Colorado Avalanche vs. Los Angeles KingsFeb 22, 2020

Final / SOSaturday, Feb 22, 2020· STAPLES Center

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Goals	1	2	3	OT	SO	T		Shots	1	2	3	OT	T
COL	0	1	0	0	1	2		COL	15	9	6	1	31
LAK	1	0	0	0	0	1		LAK	7	3	6	5	21

: COL 57LAK 57
: COL 3.42LAK 2.93
PP goals: COL 0LAK 0
Hits: COL 21LAK 19
Blocks: COL 17LAK 10
PIM: COL 6LAK 10
: COL 46%LAK 54%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche edge Los Angeles Kings 2–1 (SO)

Colorado Avalanche beat Los Angeles Kings 2–1 in a shootout at LAK. Ryan Graves (COL) led the scoring with 1G 0A. New look for COL: Donskoi–Landeskog–MacKinnon skated 6:37 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (60% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

New line
New look for COL: Donskoi–Landeskog–MacKinnon skated 6:37 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (60% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Donskoi Landeskog MacKinnon
Luck
COL scored 1 goal on 3.42 expected goals (57 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Gabriel Landeskog (COL) played 25:51, +5:56 up on his 19:55 season average over 53 games.Landeskog
Usage
Nathan MacKinnon (COL) played 29:04, +7:59 up on his 21:05 season average over 68 games.MacKinnon
Usage
Tyson Jost (COL) played 20:47, +8:08 up on his 12:39 season average over 66 games.Jost
Usage
Alex Iafallo (LAK) played 26:13, +7:24 up on his 18:49 season average over 69 games.Iafallo
Luck
LAK scored 1 goal on 2.93 expected goals (57 attempts), well short of its chances.
New line
New look for COL: Compher–Nichushkin–Jost skated 5:34 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Compher Nichushkin Jost

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)LAK attacks right (top on phones) →

LAK
COL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 114 of 114 attempts · LAK 57 · COL 57

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

LAK
COL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

LAK 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 35% of the game, LAK 33%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

LAK

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	LAK
	44	49
	2.13	2.06
	2.08	2.02
	7	12
	6	2
	12	13
	−0.055	+0.055
	35%	33%

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

L1Nieto – Bellemare – Kaut
7:1163% CF
L2Donskoi – Landeskog – MacKinnon
6:3760% CF
L3Compher – Nichushkin – Jost
5:3450% CF
L4Kamenev – Dries – O'Connor
4:3050% CF
D1Cole – Zadorov
14:0350% CF
D2Johnson – Girard
13:3741% CF
D3Graves – Makar
12:5965% CF

PP1Landeskog – Compher – MacKinnon – Jost – Makar
7:29100% CF
PP2MacKinnon – Nichushkin – Kamenev – Makar – Kaut
1:32
PK1FNieto – Bellemare
0:42
PK2FDonskoi – Compher
0:32
PK1DJohnson – Graves
1:12
PK2DCole – Zadorov
0:42

Current COL line combinations →

Los Angeles Kings

L1Brown – Kopitar – Iafallo
13:1650% CF
L2Frk – Kempe – Vilardi
11:1460% CF
L3Wagner – Moore – Lizotte
8:1750% CF
L4Lewis – Schaller – Amadio
5:5150% CF
D1Doughty – Forbort
16:1641% CF
D2Hutton – Roy
15:3076% CF

PP1Brown – Kopitar – Doughty – Kempe – Iafallo
1:13100% CF
PP2Frk – Amadio – Vilardi – Walker – Lizotte
0:410% CF
PK1FKopitar – Iafallo
2:41
PK2FKempe – Lizotte
1:05
PK1DDoughty – Forbort
3:31
PK2DHutton – Roy
2:02

Current LAK line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

4:47
LAKAustin WagnerPSwrist0.30 xG
COL: Cole, Zadorov, Kamenev, Dries, O'ConnorLAK: Lewis, Doughty, Forbort, Amadio, Wagner
COL 0 – 1 LAK

2nd period

16:35
COLRyan Graves (Gabriel Landeskog, Ian Cole)snap0.09 xG
COL: Landeskog, Graves, MacKinnon, Nichushkin, MakarLAK: Brown, Kopitar, Doughty, Forbort, Iafallo
COL 1 – 1 LAK

Decided in the shootout: COL 2 – 1 LAK.

