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Sun, Feb 17, 2019·Little Caesars Arena, Detroit

Philadelphia Flyers 3, Detroit Red Wings 1

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Detroit Red Wings win this game 76% of the time.

DET winsPHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
PHI1100924323
DET014112012138

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 15:48PHIOskar LindblomAssists: Sean Couturier · Deflected, 0.14 xG1–0
  2. P2 14:49DETDarren HelmAssists: Niklas Kronwall, Frans Nielsen · Backhand, 0.27 xG1–1
  3. P3 2:11PHIIvan ProvorovGWGAssists: Phil Varone, James van Riemsdyk · Slap, 0.03 xG2–1
  4. P3 18:34PHIOskar LindblomENAssists: Sean Couturier, Travis Sanheim · Wrist, 0.74 xG3–1
Penalties (5)
  1. P1 0:53DETAnthony Mantha: Fighting5 min
  2. P1 0:53PHIWayne Simmonds: Fighting5 min
  3. P2 1:29DETTyler Bertuzzi: Too many men on the ice2 min
  4. P2 6:10PHIClaude Giroux: Hooking2 min
  5. P3 5:42PHIScott Laughton: 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.

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 Glendening
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

PHIDET
23Shots on goal38
2.4Expected goals4.1
48Shot attempts74
28Faceoffs won29
1Power plays2
9Penalty minutes7
18Hits26
20Blocked shots16
10Giveaways14
2Takeaways3

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. Giroux – van Riemsdyk – Couturier2:43

    xG 0.15–0.12 (55%)attempts 5–3goals 0–0

  2. Giroux – van Riemsdyk – Konecny5:53

    xG 0.00–0.26 (0%)attempts 5–6goals 0–0

  3. Voracek – Couturier – Lindblom7:14

    xG 0.21–0.62 (26%)attempts 3–13goals 1–1

  4. Simmonds – Laughton – Patrick11:00

    xG 0.37–1.19 (24%)attempts 8–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Provorov – Myers3:38

    xG 0.11–0.12 (50%)attempts 4–2goals 1–0

  2. MacDonald – Gostisbehere7:56

    xG 0.23–0.30 (44%)attempts 5–10goals 0–0

  3. Gostisbehere – Myers2:06

    xG 0.00–0.12 (0%)attempts 1–2goals 0–0

Detroit Red Wings

Forward lines

  1. bestBertuzzi – Mantha – Larkin13:01

    xG 1.20–0.59 (67%)attempts 19–11goals 0–1

  2. Nielsen – Vanek – Helm9:07

    xG 0.34–0.04 (89%)attempts 5–5goals 0–0

  3. Glendening – Athanasiou – Ehn8:12

    xG 0.29–0.13 (69%)attempts 9–8goals 0–1

  4. Abdelkader – de la Rose – Rasmussen5:17

    xG 0.33–0.39 (46%)attempts 6–5goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKronwall – Green17:35

    xG 1.45–0.47 (76%)attempts 20–12goals 1–0

  2. Daley – Hronek10:48

    xG 0.51–0.22 (70%)attempts 12–6goals 0–0

  3. Jensen – DeKeyser16:05

    xG 0.83–0.59 (59%)attempts 16–18goals 0–2

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 4.1 xGPHI 2.4 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

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 22/100 · #979 of 1271 this seasonSwing 1.10 · 4 goals in reachComeback index 46% (winner's lowest chance)
PHI 100%5050%50DET 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +27 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 76% 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).