Chicago Blackhawks vs. Colorado AvalancheOct 28, 2024

FinalMonday, Oct 28, 2024· Ball Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
CHI	3	0	2	5		CHI	12	5	9	26
COL	2	0	0	2		COL	7	10	9	26

: CHI 52COL 56
: CHI 4.05COL 2.63
PP goals: CHI 1COL 1
Hits: CHI 15COL 19
Blocks: CHI 17COL 13
PIM: CHI 8COL 6
: CHI 43%COL 57%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Chicago Blackhawks beat Colorado Avalanche 5–2

Chicago Blackhawks beat Colorado Avalanche 5–2 at COL. Ryan Donato (CHI) led the scoring with 2G 1A. COL's first power-play unit (MacKinnon, Rantanen, Colton, Mittelstadt and Makar) scored 1 power-play goal on 10 attempts in 4:57 together.

Points
Ryan Donato had two goals and an assist (3 points) on 4 shots in 11:59.Donato
Points
Jason Dickinson had 2 assists (2 points) on 1 shot in 17:32.Dickinson
PP1
COL's first power-play unit (MacKinnon, Rantanen, Colton, Mittelstadt and Makar) scored 1 power-play goal on 10 attempts in 4:57 together.MacKinnon Rantanen Colton Mittelstadt Makar
New line
New look for CHI: Teravainen–Kurashev–Bedard skated 10:07 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Teravainen Kurashev Bedard
Usage
Casey Mittelstadt (COL) played 21:55, +4:55 up on his 17:00 season average over 80 games.Mittelstadt
New line
New look for CHI: Foligno–Hall–Bertuzzi skated 8:46 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (47.1% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Foligno Hall Bertuzzi
Usage
Philipp Kurashev (CHI) played 18:01, +4:23 up on his 13:38 season average over 50 games.Kurashev
Usage
Ryan Donato (CHI) played 11:59, −4:23 down on his 16:22 season average over 79 games.Donato

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

← CHI attacks left (bottom on phones)COL attacks right (top on phones) →

COL
CHI
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 108 of 108 attempts · COL 56 · CHI 52

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

COL
CHI
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

COL pressure
CHI pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: CHI 28% of the game, COL 39%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

COL

CHI

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	CHI	COL
	49	48
	2.70	1.34
	2.52	1.31
	16	7
	2	4
	23	20
	−0.034	+0.034
	28%	39%

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.

Chicago Blackhawks

L1Dickinson – Donato – Mikheyev
10:1564% CF
L2Teravainen – Kurashev – Bedard
10:0750% CF
L3Foligno – Hall – Bertuzzi
8:4647% CF
L4Maroon – Smith – Reichel
6:5444% CF
D1Murphy – Vlasic
14:1650% CF
D2Jones – Kaiser
10:2775% CF
D3Brodie – Allan
7:4838% CF

PP1Teravainen – Bertuzzi – Jones – Reichel – Bedard
3:2280% CF
PP2Maroon – Smith – Hall – Kurashev – Vlasic
1:48100% CF
PK1FFoligno – Dickinson
2:16
PK2FKurashev – Mikheyev
1:09
PK1DJones – Vlasic
2:49
PK2DBrodie – Murphy
1:11

Current CHI line combinations →

Colorado Avalanche

L1MacKinnon – Rantanen – Colton
8:3238% CF
L2Wood – Kelly – Kiviranta
7:1956% CF
L3Mittelstadt – Kovalenko – O'Connor
6:2720% CF
L4Wagner – Stienburg – Ivan
2:12100% CF
D1Toews – Makar
16:0244% CF
D2Manson – Girard
9:2247% CF
D3de Haan – Malinski
8:3965% CF

PP1MacKinnon – Rantanen – Colton – Mittelstadt – Makar
4:5791% CF
PP2Wood – Toews – Girard – Kovalenko – Ivan
1:13100% CF
PK1FWagner – O'Connor
1:33
PK2FWood – Kiviranta
1:32
PK1Dde Haan – Manson
1:29
PK2DToews – Makar
1:20

Current COL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

8:47
CHIPhilipp KurashevPP (Alex Vlasic)slap0.13 xG
CHI: Maroon, Smith, Hall, Kurashev, VlasicCOL: de Haan, Toews, Kelly, O'Connor
CHI 1 – 0 COL
10:16
COLCasey Mittelstadt (Logan O'Connor, Sam Malinski)wrist0.15 xG
CHI: Foligno, Brodie, Hall, Bertuzzi, AllanCOL: de Haan, Mittelstadt, Kovalenko, O'Connor, Malinski
CHI 1 – 1 COL
11:04
CHILukas Reichel (Craig Smith)deflected0.04 xG
CHI: Maroon, Smith, Murphy, Vlasic, ReichelCOL: Wagner, MacKinnon, Toews, Rantanen, Makar
CHI 2 – 1 COL
16:56
CHIRyan Donato (Jason Dickinson, Connor Murphy)backhand0.28 xG
CHI: Murphy, Dickinson, Donato, Vlasic, MikheyevCOL: MacKinnon, Rantanen, Girard, Colton, Makar
CHI 3 – 1 COL
19:17
COLNathan MacKinnonPP (Cale Makar, Alexandar Georgiev)wrist0.22 xG
CHI: Foligno, Jones, VlasicCOL: MacKinnon, Rantanen, Colton, Mittelstadt, Makar
CHI 3 – 2 COL

3rd period

19:02
CHIRyan DonatoENwrist0.66 xG
CHI: Dickinson, Jones, Donato, Mikheyev, AllanCOL: MacKinnon, Rantanen, Mittelstadt, Makar, Kovalenko, Ivan
CHI 4 – 2 COL
19:41
CHIIlya MikheyevEN (Ryan Donato, Jason Dickinson)wrist0.61 xG
CHI: Dickinson, Jones, Donato, Vlasic, MikheyevCOL: MacKinnon, Rantanen, Mittelstadt, Makar, Kovalenko, Ivan
CHI 5 – 2 COL

Box score

Skaters grouped by the line they played on; CF% is the 5v5 share of shot attempts while on the ice.

