Colorado Avalanche vs. Los Angeles KingsMar 9, 2020

FinalMonday, Mar 9, 2020· STAPLES Center

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	0	0	1	1		COL	4	8	10	22
LAK	2	0	1	3		LAK	11	16	8	35

: COL 51LAK 57
: COL 2.71LAK 4.88
PP goals: COL 0LAK 0
Hits: COL 26LAK 17
Blocks: COL 15LAK 16
PIM: COL 4LAK 2
: COL 41%LAK 59%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Los Angeles Kings beat Colorado Avalanche 3–1

Los Angeles Kings beat Colorado Avalanche 3–1 at home. Mikey Anderson (LAK) led the scoring with 1G 0A. Nathan MacKinnon (COL) played 9:53, −11:29 down on his 21:22 season average over 68 games.

Usage
Nathan MacKinnon (COL) played 9:53, −11:29 down on his 21:22 season average over 68 games.MacKinnon
Usage
Mark Barberio (COL) played 5:12, −9:21 down on his 14:33 season average over 20 games.Barberio
Goalie
Pavel Francouz (COL) faced 35 shots and stopped 32 (.914), +5 against a season average of 30.2; the loss.Francouz
Usage
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (COL) played 18:11, +4:50 up on his 13:21 season average over 68 games.Bellemare
Luck
COL scored 1 goal on 2.71 expected goals (51 attempts), well short of its chances.
Luck
LAK scored 3 goals on 4.88 expected goals (57 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Tyson Jost (COL) played 19:18, +6:38 up on his 12:40 season average over 66 games.Jost
Usage
Ben Hutton (LAK) played 21:46, +3:34 up on his 18:12 season average over 64 games.Hutton

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 108 of 108 attempts · LAK 57 · COL 51

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 26% of the game, LAK 38%.

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
	49	49
	2.37	2.09
	2.33	2.04
	5	8
	6	1
	10	7
	−0.098	+0.098
	26%	38%

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 – Namestnikov – MacKinnon
8:0030% CF
L2Donskoi – Compher – Jost
5:4422% CF
L3Nieto – Nichushkin – Bellemare
5:2138% CF
D1Graves – Girard
12:1632% CF
D2Johnson – Zadorov
12:0257% CF
D3Cole – Connauton
6:1840% CF

PP1Landeskog – Compher – MacKinnon – Jost – Girard
1:230% CF
PP2Johnson – Namestnikov – Nichushkin – Zadorov – Kamenev
0:16
PK1FNieto – Compher
1:43
PK2FBellemare – Jost
1:07
PK1DJohnson – Graves
1:31

Current COL line combinations →

Los Angeles Kings

L1Brown – Kopitar – Iafallo
13:5248% CF
L2Lewis – Kempe – Lizotte
12:4768% CF
L3Frk – Moore – Vilardi
9:4445% CF
L4Prokhorkin – Amadio – Wagner
9:1354% CF
D1Doughty – Hutton
20:2667% CF
D2Roy – Anderson
16:4243% CF

PP1Brown – Kopitar – Doughty – Kempe – Iafallo
2:05100% CF
PP2Frk – Amadio – Vilardi – Walker – Lizotte
1:53100% CF
PK1FKopitar – Iafallo
0:54
PK2FLewis – Moore
0:11
PK1DDoughty – Hutton
0:54

Current LAK line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

14:22
LAKAustin Wagner (Nikolai Prokhorkin, Sean Walker)wrist0.19 xG
COL: Landeskog, Namestnikov, Graves, MacKinnon, GirardLAK: Doughty, Prokhorkin, Hutton, Amadio, Wagner
COL 0 – 1 LAK
15:25
LAKMikey Anderson (Martin Frk, Gabriel Vilardi)wrist0.02 xG
COL: Cole, Barberio, Connauton, Kamenev, O'ConnorLAK: Frk, Roy, Moore, Anderson, Vilardi
COL 0 – 2 LAK

