Colorado Avalanche vs. Seattle KrakenApr 20, 2022

FinalWednesday, Apr 20, 2022· Climate Pledge Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	1	0	1	2		COL	10	7	10	27
SEA	3	0	0	3		SEA	11	12	6	29

: COL 63SEA 51
: COL 2.01SEA 3.50
PP goals: COL 0SEA 0
Hits: COL 24SEA 17
Blocks: COL 11SEA 24
PIM: COL 2SEA 4
: COL 46%SEA 54%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Seattle Kraken edge Colorado Avalanche 3–2

Seattle Kraken beat Colorado Avalanche 3–2 at home. Artturi Lehkonen (COL) led the scoring with 1G 0A. New look for COL: Lehkonen–MacKinnon–Nichushkin skated 12:30 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (57.1% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

New line
New look for COL: Lehkonen–MacKinnon–Nichushkin skated 12:30 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (57.1% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Lehkonen MacKinnon Nichushkin
New line
New look for COL: Kadri–Burakovsky–Compher skated 8:05 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (53.3% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Kadri Burakovsky Compher
New line
New look for SEA: Rask–Wennberg–Lind skated 12:22 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (61.9% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Rask Wennberg Lind
Usage
Karson Kuhlman (SEA) played 18:29, +6:44 up on his 11:45 season average over 43 games.Kuhlman
New line
New look for COL: Sturm–Newhook–Meyers skated 4:30 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (27.3% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Sturm Newhook Meyers
Usage
Victor Rask (SEA) played 17:02, +4:57 up on his 12:05 season average over 46 games.Rask
Usage
Matty Beniers (SEA) played 13:05, −4:17 down on his 17:22 season average over 9 games.Beniers
Usage
Valeri Nichushkin (COL) played 23:26, +4:29 up on his 18:57 season average over 61 games.Nichushkin

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)SEA attacks right (top on phones) →

SEA
COL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 114 of 114 attempts · SEA 51 · COL 63

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

SEA
COL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

SEA 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 22% of the game, SEA 32%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

SEA

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	SEA
	62	56
	1.86	3.17
	1.71	3.05
	6	11
	7	1
	23	18
	−0.017	+0.017
	22%	32%

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

L1Lehkonen – MacKinnon – Nichushkin
12:3057% CF
L2Kadri – Burakovsky – Compher
8:0553% CF
L3Cogliano – Helm – O'Connor
7:4678% CF
L4Sturm – Newhook – Meyers
4:3027% CF
D1Makar – Byram
14:4560% CF
D2Manson – Girard
12:4370% CF

PP1Kadri – Lehkonen – MacKinnon – Nichushkin – Makar
2:58100% CF
PP2Kadri – Nichushkin – Girard – Byram – Newhook
0:39100% CF
PK1FCogliano – Helm
0:42
PK2FO'Connor – Sturm
0:39
PK1DMakar – Byram
0:39
PK2DJohnson – Girard
0:34

Current COL line combinations →

Seattle Kraken

L1Gourde – McCann – Kuhlman
14:5253% CF
L2Rask – Wennberg – Lind
12:2262% CF
L3Eberle – Donato – Beniers
9:1538% CF
L4Sheahan – Donskoi – Sprong
7:0546% CF
D1Larsson – Dunn
18:3659% CF
D2Oleksiak – Borgen
14:4639% CF
D3Soucy – Fleury
12:5231% CF

PP1Eberle – Wennberg – McCann – Dunn – Beniers
1:10100% CF
PP2Rask – Gourde – Soucy – Donato – Sprong
0:450% CF
PK1FGourde – Kuhlman
2:04
PK2FSheahan – Donskoi
1:25
PK1DLarsson – Oleksiak
2:51
PK2DSoucy – Borgen
0:00

Current SEA line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

1:12
SEAKole Lind (Will Borgen, Victor Rask)backhand0.14 xG
COL: Kadri, Manson, Burakovsky, Compher, GirardSEA: Rask, Oleksiak, Wennberg, Borgen, Lind
COL 0 – 1 SEA
5:23
SEAJordan Eberle (Matty Beniers, Ryan Donato)snap0.08 xG
COL: Johnson, MacDermid, Sturm, Newhook, MeyersSEA: Eberle, Larsson, Donato, Dunn, Beniers
COL 0 – 2 SEA
14:44
SEAYanni Gourde (Jared McCann, Karson Kuhlman)deflected0.17 xG
COL: Kadri, Burakovsky, Nichushkin, Makar, ByramSEA: Larsson, Gourde, McCann, Fleury, Kuhlman
COL 0 – 3 SEA
17:37
COLCale Makar (Nazem Kadri, J.T. Compher)snap0.13 xG
COL: Kadri, Burakovsky, Compher, Makar, ByramSEA: Donskoi, Larsson, Gourde, McCann, Fleury
COL 1 – 3 SEA

