Colorado Avalanche vs. Vegas Golden KnightsMay 26, 2026

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	0	0	1	1		COL	8	6	7	21
VGK	1	0	1	2		VGK	9	11	6	26

: COL 44VGK 57
: COL 1.87VGK 3.18
PP goals: COL 0VGK 0
Hits: COL 30VGK 29
Blocks: COL 11VGK 14
PIM: COL 4VGK 2
: COL 45%VGK 55%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Vegas Golden Knights edge Colorado Avalanche 2–1

Vegas Golden Knights beat Colorado Avalanche 2–1 at home. Gabriel Landeskog (COL) led the scoring with 1G 0A. New look for COL: Roy–Colton–O'Connor skated 4:33 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (25% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

New line
New look for COL: Roy–Colton–O'Connor skated 4:33 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (25% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Roy Colton O'Connor
Usage
Mark Stone (VGK) played 15:42, −4:25 down on his 20:07 season average over 16 games.Stone
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Brayden McNabb (VGK) played 23:56, +3:17 up on his 20:39 season average over 20 games.McNabb
Usage
Sam Malinski (COL) played 14:16, −5:08 down on his 19:24 season average over 10 games.Malinski
Usage
Brett Kulak (COL) played 16:37, −4:21 down on his 20:58 season average over 12 games.Kulak
Usage
Rasmus Andersson (VGK) played 20:31, −3:04 down on his 23:35 season average over 21 games.Andersson
PP1
VGK's PP1 (Stone, Hertl, Eichel, Marner and Dorofeyev) went scoreless in 3:48 of 5v4 time with 8 attempts.Stone Hertl Eichel Marner Dorofeyev
Cats
Josh Manson (COL) threw 7 hits and blocked 1 shot, a night for hits leagues.Manson

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 101 of 101 attempts · VGK 57 · 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 20% of the game, VGK 46%.

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
	46	55
	1.84	2.24
	1.72	2.16
	7	14
	2	6
	18	22
	−0.068	+0.068
	20%	46%

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
8:2371% CF
L2Kelly – Drury – Kiviranta
5:4240% CF
L3Kadri – Nelson – Necas
5:1950% CF
L4Roy – Colton – O'Connor
4:3325% CF
D1Toews – Makar
17:0463% CF
D2Kulak – Malinski
9:4431% CF
D3Burns – Manson
9:0344% CF

PP1Kadri – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Necas – Makar
1:13100% CF
PP2Burns – Nelson – Lehkonen – Toews – Necas
0:25100% CF
PK1FNelson – O'Connor
1:29
PK2FKelly – Kiviranta
1:16
PK1DToews – Makar
1:52
PK2DBurns – Kulak
0:18

Current COL line combinations →

Vegas Golden Knights

L1Karlsson – Marner – Howden
10:5879% CF
L2Barbashev – Eichel – Dorofeyev
10:1160% CF
L3Stone – Hertl – Sissons
6:5654% CF
L4Dowd – Kolesar – Smith
5:4363% CF
D1McNabb – Theodore
19:3146% CF
D2Hanifin – Andersson
16:2950% CF
D3Coghlan – Korczak
11:0881% CF

PP1Stone – Hertl – Eichel – Marner – Dorofeyev
3:4889% CF
PP2Karlsson – Barbashev – Hanifin – Andersson – Howden
0:12100% CF
PK1FKarlsson – Eichel
0:42
PK2FDowd – Sissons
0:32
PK1DHanifin – Andersson
0:42
PK2DMcNabb – Theodore
0:19

Current VGK line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

4:42
VGKMark Stone (Brayden McNabb, Shea Theodore)wrist0.29 xG
COL: Kadri, Nelson, Toews, Roy, MakarVGK: McNabb, Stone, Sissons, Theodore, Howden
COL 0 – 1 VGK

