Colorado Avalanche vs. Vancouver CanucksJan 5, 2023

FinalThursday, Jan 5, 2023· Rogers Arena

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Colorado AvalancheCOL

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Vancouver CanucksVAN

4

Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	1	1	0	2		COL	13	7	12	32
VAN	0	3	1	4		VAN	13	19	11	43

: COL 71VAN 60
: COL 3.37VAN 5.34
PP goals: COL 1VAN 1
Hits: COL 24VAN 29
Blocks: COL 6VAN 24
PIM: COL 22VAN 10
: COL 42%VAN 58%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Vancouver Canucks beat Colorado Avalanche 4–2

Vancouver Canucks beat Colorado Avalanche 4–2 at home. Andrei Kuzmenko (VAN) led the scoring with 2G 0A. COL's first power-play unit (Compher, Lehkonen, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Makar) scored 1 power-play goal on 10 attempts in 2:53 together.

Points
Andrei Kuzmenko had two goals (2 points) on 4 shots in 17:02.Kuzmenko
Points
Elias Pettersson had 2 assists (2 points) on 7 shots in 19:51.Pettersson
Points
Ilya Mikheyev had 2 assists (2 points) on 3 shots in 17:15.Mikheyev
Points
Oliver Ekman-Larsson had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 24:01.Ekman-Larsson
PP1
COL's first power-play unit (Compher, Lehkonen, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Makar) scored 1 power-play goal on 10 attempts in 2:53 together.Compher Lehkonen MacKinnon Rantanen Makar
New line
New look for VAN: Miller–Pettersson–Kuzmenko skated 9:14 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (52.2% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Miller Pettersson Kuzmenko
Goalie
Alexandar Georgiev (COL) faced 42 shots and stopped 39 (.929), +11 against a season average of 30.7; the loss.Georgiev
Usage
Denis Malgin (COL) played 0:47, −10:18 down on his 11:05 season average over 64 games.Malgin

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)VAN attacks right (top on phones) →

VAN
COL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 131 of 131 attempts · VAN 60 · COL 71

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

VAN
COL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

VAN 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 28% of the game, VAN 38%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

VAN

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	VAN
	49	38
	1.90	2.43
	1.79	2.29
	8	8
	2	2
	12	8
	−0.071	+0.071
	28%	38%

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 – Rantanen
13:3962% CF
L2Cogliano – Helm – O'Connor
2:1367% CF
L3Compher – Kaut – Newhook
2:0567% CF
D1Toews – Makar
15:3855% CF
D2Johnson – Girard
9:5248% CF
D3Hunt – Englund
4:4775% CF

PP1Compher – Lehkonen – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Makar
2:5391% CF
PP2Toews – Girard – Kaut – Newhook – Meyers
0:51100% CF
PK1FHelm – O'Connor
2:25
PK2FCogliano – Compher
1:35
PK1DToews – Makar
3:32
PK2DJohnson – Girard
1:24

Current COL line combinations →

Vancouver Canucks

L1Miller – Pettersson – Kuzmenko
9:1452% CF
L2Horvat – Boeser – Mikheyev
8:2158% CF
L3Lazar – Joshua – Studnicka
7:5955% CF
L4Garland – Lockwood – Dries
5:390% CF
D1Myers – Ekman-Larsson
13:0542% CF
D2Schenn – Hughes
7:5027% CF
D3Dermott – Bear
4:1933% CF

PP1Miller – Horvat – Boeser – Pettersson – Hughes
5:28100% CF
PP2Ekman-Larsson – Garland – Dries – Mikheyev – Kuzmenko
3:0483% CF
PK1FMiller – Mikheyev
0:56
PK2FJoshua – Lockwood
0:54
PK1DMyers – Ekman-Larsson
1:52
PK2DSchenn – Dermott
0:56

Current VAN line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

19:00
COLMikko RantanenPP (Cale Makar, Artturi Lehkonen)wrist0.07 xG
COL: Compher, Lehkonen, MacKinnon, Rantanen, MakarVAN: Schenn, Horvat, Bear, Pettersson
COL 1 – 0 VAN

