Colorado Avalanche vs. San Jose SharksMar 1, 2021

FinalMonday, Mar 1, 2021· SAP Center at San Jose

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Colorado AvalancheCOL

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San Jose SharksSJS

6

Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	1	1	0	2		COL	11	13	11	35
SJS	0	2	4	6		SJS	7	10	10	27

: COL 66SJS 44
: COL 3.64SJS 3.67
PP goals: COL 1SJS 1
Hits: COL 21SJS 13
Blocks: COL 9SJS 13
PIM: COL 8SJS 10
: COL 59%SJS 41%

Fantasy takeaways

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

San Jose Sharks rout Colorado Avalanche 6–2

San Jose Sharks beat Colorado Avalanche 6–2 at home. Evander Kane (SJS) led the scoring with 1G 2A. COL's first power-play unit (Kadri, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Girard) scored 1 power-play goal on 11 attempts in 5:03 together.

Points
Evander Kane had a goal and 2 assists (3 points) on 5 shots in 19:48.Kane
Points
Timo Meier had 3 assists (3 points) on 2 shots in 17:00.Meier
Points
Rudolfs Balcers had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 14:01.Balcers
PP1
COL's first power-play unit (Kadri, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Girard) scored 1 power-play goal on 11 attempts in 5:03 together.Kadri Landeskog MacKinnon Rantanen Girard
Luck
SJS scored 6 goals on 3.67 expected goals (44 attempts), finishing well above its chances.
Goalie
Martin Jones (SJS) faced 35 shots and stopped 33 (.943), +6 against a season average of 28.8; the win.Jones
New line
New look for COL: Kadri–Saad–Nichushkin skated 4:34 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (42.9% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Kadri Saad Nichushkin
Usage
Marc-Edouard Vlasic (SJS) played 13:08, −4:28 down on his 17:36 season average over 50 games.Vlasic

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)SJS attacks right (top on phones) →

SJS
COL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 110 of 110 attempts · SJS 44 · COL 66

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

SJS
COL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

SJS 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 30% of the game, SJS 27%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

SJS

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	SJS
	54	42
	2.78	3.00
	2.63	2.83
	13	14
	4	10
	13	20
	+0.051	−0.051
	30%	27%

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 – Rantanen
11:3938% CF
L2Bellemare – Jost – O'Connor
7:2173% CF
L3Kadri – Saad – Nichushkin
4:3443% CF
L4Donskoi – Burakovsky – Compher
3:2086% CF
D1Toews – MacDonald
8:4346% CF
D2Girard – Timmins
4:0167% CF
D3Graves – Renouf
3:5340% CF

PP1Kadri – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Girard
5:0379% CF
PP2Donskoi – Saad – Burakovsky – Compher – Toews
1:51
PK1FCompher – Jost
2:26
PK2FBellemare – O'Connor
1:33
PK1DGraves – Toews
2:44
PK2DGirard – MacDonald
0:07

Current COL line combinations →

San Jose Sharks

L1Couture – Kane – Labanc
11:1475% CF
L2Marleau – Donato – Leonard
10:2031% CF
L3Meier – Balcers – Gambrell
9:5731% CF
L4Sorensen – Nieto – True
3:1827% CF
D1Burns – Ferraro
16:1453% CF
D2Karlsson – Knyzhov
7:0236% CF
D3Vlasic – Simek
2:4150% CF

PP1Marleau – Karlsson – Labanc – Meier – Leonard
2:02100% CF
PP2Burns – Couture – Kane – Donato – Balcers
1:430% CF
PK1FNieto – Gambrell
3:47
PK2FCouture – Kane
2:21
PK1DBurns – Ferraro
3:24
PK2DVlasic – Simek
1:51

Current SJS line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

18:32
COLSamuel Girard (Andre Burakovsky, Devon Toews)wrist0.14 xG
COL: Saad, Burakovsky, Compher, Toews, GirardSJS: Burns, Vlasic, Sorensen, Gambrell, Ferraro
COL 1 – 0 SJS

2nd period

4:21
COLGabriel LandeskogPP (Nazem Kadri, Nathan MacKinnon)backhand0.15 xG
COL: Kadri, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, GirardSJS: Vlasic, Couture, Kane, Simek
COL 2 – 0 SJS
6:13
SJSRadim Simek (Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Rudolfs Balcers)wrist0.22 xG
COL: Graves, Bellemare, Jost, Girard, O'ConnorSJS: Vlasic, Meier, Balcers, Gambrell, Simek
COL 2 – 1 SJS
16:48
SJSKevin Labanc (Evander Kane, Logan Couture)wrist0.19 xG
COL: Saad, Graves, Burakovsky, Compher, GirardSJS: Couture, Karlsson, Kane, Labanc, Knyzhov
COL 2 – 2 SJS

