Colorado Avalanche vs. Arizona CoyotesMar 23, 2021

Final / SOTuesday, Mar 23, 2021· Gila River Arena

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Arizona CoyotesARI

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Goals	1	2	3	OT	SO	T		Shots	1	2	3	OT	T
COL	2	1	1	0	0	4		COL	11	10	11	7	39
ARI	2	0	2	0	1	5		ARI	8	11	10	3	32

: COL 67ARI 52
: COL 3.27ARI 2.42
PP goals: COL 1ARI 0
Hits: COL 25ARI 35
Blocks: COL 10ARI 19
PIM: COL 8ARI 8
: COL 48%ARI 52%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Arizona Coyotes edge Colorado Avalanche 5–4 (SO)

Arizona Coyotes beat Colorado Avalanche 5–4 in a shootout at home. Nathan MacKinnon (COL) led the scoring with 1G 2A. COL's first power-play unit (Kadri, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Makar) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 3:23 together.

Points
Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and 2 assists (3 points) on 8 shots in 22:37.MacKinnon
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Alex Goligoski had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 25:27.Goligoski
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Gabriel Landeskog had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 23:15.Landeskog
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Lawson Crouse had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 5 shots in 16:35.Crouse
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Mikko Rantanen had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 21:38.Rantanen
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Phil Kessel had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 18:34.Kessel
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Samuel Girard had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 26:13.Girard
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COL's first power-play unit (Kadri, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Makar) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 3:23 together.Kadri Landeskog MacKinnon Rantanen 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 119 of 119 attempts · ARI 52 · COL 67

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 41% of the game, ARI 28%.

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
	56	49
	2.43	1.83
	2.31	1.78
	12	8
	4	4
	14	6
	−0.040	+0.040
	41%	28%

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
14:0254% CF
L2Kadri – Saad – Burakovsky
9:3250% CF
L3Donskoi – Nichushkin – Jost
8:3580% CF
L4Calvert – Bellemare – O'Connor
7:5480% CF
D1Toews – Makar
11:5337% CF
D2Girard – MacDonald
9:1958% CF
D3Graves – Renouf
2:4950% CF

PP1Kadri – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Makar
3:23100% CF
PP2Donskoi – Saad – Burakovsky – Toews – Girard
1:05100% CF
PK1FCalvert – Bellemare
2:46
PK2FJost – O'Connor
2:14
PK1DGraves – Toews
3:27
PK2DGirard – MacDonald
1:25

Current COL line combinations →

Arizona Coyotes

L1Kessel – Larsson – Keller
8:0725% CF
L2Dvorak – Hunt – Garland
7:5871% CF
L3Brassard – Pitlick – Crouse
7:3747% CF
L4Hayden – Schmaltz – Fischer
5:3033% CF
D1Goligoski – Chychrun
15:4354% CF
D2Ekman-Larsson – Lyubushkin
12:4333% CF
D3Demers – Oesterle
10:5942% CF

PP1Brassard – Kessel – Ekman-Larsson – Pitlick – Oesterle
3:09100% CF
PP2Goligoski – Schmaltz – Dvorak – Garland – Keller
3:04100% CF
PK1FDvorak – Fischer
2:25
PK2FLarsson – Crouse
0:44
PK1DGoligoski – Ekman-Larsson
3:06
PK2DDemers – Chychrun
1:25

Current ARI line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

1:25
ARIJakob Chychrun (Lawson Crouse, Derick Brassard)wrist0.00 xG
COL: Landeskog, Burakovsky, MacKinnon, Toews, MakarARI: Goligoski, Brassard, Pitlick, Crouse, Chychrun
COL 0 – 1 ARI
4:52
ARIAlex Goligoski (Phil Kessel, Johan Larsson)wrist0.14 xG
COL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Toews, Rantanen, MakarARI: Goligoski, Kessel, Larsson, Keller, Chychrun
COL 0 – 2 ARI
14:47
COLGabriel LandeskogPP (Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar)wrist0.06 xG
COL: Kadri, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, MakarARI: Goligoski, Ekman-Larsson, Pitlick, Dvorak
COL 1 – 2 ARI
18:49
COLMikko Rantanen (Nathan MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog)wrist0.16 xG
COL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Toews, Rantanen, GirardARI: Goligoski, Hayden, Schmaltz, Fischer, Chychrun
COL 2 – 2 ARI

2nd period

19:49
COLNathan MacKinnon (Samuel Girard, Mikko Rantanen)slap0.05 xG
COL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Girard, MacDonaldARI: Brassard, Ekman-Larsson, Fischer, Crouse, Lyubushkin
COL 3 – 2 ARI

