET wins

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

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