3rd period

16:40
COLArtturi Lehkonen (Valeri Nichushkin, Nathan MacKinnon)wrist0.12 xG
COL: Johnson, Lehkonen, MacKinnon, Nichushkin, GirardSEA: Larsson, Gourde, McCann, Dunn, Lind
COL 2 – 3 SEA

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
Valeri Nichushkin R	L1	0	1	1	0	3	0.14	0	0	0	23:26	—	—	51	47
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	1	1	+1	2	0.18	1	1	0	22:20	—	—	49	52
Artturi Lehkonen L	L1	1	0	1	+1	4	0.37	0	2	0	19:16	—	—	55	53
Nazem Kadri C	L2	0	1	1	-1	4	0.27	1	0	0	21:28	—	—	52	40
J.T. Compher L	L2	0	1	1	0	1	0.17	1	0	0	17:09	—	—	59	44
Andre Burakovsky L	L2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.20	2	1	0	16:02	—	—	46	28
Andrew Cogliano C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.05	0	0	0	10:31	—	—	64	58
Darren Helm C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	1	0	0	10:09	—	—	75	83
Logan O'Connor R	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.16	2	1	0	9:52	—	—	75	83
Nico Sturm C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	0	0	12:55	—	—	44	20
Alex Newhook C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.01	0	1	0	11:16	—	—	44	19
Ben Meyers C	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.11	1	0	0	10:14	—	—	47	15
Cale Makar D	D1	1	0	1	0	2	0.17	2	1	0	26:27	—	—	57	57
Bowen Byram D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.13	4	2	0	24:12	—	—	51	44
Samuel Girard D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	2	1	0	21:55	—	—	61	52
Josh Manson D	D2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.02	2	1	2	18:36	—	—	55	42
Jack Johnson D	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	13:41	—	—	47	15
Kurtis MacDermid L	—	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	2	0	0	9:45	—	—	28	2

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Pavel Francouz(start)	L	29	26	3	.897	2.96	58:46

Seattle Kraken

SEA skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Yanni Gourde C	L1	1	0	1	-1	2	0.23	0	2	0	21:57	—	—	42	34
Jared McCann L	L1	0	1	1	-1	1	0.81	1	2	0	19:09	—	—	46	45
Karson Kuhlman C	L1	0	1	1	+1	4	0.05	1	1	0	18:29	—	—	53	72
Victor Rask C	L2	0	1	1	+1	0	0.16	1	0	0	17:02	—	—	58	84
Alexander Wennberg C	L2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.28	1	1	0	16:01	—	—	63	94
Kole Lind R	L2	1	0	1	0	4	0.86	0	0	0	14:25	—	—	48	71
Jordan Eberle R	L3	1	0	1	+1	3	0.34	0	2	0	15:30	—	—	43	40
Matty Beniers C	L3	0	1	1	+1	2	0.13	0	1	0	13:05	—	—	45	51
Ryan Donato C	L3	0	1	1	+1	3	0.05	1	0	2	11:01	—	—	42	61
Joonas Donskoi R	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.14	0	0	0	10:24	—	—	38	46
Daniel Sprong R	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	0	0	10:19	—	—	47	64
Riley Sheahan C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.14	1	1	0	10:16	—	—	43	48
Adam Larsson D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	4	4	0	26:13	—	—	53	68
Vince Dunn D	D1	0	0	0	0	3	0.21	2	3	0	22:25	—	—	57	77
Jamie Oleksiak D	D2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.02	1	3	0	21:22	—	—	50	67
Will Borgen D	D2	0	1	1	+1	1	0.03	3	2	0	16:25	—	—	40	58
Carson Soucy D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	2	16:52	—	—	44	55
Cale Fleury D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	2	0	15:07	—	—	28	28

SEA goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Philipp Grubauer(start)	W	27	25	2	.926	2.01	59:58

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.