Read the Game

Watch a hockey game and see what the numbers are made of

Hockey is fast, and most of what decides a game is invisible unless someone points at it. This replays one real game slowly enough to follow, and shows its work: every count is traceable to a recorded event, and every event it leaves out says why.

MIN35 shots
2–3
Final
BUF25 shots

Watch the game

Press play. The game replays shot by shot on the ice, with a running count of who is generating chances and why each event does or does not count toward it.

Other ways to look at the same game

The goalie view

Minnesota outshot Buffalo and lost. This is the save-by-save reason why.

On the ice

Who was actually out there, read from the shift charts.

Active play

Following the puck between whistles, and who touched it.

From the crease

The same shots, seen from where the goalie stood.

Where the chances came from

Shot locations as terrain — height is attempts, not danger.

Figure bench

A development tool: the two player styles side by side on blank ice.

What this does and does not claim