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Mon, Mar 10, 2025·Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Detroit Red Wings 1, Ottawa Senators 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Detroit Red Wings win this game 65% of the time.

OTT winsDET wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
DET09027113149
OTT091915223

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

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

  1. P2 7:39OTTDavid PerronPPAssists: Claude Giroux · Wrist, 0.11 xG0–1
  2. P3 2:58DETDylan LarkinAssists: Lucas Raymond · Wrist, 0.06 xG1–1
  3. P3 14:56OTTDylan CozensPPGWGAssists: Jake Sanderson, Brady Tkachuk · Snap, 0.14 xG1–2
Penalties (9)
  1. P1 9:39OTTAdam Gaudette: Slashing2 min
  2. P1 15:09DETJustin Holl: Slashing2 min
  3. P1 15:09OTTTim Stützle: Holding2 min
  4. P1 19:35DETSimon Edvinsson: Tripping2 min
  5. P2 6:24DETJustin Holl: Holding2 min · PPG
  6. P2 11:58OTTRidly Greig: Tripping2 min
  7. P2 16:06OTTDrake Batherson: High sticking2 min
  8. P3 0:27DETBen Chiarot: Boarding2 min
  9. P3 14:44DETMoritz Seider: Roughing2 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 SOG0OTT
43% to win57% to win
← DET attackOTT attack →
  1. P1 20:00Greig won the faceoff against Larkin
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

DETOTT
49Shots on goal23
4.3Expected goals3.4
79Shot attempts56
22Faceoffs won37
3Power plays4
10Penalty minutes8
31Hits43
21Blocked shots12
19Giveaways11
3Takeaways6

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. bestKane – DeBrincat – Kasper9:16

    xG 0.96–0.03 (97%)attempts 18–4goals 0–0

  2. Larkin – Soderblom – Raymond12:03

    xG 0.41–0.13 (75%)attempts 13–7goals 1–0

  3. Smith – Tarasenko – Compher8:20

    xG 0.35–0.33 (51%)attempts 5–7goals 0–0

  4. Motte – Shine – Rasmussen6:09

    xG 0.06–0.12 (31%)attempts 4–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestHoll – Gustafsson9:55

    xG 0.79–0.15 (84%)attempts 13–5goals 1–0

  2. Chiarot – Seider13:58

    xG 0.75–0.30 (71%)attempts 22–10goals 0–0

  3. Johansson – Edvinsson13:15

    xG 0.40–0.19 (67%)attempts 11–15goals 0–0

Ottawa Senators

Forward lines

  1. bestHighmore – Gaudette – Zetterlund5:02

    xG 0.25–0.02 (93%)attempts 5–1goals 0–0

  2. Amadio – Pinto – Greig10:46

    xG 0.20–0.39 (34%)attempts 8–8goals 0–0

  3. Giroux – Tkachuk – Stützle9:35

    xG 0.15–0.60 (20%)attempts 11–15goals 0–0

  4. Perron – Batherson – Cozens7:48

    xG 0.07–0.63 (10%)attempts 5–9goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestKleven – Matinpalo12:20

    xG 0.47–0.25 (65%)attempts 14–8goals 0–0

  2. Sanderson – Zub13:38

    xG 0.17–0.42 (29%)attempts 8–15goals 0–1

  3. Jensen – Chabot15:03

    xG 0.17–1.46 (10%)attempts 10–28goals 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.

OTT 3.4 xGDET 4.3 xG
012345P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

OTTDET

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

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

Excitement 35/100 · #838 of 1312 this seasonSwing 1.22 · 3 goals in reachComeback index 55% (winner's lowest chance)
DET 100%5050%50OTT 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +34 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 65% of the time.

OTT winsDET wins

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

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