Colorado Avalanche vs. Arizona CoyotesMar 22, 2021

FinalMonday, Mar 22, 2021· Gila River Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	2	1	2	5		COL	8	21	6	35
ARI	0	0	1	1		ARI	4	9	12	25

: COL 76ARI 42
: COL 4.91ARI 1.55
PP goals: COL 0ARI 1
Hits: COL 16ARI 32
Blocks: COL 10ARI 23
PIM: COL 4ARI 6
: COL 55%ARI 45%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche rout Arizona Coyotes 5–1

Colorado Avalanche beat Arizona Coyotes 5–1 at ARI. Joonas Donskoi (COL) led the scoring with 2G 0A. ARI's first power-play unit (Brassard, Kessel, Ekman-Larsson, Pitlick and Oesterle) scored 1 power-play goal on 1 attempt in 1:15 together.

Points
Joonas Donskoi had two goals (2 points) on 5 shots in 14:08.Donskoi
Points
Tyson Jost had 2 assists (2 points) on 5 shots in 13:35.Jost
Points
Valeri Nichushkin had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 15:56.Nichushkin
PP1
ARI's first power-play unit (Brassard, Kessel, Ekman-Larsson, Pitlick and Oesterle) scored 1 power-play goal on 1 attempt in 1:15 together.Brassard Kessel Ekman-Larsson Pitlick Oesterle
Usage
Niklas Hjalmarsson (ARI) played 12:33, −4:56 down on his 17:29 season average over 40 games.Hjalmarsson
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Ilya Lyubushkin (ARI) played 19:59, +4:24 up on his 15:35 season average over 41 games.Lyubushkin
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Johan Larsson (ARI) played 9:58, −4:05 down on his 14:03 season average over 51 games.Larsson
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Cale Makar (COL) played 21:12, −3:11 down on his 24:23 season average over 43 games.Makar

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)ARI attacks right (top on phones) →

ARI
COL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 118 of 118 attempts · ARI 42 · COL 76

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

ARI
COL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

ARI 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 57% of the game, ARI 13%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

ARI

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	ARI
	77	49
	3.88	1.74
	3.65	1.70
	16	10
	1	5
	14	8
	+0.024	−0.024
	57%	13%

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
12:5660% CF
L2Kadri – Saad – Burakovsky
11:5640% CF
L3Donskoi – Nichushkin – Jost
10:3771% CF
L4Calvert – Compher – Bellemare
8:5279% CF
D1Toews – Makar
14:1950% CF
D2Girard – MacDonald
13:5858% CF
D3Graves – Byram
12:3167% CF

PP1Kadri – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Makar
4:03100% CF
PP2Donskoi – Saad – Burakovsky – Toews – Girard
1:48100% CF
PK1FCompher – Bellemare
0:42
PK2FDonskoi – Jost
0:39
PK1DGraves – Toews
1:11
PK2DGirard – MacDonald
0:00

Current COL line combinations →

Arizona Coyotes

L1Schmaltz – Garland – Keller
11:5657% CF
L2Brassard – Pitlick – Crouse
9:3350% CF
L3Kessel – Dvorak – Caggiula
8:3733% CF
L4Larsson – Fasching – Fischer
4:5720% CF
D1Goligoski – Chychrun
13:3844% CF
D2Ekman-Larsson – Lyubushkin
13:3330% CF
D3Hjalmarsson – Oesterle
8:5827% CF

PP1Brassard – Kessel – Ekman-Larsson – Pitlick – Oesterle
1:15100% CF
PP2Schmaltz – Dvorak – Garland – Keller – Chychrun
0:54
PK1FPitlick – Dvorak
2:31
PK2FFischer – Crouse
1:52
PK1DGoligoski – Ekman-Larsson
1:48
PK2DOesterle – Chychrun
1:05

Current ARI line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

14:22
COLPierre-Edouard Bellemare (Matt Calvert, J.T. Compher)wrist0.14 xG
COL: Calvert, Compher, Bellemare, Girard, MacDonaldARI: Hjalmarsson, Oesterle, Schmaltz, Garland, Keller
COL 1 – 0 ARI
15:28
COLMikko Rantanen (Nathan MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog)wrist0.01 xG
COL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Toews, Rantanen, MakarARI: Goligoski, Brassard, Pitlick, Crouse, Chychrun
COL 2 – 0 ARI

2nd period

11:44
COLNazem Kadri (Andre Burakovsky, Jacob MacDonald)wrist0.11 xG
COL: Kadri, Saad, Burakovsky, Girard, MacDonaldARI: Ekman-Larsson, Larsson, Fasching, Fischer, Lyubushkin
COL 3 – 0 ARI

