Colorado Avalanche vs. Montreal CanadiensDec 2, 2021

FinalThursday, Dec 2, 2021· Centre Bell

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	0	2	2	4		COL	13	9	12	34
MTL	0	1	0	1		MTL	4	9	7	20

: COL 66MTL 42
: COL 4.14MTL 1.06
PP goals: COL 0MTL 1
Hits: COL 15MTL 19
Blocks: COL 15MTL 16
PIM: COL 12MTL 8
: COL 43%MTL 57%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche beat Montreal Canadiens 4–1

Colorado Avalanche beat Montreal Canadiens 4–1 at MTL. Valeri Nichushkin (COL) led the scoring with 1G 1A. New look for MTL: Lehkonen–Evans–Suzuki skated 9:04 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (45% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

Points
Valeri Nichushkin had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 5 shots in 17:43.Nichushkin
New line
New look for MTL: Lehkonen–Evans–Suzuki skated 9:04 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (45% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Lehkonen Evans Suzuki
Usage
Josh Anderson (MTL) played 7:20, −10:02 down on his 17:22 season average over 68 games.Anderson
New line
New look for MTL: Perreault–Pezzetta–Caufield skated 4:51 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (71.4% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Perreault Pezzetta Caufield
Usage
Andre Burakovsky (COL) played 12:34, −3:44 down on his 16:18 season average over 79 games.Burakovsky
Usage
Nazem Kadri (COL) played 16:16, −3:01 down on his 19:17 season average over 70 games.Kadri
Usage
Alexander Romanov (MTL) played 15:28, −4:59 down on his 20:27 season average over 78 games.Romanov
Usage
Jayson Megna (COL) played 6:32, −3:58 down on his 10:30 season average over 19 games.Megna

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)MTL attacks right (top on phones) →

MTL
COL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 108 of 108 attempts · MTL 42 · COL 66

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

MTL
COL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

MTL 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 52% of the game, MTL 10%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

MTL

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	MTL
	58	38
	2.00	1.12
	1.94	1.10
	10	5
	5	1
	17	14
	−0.105	+0.105
	52%	10%

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

L1Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen
11:0172% CF
L2Kadri – Burakovsky – Nichushkin
8:1586% CF
L3Aube-Kubel – O'Connor – Newhook
5:2527% CF
L4Helm – Megna – Jost
2:400% CF
D1Toews – Makar
10:3167% CF
D2Johnson – Girard
7:4429% CF

PP1Kadri – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Makar
4:33100% CF
PP2Burakovsky – Nichushkin – Toews – Girard – Newhook
1:08100% CF
PK1FNichushkin – Jost
3:28
PK2FHelm – O'Connor
2:47
PK1DJohnson – Toews
4:19
PK2DJohnson – Makar
2:15

Current COL line combinations →

Montreal Canadiens

L1Lehkonen – Evans – Suzuki
9:0445% CF
L2Armia – Drouin – Poehling
7:5838% CF
L3Perreault – Pezzetta – Caufield
4:5171% CF
L4Toffoli – Anderson – Dvorak
2:5167% CF
D1Savard – Chiarot
15:1424% CF
D2Petry – Kulak
12:4841% CF
D3Wideman – Romanov
9:0944% CF

PP1Wideman – Toffoli – Drouin – Suzuki – Poehling
3:300% CF
PP2Petry – Perreault – Anderson – Dvorak – Caufield
3:06100% CF
PK1FLehkonen – Evans
2:35
PK2FArmia – Dvorak
1:12
PK1DSavard – Chiarot
2:42
PK2DPetry – Romanov
0:36

Current MTL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

3:11
COLValeri NichushkinSH (Logan O'Connor)wrist0.23 xG
COL: Johnson, Nichushkin, Toews, O'ConnorMTL: Wideman, Toffoli, Drouin, Suzuki, Poehling
COL 1 – 0 MTL
6:51
MTLBen ChiarotPP (Cole Caufield, Joel Armia)wrist0.02 xG
COL: Helm, Johnson, Toews, O'ConnorMTL: Perreault, Chiarot, Armia, Dvorak, Caufield
COL 1 – 1 MTL
15:49
COLCale Makar (Samuel Girard, Nathan MacKinnon)wrist0.01 xG
COL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Girard, MakarMTL: Wideman, Armia, Evans, Poehling, Romanov
COL 2 – 1 MTL