3rd period

2:19
COLPierre-Edouard Bellemare (Ian Cole)wrist0.04 xG
COL: Cole, Nieto, Zadorov, Bellemare, O'ConnorLAK: Frk, Roy, Moore, Anderson, Vilardi
COL 1 – 2 LAK
14:35
LAKAlex Iafallo (Ben Hutton, Drew Doughty)backhand0.14 xG
COL: Cole, Donskoi, Namestnikov, Graves, JostLAK: Brown, Kopitar, Roy, Anderson, Iafallo
COL 1 – 3 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
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.43	2	1	0	21:53	—	—	44	51
Vladislav Namestnikov C	L1	0	0	0	-2	0	0.05	1	0	0	16:26	—	—	26	7
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.21	1	1	0	9:53	—	—	47	50
J.T. Compher L	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.11	1	3	0	19:58	—	—	43	55
Tyson Jost C	L2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.07	1	0	0	19:18	—	—	49	65
Joonas Donskoi R	L2	0	0	0	-1	2	0.29	0	0	0	16:24	—	—	52	75
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L3	1	0	1	+1	1	0.04	0	0	0	18:11	—	—	65	64
Valeri Nichushkin R	L3	0	0	0	0	3	0.63	1	2	0	17:04	—	—	52	61
Matt Nieto L	L3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.10	0	0	0	16:28	—	—	57	56
Samuel Girard D	D1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.08	0	1	2	24:01	—	—	50	55
Ryan Graves D	D1	0	0	0	-2	3	0.11	3	2	0	23:10	—	—	37	22
Erik Johnson D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.27	3	1	0	25:08	—	—	61	72
Nikita Zadorov D	D2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.12	3	1	2	17:43	—	—	57	74
Ian Cole D	D3	0	1	1	-1	2	0.16	2	0	0	16:20	—	—	50	49
Kevin Connauton D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	2	2	0	13:15	—	—	33	14
Vladislav Kamenev C	—	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	2	0	0	9:47	—	—	60	21
Logan O'Connor R	—	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	4	1	0	7:10	—	—	80	60
Mark Barberio D	—	0	0	0	-1	1	0.00	0	0	0	5:12	—	—	100	100

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Pavel Francouz(start)	L	35	32	3	.914	4.25	58:39

Los Angeles Kings

LAK skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Anze Kopitar C	L1	0	0	0	+1	1	1.39	0	1	0	20:04	—	—	41	49
Dustin Brown R	L1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.08	2	0	0	18:45	—	—	46	66
Alex Iafallo L	L1	1	0	1	+1	3	0.35	0	0	0	18:44	—	—	44	50
Adrian Kempe R	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.08	0	0	0	17:29	—	—	58	28
Blake Lizotte C	L2	0	0	0	0	4	1.17	1	1	0	16:39	—	—	60	32
Trevor Lewis C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.11	1	0	0	16:06	—	—	59	38
Martin Frk R	L3	0	1	1	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	13:12	—	—	47	38
Gabriel Vilardi C	L3	0	1	1	0	2	0.39	0	0	0	12:42	—	—	42	59
Trevor Moore L	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.34	0	1	0	11:45	—	—	47	47
Michael Amadio R	L4	0	0	0	+1	1	0.14	0	0	0	13:23	—	—	60	63
Nikolai Prokhorkin L	L4	0	1	1	+1	3	0.22	2	1	0	12:38	—	—	47	49
Austin Wagner L	L4	1	0	1	+1	2	0.33	2	0	0	10:38	—	—	50	61
Drew Doughty D	D1	0	1	1	+1	2	0.07	3	0	0	27:13	—	—	63	63
Ben Hutton D	D1	0	1	1	+1	4	0.05	0	3	0	21:46	—	—	69	68
Mikey Anderson D	D2	1	0	1	+1	3	0.04	3	3	0	18:52	—	—	43	42
Matt Roy D	D2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.01	0	1	2	17:24	—	—	45	42
Sean Walker D	—	0	1	1	0	2	0.04	0	3	0	17:17	—	—	35	32
Kurtis MacDermid L	—	0	0	0	0	2	0.05	1	2	0	13:23	—	—	38	28

LAK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jonathan Quick(start)	W	22	21	1	.955	2.71	60:00

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.