Colorado Avalanche vs. Vegas Golden KnightsMay 24, 2026

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	3	0	0	3		COL	16	12	7	35
VGK	0	3	2	5		VGK	7	8	8	23

: COL 73VGK 47
: COL 3.57VGK 4.42
PP goals: COL 0VGK 1
Hits: COL 17VGK 34
Blocks: COL 11VGK 22
PIM: COL 18VGK 10
: COL 45%VGK 55%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Vegas Golden Knights beat Colorado Avalanche 5–3

Vegas Golden Knights beat Colorado Avalanche 5–3 at home. Mark Stone (VGK) led the scoring with 1G 1A. VGK's first power-play unit (Stone, Hertl, Eichel, Marner and Dorofeyev) scored 1 power-play goal on 7 attempts in 3:57 together.

Points
Mark Stone had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 15:45.Stone
Points
Tomas Hertl had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 13:23.Hertl
Points
William Karlsson had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 17:22.Karlsson
Points
Devon Toews had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 23:14.Toews
Points
Kaedan Korczak had 2 assists (2 points) in 9:38.Korczak
Points
Mitch Marner had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 23:59.Marner
PP1
VGK's first power-play unit (Stone, Hertl, Eichel, Marner and Dorofeyev) scored 1 power-play goal on 7 attempts in 3:57 together.Stone Hertl Eichel Marner Dorofeyev
Goalie
Carter Hart (VGK) faced 35 shots and stopped 32 (.914), +6 against a season average of 29.0; the win.Hart

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 120 of 120 attempts · VGK 47 · COL 73

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 37% of the game, VGK 24%.

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

Head-to-head matchups

VGK skaters (rows) against COL skaters (columns) at 5v5. Square size is time together; colour is xGF% from the VGK side.

Matchup matrix

VGK xGF% 4060square size = TOI together · blank = under 1:00

Sequence card

5-on-5 possession-chain numbers from the sequence engine (Draw Equity and control cover all situations).

Sequence card
Stat	COL	VGK
	56	40
	2.30	2.33
	2.26	2.23
	7	8
	2	1
	19	23
	−0.042	+0.042
	37%	24%

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 – Lehkonen – MacKinnon
7:2562% CF
L2Kelly – Drury – O'Connor
7:1844% CF
L3Kadri – Nelson – Necas
5:2957% CF
L4Nichushkin – Roy – Colton
4:5255% CF
D1Toews – Makar
13:1658% CF
D2Burns – Manson
9:4859% CF
D3Kulak – Malinski
9:3956% CF

PP1Kadri – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Necas – Makar
7:00100% CF
PP2Burns – Nelson – Nichushkin – Toews – Roy
0:48100% CF
PK1FKelly – Drury
1:25
PK2FNelson – Nichushkin
1:19
PK1DManson – Toews
2:07
PK2DBurns – Kulak
0:26

Current COL line combinations →

Vegas Golden Knights

L1Karlsson – Marner – Howden
9:5053% CF
L2Barbashev – Eichel – Dorofeyev
9:2938% CF
L3Stone – Hertl – Sissons
6:4423% CF
L4Dowd – Kolesar – Smith
4:1083% CF
D1McNabb – Theodore
15:1645% CF
D2Hanifin – Andersson
14:0621% CF
D3Coghlan – Korczak
8:4470% CF

PP1Stone – Hertl – Eichel – Marner – Dorofeyev
3:5770% CF
PP2Stone – Theodore – Barbashev – Andersson – Howden
0:33
PK1FKarlsson – Eichel
2:31
PK2FDowd – Sissons
2:22
PK1DMcNabb – Theodore
3:20
PK2DHanifin – Andersson
3:19

Current VGK line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

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	0	1	0	6	1.21	0	0	0	24:04	—	—	59	72
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	1	1	-1	5	0.29	2	1	0	18:02	—	—	59	56
Artturi Lehkonen L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.06	1	0	0	17:15	—	—	64	85
Parker Kelly C	L2	0	1	1	-1	0	0.00	1	0	0	12:52	—	—	57	27
Logan O'Connor R	L2	0	0	0	-2	2	0.11	2	0	0	12:02	—	—	58	38
Jack Drury C	L2	1	0	1	-1	1	0.37	1	0	0	11:04	—	—	39	18
Martin Necas C	L3	0	1	1	0	2	0.25	1	0	0	21:18	—	—	67	80
Nazem Kadri C	L3	1	0	1	+1	3	0.30	1	0	2	19:19	—	—	65	72
Brock Nelson C	L3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.31	1	1	2	19:02	—	—	68	90
Nicolas Roy C	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	0	1	0	11:17	—	—	55	29
Valeri Nichushkin R	L4	0	0	0	-1	2	0.19	2	0	0	8:34	—	—	50	23
Ross Colton C	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.05	4	0	12	8:29	—	—	60	25
Cale Makar D	D1	0	0	0	0	3	0.26	0	6	0	27:14	—	—	63	66
Devon Toews D	D1	0	2	2	+1	2	0.04	0	0	0	23:14	—	—	62	76
Brent Burns D	D2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.03	0	0	2	16:38	—	—	68	43
Josh Manson D	D2	0	1	1	0	0	0.02	0	1	0	16:20	—	—	48	35
Brett Kulak D	D3	0	0	0	-2	2	0.05	1	1	0	15:04	—	—	48	28
Sam Malinski D	D3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.03	0	0	0	12:57	—	—	60	54