3rd period

2:31
COLAndre Burakovsky (Valeri Nichushkin, Nazem Kadri)backhand0.05 xG
COL: Johnson, Kadri, Burakovsky, Nichushkin, GirardMTL: Wideman, Dvorak, Pezzetta, Romanov, Caufield
COL 3 – 1 MTL
17:11
COLGabriel LandeskogEN (Mikko Rantanen, Devon Toews)wrist0.97 xG
COL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Toews, Rantanen, MakarMTL: Chiarot, Toffoli, Drouin, Dvorak, Suzuki, Caufield
COL 4 – 1 MTL

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
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	1	0	1	+2	3	1.17	3	0	4	19:53	—	—	68	59
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	0	1	1	+2	1	0.28	1	0	0	19:52	—	—	73	68
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	1	1	+2	3	0.23	1	1	0	19:26	—	—	71	69
Valeri Nichushkin R	L2	1	1	2	+2	5	0.73	2	2	0	17:43	—	—	81	92
Nazem Kadri C	L2	0	1	1	+1	3	0.39	0	0	0	16:16	—	—	81	84
Andre Burakovsky L	L2	1	0	1	+1	3	0.31	1	0	0	12:34	—	—	81	91
Logan O'Connor R	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.19	2	1	0	14:18	—	—	42	48
Alex Newhook C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.04	1	0	2	11:33	—	—	31	14
Nicolas Aube-Kubel R	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	2	9:32	—	—	44	48
Darren Helm C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.22	1	1	0	13:19	—	—	37	53
Tyson Jost C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.15	0	1	4	13:09	—	—	44	55
Jayson Megna C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	6:32	—	—	0	0
Devon Toews D	D1	0	1	1	+2	3	0.22	1	2	0	25:08	—	—	71	65
Cale Makar D	D1	1	0	1	+2	2	0.13	0	0	0	22:49	—	—	73	69
Samuel Girard D	D2	0	1	1	+2	1	0.01	1	1	0	21:15	—	—	64	74
Jack Johnson D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	5	0	16:02	—	—	29	35
Erik Johnson D	—	0	0	0	+2	2	0.02	1	0	0	19:30	—	—	63	75
Kurtis MacDermid L	—	0	0	0	0	3	0.03	0	0	0	10:43	—	—	50	42

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jonas Johansson(start)	W	20	19	1	.950	1.06	59:57

Montreal Canadiens

MTL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Nick Suzuki C	L1	0	0	0	-2	1	0.11	2	0	0	19:13	—	—	41	35
Jake Evans C	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.07	0	0	0	18:08	—	—	36	31
Artturi Lehkonen L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	2	2	0	17:00	—	—	35	32
Jonathan Drouin L	L2	0	0	0	-2	2	0.09	0	0	0	17:50	—	—	39	31
Ryan Poehling C	L2	0	0	0	-2	3	0.05	1	0	2	15:36	—	—	35	18
Joel Armia R	L2	0	1	1	-1	0	0.00	1	0	0	14:54	—	—	37	35
Cole Caufield R	L3	0	1	1	-2	1	0.06	0	0	0	16:37	—	—	44	23
Mathieu Perreault C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.09	2	0	0	14:00	—	—	56	58
Michael Pezzetta L	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.09	1	0	0	7:13	—	—	55	27
Christian Dvorak C	L4	0	0	0	-2	1	0.05	0	0	0	17:22	—	—	42	42
Tyler Toffoli C	L4	0	0	0	-2	1	0.11	0	0	0	16:47	—	—	30	42
Josh Anderson R	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.18	0	0	0	7:20	—	—	50	97
Ben Chiarot D	D1	1	0	1	-1	2	0.03	0	2	0	25:39	—	—	30	25
David Savard D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	2	2	19:31	—	—	27	29
Jeff Petry D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	2	3	0	21:01	—	—	44	45
Brett Kulak D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	3	2	16:46	—	—	41	44
Alexander Romanov D	D3	0	0	0	-2	2	0.03	3	2	2	15:28	—	—	52	38
Chris Wideman D	D3	0	0	0	-3	1	0.04	0	2	0	12:17	—	—	48	34

MTL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jake Allen(start)	L	33	30	3	.909	3.17	59:03

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.