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Sat, May 1, 2021·Little Caesars Arena, Detroit

Tampa Bay Lightning 0, Detroit Red Wings 1 (SO)

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Tampa Bay Lightning win this game 95% of the time.

DET winsTBL wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3OTSOTotal
TBL01106014023033
DET040504024115

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. No goals in regulation or overtime.

Shootout

  1. 1. TBL Ross Colton scored
  2. 2. DET Jakub Vrana scored
  3. 3. TBL Brayden Point scored
  4. 4. DET Filip Zadina scored
  5. 5. TBL Alex Barré-Boulet stopped
  6. 6. DET Adam Erne stopped
  7. 7. TBL Victor Hedman stopped
  8. 8. DET Joseph Veleno stopped
  9. 9. TBL Mikhail Sergachev stopped
  10. 10. DET Evgeny Svechnikov stopped
  11. 11. TBL Blake Coleman stopped
  12. 12. DET Vladislav Namestnikov stopped
  13. 13. TBL Tyler Johnson scored
  14. 14. DET Valtteri Filppula scored
  15. 15. TBL Yanni Gourde stopped
  16. 16. DET Sam Gagner scored
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 1:24DETAlex Biega: Hooking2 min
  2. P1 16:28TBLRyan McDonagh: Cross checking2 min
  3. P2 9:05TBLVictor Hedman: Holding2 min
  4. P2 17:42DETVladislav Namestnikov: Unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
  5. P2 17:42TBLRoss Colton: Roughing2 min
  6. P3 2:42DETEvgeny Svechnikov: Hooking2 min
  7. P3 13:42DETJoseph Veleno: Boarding2 min
  8. P3 13:56DETSam Gagner: Tripping2 min
  9. P3 16:23TBLBlake Coleman: Holding2 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.

TBL00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

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

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

TBLDET
33Shots on goal15
5.4Expected goals1.5
62Shot attempts31
28Faceoffs won25
4Power plays3
8Penalty minutes10
17Hits20
9Blocked shots14
6Giveaways9
5Takeaways4

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.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Forward lines

  1. bestPalat – Point – Barré-Boulet11:28

    xG 1.02–0.18 (85%)attempts 12–8goals 0–0

  2. Killorn – Johnson – Cirelli9:48

    xG 0.73–0.00 (100%)attempts 14–1goals 0–0

  3. Maroon – Joseph – Colton8:07

    xG 0.59–0.31 (66%)attempts 7–5goals 0–0

  4. Coleman – Goodrow – Gourde9:27

    xG 0.20–0.29 (41%)attempts 6–4goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHedman – Cernak13:20

    xG 1.00–0.02 (98%)attempts 12–2goals 0–0

  2. Schenn – Sergachev6:46

    xG 0.60–0.20 (75%)attempts 6–3goals 0–0

  3. McDonagh – Savard11:09

    xG 0.56–0.28 (67%)attempts 9–5goals 0–0

Detroit Red Wings

Forward lines

  1. Helm – Panik – Glendening6:47

    xG 0.15–0.35 (29%)attempts 5–10goals 0–0

  2. Filppula – Vrana – Rasmussen7:54

    xG 0.14–0.39 (26%)attempts 2–7goals 0–0

  3. Namestnikov – Erne – Zadina7:46

    xG 0.11–0.48 (18%)attempts 4–5goals 0–0

  4. Gagner – Svechnikov – Veleno5:25

    xG 0.05–0.56 (8%)attempts 2–7goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. DeKeyser – Lindstrom15:45

    xG 0.34–0.45 (43%)attempts 10–13goals 0–0

  2. Cholowski – Hronek13:02

    xG 0.32–0.98 (24%)attempts 8–12goals 0–0

  3. Staal – Biega12:02

    xG 0.00–1.12 (0%)attempts 3–15goals 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 1.5 xGTBL 5.4 xG
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Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DETTBL

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 TBL. Dots are goals.

Excitement 19/100 · #684 of 868 this seasonSwing 1.10 · 0 goals in reachComeback index 47% (winner's lowest chance)
TBL 100%5050%50DET 100%P1P2P3OTEnd

Did the better team win?

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

Based on shot quality alone, Tampa Bay Lightning win this game 95% of the time.

DET winsTBL wins

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

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-1
0
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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).