Colorado Avalanche vs. Los Angeles KingsApr 26, 2026

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	1	1	3	5		COL	11	8	13	32
LAK	0	1	0	1		LAK	7	7	11	25

: COL 65LAK 56
: COL 3.24LAK 1.72
PP goals: COL 1LAK 0
Hits: COL 21LAK 50
Blocks: COL 17LAK 13
PIM: COL 8LAK 26
: COL 54%LAK 46%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche rout Los Angeles Kings 5–1

Colorado Avalanche beat Los Angeles Kings 5–1 at LAK. Nathan MacKinnon (COL) led the scoring with 2G 1A. COL's first power-play unit (Kadri, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Necas and Makar) scored 1 power-play goal on 2 attempts in 1:38 together.

Points
Nathan MacKinnon had two goals and an assist (3 points) on 5 shots in 17:47.MacKinnon
Points
Gabriel Landeskog had 2 assists (2 points) on 1 shot in 14:58.Landeskog
PP1
COL's first power-play unit (Kadri, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Necas and Makar) scored 1 power-play goal on 2 attempts in 1:38 together.Kadri Landeskog MacKinnon Necas Makar
New line
New look for LAK: Laughton–Turcotte–Wright skated 9:52 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (55.6% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Laughton Turcotte Wright
New line
New look for COL: Kadri–Lehkonen–Roy skated 9:59 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (87.5% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Kadri Lehkonen Roy
New line
New look for LAK: Panarin–Moore–Byfield skated 7:58 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (70% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Panarin Moore Byfield
Usage
Devon Toews (COL) played 20:50, −5:13 down on his 26:03 season average over 12 games.Toews
New line
New look for LAK: Kopitar–Kempe–Laferriere skated 7:32 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (61.5% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Kopitar Kempe Laferriere

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 121 of 121 attempts · LAK 56 · COL 65

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 43% of the game, LAK 26%.

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

Head-to-head matchups

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

Matchup matrix

LAK 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	LAK
	70	55
	2.42	1.14
	2.36	1.13
	6	17
	7	1
	18	20
	+0.040	−0.039
	43%	26%

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 – Necas
10:2750% CF
L2Kadri – Lehkonen – Roy
9:5988% CF
L3Nelson – Nichushkin – Colton
9:2756% CF
L4Kelly – Drury – O'Connor
8:2171% CF
D1Toews – Makar
13:3739% CF
D2Kulak – Malinski
10:5150% CF
D3Burns – Blankenburg
6:2192% CF

PP1Kadri – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Necas – Makar
1:3867% CF
PP2Nelson – Lehkonen – Nichushkin – Makar – Malinski
0:29
PK1FKelly – Drury
1:57
PK2FLehkonen – O'Connor
1:04
PK1DToews – Makar
1:46
PK2DBurns – Kulak
1:23

Current COL line combinations →

Los Angeles Kings

L1Laughton – Turcotte – Wright
9:5256% CF
L2Panarin – Moore – Byfield
7:5870% CF
L3Kopitar – Kempe – Laferriere
7:3262% CF
L4Malott – Helenius – Ward
3:0450% CF
D1Doughty – Anderson
18:3950% CF
D2Dumoulin – Ceci
14:2140% CF
D3Edmundson – Clarke
13:2852% CF

PP1Kopitar – Kempe – Panarin – Laferriere – Clarke
3:0967% CF
PP2Doughty – Laughton – Panarin – Moore – Byfield
2:2183% CF
PK1FLaughton – Byfield
1:21
PK2FMoore – Laferriere
0:45
PK1DEdmundson – Ceci
1:21
PK2DDoughty – Anderson
0:45

Current LAK 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
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	2	1	3	+2	5	1.29	2	2	0	17:47	—	—	54	60
Martin Necas C	L1	0	1	1	+2	4	0.20	0	0	0	16:48	—	—	49	59
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	0	2	2	+2	1	0.16	1	2	0	14:58	—	—	45	57
Artturi Lehkonen L	L2	0	1	1	+2	3	0.19	3	0	0	17:06	—	—	63	71
Nazem Kadri C	L2	0	1	1	+2	2	0.23	0	0	0	13:47	—	—	74	93
Nicolas Roy C	L2	1	0	1	+2	1	0.33	1	0	2	13:29	—	—	70	89
Brock Nelson C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	2	14:52	—	—	42	38
Valeri Nichushkin R	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.12	0	1	0	14:38	—	—	55	48
Ross Colton C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.19	6	1	0	12:45	—	—	52	69
Jack Drury C	L4	0	0	0	-1	3	0.06	0	1	2	13:28	—	—	58	71
Logan O'Connor R	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.03	3	0	0	13:10	—	—	56	63
Parker Kelly C	L4	0	0	0	-1	2	0.11	0	1	0	12:41	—	—	67	72
Cale Makar D	D1	1	0	1	0	1	0.10	0	0	0	23:17	—	—	48	47
Devon Toews D	D1	1	0	1	0	2	0.07	0	1	0	20:50	—	—	49	52
Brett Kulak D	D2	0	1	1	+2	0	0.00	1	5	0	20:28	—	—	46	79
Sam Malinski D	D2	0	1	1	+2	1	0.09	1	1	0	20:27	—	—	58	71
Brent Burns D	D3	0	0	0	+2	4	0.08	0	0	0	20:54	—	—	65	79
Nick Blankenburg D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	1	2	12:35	—	—	74	83