2nd period

1:49
COLSamuel Girard (Andreas Englund, Alex Newhook)wrist0.02 xG
COL: Compher, Englund, Girard, Kaut, NewhookVAN: Schenn, Horvat, Dermott, Boeser, Mikheyev
COL 2 – 0 VAN
13:15
VANAndrei KuzmenkoPP (Ilya Mikheyev, Oliver Ekman-Larsson)wrap-around0.06 xG
COL: Cogliano, Compher, Englund, GirardVAN: Ekman-Larsson, Garland, Dries, Mikheyev, Kuzmenko
COL 2 – 1 VAN
15:14
VANAndrei Kuzmenko (Elias Pettersson, Ethan Bear)wrist0.27 xG
COL: Helm, Johnson, Compher, Girard, O'ConnorVAN: Myers, Miller, Dermott, Pettersson, Kuzmenko
COL 2 – 2 VAN
15:48
VANBrock Boeser (Ilya Mikheyev, Bo Horvat)wrist0.03 xG
COL: Helm, MacKinnon, Toews, Makar, O'ConnorVAN: Myers, Ekman-Larsson, Horvat, Boeser, Mikheyev
COL 2 – 3 VAN

3rd period

18:24
VANJ.T. MillerEN (Elias Pettersson, Oliver Ekman-Larsson)wrist0.98 xG
COL: Compher, Lehkonen, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Makar, NewhookVAN: Myers, Ekman-Larsson, Miller, Horvat, Pettersson
COL 2 – 4 VAN

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
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	1	0	1	-1	9	0.72	1	0	0	25:57	—	—	68	70
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	0	0	-2	3	0.43	1	0	0	25:55	—	—	63	63
Artturi Lehkonen L	L1	0	1	1	-1	5	0.81	1	1	0	23:14	—	—	68	74
Logan O'Connor R	L2	0	0	0	-2	1	0.09	2	2	0	16:52	—	—	39	29
Andrew Cogliano C	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	12	11:05	—	—	50	33
Darren Helm C	L2	0	0	0	-2	2	0.41	1	0	0	10:25	—	—	46	25
J.T. Compher L	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.20	0	0	2	19:47	—	—	57	34
Alex Newhook C	L3	0	1	1	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	16:44	—	—	50	21
Martin Kaut R	L3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	2	0	0	9:42	—	—	67	82
Cale Makar D	D1	0	1	1	-2	1	0.10	1	2	2	30:17	—	—	61	58
Devon Toews D	D1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.31	4	0	2	26:45	—	—	59	56
Erik Johnson D	D2	0	0	0	-1	4	0.23	1	0	0	21:43	—	—	45	31
Samuel Girard D	D2	1	0	1	0	1	0.06	1	1	2	19:17	—	—	55	40
Brad Hunt D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	2	9:09	—	—	64	37
Andreas Englund D	D3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.01	4	0	0	8:05	—	—	56	21
Ben Meyers C	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	10:06	—	—	39	8
Kurtis MacDermid L	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	2:47	—	—	0	0
Denis Malgin C	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0:47	—	—	100	100

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Alexandar Georgiev(start)	L	42	39	3	.929	4.36	58:05

Vancouver Canucks

VAN skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
J.T. Miller C	L1	1	0	1	+2	3	1.18	1	1	0	21:34	—	—	42	52
Elias Pettersson C	L1	0	2	2	+2	7	0.85	0	1	0	19:51	—	—	56	57
Andrei Kuzmenko L	L1	2	0	2	+1	4	0.49	0	0	2	17:02	—	—	40	52
Bo Horvat C	L2	0	1	1	+1	4	0.61	0	0	0	18:25	—	—	55	70
Ilya Mikheyev R	L2	0	2	2	0	3	0.31	0	1	0	17:15	—	—	50	70
Brock Boeser R	L2	1	0	1	0	3	0.44	0	0	2	15:05	—	—	57	70
Curtis Lazar C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.36	4	5	0	14:51	—	—	32	48
Dakota Joshua C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	2	0	0	11:44	—	—	53	51
Jack Studnicka C	L3	0	0	0	0	3	0.17	2	1	2	9:53	—	—	50	59
Sheldon Dries C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.38	0	3	0	12:30	—	—	0	0
Conor Garland R	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	11:41	—	—	25	43
William Lockwood R	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	8	0	0	9:39	—	—	10	27
Oliver Ekman-Larsson D	D1	0	2	2	+2	2	0.05	1	1	0	24:01	—	—	39	41
Tyler Myers D	D1	0	0	0	+3	3	0.12	1	3	2	22:53	—	—	47	54
Quinn Hughes D	D2	0	0	0	0	3	0.18	0	2	2	22:55	—	—	42	60
Luke Schenn D	D2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.06	6	6	0	14:26	—	—	32	41
Ethan Bear D	D3	0	1	1	0	1	0.13	1	0	0	15:09	—	—	53	65
Travis Dermott D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	12:02	—	—	53	65

VAN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Collin Delia(start)	W	32	30	2	.938	3.37	60:00

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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.