3rd period

14:15
VGKCole Smith (Dylan Coghlan, Nic Dowd)tip-in0.09 xG
COL: Manson, Kulak, Roy, Colton, O'ConnorVGK: Dowd, Kolesar, Coghlan, Korczak, Smith
COL 0 – 2 VGK
17:57
COLGabriel Landeskog (Martin Necas, Nazem Kadri)tip-in0.08 xG
COL: Kadri, Nelson, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Necas, MakarVGK: McNabb, Karlsson, Hertl, Theodore, Marner
COL 1 – 2 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
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.19	1	0	0	22:10	—	—	73	69
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	1	0	1	+1	2	0.09	3	1	2	19:48	—	—	60	37
Artturi Lehkonen L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.07	0	0	0	17:30	—	—	58	64
Parker Kelly C	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.04	3	0	0	11:48	—	—	33	10
Jack Drury C	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	10:24	—	—	33	5
Joel Kiviranta L	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	10:15	—	—	33	8
Martin Necas C	L3	0	1	1	+1	0	0.12	1	0	0	20:06	—	—	56	80
Brock Nelson C	L3	0	0	0	0	3	0.36	1	1	0	19:18	—	—	38	55
Nazem Kadri C	L3	0	1	1	0	0	0.17	2	0	0	18:42	—	—	48	54
Nicolas Roy C	L4	0	0	0	-2	1	0.35	1	0	0	11:39	—	—	26	41
Logan O'Connor R	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	1	0	11:05	—	—	28	13
Ross Colton C	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.00	2	0	0	8:50	—	—	20	0
Cale Makar D	D1	0	0	0	0	4	0.14	0	1	0	27:30	—	—	57	46
Devon Toews D	D1	0	0	0	-1	3	0.30	0	2	0	24:31	—	—	66	66
Brett Kulak D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	2	0	0	16:37	—	—	28	22
Sam Malinski D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.04	0	2	0	14:16	—	—	38	43
Brent Burns D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	2	0	18:39	—	—	50	53
Josh Manson D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	7	1	2	14:58	—	—	31	17

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Mackenzie Blackwood(start)	L	26	24	2	.923	2.72	57:54

Vegas Golden Knights

VGK skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mitch Marner R	L1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.33	1	2	0	22:22	—	—	55	48
Brett Howden C	L1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.46	6	0	0	18:19	—	—	65	65
William Karlsson C	L1	0	0	0	-1	4	0.40	0	0	0	17:34	—	—	54	71
Jack Eichel C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.14	2	1	0	21:12	—	—	55	17
Pavel Dorofeyev R	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.34	0	2	0	19:07	—	—	48	43
Ivan Barbashev L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.12	4	2	0	15:36	—	—	54	56
Mark Stone R	L3	1	0	1	+1	2	0.40	3	1	0	15:42	—	—	54	53
Tomas Hertl C	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.29	1	0	0	15:15	—	—	50	37
Colton Sissons C	L3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.11	2	2	0	11:53	—	—	52	78
Nic Dowd C	L4	0	1	1	+1	2	0.22	1	0	0	10:57	—	—	60	82
Cole Smith R	L4	1	0	1	+1	2	0.23	3	0	2	9:20	—	—	50	37
Keegan Kolesar R	L4	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	0	0	7:43	—	—	62	92
Brayden McNabb D	D1	0	1	1	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	23:56	—	—	50	81
Shea Theodore D	D1	0	1	1	0	0	0.00	0	2	0	23:31	—	—	39	41
Rasmus Andersson D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0	1	0	20:31	—	—	42	24
Noah Hanifin D	D2	0	0	0	0	4	0.08	2	0	0	20:26	—	—	50	47
Dylan Coghlan D	D3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.05	0	0	0	13:08	—	—	78	88
Kaedan Korczak D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	2	0	0	11:28	—	—	81	98

VGK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Carter Hart(start)	W	21	20	1	.952	1.87	60:00

Goal anatomy

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

Mark Stone (VGK) 1st 4:42 · assists Brayden McNabb, Shea Theodore · Odd-man rush · passed in · 1-on-0 at the blue line · 18.1 mph shot · 2.4 s from entry to goal.

Mark Stone · 1st 4:42 · VGK

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: pass
Odd man: 1-on-0
Passes: 1 (royal road)
Shot: 18.1 mph
Distance: 64 ft
Entry to goal: 2.4 s

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Cole Smith · 3rd 14:15 · VGK

Play: deflection
Passes: 2
Shot: 32.4 mph
Distance: 13 ft
Type: deflection

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Gabriel Landeskog · 3rd 17:57 · COL

Play: deflection
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 4
Shot: 32.3 mph
Distance: 22 ft
Entry to goal: 8.3 s
Type: deflection

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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.