Colorado Avalanche vs. New York RangersDec 8, 2021

FinalWednesday, Dec 8, 2021· Madison Square Garden

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Colorado AvalancheCOL

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New York RangersNYR

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	1	5	1	7		COL	19	13	7	39
NYR	2	0	1	3		NYR	9	13	8	30

: COL 69NYR 54
: COL 3.95NYR 3.35
PP goals: COL 1NYR 1
Hits: COL 16NYR 20
Blocks: COL 11NYR 19
PIM: COL 27NYR 17
: COL 49%NYR 51%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche rout New York Rangers 7–3

Colorado Avalanche beat New York Rangers 7–3 at NYR. Nazem Kadri (COL) led the scoring with 1G 2A. New look for COL: Landeskog–MacKinnon–O'Connor skated 8:15 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (38.1% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

Points
Nazem Kadri had a goal and 2 assists (3 points) on 1 shot in 12:54.Kadri
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Logan O'Connor had two goals (2 points) on 3 shots in 17:02.O'Connor
Points
Mikko Rantanen had two goals (2 points) on 5 shots in 19:39.Rantanen
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Filip Chytil had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 12:38.Chytil
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Jacob Trouba had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 19:49.Trouba
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Devon Toews had 2 assists (2 points) on 4 shots in 25:18.Toews
Points
Samuel Girard had 2 assists (2 points) on 1 shot in 21:57.Girard
New line
New look for COL: Landeskog–MacKinnon–O'Connor skated 8:15 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (38.1% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Landeskog MacKinnon O'Connor

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)NYR attacks right (top on phones) →

NYR
COL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 123 of 123 attempts · NYR 54 · COL 69

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

NYR
COL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

NYR 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 37% of the game, NYR 14%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

NYR

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	NYR
	61	48
	3.13	2.72
	2.94	2.30
	12	10
	2	8
	8	18
	+0.005	−0.005
	37%	14%

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 – O'Connor
8:1538% CF
L2Kadri – Nichushkin – Rantanen
5:1186% CF
L3Helm – Burakovsky – Newhook
4:0463% CF
D1Toews – Makar
10:1442% CF
D2Johnson – Girard
7:1573% CF
D3Johnson – MacDonald
6:2779% CF

PP1Kadri – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Makar
3:3743% CF
PP2Burakovsky – Nichushkin – Toews – Girard – Newhook
3:03100% CF
PK1FHelm – O'Connor
4:23
PK2FNichushkin – Jost
4:11
PK1DJohnson – Toews
3:44
PK2DJohnson – Girard
1:02

Current COL line combinations →

New York Rangers

L1Reaves – Goodrow – Rooney
10:0325% CF
L2Strome – Hunt – Panarin
8:2535% CF
L3Kreider – Zibanejad – Kakko
7:3461% CF
L4Gauthier – Chytil – Lafrenière
6:4457% CF
D1Trouba – Miller
12:0643% CF
D2Fox – Lindgren
10:3930% CF
D3Nemeth – Lundkvist
10:0647% CF

PP1Kreider – Strome – Zibanejad – Panarin – Fox
4:5025% CF
PP2Fox – Gauthier – Chytil – Miller – Lafrenière
1:10100% CF
PK1FGoodrow – Rooney
4:42
PK2FKreider – Zibanejad
2:30
PK1DFox – Lindgren
2:42
PK2DNemeth – Trouba
2:08

Current NYR line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

4:11
COLMikko Rantanen (Nazem Kadri, Devon Toews)wrist0.02 xG
COL: Helm, Kadri, Toews, Rantanen, MakarNYR: Strome, Hunt, Panarin, Fox, Lindgren
COL 1 – 0 NYR
6:56
NYRJacob Trouba (Artemi Panarin, Ryan Reaves)slap0.04 xG
COL: Helm, Burakovsky, Toews, Makar, NewhookNYR: Reaves, Goodrow, Trouba, Panarin, Miller
COL 1 – 1 NYR
18:15
NYRNils LundkvistPP (Filip Chytil, Jacob Trouba)wrist0.07 xG
COL: Johnson, Nichushkin, Jost, MakarNYR: Trouba, Chytil, Lundkvist, Kakko, Lafrenière
COL 1 – 2 NYR

2nd period

4:48
COLNathan MacKinnon (Gabriel Landeskog, Samuel Girard)wrist0.19 xG
COL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Toews, Makar, O'ConnorNYR: Kreider, Zibanejad, Trouba, Miller, Kakko
COL 2 – 2 NYR
6:11
COLNazem Kadri (Cale Makar, Valeri Nichushkin)wrist0.17 xG
COL: Kadri, Nichushkin, Rantanen, Girard, MakarNYR: Strome, Hunt, Panarin, Fox, Lindgren
COL 3 – 2 NYR
10:42
COLAlex NewhookPP (Samuel Girard, Devon Toews)snap0.11 xG
COL: Burakovsky, Nichushkin, Toews, Girard, NewhookNYR: Strome, Fox, Lindgren, Kakko
COL 4 – 2 NYR
17:14
COLLogan O'Connor (Nazem Kadri, Kurtis MacDermid)snap0.19 xG
COL: Johnson, Johnson, Kadri, MacDermid, O'ConnorNYR: Strome, Hunt, Panarin, Fox, Miller
COL 5 – 2 NYR
17:36
COLLogan O'Connorwrist0.17 xG
COL: Johnson, Johnson, Kadri, MacDermid, O'ConnorNYR: Reaves, Strome, Trouba, Hunt, Panarin
COL 6 – 2 NYR

