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Team diagnostic
2025-26last seasonAs of Sun, Sep 20

Detroit Red Wings

5-on-5 · model-estimated

Red Wings: a outshot/run-and-gun team (0.0% 5v5 xG) with league-average goaltending.

How to read this

This is one team through the publication's three layers. The identity row separates process — the chances a club creates and allows (, ) — from luck, which is what measures. Process predicts the future; luck predicts a correction.

Everything below follows that split: regression flags mark places where results have outrun (or trailed) the underlying play, talent tiers and the player table rank the roster by a model-estimated , and roster needs compare each position group against league average. The proxies rank things usefully but share credit with linemates — read orderings as solid and exact magnitudes as approximate.

PROCESS
chance creation and possession — xG%, Corsi. The repeatable part.
RESULT
goals, wins, special-teams conversion. What the standings see.
LUCK
PDO, finishing vs expected, GSAx — the part that mean-reverts.
GOLD/RED
regression flags: gold = watch it, red = act on it
Fine print · verbatim from the model
  • WAR / Impact are model-estimated proxies, not cap-validated
  • Roster-need gaps are ordinal — ranked correctly, magnitudes relative
Identity · outshot/run-and-gun
0.0%
xGoals %
This team gets buried territorially.
49.2%
Corsi %
0.00
xGF / 60
0.986
PDO
The bounces have been cruel — results should improve.
Strengths
  • Elite top-end talent: Alex DeBrincat, Moritz Seider.
Weaknesses
  • Out-chanced at 5v5 (0.0% xG share).
  • Leaky penalty kill (77% kill rate).
Talent tiers · model impact
Elite02
  • Alex DeBrincat
  • Moritz Seider
Top02
  • Patrick Kane
  • Simon Edvinsson
Middle09
  • Lucas Raymond
  • Dylan Larkin
  • Andrew Copp
  • David Perron
  • James van Riemsdyk
  • Justin Faulk
  • Emmitt Finnie
  • Marco Kasper
  • Nate Danielson
Depth08
  • J.T. Compher
  • Axel Sandin-Pellikka
  • Michael Rasmussen
  • Mason Appleton
  • Travis Hamonic
  • Jacob Bernard-Docker
  • Albert Johansson
  • Ben Chiarot
Rate-first

Special teams

Power play
0.00 xGF/60 · 22.6% SH%
6.77GF/60
Penalty kill
0.8 Kill%
8.57GA/60
Source · MoneyPuck 5-on-5 + ST splits
Team GSAx +0.0

Goaltending

Above expected
GoaltenderGP
John Gibson5790.140+0.0
Cam Talbot3488.330+0.0
Source · GSAx = xGoals − goals, computed in-app
Roster needs · ranked
01
Depth defensehigh
team 37.7 vs league 87.3
-50
02
Bottom-6 forward depthhigh
team 40.9 vs league 81.9
-41
03
Top-6 forwardhigh
team 61.9 vs league 86.1
-24
04
Top-pair defensemanhigh
team 78.6 vs league 91.5
-13

Gaps are ordinal — needs are ranked correctly; treat the magnitude as relative, not absolute.

Top players · adjusted impact
PlayerGPTOI/GP
Alex DeBrincatR8214.2+77.00+4.1
Moritz SeiderD8219.7+86.20+3.6
Lucas RaymondL8014.3+56.30+2.9
Patrick KaneR6713.9+67.70+2.5
Dylan LarkinC7414.4+46.20+2.2
Andrew CoppC7913.1+57.60+1.6
Simon EdvinssonD7219.6+70.90+1.4
David PerronL6511.4+58.40+1.4
James van RiemsdykL729.6+54.10+1.1
Justin FaulkD7817.9+43.50+1.0
Schedule load · logistics

How hard is this team’s season, logistically? This grades the schedule itself — travel, rest, and clustering — separate from how good the team is.

Logistics, not talent

Schedule load

AVERAGE
Load index
42/ 100 · pctile vs league

The 19th-heaviest schedule in the league84 games, 1.3 days average rest.

Total travel
35,405
road miles flown
12
Back-to-backs
2 games, 0 days off
12
3-in-4s
3 games / 4 nights
11
4-in-6s
4 games / 6 nights
5
Longest road trip
2,839 mi
Rest-days distribution
0d12
1d47
2d18
3+d6

Nights of rest before each game · 0 days = red, 3+ = green

Rest advantage

20 games with more rest than the opponent · 19 with fewer · 44 even.

Hardest stretches
  • 6 games in 10 days with 3,459 travel miles

    Oct 29Nov 7

  • 6 games in 11 days with 3,464 travel miles

    Feb 11Feb 21

  • 6 games in 10 days with 2,397 travel miles

    Dec 26Jan 4

Source · NHL schedule · arena coordinates · rest & travel model
By the Model5-on-5 aggregates · MoneyPuck* WAR / Impact are model-estimated proxies, not cap-validated