Colorado Avalanche vs. Vegas Golden KnightsFeb 14, 2021

FinalSunday, Feb 14, 2021· T-Mobile Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	0	0	0	0		COL	9	11	10	30
VGK	0	1	0	1		VGK	9	9	6	24

: COL 57VGK 55
: COL 2.07VGK 3.11
PP goals: COL 0VGK 0
Hits: COL 33VGK 34
Blocks: COL 19VGK 16
PIM: COL 4VGK 2
: COL 56%VGK 44%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Vegas Golden Knights edge Colorado Avalanche 1–0

Vegas Golden Knights beat Colorado Avalanche 1–0 at home. Max Pacioretty (VGK) led the scoring with 1G 0A. New look for COL: Saad–MacKinnon–Rantanen skated 14:51 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (66.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

New line
New look for COL: Saad–MacKinnon–Rantanen skated 14:51 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (66.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Saad MacKinnon Rantanen
New line
New look for COL: Kadri–Donskoi–Burakovsky skated 9:57 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Kadri Donskoi Burakovsky
Luck
VGK scored 1 goal on 3.11 expected goals (55 attempts), well short of its chances.
Luck
COL scored 0 goals on 2.07 expected goals (57 attempts), well short of its chances.
New line
New look for COL: Compher–Nichushkin–O'Connor skated 8:02 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (80% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Compher Nichushkin O'Connor
New line
New look for COL: Megna–Bellemare–Dries skated 6:01 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (61.5% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Megna Bellemare Dries
Usage
Bowen Byram (COL) played 23:07, +5:55 up on his 17:12 season average over 18 games.Byram
Usage
Conor Timmins (COL) played 19:00, +5:38 up on his 13:22 season average over 30 games.Timmins

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)VGK attacks right (top on phones) →

VGK
COL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 112 of 112 attempts · VGK 55 · COL 57

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

VGK
COL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

VGK 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 26% of the game, VGK 30%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

VGK

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	VGK
	64	48
	2.39	2.08
	2.25	1.94
	11	10
	5	5
	12	19
	+0.026	−0.026
	26%	30%

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

L1Saad – MacKinnon – Rantanen
14:5167% CF
L2Kadri – Donskoi – Burakovsky
9:5750% CF
L3Compher – Nichushkin – O'Connor
8:0280% CF
L4Megna – Bellemare – Dries
6:0162% CF
D1Toews – Byram
9:1075% CF
D2Graves – MacDonald
7:1567% CF
D3Gilbert – Timmins
2:1550% CF

PP1Kadri – Burakovsky – MacKinnon – Toews – Rantanen
0:59100% CF
PP2Donskoi – Saad – Compher – Nichushkin – Timmins
0:310% CF
PK1FBellemare – O'Connor
1:37
PK2FDonskoi – Compher
1:32
PK1DGraves – Toews
1:46
PK2DGilbert – Timmins
0:52

Current COL line combinations →

Vegas Golden Knights

L1Pacioretty – Stone – Stephenson
12:2436% CF
L2Smith – Karlsson – Marchessault
12:1763% CF
L3Tuch – Kolesar – Glass
10:0926% CF
L4Reaves – Carrier – Roy
8:5643% CF
D1Martinez – Pietrangelo
18:0644% CF
D2Hague – Whitecloud
15:1359% CF
D3Holden – Coghlan
10:0228% CF

PP1Pacioretty – Pietrangelo – Stone – Karlsson – Glass
3:07100% CF
PP2Martinez – Smith – Marchessault – Stephenson – Tuch
2:00100% CF
PK1FTuch – Roy
0:31
PK2FSmith – Karlsson
0:30
PK1DHague – Whitecloud
0:58
PK2DHolden – Pietrangelo
0:31

Current VGK line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

1:38
VGKMax Pacioretty (Zach Whitecloud)wrist0.02 xG
COL: Kadri, Donskoi, Nichushkin, Toews, TimminsVGK: Pacioretty, Stone, Stephenson, Hague, Whitecloud
COL 0 – 1 VGK

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	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	4	0.25	1	1	0	22:34	—	—	60	57
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	0	3	0.20	2	0	0	20:59	—	—	61	55
Brandon Saad L	L1	0	1	0.26	2	1	0	18:21	—	—	61	47
Andre Burakovsky L	L2	0	2	0.26	1	0	0	17:30	—	—	46	53
Joonas Donskoi R	L2	-1	0	0.00	0	1	0	16:14	—	—	39	34
Nazem Kadri C	L2	-1	1	0.03	3	0	0	15:58	—	—	40	32
Valeri Nichushkin R	L3	-1	1	0.11	3	0	0	13:12	—	—	67	86
J.T. Compher L	L3	0	2	0.22	2	1	0	13:10	—	—	74	88
Logan O'Connor R	L3	0	3	0.22	4	2	0	12:55	—	—	78	91
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L4	0	1	0.03	2	0	0	12:12	—	—	60	47
Sheldon Dries C	L4	0	0	0.05	0	0	0	7:41	—	—	53	47
Jayson Megna C	L4	0	1	0.14	3	0	0	7:12	—	—	56	47
Devon Toews D	D1	-1	4	0.05	1	3	0	25:56	—	—	63	62
Bowen Byram D	D1	0	0	0.00	5	3	0	23:07	—	—	44	35
Ryan Graves D	D2	0	4	0.07	3	3	0	21:35	—	—	56	42
Jacob MacDonald D	D2	0	2	0.19	0	1	0	19:41	—	—	72	66
Conor Timmins D	D3	-1	1	0.00	1	2	4	19:00	—	—	58	52
Dennis Gilbert D	D3	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	8:16	—	—	44	70

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Philipp Grubauer(start)	L	24	23	1	.958	2.34	58:27

Vegas Golden Knights

VGK skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mark Stone R	L1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.12	0	2	0	19:33	—	—	31	46
Max Pacioretty L	L1	1	0	1	+1	4	0.82	1	0	0	18:06	—	—	42	49
Chandler Stephenson C	L1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.00	2	0	0	18:01	—	—	40	49
William Karlsson C	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.08	0	1	0	18:21	—	—	60	65
Reilly Smith R	L2	0	0	0	0	3	0.27	2	0	0	17:32	—	—	70	70
Jonathan Marchessault R	L2	0	0	0	0	3	0.93	1	1	0	17:27	—	—	61	65
Alex Tuch R	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	15:21	—	—	25	20
Cody Glass C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	15:15	—	—	33	20
Keegan Kolesar R	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.06	4	0	0	11:53	—	—	30	18
Nicolas Roy C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.20	2	0	0	11:32	—	—	44	37
William Carrier L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.12	1	0	0	10:08	—	—	41	37
Ryan Reaves R	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	4	0	0	9:47	—	—	43	27
Alex Pietrangelo D	D1	0	0	0	0	3	0.27	2	3	0	25:53	—	—	45	58
Alec Martinez D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	2	1	2	24:28	—	—	46	59
Zach Whitecloud D	D2	0	1	1	+1	1	0.12	2	3	0	19:19	—	—	53	46
Nicolas Hague D	D2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.02	5	3	0	19:10	—	—	44	39
Nick Holden D	D3	0	0	0	0	2	0.10	2	2	0	15:16	—	—	32	28
Dylan Coghlan D	D3	0	0	0	0	2	0.02	2	0	0	11:00	—	—	40	30

VGK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Marc-Andre Fleury(start)	W	30	30	0	.1000	2.07	59:58

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.