Colorado Avalanche vs. New Jersey DevilsJan 4, 2020

FinalSaturday, Jan 4, 2020· Prudential Center

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	0	2	3	5		COL	10	13	11	34
NJD	0	0	2	2		NJD	12	4	14	30

: COL 61NJD 48
: COL 4.30NJD 1.86
PP goals: COL 0NJD 0
Hits: COL 10NJD 14
Blocks: COL 10NJD 13
PIM: COL 6NJD 24
: COL 44%NJD 56%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche beat New Jersey Devils 5–2

Colorado Avalanche beat New Jersey Devils 5–2 at NJD. Mikko Rantanen (COL) led the scoring with 3G 0A. New look for NJD: Palmieri–Zacha–Hischier skated 12:52 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (47.4% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

Points
Mikko Rantanen had a hat trick (3 points) on 3 shots in 14:58.Rantanen
Points
Ian Cole had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 20:33.Cole
Points
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 13:24.Bellemare
Points
Nathan MacKinnon had 2 assists (2 points) on 3 shots in 20:29.MacKinnon
Points
Samuel Girard had 2 assists (2 points) on 1 shot in 20:23.Girard
New line
New look for NJD: Palmieri–Zacha–Hischier skated 12:52 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (47.4% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Palmieri Zacha Hischier
Usage
Sami Vatanen (NJD) played 30:40, +9:07 up on his 21:33 season average over 46 games.Vatanen
New line
New look for COL: Calvert–Kadri–Nieto skated 9:56 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (66.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Calvert Kadri Nieto

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)NJD attacks right (top on phones) →

NJD
COL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 109 of 109 attempts · NJD 48 · COL 61

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

NJD
COL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

NJD 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 54% of the game, NJD 15%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

NJD

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	NJD
	61	43
	3.91	1.56
	3.76	1.52
	4	6
	5	5
	22	8
	−0.070	+0.070
	54%	15%

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

L1Donskoi – Landeskog – MacKinnon
10:4246% CF
L2Calvert – Kadri – Nieto
9:5667% CF
L3Bellemare – Kamenev – Jost
8:3445% CF
L4Burakovsky – Compher – Rantanen
7:1780% CF
D1Graves – Makar
15:1648% CF
D2Johnson – Girard
13:4767% CF
D3Cole – Zadorov
13:0944% CF

PP1Donskoi – Burakovsky – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Makar
3:0780% CF
PP2Kadri – Landeskog – Compher – MacKinnon – Girard
1:4267% CF
PK1FNieto – Compher
1:25
PK2FCalvert – Bellemare
0:41
PK1DJohnson – Cole
1:28
PK2DGraves – Zadorov
0:00

Current COL line combinations →

New Jersey Devils

L1Palmieri – Zacha – Hischier
12:5247% CF
L2Zajac – Coleman – Gusev
10:3235% CF
L3Simmonds – Street – Wood
8:2457% CF
L4Hayden – Rooney – Boqvist
6:5736% CF
D1Vatanen – Severson
17:4844% CF
D2Greene – Subban
10:2743% CF
D3Butcher – Mueller
8:5550% CF

PP1Palmieri – Vatanen – Severson – Gusev – Hischier
2:5680% CF
PP2Butcher – Hayden – Mueller – Rooney – Boqvist
0:22100% CF
PK1FZajac – Coleman
3:08
PK2FZacha – Rooney
1:23
PK1DGreene – Severson
1:54
PK2DVatanen – Mueller
0:42

Current NJD line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

11:23
COLMikko Rantanen (Nathan MacKinnon, Samuel Girard)snap0.11 xG
COL: Johnson, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, GirardNJD: Zajac, Greene, Subban, Coleman, Gusev
COL 1 – 0 NJD
15:34
COLIan Cole (Vladislav Kamenev, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare)slap0.01 xG
COL: Cole, Zadorov, Bellemare, Kamenev, JostNJD: Butcher, Hayden, Mueller, Rooney, Boqvist
COL 2 – 0 NJD

