Colorado Avalanche vs. Columbus Blue JacketsOct 16, 2025

FinalThursday, Oct 16, 2025· Nationwide Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	0	3	1	4		COL	12	14	10	36
CBJ	0	1	0	1		CBJ	7	7	9	23

: COL 77CBJ 56
: COL 5.11CBJ 2.21
PP goals: COL 0CBJ 0
Hits: COL 13CBJ 12
Blocks: COL 14CBJ 20
PIM: COL 4CBJ 2
: COL 55%CBJ 45%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche beat Columbus Blue Jackets 4–1

Colorado Avalanche beat Columbus Blue Jackets 4–1 at CBJ. Valeri Nichushkin (COL) led the scoring with 2G 0A. New look for CBJ: Coyle–Jenner–Olivier skated 10:50 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (44% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

Points
Valeri Nichushkin had two goals (2 points) on 4 shots in 17:21.Nichushkin
Points
Cale Makar had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 23:19.Makar
New line
New look for CBJ: Coyle–Jenner–Olivier skated 10:50 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (44% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Coyle Jenner Olivier
New line
New look for CBJ: Monahan–Marchenko–Johnson skated 9:24 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (18.8% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Monahan Marchenko Johnson
Goalie
Elvis Merzlikins (CBJ) faced 35 shots and stopped 32 (.914), +8 against a season average of 27.1; the loss.Merzlikins
New line
New look for CBJ: Aston-Reese–Lundeström–Chinakhov skated 6:05 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (38.5% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Aston-Reese Lundeström Chinakhov
New line
New look for CBJ: Voronkov–Sillinger–Fantilli skated 6:48 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (62.5% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Voronkov Sillinger Fantilli
Usage
Dante Fabbro (CBJ) played 21:00, +4:30 up on his 16:30 season average over 73 games.Fabbro

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)CBJ attacks right (top on phones) →

CBJ
COL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 133 of 133 attempts · CBJ 56 · COL 77

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

CBJ
COL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

CBJ 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 55% of the game, CBJ 16%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

CBJ

COL

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

CBJ skaters (rows) against COL skaters (columns) at 5v5. Square size is time together; colour is xGF% from the CBJ side.

Matchup matrix

CBJ xGF% 4060square size = TOI together · blank = under 1:00

Sequence card

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

Sequence card
Stat	COL	CBJ
	88	54
	4.69	1.62
	4.45	1.55
	20	8
	7	5
	31	25
	+0.011	−0.011
	55%	16%

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

L1Lehkonen – MacKinnon – Necas
12:4358% CF
L2Nelson – Landeskog – Nichushkin
12:0569% CF
L3Olofsson – Colton – Drury
8:3775% CF
L4Kelly – Kiviranta – Brindley
7:2856% CF
D1Toews – Makar
17:0344% CF
D2Burns – Manson
14:1952% CF
D3Solovyov – Malinski
10:1792% CF

PP1Nelson – Lehkonen – MacKinnon – Necas – Makar
1:14100% CF
PP2Landeskog – Nichushkin – Toews – Olofsson – Colton
0:46
PK1FKelly – Drury
1:17
PK2FNelson – Lehkonen
1:03
PK1DToews – Makar
2:18
PK2DManson – Malinski
0:51

Current COL line combinations →

Columbus Blue Jackets

L1Coyle – Jenner – Olivier
10:5044% CF
L2Monahan – Marchenko – Johnson
9:2419% CF
L3Voronkov – Sillinger – Fantilli
6:4863% CF
L4Aston-Reese – Lundeström – Chinakhov
6:0538% CF
D1Werenski – Fabbro
14:4433% CF
D2Severson – Provorov
14:1415% CF
D3Christiansen – Mateychuk
5:3840% CF

PP1Coyle – Monahan – Werenski – Marchenko – Voronkov
1:54100% CF
PP2Jenner – Severson – Provorov – Johnson – Fantilli
1:54100% CF
PK1FJenner – Monahan
0:37
PK2FAston-Reese – Lundeström
0:28
PK1DProvorov – Fabbro
1:12

Current CBJ line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

1:36
CBJIvan Provorov (Kirill Marchenko)wrist0.09 xG
COL: Burns, Nelson, Manson, Landeskog, NichushkinCBJ: Monahan, Werenski, Provorov, Marchenko, Johnson
COL 0 – 1 CBJ
10:34
COLCale Makar (Martin Necas, Artturi Lehkonen)wrist0.04 xG
COL: Lehkonen, MacKinnon, Necas, Makar, MalinskiCBJ: Jenner, Severson, Provorov, Olivier, Fantilli
COL 1 – 1 CBJ
11:46
COLBrock Nelson (Brent Burns, Josh Manson)tip-in0.07 xG
COL: Burns, Nelson, Manson, Landeskog, NichushkinCBJ: Coyle, Jenner, Werenski, Fabbro, Olivier
COL 2 – 1 CBJ
19:56
COLValeri Nichushkin (Sam Malinski, Victor Olofsson)tip-in0.10 xG
COL: Burns, Nelson, Nichushkin, Olofsson, MalinskiCBJ: Severson, Provorov, Aston-Reese, Lundeström, Chinakhov
COL 3 – 1 CBJ

