Columbus Blue Jackets vs. Colorado AvalancheJan 4, 2018

FinalThursday, Jan 4, 2018· Pepsi Center

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
CBJ	0	0	0	0		CBJ	7	11	16	34
COL	0	1	1	2		COL	14	11	7	32

: CBJ 59COL 52
: CBJ 2.34COL 2.14
PP goals: CBJ 0COL 1
Hits: CBJ 12COL 20
Blocks: CBJ 14COL 13
PIM: CBJ 8COL 6
: CBJ 58%COL 42%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche beat Columbus Blue Jackets 2–0

Colorado Avalanche beat Columbus Blue Jackets 2–0 at home. Mikko Rantanen (COL) led the scoring with 1G 1A. COL's first power-play unit (Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Jost and Girard) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 2:22 together.

Points
Mikko Rantanen had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 15:43.Rantanen
PP1
COL's first power-play unit (Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Jost and Girard) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 2:22 together.Landeskog MacKinnon Rantanen Jost Girard
Luck
CBJ scored 0 goals on 2.34 expected goals (59 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Samuel Girard (COL) played 13:19, −4:24 down on his 17:43 season average over 72 games.Girard
Usage
Mikko Rantanen (COL) played 15:43, −3:17 down on his 19:00 season average over 80 games.Rantanen
Usage
Nathan MacKinnon (COL) played 16:38, −3:19 down on his 19:57 season average over 73 games.MacKinnon
Usage
Pierre-Luc Dubois (CBJ) played 21:39, +5:05 up on his 16:34 season average over 81 games.Dubois
Usage
Gabriel Bourque (COL) played 15:33, +4:44 up on his 10:49 season average over 57 games.Bourque

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

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

COL
CBJ
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 111 of 111 attempts · COL 52 · CBJ 59

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

COL
CBJ
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: CBJ 30% of the game, COL 30%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

COL

CBJ

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	CBJ	COL
	58	48
	1.93	1.51
	1.84	1.49
	8	4
	4	1
	12	7
	+0.043	−0.043
	30%	30%

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.

Columbus Blue Jackets

L1Anderson – Panarin – Dubois
8:2029% CF
L2Foligno – Jenner – Bjorkstrand
5:5767% CF
L3Schroeder – Motte – Hannikainen
5:1364% CF
L4Calvert – Sedlak – Milano
3:29100% CF
D1Jones – Werenski
17:0267% CF
D2Savard – Nutivaara
14:3283% CF
D3Johnson – Harrington
9:0723% CF

PP1Anderson – Jones – Werenski – Panarin – Dubois
4:05100% CF
PP2Foligno – Jenner – Bjorkstrand – Milano – Nutivaara
1:40100% CF
PK1FJenner – Motte
2:50
PK2FCalvert – Sedlak
0:58
PK1DJohnson – Savard
2:28
PK2DHarrington – Jones
0:42

Current CBJ line combinations →

Colorado Avalanche

L1Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen
10:1563% CF
L2Comeau – Soderberg – Nieto
9:4073% CF
L3Wilson – Bourque – Jost
7:5745% CF
L4Yakupov – Kerfoot – Greer
6:430% CF
D1Barberio – Nemeth
11:5755% CF
D2Johnson – Zadorov
10:5450% CF
D3Lindholm – Girard
5:3125% CF

PP1Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Jost – Girard
2:22100% CF
PP2Soderberg – Johnson – Wilson – Yakupov – Kerfoot
1:50100% CF
PK1FComeau – Soderberg
2:49
PK2FBourque – Nieto
1:42
PK1DBarberio – Zadorov
2:32
PK2DJohnson – Nemeth
2:05

Current COL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

12:48
COLMikko RantanenPP (Tyson Jost, Samuel Girard)wrist0.05 xG
CBJ: Calvert, Sedlak, Harrington, JonesCOL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Jost, Girard
CBJ 0 – 1 COL

3rd period

18:25
COLMatt Nieto (Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen)wrist0.01 xG
CBJ: Foligno, Jenner, Bjorkstrand, Jones, NutivaaraCOL: Nemeth, Nieto, MacKinnon, Zadorov, Rantanen
CBJ 0 – 2 COL

Box score

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

Columbus Blue Jackets

CBJ skaters
Skater	Line	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Artemi Panarin L	L1	0	4	0.48	0	1	0	22:57	—	—	41	39
Pierre-Luc Dubois C	L1	0	2	0.28	2	0	4	21:39	—	—	38	33
Josh Anderson R	L1	0	2	0.19	1	2	0	21:16	—	—	38	34
Nick Foligno L	L2	-1	0	0.03	1	4	2	18:59	—	—	60	70
Boone Jenner C	L2	-1	4	0.38	0	0	0	18:56	—	—	55	76
Oliver Bjorkstrand R	L2	-1	2	0.15	0	0	0	13:47	—	—	73	84
Tyler Motte C	L3	0	1	0.00	3	0	0	9:26	—	—	58	39
Jordan Schroeder C	L3	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	6:39	—	—	67	95
Markus Hannikainen L	L3	0	2	0.04	0	1	0	6:36	—	—	62	81
Matt Calvert L	L4	0	0	0.02	2	0	0	12:15	—	—	80	75
Sonny Milano L	L4	0	3	0.29	0	0	0	12:01	—	—	53	84
Lukas Sedlak C	L4	0	1	0.10	0	0	0	11:18	—	—	80	75
Seth Jones D	D1	-1	4	0.07	0	1	2	25:28	—	—	58	53
Zach Werenski D	D1	0	4	0.12	2	0	0	23:37	—	—	56	49
David Savard D	D2	0	3	0.14	0	1	0	20:53	—	—	68	69
Markus Nutivaara D	D2	-1	2	0.06	0	0	0	20:14	—	—	71	77
Jack Johnson D	D3	0	0	0.00	0	3	0	16:54	—	—	21	25
Scott Harrington D	D3	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	11:09	—	—	23	32

CBJ goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Sergei Bobrovsky(start)	L	32	30	2	.938	2.14	59:31

Colorado Avalanche

COL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	0	0	0	18:48	—	—	58	48
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	1	1	+1	7	0.67	0	0	0	16:38	—	—	68	58
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	1	1	2	+1	3	0.17	0	0	0	15:43	—	—	60	47
Carl Soderberg C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	2	0	0	21:05	—	—	45	30
Blake Comeau L	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.24	3	1	2	17:26	—	—	78	83
Matt Nieto L	L2	1	0	1	+1	2	0.08	0	0	0	15:11	—	—	72	77
Gabriel Bourque L	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.17	0	2	0	15:33	—	—	22	21
Tyson Jost C	L3	0	1	1	0	0	0.06	1	0	0	12:54	—	—	61	75
Colin Wilson C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.03	0	1	0	12:47	—	—	30	32
Alexander Kerfoot C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.10	1	1	2	12:20	—	—	13	26
Nail Yakupov R	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.12	0	1	0	10:06	—	—	0	0
A.J. Greer L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	1	0	7:36	—	—	0	0
Patrik Nemeth D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.04	1	3	0	23:07	—	—	55	51
Mark Barberio D	D1	0	0	0	0	4	0.11	3	0	0	21:21	—	—	48	39
Erik Johnson D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.10	1	1	2	24:15	—	—	48	58
Nikita Zadorov D	D2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.16	3	1	0	23:22	—	—	50	42
Samuel Girard D	D3	0	1	1	0	1	0.05	0	1	0	13:19	—	—	32	38
Anton Lindholm D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	3	0	0	10:40	—	—	22	32

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jonathan Bernier(start)	W	34	34	0	.1000	2.34	59:49

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.