Colorado Avalanche vs. San Jose SharksMar 3, 2021

FinalWednesday, Mar 3, 2021· SAP Center at San Jose

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
COL	0	1	3	4		COL	10	10	18	38
SJS	0	0	0	0		SJS	9	7	10	26

: COL 76SJS 48
: COL 2.76SJS 1.84
PP goals: COL 1SJS 0
Hits: COL 15SJS 15
Blocks: COL 10SJS 22
PIM: COL 6SJS 14
: COL 60%SJS 40%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche rout San Jose Sharks 4–0

Colorado Avalanche beat San Jose Sharks 4–0 at SJS. Mikko Rantanen (COL) led the scoring with 2G 2A. COL's first power-play unit (Kadri, Landeskog, Burakovsky, Rantanen and Girard) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 5:46 together.

Points
Mikko Rantanen had two goals and 2 assists (4 points) on 4 shots in 21:42.Rantanen
Points
Gabriel Landeskog had a goal and 3 assists (4 points) on 4 shots in 21:14.Landeskog
Points
Nazem Kadri had 2 assists (2 points) on 3 shots in 17:13.Kadri
PP1
COL's first power-play unit (Kadri, Landeskog, Burakovsky, Rantanen and Girard) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 5:46 together.Kadri Landeskog Burakovsky Rantanen Girard
Goalie
Martin Jones (SJS) faced 38 shots and stopped 34 (.895), +9 against a season average of 28.8; the loss.Jones
Luck
SJS scored 0 goals on 1.84 expected goals (48 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Ryan Graves (COL) played 23:55, +4:57 up on his 18:58 season average over 53 games.Graves
Usage
Alexander True (SJS) played 6:34, −4:00 down on his 10:34 season average over 6 games.True

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 124 of 124 attempts · SJS 48 · COL 76

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 48% of the game, SJS 20%.

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
	66	47
	1.81	1.59
	1.69	1.56
	8	6
	5	2
	22	17
	+0.068	−0.068
	48%	20%

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
13:0574% CF
L2Kadri – Saad – Burakovsky
9:3962% CF
L3Donskoi – Compher – Nichushkin
6:3555% CF
L4Bellemare – Jost – O'Connor
6:2454% CF
D1Graves – Toews
8:5757% CF
D2Girard – MacDonald
6:0676% CF
D3Renouf – Timmins
3:5350% CF

PP1Kadri – Landeskog – Burakovsky – Rantanen – Girard
5:46100% CF
PP2Donskoi – Saad – Burakovsky – Compher – Toews
2:16100% CF
PK1FCompher – Jost
2:13
PK2FNichushkin – O'Connor
1:00
PK1DGraves – Toews
3:15
PK2DRenouf – MacDonald
0:52

Current COL line combinations →

San Jose Sharks

L1Couture – Kane – Labanc
13:4731% CF
L2Meier – Balcers – Gambrell
8:1619% CF
L3Marleau – Donato – Leonard
5:5544% CF
L4Nieto – Blichfeld – True
2:3586% CF
D1Burns – Ferraro
17:0938% CF
D2Karlsson – Knyzhov
16:3333% CF
D3Vlasic – Simek
10:1756% CF

PP1Couture – Karlsson – Kane – Labanc – Meier
3:08100% CF
PP2Marleau – Karlsson – Donato – Balcers – Leonard
1:03100% CF
PK1FCouture – Kane
1:52
PK2FNieto – Gambrell
1:49
PK1DBurns – Ferraro
4:02
PK2DVlasic – Simek
3:05

Current SJS line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

14:24
COLMikko Rantanen (Nathan MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog)slap0.05 xG
COL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Toews, Rantanen, GirardSJS: Burns, Couture, Kane, Labanc, Ferraro
COL 1 – 0 SJS

