Colorado Avalanche vs. Florida PanthersJan 4, 2026

FinalSunday, Jan 4, 2026· Amerant Bank Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	1	0	0	1		COL	11	12	5	28
FLA	1	1	0	2		FLA	14	5	6	25

: COL 61FLA 48
: COL 2.66FLA 2.44
PP goals: COL 0FLA 0
Hits: COL 15FLA 25
Blocks: COL 8FLA 9
PIM: COL 6FLA 8
: COL 55%FLA 45%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Florida Panthers edge Colorado Avalanche 2–1

Florida Panthers beat Colorado Avalanche 2–1 at home. Sam Bennett (FLA) led the scoring with 1G 0A. Gabriel Landeskog (COL) played 5:58, −10:37 down on his 16:35 season average over 59 games.

Usage
Gabriel Landeskog (COL) played 5:58, −10:37 down on his 16:35 season average over 59 games.Landeskog
Usage
Brock Nelson (COL) played 25:15, +5:40 up on his 19:35 season average over 80 games.Nelson
Usage
Aaron Ekblad (FLA) played 26:57, +4:32 up on his 22:25 season average over 71 games.Ekblad
Luck
COL scored 1 goal on 2.66 expected goals (61 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Valeri Nichushkin (COL) played 23:28, +5:49 up on his 17:39 season average over 71 games.Nichushkin
Usage
Jesper Boqvist (FLA) played 6:14, −5:40 down on his 11:54 season average over 72 games.Boqvist
Usage
Cale Makar (COL) played 29:07, +4:20 up on his 24:47 season average over 74 games.Makar
Usage
Carter Verhaeghe (FLA) played 13:43, −3:57 down on his 17:40 season average over 76 games.Verhaeghe

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)FLA attacks right (top on phones) →

FLA
COL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 109 of 109 attempts · FLA 48 · COL 61

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

FLA
COL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

FLA 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 40% of the game, FLA 34%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

FLA

COL

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

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

Matchup matrix

FLA 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	FLA
	55	46
	2.30	2.43
	2.25	2.32
	14	10
	2	4
	19	23
	+0.042	−0.042
	40%	34%

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

L1Nelson – Lehkonen – Nichushkin
8:0573% CF
L2Landeskog – MacKinnon – Necas
5:000% CF
L3Olofsson – Colton – Drury
4:4233% CF
L4Kelly – Bardakov – Brindley
4:2185% CF
D1Girard – Makar
9:5947% CF
D2Burns – Manson
7:2376% CF
D3Solovyov – Malinski
4:5389% CF

PP1Nelson – MacKinnon – Nichushkin – Necas – Makar
5:3467% CF
PP2Burns – Lehkonen – Olofsson – Colton – Brindley
1:07100% CF
PK1FKelly – Drury
2:11
PK2FNelson – Nichushkin
1:12
PK1DBurns – Manson
1:56
PK2DGirard – Makar
0:47

Current COL line combinations →

Florida Panthers

L1Reinhart – Luostarinen – Lundell
10:4973% CF
L2Greer – Rodrigues – Samoskevich
9:3748% CF
L3Marchand – Verhaeghe – Bennett
9:1840% CF
L4Kunin – Boqvist – Studnicka
3:4813% CF
D1Ekblad – Forsling
15:4647% CF
D2Mikkola – Balinskis
12:5132% CF
D3Petry – Sebrango
8:3140% CF

PP1Marchand – Ekblad – Reinhart – Bennett – Rodrigues
4:10100% CF
PP2Petry – Verhaeghe – Luostarinen – Lundell – Samoskevich
1:04100% CF
PK1FReinhart – Lundell
2:52
PK2FMarchand – Luostarinen
2:42
PK1DEkblad – Forsling
3:56
PK2DMikkola – Balinskis
1:18

Current FLA line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

6:27
FLASam Bennettbackhand0.13 xG
COL: Nelson, Manson, Lehkonen, Nichushkin, MalinskiFLA: Marchand, Verhaeghe, Bennett, Mikkola, Balinskis
COL 0 – 1 FLA
11:51
COLArtturi Lehkonen (Josh Manson, Brock Nelson)tip-in0.06 xG
COL: Burns, Nelson, Manson, Lehkonen, NichushkinFLA: Marchand, Verhaeghe, Mikkola, Kunin, Balinskis
COL 1 – 1 FLA