3rd period

16:19
ARIOliver Ekman-LarssonPP (Phil Kessel, Tyler Pitlick)slap0.09 xG
COL: Graves, Compher, Bellemare, ToewsARI: Brassard, Kessel, Ekman-Larsson, Pitlick, Oesterle
COL 3 – 1 ARI
17:28
COLJoonas DonskoiEN (Tyson Jost, Valeri Nichushkin)deflected0.94 xG
COL: Donskoi, Nichushkin, Jost, Girard, MacDonaldARI: Goligoski, Brassard, Kessel, Dvorak, Keller, Chychrun
COL 4 – 1 ARI
19:49
COLJoonas Donskoi (Tyson Jost, Valeri Nichushkin)wrist0.12 xG
COL: Donskoi, Graves, Nichushkin, Jost, ByramARI: Oesterle, Schmaltz, Garland, Keller, Lyubushkin
COL 5 – 1 ARI

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
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	1	1	+1	2	0.27	2	0	0	19:07	—	—	63	55
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	0	1	1	+1	1	0.14	1	1	0	18:58	—	—	58	52
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	1	0	1	+1	4	0.27	0	1	0	18:19	—	—	55	46
Nazem Kadri C	L2	1	0	1	+1	4	0.60	0	1	2	18:53	—	—	43	51
Andre Burakovsky L	L2	0	1	1	+1	2	0.28	1	0	0	15:49	—	—	55	63
Brandon Saad L	L2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.20	0	0	0	13:20	—	—	42	48
Valeri Nichushkin R	L3	0	2	2	+2	2	0.14	0	0	0	15:56	—	—	72	87
Joonas Donskoi R	L3	2	0	2	+2	5	1.63	0	0	0	14:08	—	—	74	88
Tyson Jost C	L3	0	2	2	+2	5	0.50	3	0	0	13:35	—	—	67	84
J.T. Compher L	L4	0	1	1	+1	2	0.35	0	1	0	11:25	—	—	79	97
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L4	1	0	1	+1	2	0.14	0	0	0	11:23	—	—	79	97
Matt Calvert L	L4	0	1	1	+1	1	0.25	0	0	2	11:11	—	—	75	91
Devon Toews D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.03	0	2	0	22:56	—	—	56	61
Cale Makar D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.07	1	1	0	21:12	—	—	54	59
Samuel Girard D	D2	0	0	0	+3	0	0.00	1	0	0	20:07	—	—	63	76
Jacob MacDonald D	D2	0	1	1	+3	0	0.03	2	1	0	17:31	—	—	56	68
Ryan Graves D	D3	0	0	0	+1	2	0.01	1	0	0	17:41	—	—	72	79
Bowen Byram D	D3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.00	4	2	0	16:08	—	—	68	76

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Philipp Grubauer(start)	W	25	24	1	.960	1.55	60:00

Arizona Coyotes

ARI skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Nick Schmaltz C	L1	0	0	0	-2	1	0.01	0	0	2	16:40	—	—	50	43
Conor Garland R	L1	0	0	0	-2	3	0.06	3	2	0	16:15	—	—	56	27
Clayton Keller R	L1	0	0	0	-3	1	0.05	0	0	0	16:11	—	—	50	22
Tyler Pitlick C	L2	0	1	1	-1	0	0.00	3	3	0	16:21	—	—	33	41
Lawson Crouse L	L2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.33	1	1	0	15:51	—	—	35	44
Derick Brassard C	L2	0	0	0	-2	0	0.09	2	0	0	13:22	—	—	53	46
Christian Dvorak C	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.12	1	2	0	17:10	—	—	43	32
Phil Kessel R	L3	0	1	1	-1	1	0.16	0	0	0	16:01	—	—	50	39
Drake Caggiula L	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.15	2	0	0	14:45	—	—	26	30
Christian Fischer R	L4	0	0	0	-1	3	0.09	1	1	0	12:50	—	—	32	12
Hudson Fasching R	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.01	2	0	0	10:09	—	—	26	27
Johan Larsson L	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	3	1	0	9:58	—	—	10	2
Jakob Chychrun D	D1	0	0	0	-2	4	0.07	2	4	2	24:55	—	—	52	48
Alex Goligoski D	D1	0	0	0	-2	1	0.01	1	1	0	21:05	—	—	40	29
Oliver Ekman-Larsson D	D2	1	0	1	-1	2	0.14	6	1	0	20:47	—	—	29	18
Ilya Lyubushkin D	D2	0	0	0	-2	2	0.19	3	3	0	19:59	—	—	36	28
Jordan Oesterle D	D3	0	0	0	-2	1	0.04	1	2	2	20:21	—	—	35	23
Niklas Hjalmarsson D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.03	1	2	0	12:33	—	—	33	27

ARI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Antti Raanta(start)	L	34	30	4	.882	3.98	58:47

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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.