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Scott Wedgewood(start)	W	25	24	1	.960	1.72	60:00

Los Angeles Kings

LAK skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Scott Laughton C	L1	0	0	0	-1	4	0.18	4	0	0	17:10	—	—	43	43
Jared Wright R	L1	0	0	0	0	3	0.13	1	0	0	13:43	—	—	47	60
Alex Turcotte C	L1	0	0	0	0	0	0.08	6	3	0	12:24	—	—	52	66
Artemi Panarin L	L2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	1	0	0	21:45	—	—	47	28
Quinton Byfield R	L2	0	0	0	-1	4	0.21	3	1	0	20:46	—	—	49	37
Trevor Moore L	L2	0	0	0	0	3	0.19	2	0	0	20:36	—	—	51	41
Alex Laferriere R	L3	0	1	1	-2	1	0.30	6	1	0	21:20	—	—	38	26
Adrian Kempe R	L3	0	1	1	-2	0	0.26	3	0	0	19:24	—	—	40	15
Anze Kopitar C	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.16	1	1	0	18:30	—	—	50	30
Samuel Helenius C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	2	1	12	7:26	—	—	18	10
Jeff Malott L	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.04	3	0	12	5:24	—	—	25	15
Taylor Ward R	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.02	0	0	0	5:20	—	—	25	15
Drew Doughty D	D1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.00	4	1	0	23:52	—	—	44	38
Mikey Anderson D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	5	3	0	21:38	—	—	47	43
Cody Ceci D	D2	0	0	0	-1	2	0.07	1	1	0	16:41	—	—	41	16
Brian Dumoulin D	D2	0	0	0	-2	0	0.00	2	0	2	16:25	—	—	39	21
Brandt Clarke D	D3	0	0	0	-2	1	0.00	1	1	0	18:22	—	—	46	27
Joel Edmundson D	D3	1	0	1	+1	3	0.06	5	0	0	17:08	—	—	48	35

LAK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Anton Forsberg(start)	L	31	27	4	.871	2.43	59:50

Goal anatomy

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

Nathan MacKinnon (COL PP) 1st 13:13 · assists Nazem Kadri, Gabriel Landeskog · Cycle · 24.0 mph shot.

Nathan MacKinnon · 1st 13:13 · COL PP

Play: cycle
Passes: 3 (royal road)
Shot: 24.0 mph
Distance: 24 ft
Type: one-timer

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Cale Makar · 2nd 5:48 · COL

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 61.8 mph
Distance: 17 ft

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Joel Edmundson · 2nd 13:43 · LAK

Play: cycle
Passes: 2
Shot: 27.2 mph
Distance: 27 ft

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Nicolas Roy · 3rd 3:13 · COL

Play: rebound
Entry: carry
Odd man: 3-on-2
Passes: 1
Shot: 25.8 mph
Distance: 10 ft
Entry to goal: 3.4 s
Type: rebound

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Devon Toews · 3rd 6:01 · COL

Play: rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 2 (royal road)
Shot: 67.2 mph
Distance: 37 ft
Entry to goal: 6.2 s

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Nathan MacKinnon · 3rd 14:22 · COL EN

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 2-on-1
Passes: 2
Shot: 42.2 mph
Distance: 29 ft
Entry to goal: 2.8 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. Los Angeles KingsApr 26, 2026

Fantasy takeaways

Colorado Avalanche rout Los Angeles Kings 5–1

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Head-to-head matchups

Matchup matrix

Sequence card

Lines used

Colorado Avalanche

Los Angeles Kings

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

Colorado Avalanche

Los Angeles Kings

Goal anatomy

Nathan MacKinnon · 1st 13:13 · COL PP

Cale Makar · 2nd 5:48 · COL

Joel Edmundson · 2nd 13:43 · LAK

Nicolas Roy · 3rd 3:13 · COL

Devon Toews · 3rd 6:01 · COL

Nathan MacKinnon · 3rd 14:22 · COL EN