2nd period

18:12
FLAAaron Ekbladslap0.12 xG
COL: Burns, Lehkonen, MacKinnon, Necas, MakarFLA: Ekblad, Reinhart, Forsling, Luostarinen, Lundell
COL 1 – 2 FLA

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
Brock Nelson C	L1	0	1	1	0	4	0.47	1	1	0	25:15	—	—	71	71
Valeri Nichushkin R	L1	0	0	0	0	3	0.76	3	0	0	23:28	—	—	68	69
Artturi Lehkonen L	L1	1	0	1	-1	2	0.07	0	0	0	18:34	—	—	63	54
Nathan MacKinnon C	L2	0	0	0	-1	5	0.46	1	0	0	23:12	—	—	30	32
Martin Necas C	L2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	0	0	22:26	—	—	11	1
Gabriel Landeskog L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.05	1	0	2	5:58	—	—	0	0
Jack Drury C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.16	0	1	0	13:34	—	—	45	31
Victor Olofsson L	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	0	0	0	12:34	—	—	47	45
Ross Colton C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	12:13	—	—	44	27
Parker Kelly C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	2	1	0	12:49	—	—	80	87
Gavin Brindley C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.19	1	0	0	9:31	—	—	82	66
Zakhar Bardakov C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.06	3	0	0	6:40	—	—	69	64
Cale Makar D	D1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.16	1	1	0	29:07	—	—	41	43
Samuel Girard D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	2	20:05	—	—	54	45
Brent Burns D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.11	0	0	0	20:57	—	—	53	47
Josh Manson D	D2	0	1	1	0	2	0.09	1	1	2	16:22	—	—	59	52
Sam Malinski D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.01	0	2	0	14:23	—	—	56	38
Ilya Solovyov D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	0	1	0	9:40	—	—	67	76

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Scott Wedgewood(start)	L	25	23	2	.920	2.44	57:12

Florida Panthers

FLA skaters
Skater	Line	G	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Sam Reinhart C	L1	0	0	+1	1	0.36	1	0	0	23:29	—	—	67	94
Anton Lundell C	L1	0	0	+1	2	0.31	0	0	0	19:41	—	—	77	93
Eetu Luostarinen C	L1	0	0	+1	1	0.09	1	1	0	18:58	—	—	69	93
Evan Rodrigues C	L2	0	0	0	2	0.26	2	0	2	19:32	—	—	47	53
Mackie Samoskevich R	L2	0	0	0	6	0.36	0	0	2	13:24	—	—	52	58
A.J. Greer L	L2	0	0	0	1	0.01	2	1	0	12:25	—	—	52	68
Sam Bennett C	L3	1	1	+1	3	0.49	3	2	0	19:25	—	—	40	42
Brad Marchand L	L3	0	0	0	4	0.06	0	0	0	19:09	—	—	33	29
Carter Verhaeghe C	L3	0	0	0	0	0.02	1	1	0	13:43	—	—	36	31
Luke Kunin C	L4	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	1	0	6:18	—	—	27	14
Jesper Boqvist C	L4	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	6:14	—	—	30	8
Jack Studnicka C	L4	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	4:33	—	—	22	17
Aaron Ekblad D	D1	1	1	+1	2	0.17	3	0	0	26:57	—	—	48	52
Gustav Forsling D	D1	0	0	+1	0	0.00	3	0	0	24:51	—	—	46	51
Niko Mikkola D	D2	0	0	0	2	0.06	3	1	0	21:11	—	—	38	39
Uvis Balinskis D	D2	0	0	0	0	0.14	0	1	2	17:05	—	—	41	42
Jeff Petry D	D3	0	0	0	1	0.10	1	0	2	13:42	—	—	57	85
Donovan Sebrango D	D3	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	1	0	11:23	—	—	44	77

FLA goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Daniil Tarasov(start)	W	28	27	1	.964	2.66	60:00

Goal anatomy

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

Sam Bennett (FLA) 1st 6:27 · unassisted · Forecheck turnover · 14.3 mph shot.

Sam Bennett · 1st 6:27 · FLA

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 14.3 mph
Distance: 3 ft

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Artturi Lehkonen · 1st 11:51 · COL

Play: deflection
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 4 (royal road)
Shot: 57.6 mph
Distance: 15 ft
Entry to goal: 6.5 s
Type: deflection

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Aaron Ekblad · 2nd 18:12 · FLA

Play: turnover-forecheck
Entry: carry
Odd man: 3-on-2
Passes: 1
Shot: 66.7 mph
Distance: 37 ft
Entry to goal: 6.6 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.