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Tue, Apr 20, 2021·American Airlines Center, Dallas

Detroit Red Wings 2, Dallas Stars 5

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 54% of the time.

DAL winsDET wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
DET0121717226
DAL3101717524

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 2:55DALTanner KeroAssists: Jamie Benn · Snap, 0.12 xG0–1
  2. P1 5:07DALJason RobertsonAssists: Jason Dickinson, Joel Hanley · Snap, 0.15 xG0–2
  3. P1 14:17DALJoe PavelskiGWGAssists: Jason Robertson, Jason Dickinson · Tip-in, 0.10 xG0–3
  4. P2 3:36DALJamie OleksiakAssists: Denis Gurianov · Snap, 0.22 xG0–4
  5. P2 4:51DETValtteri FilppulaAssists: Jakub Vrana · Wrist, 0.19 xG1–4
  6. P3 16:13DETDylan LarkinAssists: Filip Hronek, Sam Gagner · Snap, 0.08 xG2–4
  7. P3 19:07DALBlake ComeauENAssists: Andrew Cogliano · Backhand, 0.72 xG2–5
Penalties (8)
  1. P1 17:36DETVladislav Namestnikov: Roughing2 min
  2. P1 17:36DALSami Vatanen: Roughing2 min
  3. P2 17:13DALRhett Gardner: High sticking2 min
  4. P2 0:00DETDylan Larkin: Fighting5 min
  5. P2 0:00DALEsa Lindell: Fighting5 min
  6. P3 1:48DETVladislav Namestnikov: Slashing2 min
  7. P3 3:21DALJake Oettinger: Tripping2 min
  8. P3 9:55DETDylan Larkin: High sticking2 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 20:00Glendening won the faceoff against Benn
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DETDAL
26Shots on goal24
2.4Expected goals2.7
63Shot attempts43
30Faceoffs won24
2Power plays2
11Penalty minutes11
14Hits21
9Blocked shots20
10Giveaways7
3Takeaways5

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. bestFilppula – Vrana – Rasmussen8:33

    xG 0.34–0.20 (63%)attempts 7–6goals 1–1

  2. Helm – Glendening – Erne8:43

    xG 0.19–0.22 (46%)attempts 11–4goals 0–1

  3. Vrana – Larkin – Zadina3:05

    xG 0.11–0.15 (42%)attempts 7–1goals 0–0

  4. Gagner – Panik – Namestnikov5:13

    xG 0.13–0.64 (17%)attempts 4–8goals 0–2

Defence pairs

  1. bestDeKeyser – Stecher3:21

    xG 0.22–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

  2. Staal – Biega3:10

    xG 0.21–0.10 (69%)attempts 4–3goals 1–0

  3. Cholowski – Hronek10:51

    xG 0.20–0.21 (49%)attempts 11–6goals 0–1

Dallas Stars

Forward lines

  1. bestPavelski – Dickinson – Robertson8:57

    xG 0.70–0.00 (100%)attempts 12–0goals 2–0

  2. Benn – Gurianov – Kero11:49

    xG 0.55–0.23 (71%)attempts 8–16goals 2–0

  3. Dowling – Gardner – Dellandrea5:50

    xG 0.04–0.27 (12%)attempts 3–7goals 0–0

  4. Comeau – Cogliano – Faksa10:56

    xG 0.23–0.62 (27%)attempts 8–15goals 0–1

Defence pairs

  1. bestVatanen – Oleksiak15:21

    xG 0.68–0.40 (63%)attempts 14–17goals 1–1

  2. Sekera – Hanley11:52

    xG 0.44–0.34 (56%)attempts 10–7goals 2–0

  3. Klingberg – Lindell14:32

    xG 0.39–0.46 (46%)attempts 8–18goals 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 2.7 xGDET 2.4 xG
-0.500.511.522.53P1P2P3EndxG

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 62/100 · #330 of 868 this seasonSwing 0.56 · 6 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 54% (winner's lowest chance)
DET 100%5050%50DAL 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +14 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 54% 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).