3rd period

4:18
SJSRudolfs Balcers (Dylan Gambrell, Timo Meier)backhand0.06 xG
COL: Kadri, Saad, Graves, Nichushkin, GirardSJS: Karlsson, Meier, Balcers, Gambrell, Knyzhov
COL 2 – 3 SJS
7:53
SJSErik KarlssonPP (Evander Kane, Timo Meier)slap0.05 xG
COL: Graves, Compher, Toews, O'ConnorSJS: Marleau, Karlsson, Kane, Labanc, Meier
COL 2 – 4 SJS
10:11
SJSJohn Leonard (Timo Meier)wrist0.15 xG
COL: Kadri, Saad, Graves, Nichushkin, RenoufSJS: Marleau, Karlsson, Donato, Leonard, Knyzhov
COL 2 – 5 SJS
18:53
SJSEvander KaneEN (Brent Burns)wrist0.95 xG
COL: Donskoi, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, GirardSJS: Burns, Kane, Gambrell, Ferraro
COL 2 – 6 SJS

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	0	1	1	-1	6	0.53	0	1	0	22:28	—	—	39	30
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	1	0	1	-1	2	0.32	0	1	0	22:13	—	—	43	36
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	0	0	0	-1	4	0.21	0	0	2	21:14	—	—	37	38
Tyson Jost C	L2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.11	1	1	0	12:33	—	—	53	41
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.15	1	0	0	11:09	—	—	63	54
Logan O'Connor R	L2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.16	4	0	0	10:42	—	—	75	61
Nazem Kadri C	L3	0	1	1	-2	7	0.88	0	0	2	17:34	—	—	53	37
Brandon Saad L	L3	0	0	0	-2	0	0.00	0	0	0	13:12	—	—	64	58
Valeri Nichushkin R	L3	0	0	0	-2	1	0.11	1	0	2	11:40	—	—	67	50
J.T. Compher L	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.32	0	0	0	14:17	—	—	71	54
Andre Burakovsky L	L4	0	1	1	0	0	0.06	0	0	0	12:36	—	—	77	75
Joonas Donskoi R	L4	0	0	0	-1	2	0.28	2	0	0	11:42	—	—	71	62
Devon Toews D	D1	0	1	1	+1	0	0.01	1	1	2	27:02	—	—	63	58
Jacob MacDonald D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.23	4	1	0	16:02	—	—	44	29
Samuel Girard D	D2	1	0	1	-3	1	0.17	0	1	0	25:41	—	—	53	45
Conor Timmins D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	2	0	0	12:29	—	—	68	74
Ryan Graves D	D3	0	0	0	-4	1	0.00	2	1	0	20:27	—	—	48	36
Dan Renouf D	D3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.07	3	2	0	10:41	—	—	56	51

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Philipp Grubauer(start)	L	26	21	5	.808	2.72	59:01

San Jose Sharks

SJS skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Evander Kane L	L1	1	2	3	+2	5	1.24	1	0	0	19:48	—	—	70	69
Logan Couture C	L1	0	1	1	+1	1	0.22	1	2	0	19:21	—	—	67	70
Kevin Labanc R	L1	1	0	1	+1	2	0.20	0	0	0	16:41	—	—	74	72
Patrick Marleau C	L2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.10	2	0	0	15:28	—	—	32	32
Ryan Donato C	L2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.02	1	1	2	14:56	—	—	31	37
John Leonard L	L2	1	0	1	+1	2	0.29	1	0	0	13:49	—	—	29	35
Dylan Gambrell C	L3	0	1	1	+2	1	0.29	0	1	0	18:32	—	—	43	54
Timo Meier R	L3	0	3	3	+2	2	0.29	2	0	0	17:00	—	—	33	49
Rudolfs Balcers L	L3	1	1	2	+2	1	0.06	0	2	0	14:01	—	—	37	54
Matt Nieto L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	11:47	—	—	35	61
Marcus Sorensen L	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.17	1	1	0	7:45	—	—	28	36
Alexander True C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.29	1	0	4	6:29	—	—	36	59
Brent Burns D	D1	0	1	1	0	1	0.02	0	0	0	28:31	—	—	53	50
Mario Ferraro D	D1	0	0	0	0	2	0.02	2	3	2	22:53	—	—	56	57
Erik Karlsson D	D2	1	0	1	+3	3	0.22	0	0	0	22:33	—	—	38	52
Nikolai Knyzhov D	D2	0	0	0	+3	0	0.00	0	1	2	13:51	—	—	32	53
Radim Simek D	D3	1	0	1	+1	1	0.22	0	2	0	14:08	—	—	35	53
Marc-Edouard Vlasic D	D3	0	1	1	0	0	0.01	1	0	0	13:08	—	—	29	36

SJS goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Martin Jones(start)	W	35	33	2	.943	3.64	60:00

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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.