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
Matt Nieto L	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.12	0	1	0	12:46	—	—	57	59
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.31	1	1	0	12:38	—	—	55	59
Martin Kaut R	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.27	0	0	0	10:38	—	—	59	61
Nathan MacKinnon C	L2	0	0	0	+1	7	0.57	1	2	0	29:04	—	—	50	43
Gabriel Landeskog L	L2	0	1	1	+1	3	0.21	0	1	0	25:51	—	—	48	37
Joonas Donskoi R	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.11	0	1	0	16:04	—	—	45	34
J.T. Compher L	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.20	0	2	2	21:50	—	—	32	46
Tyson Jost C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.18	0	0	0	20:47	—	—	36	51
Valeri Nichushkin R	L3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.30	1	1	0	20:41	—	—	46	56
Vladislav Kamenev C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	10:30	—	—	57	63
Logan O'Connor R	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.23	1	0	0	7:06	—	—	63	64
Sheldon Dries C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	6	0	0	6:40	—	—	38	63
Ian Cole D	D1	0	1	1	0	2	0.03	3	0	0	17:16	—	—	48	59
Nikita Zadorov D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	15:27	—	—	48	59
Samuel Girard D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.09	0	2	0	20:57	—	—	36	42
Erik Johnson D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.10	2	4	0	18:23	—	—	35	39
Cale Makar D	D3	0	0	0	+1	2	0.14	3	0	4	26:21	—	—	56	50
Ryan Graves D	D3	1	0	1	+1	3	0.56	2	2	0	18:13	—	—	59	54

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Pavel Francouz(start)	W	21	20	1	.952	2.93	64:43

Los Angeles Kings

LAK skaters
Skater	Line	G	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Anze Kopitar C	L1	0	0	-1	1	0.20	0	2	0	26:53	—	—	44	63
Alex Iafallo L	L1	0	0	-1	2	0.23	1	2	0	26:13	—	—	50	65
Dustin Brown R	L1	0	0	-1	1	0.39	1	0	2	17:52	—	—	54	65
Adrian Kempe R	L2	0	0	0	2	0.35	0	1	0	18:30	—	—	62	58
Martin Frk R	L2	0	0	0	1	0.34	2	0	0	15:37	—	—	63	62
Gabriel Vilardi C	L2	0	0	0	1	0.11	0	0	2	14:00	—	—	65	59
Blake Lizotte C	L3	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	14:41	—	—	47	26
Trevor Moore L	L3	0	0	0	2	0.16	0	0	0	13:02	—	—	45	25
Austin Wagner L	L3	1	1	+1	2	0.31	2	0	2	10:27	—	—	48	25
Trevor Lewis C	L4	0	0	0	1	0.15	1	0	0	8:44	—	—	50	31
Michael Amadio R	L4	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	8:14	—	—	60	40
Tim Schaller L	L4	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	6:39	—	—	44	30
Drew Doughty D	D1	0	0	-1	4	0.52	1	1	0	28:44	—	—	41	52
Derek Forbort D	D1	0	0	-1	0	0.01	1	2	2	20:41	—	—	42	55
Matt Roy D	D2	0	0	0	1	0.08	5	0	0	21:16	—	—	74	67
Ben Hutton D	D2	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	0	2	19:37	—	—	71	52
Sean Walker D	—	0	0	0	1	0.07	1	0	0	18:42	—	—	44	32
Kurtis MacDermid L	—	0	0	0	1	0.01	2	1	0	14:23	—	—	45	31

LAK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jonathan Quick(start)	O	31	30	1	.968	3.42	65:00

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.