3rd period

5:28
COLValeri Nichushkin (Ryan Graves, Samuel Girard)tip-in0.07 xG
COL: Donskoi, Graves, Nichushkin, Jost, MacDonaldARI: Demers, Oesterle, Schmaltz, Garland, Keller
COL 4 – 2 ARI
6:38
ARILawson Crouse (John Hayden, Alex Goligoski)snap0.04 xG
COL: Calvert, Bellemare, Toews, Rantanen, MacDonaldARI: Goligoski, Larsson, Hayden, Crouse, Chychrun
COL 4 – 3 ARI
8:41
ARIPhil Kessel (Clayton Keller)wrist0.02 xG
COL: Donskoi, Landeskog, Graves, Jost, MakarARI: Goligoski, Kessel, Demers, Schmaltz, Keller
COL 4 – 4 ARI

Decided in the shootout: COL 4 – 5 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
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	1	1	2	-1	3	0.23	2	2	0	23:15	—	—	44	39
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	1	2	3	0	8	0.59	4	2	4	22:37	—	—	50	51
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	1	1	2	0	3	0.45	1	2	0	21:38	—	—	52	50
Nazem Kadri C	L2	0	0	0	0	4	0.46	1	0	0	15:29	—	—	45	61
Andre Burakovsky L	L2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.05	0	0	0	12:58	—	—	44	58
Brandon Saad L	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	12:17	—	—	50	70
Joonas Donskoi R	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.09	0	0	0	15:10	—	—	64	68
Tyson Jost C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.12	1	0	2	14:16	—	—	57	59
Valeri Nichushkin R	L3	1	0	1	+1	2	0.17	1	0	0	13:34	—	—	74	90
Matt Calvert L	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.05	0	1	0	12:38	—	—	53	25
Logan O'Connor R	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	3	0	0	12:26	—	—	67	46
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	0	0	0	11:54	—	—	62	44
Cale Makar D	D1	0	1	1	-3	2	0.35	2	1	0	26:32	—	—	28	29
Devon Toews D	D1	0	0	0	-2	7	0.50	2	1	0	24:58	—	—	56	70
Samuel Girard D	D2	0	2	2	+2	2	0.07	2	0	0	26:13	—	—	60	65
Jacob MacDonald D	D2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.01	2	1	0	18:46	—	—	59	67
Ryan Graves D	D3	0	1	1	0	2	0.09	3	0	0	18:35	—	—	58	43
Dan Renouf D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	0	0	2	7:07	—	—	62	70

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jonas Johansson(start)	O	32	28	4	.875	2.42	64:26

Arizona Coyotes

ARI skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Phil Kessel R	L1	1	1	2	+2	3	0.32	0	1	0	18:34	—	—	35	50
Clayton Keller R	L1	0	1	1	+1	3	0.27	0	0	0	17:14	—	—	38	48
Johan Larsson L	L1	0	1	1	+2	2	0.23	2	1	2	16:17	—	—	35	38
Christian Dvorak C	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.10	2	5	0	22:05	—	—	50	36
Conor Garland R	L2	0	0	0	-1	4	0.36	0	1	2	17:19	—	—	50	26
Dryden Hunt L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.06	5	0	0	13:15	—	—	60	33
Derick Brassard C	L3	0	1	1	0	3	0.16	0	0	0	17:55	—	—	54	49
Lawson Crouse L	L3	1	1	2	+1	5	0.48	2	0	0	16:35	—	—	51	57
Tyler Pitlick C	L3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.00	5	0	0	13:14	—	—	50	47
Christian Fischer R	L4	0	0	0	-2	0	0.02	3	1	0	14:14	—	—	43	39
Nick Schmaltz C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.14	0	0	2	12:16	—	—	44	44
John Hayden C	L4	0	1	1	0	1	0.00	4	0	0	9:14	—	—	53	35
Alex Goligoski D	D1	1	1	2	+3	3	0.19	2	3	0	25:27	—	—	58	66
Jakob Chychrun D	D1	1	0	1	+3	2	0.01	0	0	2	23:02	—	—	53	59
Oliver Ekman-Larsson D	D2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.06	2	1	0	24:52	—	—	25	15
Ilya Lyubushkin D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.01	2	6	0	15:23	—	—	43	27
Jason Demers D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	3	0	0	18:46	—	—	45	33
Jordan Oesterle D	D3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	3	0	0	15:54	—	—	42	24

ARI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Adin Hill(start)	W	39	35	4	.897	3.27	64:42

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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.