Colorado Avalanche vs. Chicago BlackhawksNov 29, 2019

FinalFriday, Nov 29, 2019· United Center

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	3	2	0	5		COL	7	7	9	23
CHI	1	1	0	2		CHI	10	19	7	36

: COL 42CHI 64
: COL 2.92CHI 3.50
PP goals: COL 1CHI 0
Hits: COL 31CHI 33
Blocks: COL 21CHI 11
PIM: COL 9CHI 13
: COL 42%CHI 58%

Fantasy takeaways

Generated from the play-by-play, shifts and season context. No opinions, just what changed.

Colorado Avalanche beat Chicago Blackhawks 5–2

Colorado Avalanche beat Chicago Blackhawks 5–2 at CHI. Nathan MacKinnon (COL) led the scoring with 1G 3A. COL's first power-play unit (Kadri, Donskoi, Compher, MacKinnon and Makar) scored 1 power-play goal on 1 attempt in 1:33 together.

Points
Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and 3 assists (4 points) on 2 shots in 18:18.MacKinnon
Points
J.T. Compher had a goal and 2 assists (3 points) on 1 shot in 17:02.Compher
PP1
COL's first power-play unit (Kadri, Donskoi, Compher, MacKinnon and Makar) scored 1 power-play goal on 1 attempt in 1:33 together.Kadri Donskoi Compher MacKinnon Makar
Usage
Duncan Keith (CHI) played 9:30, −15:08 down on his 24:38 season average over 60 games.Keith
Usage
Logan O'Connor (COL) played 16:22, +8:28 up on his 7:54 season average over 15 games.O'Connor
Goalie
Pavel Francouz (COL) faced 36 shots and stopped 34 (.944), +6 against a season average of 30.2; the win.Francouz
Luck
COL scored 5 goals on 2.93 expected goals (42 attempts), finishing well above its chances.
New line
New look for CHI: Kane–Carpenter–DeBrincat skated 8:45 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (70% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Kane Carpenter DeBrincat

Shot map

Both teams on one rink, filtered by strength and period.

Shot map

Every attempt, sized by expected goals. Goals are rings, shots on goal dots, misses hollow, blocks crosses.

Strength

Period

Team

← COL attacks left (bottom on phones)CHI attacks right (top on phones) →

CHI
COL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 106 of 106 attempts · CHI 64 · COL 42

Game flow

Cumulative expected goals and shot attempts, with power plays shaded and goals marked.

Cumulative shot attempts

CHI
COL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

CHI pressure
COL pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: COL 23% of the game, CHI 42%.

Shift chart

Every shift, grouped by line and pair; bars are coloured by strength state. Click a player to highlight.

Shifts

CHI

COL

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Sequence card

5-on-5 possession-chain numbers from the sequence engine (Draw Equity and control cover all situations).

Sequence card
Stat	COL	CHI
	48	71
	3.34	3.86
	3.29	3.52
	12	16
	6	1
	19	26
	−0.065	+0.065
	23%	42%

Definitions: sequence xG, transition attempts, Draw Equity, control and the Pressure Index.

Lines used

Detected from who actually shared the ice, with time together. Percentages are the unit's share of shot attempts.

Colorado Avalanche

L1Nichushkin – Bellemare – O'Connor
13:1050% CF
L2Kadri – Compher – Jost
12:2443% CF
L3Donskoi – Nieto – MacKinnon
12:1739% CF
L4Tynan – Kamenev – Dries
8:4618% CF
D1Zadorov – Girard
17:1245% CF
D2Cole – Rosen
13:3745% CF
D3Graves – Makar
12:5540% CF

PP1Kadri – Donskoi – Compher – MacKinnon – Makar
1:33100% CF
PP2Tynan – Nichushkin – Kamenev – Jost – Girard
0:38100% CF
PK1FNieto – Compher
1:17
PK2FNichushkin – O'Connor
0:36
PK1DGraves – Zadorov
0:51

Current COL line combinations →

Chicago Blackhawks

L1Toews – Saad – Nylander
10:3481% CF
L2Shaw – Kubalik – Kampf
10:2562% CF
L3Kane – Carpenter – DeBrincat
8:4570% CF
L4Smith – Highmore – Dach
4:5320% CF
D1Murphy – Maatta
14:4063% CF
D2Seabrook – de Haan
11:0365% CF
D3Keith – Gustafsson
7:3442% CF

PP1Saad – Gustafsson – Kubalik – Nylander – Dach
1:00100% CF
PP2Toews – Kane – Shaw – Gustafsson – DeBrincat
0:55100% CF
PK1FToews – Carpenter
1:03
PK2FSaad – Kampf
0:31
PK1Dde Haan – Maatta
0:41
PK2DKeith – Murphy
0:38

Current CHI line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

0:59
COLNathan MacKinnon (J.T. Compher)tip-in0.02 xG
COL: Graves, Compher, MacKinnon, Jost, GirardCHI: Keith, Kane, Gustafsson, DeBrincat, Dach
COL 1 – 0 CHI
3:17
COLRyan Graves (Matt Nieto, Nathan MacKinnon)slap0.11 xG
COL: Donskoi, Nieto, Graves, MacKinnon, MakarCHI: Toews, Saad, Murphy, Maatta, Nylander
COL 2 – 0 CHI
9:14
CHIZack Smith (Ryan Carpenter)snap0.15 xG
COL: Cole, Kadri, Compher, Zadorov, JostCHI: Seabrook, Kane, Smith, de Haan, Carpenter
COL 2 – 1 CHI
12:20
COLCale MakarPP (Nathan MacKinnon, J.T. Compher)wrist0.05 xG
COL: Kadri, Donskoi, Compher, MacKinnon, MakarCHI: Keith, Toews, de Haan, Saad
COL 3 – 1 CHI