3rd period

11:52
NYRFilip Chytil (Alexis Lafrenière, K'Andre Miller)snap0.04 xG
COL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Girard, MacDonaldNYR: Reaves, Lindgren, Chytil, Miller, Lafrenière
COL 6 – 3 NYR
13:25
COLMikko Rantanen (Erik Johnson, Nicolas Aube-Kubel)tip-in0.07 xG
COL: Johnson, Nichushkin, Aube-Kubel, Rantanen, GirardNYR: Trouba, Gauthier, Chytil, Miller, Lafrenière
COL 7 – 3 NYR

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	1	0	1	0	5	0.89	2	0	2	18:02	—	—	45	42
Logan O'Connor R	L1	2	0	2	+3	3	0.44	0	1	0	17:02	—	—	43	44
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	0	1	1	0	2	0.01	0	1	7	16:49	—	—	43	39
Valeri Nichushkin R	L2	0	1	1	+2	3	0.04	0	0	0	20:32	—	—	58	40
Mikko Rantanen R	L2	2	0	2	+2	5	0.53	1	0	0	19:39	—	—	77	73
Nazem Kadri C	L2	1	2	3	+4	1	0.48	0	0	0	12:54	—	—	73	69
Andre Burakovsky L	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.23	1	1	0	16:38	—	—	57	55
Darren Helm C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.19	1	0	0	15:07	—	—	73	55
Alex Newhook C	L3	1	0	1	-1	1	0.11	1	0	0	13:44	—	—	56	63
Devon Toews D	D1	0	2	2	+1	4	0.10	0	1	2	25:18	—	—	40	27
Cale Makar D	D1	0	1	1	+2	2	0.09	0	3	0	22:46	—	—	51	50
Samuel Girard D	D2	0	2	2	+1	1	0.21	0	1	2	21:57	—	—	61	60
Erik Johnson D	D2	0	1	1	+3	1	0.10	1	1	0	16:59	—	—	65	78
Jack Johnson D	D3	0	0	0	+2	1	0.01	1	1	0	14:29	—	—	71	86
Jacob MacDonald D	D3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.04	3	1	2	12:11	—	—	62	46
Tyson Jost C	—	0	0	0	0	2	0.37	0	0	0	14:25	—	—	47	47
Nicolas Aube-Kubel R	—	0	1	1	+1	3	0.10	2	0	0	9:18	—	—	50	56
Kurtis MacDermid L	—	0	1	1	+2	0	0.00	3	0	12	3:07	—	—	71	97

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Darcy Kuemper(start)	W	29	26	3	.897	3.35	58:26
Jonas Johansson	—	1	1	0	.1000	0.00	1:33

New York Rangers

NYR skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Barclay Goodrow C	L1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.33	1	0	0	19:37	—	—	35	50
Kevin Rooney C	L1	0	0	0	0	4	0.42	0	2	0	17:23	—	—	24	46
Ryan Reaves R	L1	0	1	1	+1	1	0.00	2	1	2	12:32	—	—	36	36
Artemi Panarin L	L2	0	1	1	-3	2	0.23	0	0	0	16:46	—	—	34	40
Ryan Strome C	L2	0	0	0	-4	0	0.00	2	1	2	16:39	—	—	28	45
Dryden Hunt L	L2	0	0	0	-4	1	0.09	1	1	0	11:27	—	—	29	40
Chris Kreider L	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	2	1	0	17:42	—	—	58	61
Mika Zibanejad C	L3	0	0	0	-1	4	0.45	1	1	0	17:36	—	—	57	50
Kaapo Kakko R	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.12	0	0	0	13:32	—	—	59	61
Filip Chytil C	L4	1	1	2	0	1	0.31	0	1	2	12:38	—	—	53	42
Alexis Lafrenière L	L4	0	1	1	0	1	0.14	1	0	0	11:36	—	—	58	53
Julien Gauthier R	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.24	1	0	0	9:04	—	—	57	52
K'Andre Miller D	D1	0	1	1	-1	0	0.05	2	2	0	20:53	—	—	50	39
Jacob Trouba D	D1	1	1	2	-2	2	0.12	3	4	7	19:49	—	—	41	27
Adam Fox D	D2	0	0	0	-3	3	0.12	0	0	0	24:00	—	—	41	50
Ryan Lindgren D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	2	2	2	18:41	—	—	42	54
Patrik Nemeth D	D3	0	0	0	0	2	0.62	2	2	2	16:24	—	—	48	59
Nils Lundkvist D	D3	1	0	1	0	4	0.13	0	1	0	14:52	—	—	41	58

NYR goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Adam Huska(start)	L	39	32	7	.821	3.95	59:42

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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.