3rd period

18:07
COLValeri NichushkinEN (Gabriel Landeskog, Cale Makar)wrist0.96 xG
COL: Nelson, Landeskog, Nichushkin, Toews, MakarCBJ: Coyle, Jenner, Monahan, Provorov, Marchenko, Voronkov
COL 4 – 1 CBJ

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
Martin Necas C	L1	0	1	1	+1	0	0.01	0	1	2	19:51	—	—	54	64
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.60	1	3	0	18:24	—	—	56	72
Artturi Lehkonen L	L1	0	1	1	+1	2	0.50	1	2	0	18:03	—	—	55	68
Valeri Nichushkin R	L2	2	0	2	+2	4	1.29	1	0	0	17:21	—	—	68	81
Brock Nelson C	L2	1	0	1	+2	2	0.60	2	1	0	16:46	—	—	68	81
Gabriel Landeskog L	L2	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	1	0	0	16:07	—	—	69	80
Jack Drury C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.05	1	0	0	14:33	—	—	67	71
Victor Olofsson L	L3	0	1	1	+1	5	0.68	0	0	0	12:57	—	—	76	81
Ross Colton C	L3	0	0	0	0	5	0.39	2	0	0	12:09	—	—	71	75
Parker Kelly C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.22	1	0	0	11:09	—	—	50	59
Joel Kiviranta L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	1	0	10:29	—	—	42	73
Gavin Brindley C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.03	0	0	0	10:20	—	—	46	79
Devon Toews D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.12	0	0	0	23:49	—	—	49	60
Cale Makar D	D1	1	1	2	+2	3	0.27	0	1	0	23:19	—	—	44	69
Brent Burns D	D2	0	1	1	+1	3	0.01	0	2	2	20:54	—	—	63	81
Josh Manson D	D2	0	1	1	0	1	0.20	0	3	0	19:29	—	—	52	50
Sam Malinski D	D3	0	1	1	+2	3	0.10	1	0	0	16:39	—	—	85	95
Ilya Solovyov D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.06	0	0	0	13:41	—	—	86	89

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Scott Wedgewood(start)	W	23	22	1	.957	2.21	60:00

Columbus Blue Jackets

CBJ skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Boone Jenner C	L1	0	0	0	-3	1	0.23	2	0	0	19:45	—	—	38	25
Mathieu Olivier R	L1	0	0	0	-2	2	0.15	2	2	0	17:12	—	—	41	27
Charlie Coyle C	L1	0	0	0	-2	2	0.14	0	1	0	16:13	—	—	47	39
Kirill Marchenko R	L2	0	1	1	0	0	0.06	1	0	0	18:30	—	—	28	11
Sean Monahan C	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.01	0	0	0	18:04	—	—	29	10
Kent Johnson C	L2	0	0	0	+1	3	0.27	0	1	0	17:08	—	—	28	27
Adam Fantilli C	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.50	0	1	0	17:02	—	—	42	42
Dmitri Voronkov L	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.23	2	0	2	15:47	—	—	50	26
Cole Sillinger C	L3	0	0	0	0	3	0.15	1	0	0	13:17	—	—	48	46
Isac Lundeström C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	2	0	11:40	—	—	33	22
Egor Chinakhov R	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	1	0	9:00	—	—	38	30
Zachary Aston-Reese L	L4	0	0	0	-1	2	0.15	2	1	0	8:48	—	—	31	28
Zach Werenski D	D1	0	0	0	0	3	0.19	1	3	0	26:25	—	—	47	39
Dante Fabbro D	D1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	4	0	21:00	—	—	39	24
Ivan Provorov D	D2	1	0	1	-2	1	0.09	0	1	0	24:56	—	—	26	14
Damon Severson D	D2	0	0	0	-2	1	0.01	0	2	0	21:12	—	—	33	22
Denton Mateychuk D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	0	1	0	15:53	—	—	46	38
Jake Christiansen D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	0	0	7:38	—	—	40	20

CBJ goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Elvis Merzlikins(start)	L	35	32	3	.914	3.95	58:30

Goal anatomy

Animated replays from NHL EDGE tracking, with the entry, passes and shot speed for each goal.

Ivan Provorov (CBJ) 2nd 1:36 · assists Kirill Marchenko · Forecheck turnover · loose puck · 54.7 mph shot · 7.0 s from entry to goal.

Ivan Provorov · 2nd 1:36 · CBJ

Play: turnover-forecheck
Entry: loose
Odd man: No
Passes: 1
Shot: 54.7 mph
Distance: 23 ft
Entry to goal: 7.0 s
Type: one-timer

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Cale Makar · 2nd 10:34 · COL

Play: turnover-forecheck
Entry: carry
Odd man: 5-on-3
Passes: 1
Shot: 60.0 mph
Distance: 43 ft
Entry to goal: 8.2 s

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Brock Nelson · 2nd 11:46 · COL

Play: deflection
Passes: 5 (royal road)
Shot: 45.0 mph
Distance: 18 ft
Type: deflection

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Valeri Nichushkin · 2nd 19:56 · COL

Play: deflection
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 1
Shot: 47.3 mph
Distance: 11 ft
Entry to goal: 7.4 s
Type: deflection

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Valeri Nichushkin · 3rd 18:07 · COL EN

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 1-on-0
Passes: 3
Shot: 22.0 mph
Distance: 3 ft
Entry to goal: 2.4 s

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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.