2nd period

9:45
COLValeri Nichushkinbackhand0.19 xG
COL: Nichushkin, Zadorov, Bellemare, Girard, O'ConnorCHI: Keith, Toews, Saad, Gustafsson, Nylander
COL 4 – 1 CHI
11:26
COLJ.T. Compher (Nathan MacKinnon)wrist0.11 xG
COL: Nieto, Graves, Compher, MacKinnon, MakarCHI: Seabrook, Shaw, Maatta, Kubalik, Kampf
COL 5 – 1 CHI
19:56
CHIPatrick Kane (Jonathan Toews, Brandon Saad)backhand0.34 xG
COL: Cole, Tynan, Kamenev, Rosen, DriesCHI: Seabrook, Toews, Kane, de Haan, Saad
COL 5 – 2 CHI

Box score

Skaters grouped by the line they played on; CF% is the 5v5 share of shot attempts while on the ice.

Colorado Avalanche

COL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Valeri Nichushkin R	L1	1	0	1	+1	4	0.39	3	2	0	17:36	—	—	57	71
Logan O'Connor R	L1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.12	0	1	0	16:22	—	—	58	71
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L1	0	0	0	+1	0	0.08	1	1	2	15:17	—	—	50	66
J.T. Compher L	L2	1	2	3	+1	1	0.11	1	0	0	17:02	—	—	48	54
Nazem Kadri C	L2	0	0	0	-1	2	0.35	0	0	0	16:58	—	—	52	52
Tyson Jost C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.31	1	1	0	14:31	—	—	46	50
Nathan MacKinnon C	L3	1	3	4	+3	2	0.13	1	0	0	18:18	—	—	44	58
Joonas Donskoi R	L3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.86	0	1	0	16:45	—	—	39	57
Matt Nieto L	L3	0	1	1	+2	0	0.00	0	0	0	15:42	—	—	40	57
Vladislav Kamenev C	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.10	2	0	0	11:12	—	—	17	2
T.J. Tynan C	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	2	0	0	11:01	—	—	17	2
Sheldon Dries C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	7	2	0	10:02	—	—	20	9
Nikita Zadorov D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.14	7	4	2	23:11	—	—	36	33
Samuel Girard D	D1	0	0	0	+2	0	0.00	2	1	0	22:39	—	—	44	44
Ian Cole D	D2	0	0	0	-2	1	0.01	2	3	0	18:55	—	—	34	27
Calle Rosen D	D2	0	0	0	-1	2	0.04	0	2	0	16:03	—	—	50	65
Cale Makar D	D3	1	0	1	+2	2	0.15	1	1	0	19:43	—	—	33	38
Ryan Graves D	D3	1	0	1	+3	2	0.11	1	2	5	16:43	—	—	46	64

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Pavel Francouz(start)	W	36	34	2	.944	3.50	60:00

Chicago Blackhawks

CHI skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Jonathan Toews C	L1	0	1	1	-1	2	0.29	0	1	0	16:15	—	—	72	74
Brandon Saad L	L1	0	1	1	-1	6	0.43	1	0	0	15:55	—	—	79	75
Alex Nylander L	L1	0	0	0	-2	3	0.36	0	0	0	13:24	—	—	78	74
David Kampf C	L2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	2	0	0	13:17	—	—	58	36
Andrew Shaw R	L2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.23	4	0	9	12:53	—	—	57	53
Dominik Kubalik L	L2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.15	1	0	0	12:40	—	—	58	34
Patrick Kane R	L3	1	0	1	+1	3	0.66	1	0	0	21:25	—	—	56	69
Alex DeBrincat R	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.24	2	1	0	18:46	—	—	52	58
Ryan Carpenter C	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.24	2	0	0	15:18	—	—	67	76
Kirby Dach C	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.04	1	1	0	16:10	—	—	38	35
Zack Smith C	L4	1	0	1	+1	3	0.36	1	0	0	12:38	—	—	48	28
Matthew Highmore C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	10:19	—	—	44	39
Olli Maatta D	D1	0	0	0	-2	2	0.07	4	2	0	23:52	—	—	66	69
Connor Murphy D	D1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.02	3	2	0	22:13	—	—	60	56
Calvin de Haan D	D2	0	0	0	+2	3	0.07	3	3	0	20:10	—	—	54	44
Brent Seabrook D	D2	0	0	0	+1	3	0.09	2	0	0	19:10	—	—	69	71
Erik Gustafsson D	D3	0	0	0	-2	3	0.21	3	0	4	23:16	—	—	56	40
Duncan Keith D	D3	0	0	0	-2	1	0.04	0	1	0	9:30	—	—	43	30

CHI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Corey Crawford(start)	L	23	18	5	.783	2.92	59:54

Methodology

Shot locations come from the NHL play-by-play, normalised so each shooter attacks the same way, then flipped so the home team attacks right. On-ice stats and lines come from the shift charts: a unit is the exact set of skaters sharing the ice, and CF% is the share of all shot attempts while they were out. Head-to-head cells are 5v5 time against each opponent. Expected goals and the Pressure Index appear as their models are released.