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Wed, Mar 8, 2023·Little Caesars Arena, Detroit

Chicago Blackhawks 3, Detroit Red Wings 4

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Detroit Red Wings win this game 88% of the time.

DET winsCHI wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
CHI2100317320
DET012219210441

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P1 15:51CHITaylor RaddyshPPAssists: Lukas Reichel, Andreas Athanasiou · Snap, 0.20 xG1–0
  2. P1 17:58CHITaylor RaddyshAssists: Cole Guttman, Connor Murphy · Wrist, 0.05 xG2–0
  3. P2 2:53DETJake WalmanAssists: Moritz Seider, Alex Chiasson · Wrist, 0.02 xG2–1
  4. P2 18:34DETDylan LarkinPPAssists: Alex Chiasson, David Perron · Wrist, 0.13 xG2–2
  5. P3 6:10CHIJoey AndersonAssists: Jujhar Khaira · Wrist, 0.03 xG3–2
  6. P3 12:36DETLucas RaymondAssists: Robert Hagg, Ben Chiarot · Tip-in, 0.07 xG3–3
  7. P3 15:53DETDominik KubalikGWGAssists: Gustav Lindstrom, Andrew Copp · Wrist, 0.04 xG3–4
Penalties (7)
  1. P1 8:38CHILukas Reichel: Holding2 min
  2. P1 13:32DETFilip Zadina: Slashing2 min
  3. P1 14:45DETJoseph Veleno: High sticking2 min · PPG
  4. P1 19:18CHICaleb Jones: Penalty shot covering puck in crease0 min
  5. P2 12:08CHINikita Zaitsev: Tripping2 min
  6. P2 18:28CHIPhilipp Kurashev: Hooking2 min · PPG
  7. P3 10:11DETAlex Chiasson: 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.

CHI00 SOG · 0.0 xG

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P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0DET
49% to win51% to win
← CHI attackDET attack →
  1. P1 20:00Kurashev won the faceoff against Larkin
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

CHIDET
20Shots on goal41
1.5Expected goals4.0
37Shot attempts65
27Faceoffs won37
3Power plays3
6Penalty minutes6
18Hits11
11Blocked shots12
4Giveaways6
1Takeaways3

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.

Chicago Blackhawks

Forward lines

  1. Dickinson – Bjork – Entwistle10:53

    xG 0.15–0.40 (27%)attempts 5–9goals 0–1

  2. Khaira – Anderson – Katchouk8:57

    xG 0.06–0.39 (14%)attempts 9–7goals 1–1

  3. Johnson – Raddysh – Guttman10:50

    xG 0.24–0.66 (27%)attempts 5–15goals 1–1

  4. Athanasiou – Kurashev – Reichel11:47

    xG 0.26–0.79 (25%)attempts 4–14goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. Jones – Jones17:49

    xG 0.26–0.79 (25%)attempts 11–16goals 0–0

  2. Tinordi – Murphy14:28

    xG 0.10–0.63 (13%)attempts 7–11goals 0–0

  3. Zaitsev – Mitchell11:41

    xG 0.11–1.20 (8%)attempts 3–19goals 1–1

Detroit Red Wings

Forward lines

  1. bestPerron – Larkin – Raymond14:16

    xG 1.08–0.05 (96%)attempts 18–6goals 0–0

  2. Copp – Fabbri – Zadina3:24

    xG 0.61–0.23 (73%)attempts 7–2goals 0–1

  3. Kubalik – Copp – Berggren3:04

    xG 0.34–0.15 (70%)attempts 4–4goals 1–0

  4. Kubalik – Copp – Zadina2:18

    xG 0.06–0.00 (100%)attempts 4–0goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHagg – Lindstrom13:06

    xG 1.05–0.13 (89%)attempts 17–6goals 1–0

  2. Chiarot – Maatta14:32

    xG 0.85–0.14 (86%)attempts 13–9goals 0–1

  3. Walman – Seider16:01

    xG 0.93–0.36 (72%)attempts 21–8goals 1–1

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 4.0 xGCHI 1.5 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

DETCHI

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 CHI. Dots are goals.

Excitement 89/100 · #187 of 1312 this seasonSwing 2.23 · 7 goals in reach · 2-goal lead cutComeback index 17% (winner's lowest chance)
CHI 100%5050%50DET 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +36 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 88% of the time.

DET winsCHI wins

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

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