3rd period

0:08
COLMikko Rantanen (Cale Makar, Nathan MacKinnon)snap0.14 xG
COL: Landeskog, Graves, MacKinnon, Rantanen, MakarNJD: Zajac, Vatanen, Coleman, Severson, Gusev
COL 3 – 0 NJD
6:36
NJDBlake ColemanSHsnap0.01 xG
COL: Kadri, Landeskog, Compher, MacKinnon, GirardNJD: Zajac, Greene, Subban, Coleman
COL 3 – 1 NJD
13:49
COLPierre-Edouard BellemareSHslap0.01 xG
COL: Johnson, Calvert, Graves, BellemareNJD: Simmonds, Vatanen, Butcher, Zacha, Boqvist
COL 4 – 1 NJD
18:37
NJDJesper Boqvist (Sami Vatanen, Pavel Zacha)tip-in0.08 xG
COL: Johnson, Donskoi, Graves, BellemareNJD: Zajac, Vatanen, Coleman, Butcher, Zacha, Boqvist
COL 4 – 2 NJD
19:44
COLMikko RantanenEN (Samuel Girard, Ian Cole)snap0.46 xG
COL: Cole, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, GirardNJD: Vatanen, Severson, Gusev, Wood, Zacha, Hischier
COL 5 – 2 NJD

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	2	2	+2	3	0.36	1	0	0	20:29	—	—	55	87
Joonas Donskoi R	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.14	0	0	0	18:54	—	—	46	51
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	0	0	0	+2	2	0.44	0	2	0	18:09	—	—	48	78
Matt Nieto L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.16	0	1	0	15:11	—	—	60	65
Matt Calvert L	L2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.23	0	1	2	14:41	—	—	58	67
Nazem Kadri C	L2	0	0	0	-1	5	0.69	1	0	0	14:22	—	—	67	75
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L3	1	1	2	+2	2	0.09	0	1	0	13:24	—	—	47	53
Vladislav Kamenev C	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.05	1	0	0	9:37	—	—	50	73
Tyson Jost C	L3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.20	0	0	2	9:27	—	—	54	67
J.T. Compher L	L4	0	0	0	-1	4	0.66	0	0	0	16:23	—	—	66	75
Mikko Rantanen R	L4	3	0	3	+3	3	0.76	0	0	0	14:58	—	—	81	94
Andre Burakovsky L	L4	0	0	0	0	3	0.35	0	0	0	13:17	—	—	70	70
Cale Makar D	D1	0	1	1	+1	2	0.03	0	0	0	20:42	—	—	52	62
Ryan Graves D	D1	0	0	0	+2	0	0.03	2	1	2	18:03	—	—	48	54
Samuel Girard D	D2	0	2	2	+1	1	0.02	0	1	0	20:23	—	—	68	80
Erik Johnson D	D2	0	0	0	+2	2	0.06	2	1	0	19:49	—	—	68	72
Ian Cole D	D3	1	1	2	+2	2	0.04	1	1	0	20:33	—	—	55	74
Nikita Zadorov D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	2	1	0	15:23	—	—	44	62

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Philipp Grubauer(start)	W	30	28	2	.933	1.86	60:00

New Jersey Devils

NJD skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Nico Hischier C	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.17	0	1	0	21:51	—	—	41	33
Pavel Zacha C	L1	0	1	1	-2	0	0.00	1	0	0	20:01	—	—	40	24
Kyle Palmieri C	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.06	1	0	0	19:43	—	—	46	30
Blake Coleman L	L2	1	0	1	-1	7	0.16	4	1	0	17:49	—	—	35	16
Travis Zajac C	L2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.04	0	0	0	17:09	—	—	35	18
Nikita Gusev L	L2	0	0	0	-3	1	0.05	0	0	0	16:59	—	—	36	28
Miles Wood L	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.32	0	1	2	12:34	—	—	50	41
Wayne Simmonds R	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.07	1	0	20	10:17	—	—	50	35
Ben Street C	L3	0	0	0	0	3	0.03	1	0	0	9:52	—	—	54	37
John Hayden C	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.00	2	0	0	10:24	—	—	33	34
Kevin Rooney C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.15	1	1	0	10:08	—	—	31	23
Jesper Boqvist C	L4	1	0	1	-2	2	0.27	1	2	0	9:25	—	—	36	43
Sami Vatanen D	D1	0	1	1	-3	2	0.11	1	1	0	30:40	—	—	40	26
Damon Severson D	D1	0	0	0	-2	2	0.17	1	0	2	26:36	—	—	38	17
Andy Greene D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	0	1	0	17:20	—	—	38	25
P.K. Subban D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.18	0	3	0	17:11	—	—	44	44
Will Butcher D	D3	0	0	0	-2	0	0.00	0	0	0	14:47	—	—	46	35
Mirco Mueller D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.05	0	2	0	13:46	—	—	39	18

NJD goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Mackenzie Blackwood(start)	L	33	29	4	.879	3.84	57:28

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.