Colorado Avalanche vs. Vegas Golden KnightsMay 10, 2021

FinalMonday, May 10, 2021· T-Mobile Arena

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Vegas Golden KnightsVGK

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	0	1	1	2		COL	9	4	8	21
VGK	1	0	0	1		VGK	14	15	8	37

: COL 44VGK 70
: COL 2.01VGK 3.51
PP goals: COL 0VGK 0
Hits: COL 49VGK 45
Blocks: COL 19VGK 17
PIM: COL 8VGK 6
: COL 44%VGK 56%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche edge Vegas Golden Knights 2–1

Colorado Avalanche beat Vegas Golden Knights 2–1 at VGK. Alex Newhook (COL) led the scoring with 0G 2A. Carl Soderberg (COL) played 5:44, −8:53 down on his 14:37 season average over 44 games.

Points
Alex Newhook had 2 assists (2 points) in 10:33.Newhook
Usage
Carl Soderberg (COL) played 5:44, −8:53 down on his 14:37 season average over 44 games.Soderberg
Luck
VGK scored 1 goal on 3.51 expected goals (70 attempts), well short of its chances.
Goalie
Philipp Grubauer (COL) faced 37 shots and stopped 36 (.973), +12 against a season average of 24.8; the win.Grubauer
Usage
Alex Pietrangelo (VGK) played 29:08, +4:49 up on his 24:19 season average over 40 games.Pietrangelo
New line
New look for VGK: Carrier–Tuch–Roy skated 4:53 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (66.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Carrier Tuch Roy
Usage
Shea Theodore (VGK) played 29:34, +7:09 up on his 22:25 season average over 52 games.Theodore
Usage
Alex Newhook (COL) played 10:33, −3:45 down on his 14:18 season average over 5 games.Newhook

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 114 of 114 attempts · VGK 70 · COL 44

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 23% of the game, VGK 49%.

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
	47	53
	2.25	2.40
	2.22	2.34
	11	7
	7	1
	12	25
	−0.020	+0.021
	23%	49%

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
12:5946% CF
L2Kadri – Burakovsky – Newhook
7:4863% CF
L3Donskoi – Nichushkin – Jost
7:1227% CF
L4Soderberg – Compher – Bellemare
4:4640% CF
D1Toews – Makar
16:2940% CF
D2Graves – Timmins
12:1843% CF
D3Nemeth – MacDonald
8:0842% CF

PP1Donskoi – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Makar
1:49100% CF
PP2Kadri – Burakovsky – Nichushkin – Toews – Jost
1:49100% CF
PK1FNichushkin – Bellemare
1:04
PK2FCompher – Jost
0:55
PK1DGraves – Toews
1:45
PK2DNemeth – Makar
0:00

Current COL line combinations →

Vegas Golden Knights

L1Stone – Stephenson – Janmark
15:0268% CF
L2Smith – Karlsson – Marchessault
11:3255% CF
L3Carrier – Tuch – Roy
4:5367% CF
D1Pietrangelo – Theodore
14:3245% CF
D2McNabb – Whitecloud
9:3236% CF

PP1Smith – Karlsson – Marchessault – Theodore – Tuch
2:34100% CF
PP2Stone – Stephenson – Janmark – Theodore – Hague
1:22
PK1FSmith – Karlsson
1:00
PK2FTuch – Roy
0:43
PK1DPietrangelo – McNabb
1:12
PK2DHague – Whitecloud
0:48

Current VGK line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

8:11
VGKAlex Pietrangelo (Nicolas Hague, Mark Stone)slap0.03 xG
COL: Kadri, Graves, Burakovsky, Timmins, NewhookVGK: Pietrangelo, Stone, Stephenson, Janmark, Hague
COL 0 – 1 VGK

2nd period

7:04
COLAndre Burakovsky (Nazem Kadri, Alex Newhook)wrist0.05 xG
COL: Kadri, Burakovsky, Toews, Makar, NewhookVGK: McNabb, Stephenson, Tuch, Kolesar, Whitecloud
COL 1 – 1 VGK

3rd period

11:33
COLJ.T. Compher (Alex Newhook, Conor Timmins)tip-in0.12 xG
COL: Graves, Compher, Jost, Timmins, NewhookVGK: Pietrangelo, McNabb, Carrier, Tuch, Roy
COL 2 – 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	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.09	3	0	0	21:43	—	—	44	38
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	3	2	2	21:07	—	—	50	58
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.17	2	0	0	20:32	—	—	51	63
Andre Burakovsky L	L2	1	0	1	0	3	0.35	1	1	0	14:52	—	—	65	79
Nazem Kadri C	L2	0	1	1	0	3	0.30	7	0	0	14:52	—	—	54	66
Alex Newhook C	L2	0	2	2	+1	0	0.08	2	0	0	10:33	—	—	60	71
Tyson Jost C	L3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	0	0	15:30	—	—	31	24
Valeri Nichushkin R	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.41	4	0	0	15:11	—	—	40	35
Joonas Donskoi R	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	2	11:24	—	—	20	10
J.T. Compher L	L4	1	0	1	+1	1	0.13	0	3	0	12:59	—	—	46	25
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	1	2	0	12:29	—	—	30	0
Carl Soderberg C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	5	0	0	5:44	—	—	33	0
Devon Toews D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.15	4	2	0	24:57	—	—	44	64
Cale Makar D	D1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.10	3	1	2	24:11	—	—	46	52
Ryan Graves D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.03	2	4	2	20:42	—	—	48	43
Conor Timmins D	D2	0	1	1	0	0	0.01	2	1	0	16:43	—	—	41	35
Patrik Nemeth D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	6	2	0	17:25	—	—	48	47
Jacob MacDonald D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.13	3	1	0	11:06	—	—	55	52

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Philipp Grubauer(start)	W	37	36	1	.973	3.51	60:00

Vegas Golden Knights

VGK skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mark Stone R	L1	0	1	1	+1	2	0.18	1	1	0	22:38	—	—	56	53
Mattias Janmark C	L1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.08	1	1	0	21:08	—	—	69	59
Chandler Stephenson C	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	3	0	2	20:08	—	—	64	48
William Karlsson C	L2	0	0	0	0	4	0.30	1	1	0	21:33	—	—	48	50
Reilly Smith R	L2	0	0	0	0	3	0.59	2	0	0	20:59	—	—	52	61
Jonathan Marchessault R	L2	0	0	0	0	4	0.62	6	1	0	20:39	—	—	43	47
Alex Tuch R	L3	0	0	0	-2	5	0.45	2	0	2	18:40	—	—	50	45
Nicolas Roy C	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.16	2	2	0	13:46	—	—	48	57
William Carrier L	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	9	1	0	11:41	—	—	55	65
Shea Theodore D	D1	0	0	0	0	3	0.12	2	2	0	29:34	—	—	55	56
Alex Pietrangelo D	D1	1	0	1	0	6	0.32	2	3	2	29:08	—	—	49	34
Brayden McNabb D	D2	0	0	0	-2	0	0.00	6	3	0	19:57	—	—	44	47
Zach Whitecloud D	D2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.23	3	2	0	19:16	—	—	42	45
Nicolas Hague D	—	0	1	1	+1	3	0.31	1	0	0	17:41	—	—	76	88
Keegan Kolesar R	—	0	0	0	-1	1	0.11	4	0	0	8:46	—	—	39	32

VGK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Robin Lehner(start)	L	21	19	2	.905	2.01	58:26

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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.