3rd period

5:29
COLSamuel Girard (Mikko Rantanen, Gabriel Landeskog)slap0.05 xG
COL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Toews, Rantanen, GirardSJS: Burns, Couture, Kane, Labanc, Ferraro
COL 2 – 0 SJS
8:23
COLGabriel LandeskogPP (Nazem Kadri, Mikko Rantanen)wrist0.05 xG
COL: Kadri, Landeskog, Burakovsky, Rantanen, GirardSJS: Burns, Nieto, Gambrell, Ferraro
COL 3 – 0 SJS
14:34
COLMikko Rantanen (Nazem Kadri, Gabriel Landeskog)wrap-around0.02 xG
COL: Kadri, Landeskog, Graves, Rantanen, MacDonaldSJS: Burns, Couture, Kane, Labanc, Meier
COL 4 – 0 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
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	2	2	4	+3	4	0.21	0	0	0	21:42	—	—	75	87
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	1	3	4	+3	4	0.43	0	1	0	21:14	—	—	72	86
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	1	1	+2	2	0.26	2	0	0	18:05	—	—	75	85
Andre Burakovsky L	L2	0	0	0	0	4	0.26	0	0	0	18:16	—	—	57	42
Nazem Kadri C	L2	0	2	2	+1	3	0.48	0	0	0	17:13	—	—	61	44
Brandon Saad L	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.32	0	0	2	15:11	—	—	52	39
J.T. Compher L	L3	0	0	0	0	4	0.21	0	0	0	14:31	—	—	43	37
Joonas Donskoi R	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	2	2	11:21	—	—	44	30
Valeri Nichushkin R	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	2	0	0	11:20	—	—	47	46
Tyson Jost C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.12	0	1	0	12:16	—	—	55	55
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.14	1	0	0	10:44	—	—	54	54
Logan O'Connor R	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	2	1	0	10:29	—	—	53	44
Devon Toews D	D1	0	0	0	+2	2	0.01	0	1	0	26:08	—	—	61	69
Ryan Graves D	D1	0	0	0	+1	4	0.07	4	3	0	23:55	—	—	57	54
Samuel Girard D	D2	1	0	1	+2	3	0.11	1	0	0	25:38	—	—	69	64
Jacob MacDonald D	D2	0	0	0	+1	3	0.09	1	1	2	14:07	—	—	67	61
Conor Timmins D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	0	0	0	11:30	—	—	53	34
Dan Renouf D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	10:20	—	—	24	10

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Philipp Grubauer(start)	W	26	26	0	.1000	1.84	60:00

San Jose Sharks

SJS skaters
Skater	Line	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Evander Kane L	L1	-3	1	0.16	1	0	0	20:40	—	—	28	14
Logan Couture C	L1	-3	1	0.02	2	3	0	20:30	—	—	28	14
Kevin Labanc R	L1	-3	2	0.16	0	0	2	18:36	—	—	32	34
Timo Meier R	L2	-1	1	0.08	0	2	0	18:22	—	—	34	34
Rudolfs Balcers L	L2	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	17:47	—	—	28	44
Dylan Gambrell C	L2	0	3	0.34	1	2	0	16:40	—	—	33	39
Patrick Marleau C	L3	0	2	0.20	0	0	0	15:37	—	—	55	77
Ryan Donato C	L3	0	1	0.26	4	1	0	13:46	—	—	48	64
John Leonard L	L3	0	3	0.19	0	0	0	10:39	—	—	59	57
Matt Nieto L	L4	0	2	0.06	0	0	0	10:12	—	—	67	92
Alexander True C	L4	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	6:34	—	—	75	95
Joachim Blichfeld R	L4	0	1	0.16	0	0	12	5:21	—	—	82	100
Brent Burns D	D1	-3	3	0.05	0	3	0	25:25	—	—	37	41
Mario Ferraro D	D1	-2	1	0.02	1	5	0	22:21	—	—	41	55
Erik Karlsson D	D2	0	2	0.10	0	0	0	22:24	—	—	37	36
Nikolai Knyzhov D	D2	0	1	0.01	1	0	0	18:18	—	—	32	30
Marc-Edouard Vlasic D	D3	0	0	0.02	1	1	0	14:23	—	—	56	80
Radim Simek D	D3	0	2	0.01	2	3	0	13:25	—	—	56	80

SJS goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Martin Jones(start)	L	38	34	4	.895	2.76	60:00

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.