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Tue, Mar 5, 2019·Pepsi Center, Denver

Detroit Red Wings 3, Colorado Avalanche 4 (OT)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 68% of the time.

COL winsDET wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTTotal
DET18082502323
COL061172912434

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 16:47DETNiklas KronwallAssists: Thomas Vanek, Frans Nielsen · Tip-in, 0.01 xG1–0
  2. P2 1:44COLJ.T. CompherAssists: Carl Soderberg, Colin Wilson · Wrist, 0.07 xG1–1
  3. P3 2:22DETDanny DeKeyserAssists: Jacob de la Rose, Justin Abdelkader · Wrist, 0.10 xG2–1
  4. P3 8:30COLMikko RantanenPPAssists: Tyson Barrie, Gabriel Landeskog · Backhand, 0.21 xG2–2
  5. P3 17:43DETFilip ZadinaPPAssists: Filip Hronek, Thomas Vanek · Slap, 0.05 xG3–2
  6. P3 18:25COLTyson BarrieAssists: Mikko Rantanen, Nathan MacKinnon · Slap, 0.05 xG3–3
  7. OT 2:29COLNathan MacKinnonGWGAssists: Mikko Rantanen · Wrist, 0.21 xG3–4
Penalties (6)
  1. P1 14:45COLDerick Brassard: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 19:18DETAndreas Athanasiou: Holding2 min
  3. P2 5:39DETDanny DeKeyser: Hooking2 min
  4. P2 16:56COLPatrik Nemeth: Slashing2 min
  5. P3 7:45DETMichael Rasmussen: High sticking2 min · PPG
  6. P3 16:18COLColin Wilson: Too many men on the ice2 min · PPG

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 SOG0COL
46% to win54% to win
← DET attackCOL attack →
  1. P1 20:00Larkin won the faceoff against MacKinnon
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DETCOL
23Shots on goal34
2.0Expected goals3.1
48Shot attempts54
30Faceoffs won29
3Power plays3
6Penalty minutes6
29Hits28
13Blocked shots18
5Giveaways11
14Takeaways11

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. bestBertuzzi – Mantha – Larkin10:58

    xG 0.54–0.28 (66%)attempts 7–6goals 0–0

  2. Abdelkader – de la Rose – Rasmussen5:50

    xG 0.10–0.00 (100%)attempts 3–2goals 1–0

  3. Nielsen – Vanek – Helm8:48

    xG 0.17–0.12 (58%)attempts 8–5goals 0–0

  4. Glendening – Athanasiou – Zadina8:08

    xG 0.33–0.31 (52%)attempts 7–8goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestDaley – Ericsson12:43

    xG 0.57–0.39 (59%)attempts 11–12goals 0–1

  2. DeKeyser – Hronek18:56

    xG 0.44–0.38 (53%)attempts 11–13goals 0–0

  3. Kronwall – Bowey14:49

    xG 0.29–0.54 (35%)attempts 11–8goals 0–0

Colorado Avalanche

Forward lines

  1. bestBrassard – Calvert – Jost6:04

    xG 0.31–0.07 (82%)attempts 6–1goals 0–0

  2. Kerfoot – Andrighetto – Dries4:16

    xG 0.00–0.02 (0%)attempts 1–4goals 0–0

  3. Soderberg – Wilson – Compher10:17

    xG 0.28–0.39 (42%)attempts 7–11goals 1–0

  4. Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen14:22

    xG 0.37–0.48 (43%)attempts 11–10goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestCole – Zadorov11:33

    xG 0.71–0.30 (71%)attempts 9–10goals 0–1

  2. Johnson – Girard14:44

    xG 0.45–0.37 (55%)attempts 9–9goals 1–0

  3. Johnson – Barrie2:00

    xG 0.00–0.00attempts 0–0goals 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.

COL 3.1 xGDET 2.0 xG
0123P1P2P3OTEndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

COLDET

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 94/100 · #82 of 1271 this seasonSwing 2.74 · 7 goals in reachComeback index 5% (winner's lowest chance)
DET 100%5050%50COL 100%P1P2P3OTEndBiggest swing +43 pts

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Colorado Avalanche win this game 68% of the time.

COL winsDET wins

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

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