Chicago Blackhawks

CHI skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Jason Dickinson C	L1	0	2	2	+3	1	0.08	0	0	0	17:32	—	—	59	77
Ilya Mikheyev R	L1	1	0	1	+3	1	0.61	0	0	0	16:42	—	—	56	72
Ryan Donato C	L1	2	1	3	+3	4	1.11	3	0	0	11:59	—	—	61	73
Philipp Kurashev C	L2	1	0	1	0	4	0.72	0	1	0	18:01	—	—	48	74
Connor Bedard C	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.23	0	0	0	17:16	—	—	44	63
Teuvo Teravainen C	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.03	0	1	0	16:36	—	—	47	53
Nick Foligno L	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	2	1	0	14:47	—	—	50	25
Taylor Hall L	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.10	1	1	0	14:11	—	—	56	63
Tyler Bertuzzi L	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.18	0	1	2	13:46	—	—	45	31
Craig Smith C	L4	0	1	1	+1	2	0.10	1	1	0	13:34	—	—	55	85
Lukas Reichel L	L4	1	0	1	+1	1	0.13	1	1	0	11:44	—	—	44	78
Patrick Maroon L	L4	0	0	0	+1	3	0.52	1	0	0	11:04	—	—	52	82
Alex Vlasic D	D1	0	1	1	+3	2	0.06	0	4	0	24:20	—	—	49	61
Connor Murphy D	D1	0	1	1	+2	1	0.07	2	1	2	22:00	—	—	55	61
Seth Jones D	D2	0	0	0	+2	0	0.00	2	2	0	25:39	—	—	48	71
Wyatt Kaiser D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.06	2	0	4	15:28	—	—	80	98
TJ Brodie D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	1	0	14:28	—	—	26	35
Nolan Allan D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.05	0	2	0	13:22	—	—	44	64

CHI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Petr Mrazek(start)	W	26	24	2	.923	2.63	60:00

Colorado Avalanche

COL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	0	0	0	-4	0	0.01	0	3	0	25:13	—	—	44	24
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	1	0	1	-4	1	0.32	0	1	0	24:57	—	—	41	23
Ross Colton C	L1	0	0	0	-1	3	0.43	1	1	0	15:00	—	—	40	6
Joel Kiviranta L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.06	3	0	0	14:47	—	—	60	33
Miles Wood L	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.14	0	2	2	14:38	—	—	45	26
Parker Kelly C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.16	3	0	0	12:00	—	—	70	43
Casey Mittelstadt C	L3	1	0	1	-1	5	0.64	0	0	0	21:55	—	—	40	40
Nikolai Kovalenko R	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.14	1	1	0	17:10	—	—	46	48
Logan O'Connor R	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.04	1	2	0	16:12	—	—	46	44
Ivan Ivan C	L4	0	0	0	-2	1	0.07	0	0	0	11:14	—	—	86	95
Chris Wagner R	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.08	1	0	0	5:11	—	—	40	24
Matt Stienburg C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	3:14	—	—	75	91
Cale Makar D	D1	0	1	1	-4	4	0.20	1	0	0	26:17	—	—	37	14
Devon Toews D	D1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.10	0	1	0	22:10	—	—	44	22
Samuel Girard D	D2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.07	3	0	2	20:19	—	—	49	34
Josh Manson D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	15:24	—	—	46	27
Calvin de Haan D	D3	0	0	0	+1	2	0.04	0	1	2	16:26	—	—	52	37
Sam Malinski D	D3	0	1	1	+1	2	0.12	1	1	0	13:58	—	—	62	58

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Alexandar Georgiev(start)	L	24	21	3	.875	2.79	58:07

Goal anatomy

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

Philipp Kurashev (CHI PP) 1st 8:47 · assists Alex Vlasic · Cycle · carried in · 67.2 mph shot · 7.1 s from entry to goal.

Philipp Kurashev · 1st 8:47 · CHI PP

Play: cycle
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 1 (royal road)
Shot: 67.2 mph
Distance: 37 ft
Entry to goal: 7.1 s

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Casey Mittelstadt · 1st 10:16 · COL

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 3-on-2
Passes: 1
Shot: 49.4 mph
Distance: 19 ft
Entry to goal: 4.0 s

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Lukas Reichel · 1st 11:04 · CHI

Play: deflection
Passes: 1
Shot: 13.3 mph
Distance: 17 ft

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Ryan Donato · 1st 16:56 · CHI

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 1
Shot: 36.7 mph
Distance: 4 ft

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Nathan MacKinnon · 1st 19:17 · COL PP

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 4-on-3
Passes: 2
Shot: 48.2 mph
Distance: 13 ft
Entry to goal: 2.1 s

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Ryan Donato · 3rd 19:02 · CHI EN

Play: cycle
Passes: 1 (royal road)
Shot: 58.0 mph
Distance: 33 ft

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Ilya Mikheyev · 3rd 19:41 · CHI EN

Play: point-shot
Passes: 2
Shot: 66.1 mph
Distance: 76 ft

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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.