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Scott Wedgewood(start)	L	22	18	4	.818	3.32	58:15

Vegas Golden Knights

VGK skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mitch Marner R	L1	0	2	2	0	2	0.13	1	0	2	23:59	—	—	46	44
William Karlsson C	L1	1	1	2	+3	2	0.57	0	1	0	17:22	—	—	61	81
Brett Howden C	L1	1	0	1	+2	2	0.76	4	0	0	17:03	—	—	52	69
Jack Eichel C	L2	0	0	0	-2	1	0.13	1	2	0	23:02	—	—	31	10
Pavel Dorofeyev R	L2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.28	0	0	0	17:09	—	—	35	13
Ivan Barbashev L	L2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.54	5	1	0	15:57	—	—	33	10
Mark Stone R	L3	1	1	2	-1	3	0.49	4	0	2	15:45	—	—	22	12
Tomas Hertl C	L3	1	1	2	0	3	0.49	2	0	0	13:23	—	—	31	55
Colton Sissons C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.14	1	0	0	12:27	—	—	29	44
Nic Dowd C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	10:20	—	—	50	76
Cole Smith R	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	0	4	6:08	—	—	78	89
Keegan Kolesar R	L4	1	0	1	+1	1	0.75	3	1	0	5:19	—	—	86	98
Brayden McNabb D	D1	0	0	0	+1	0	0.03	2	3	0	23:45	—	—	50	75
Shea Theodore D	D1	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	0	2	0	23:32	—	—	41	50
Noah Hanifin D	D2	0	0	0	-1	2	0.05	3	5	0	23:17	—	—	18	12
Rasmus Andersson D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	4	2	21:06	—	—	21	13
Dylan Coghlan D	D3	0	1	1	+2	3	0.03	1	2	0	11:04	—	—	63	66
Kaedan Korczak D	D3	0	2	2	+2	0	0.02	1	1	0	9:38	—	—	73	83

VGK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Carter Hart(start)	W	35	32	3	.914	3.57	59:44

Goal anatomy

Animated replays from NHL EDGE tracking, with the entry, passes and shot speed for each goal.

Gabriel Landeskog (COL) 1st 3:21 · assists Devon Toews, Nathan MacKinnon · Odd-man rush · loose puck · 1-on-0 at the blue line · 12.3 mph shot · 3.6 s from entry to goal.

Gabriel Landeskog · 1st 3:21 · COL

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: loose
Odd man: 1-on-0
Passes: 0
Shot: 12.3 mph
Distance: 8 ft
Entry to goal: 3.6 s

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Nazem Kadri · 1st 7:03 · COL

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: pass
Odd man: 1-on-0
Passes: 2 (royal road)
Shot: 54.9 mph
Distance: 31 ft
Entry to goal: 3.0 s

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Jack Drury · 1st 13:15 · COL SH

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 1-on-0
Passes: 0
Shot: 10.4 mph
Distance: 2 ft
Entry to goal: 3.0 s

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Brett Howden · 3rd 19:01 · VGK EN

Play: point-shot
Passes: 1
Shot: 46.0 mph
Distance: 118 ft

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Mark Stone · 2nd 0:19 · VGK PP

Play: dump-and-chase
Entry: dump
Odd man: 4-on-3
Passes: 2 (royal road)
Shot: 20.5 mph
Distance: 6 ft
Entry to goal: 5.8 s

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William Karlsson · 2nd 4:05 · VGK

Play: deflection
Passes: 1
Shot: 10.7 mph
Distance: 39 ft
Type: deflection

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Keegan Kolesar · 2nd 12:46 · VGK

Play: rebound
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 6.2 mph
Distance: 7 ft
Entry to goal: 6.8 s
Type: rebound

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Tomas Hertl · 3rd 8:21 · VGK

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: pass
Odd man: 3-on-2
Passes: 1
Shot: 49.1 mph
Distance: 20 ft
Entry to goal: 2.2 s

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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.

Colorado Avalanche vs. Vegas Golden KnightsMay 24, 2026

Fantasy takeaways

Vegas Golden Knights beat Colorado Avalanche 5–3

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Head-to-head matchups

Matchup matrix

Sequence card

Lines used

Colorado Avalanche

Vegas Golden Knights

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

Colorado Avalanche

Vegas Golden Knights

Goal anatomy

Gabriel Landeskog · 1st 3:21 · COL

Nazem Kadri · 1st 7:03 · COL

Jack Drury · 1st 13:15 · COL SH

Brett Howden · 3rd 19:01 · VGK EN

Mark Stone · 2nd 0:19 · VGK PP

William Karlsson · 2nd 4:05 · VGK

Keegan Kolesar · 2nd 12:46 · VGK

Tomas Hertl · 3rd 8:21 · VGK