St. Louis Blues vs. Colorado AvalancheApr 3, 2021

FinalSaturday, Apr 3, 2021· Ball Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
STL	1	0	0	1		STL	14	6	8	28
COL	1	0	1	2		COL	14	12	8	34

: STL 44COL 61
: STL 2.29COL 3.85
PP goals: STL 0COL 0
Hits: STL 18COL 6
Blocks: STL 14COL 7
PIM: STL 13COL 11
: STL 48%COL 52%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche edge St. Louis Blues 2–1

Colorado Avalanche beat St. Louis Blues 2–1 at home. Nathan MacKinnon (COL) led the scoring with 1G 0A. New look for STL: Bozak–Sanford–Barbashev skated 10:08 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (25% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

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New look for STL: Bozak–Sanford–Barbashev skated 10:08 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (25% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Bozak Sanford Barbashev
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New look for COL: O'Brien–Compher–Bellemare skated 5:32 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.O'Brien Compher Bellemare
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New look for STL: Clifford–Kyrou–Thomas skated 5:36 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (72.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Clifford Kyrou Thomas
Luck
COL scored 2 goals on 3.85 expected goals (61 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Devon Toews (COL) played 28:44, +4:02 up on his 24:42 season average over 52 games.Toews
Usage
Gabriel Landeskog (COL) played 23:14, +3:20 up on his 19:54 season average over 53 games.Landeskog
Usage
Dan Renouf (COL) played 5:18, −5:09 down on his 10:27 season average over 17 games.Renouf
Usage
Jacob MacDonald (COL) played 10:12, −4:54 down on his 15:06 season average over 32 games.MacDonald

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

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

COL
STL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 105 of 105 attempts · COL 61 · STL 44

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

COL
STL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: STL 21% of the game, COL 37%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

COL

STL

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	STL	COL
	42	61
	1.90	2.46
	1.76	2.25
	8	13
	5	2
	8	7
	−0.005	+0.005
	21%	37%

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.

St. Louis Blues

L1Perron – Hoffman – Schenn
10:1226% CF
L2Bozak – Sanford – Barbashev
10:0825% CF
L3O'Reilly – Tarasenko – Schwartz
9:4835% CF
L4Clifford – Kyrou – Thomas
5:3673% CF
D1Faulk – Krug
15:5538% CF
D2Scandella – Dunn
11:4019% CF
D3Bortuzzo – Walman
6:3462% CF

PP1Perron – O'Reilly – Schenn – Tarasenko – Krug
3:55100% CF
PP2Hoffman – Schwartz – Dunn – Kyrou – Thomas
1:32100% CF
PK1FBozak – Barbashev
1:47
PK2FO'Reilly – Sanford
1:05
PK1DScandella – Walman
2:22
PK2DBortuzzo – Faulk
1:34

Current STL line combinations →

Colorado Avalanche

L1Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen
14:0863% CF
L2Kadri – Saad – Burakovsky
9:2569% CF
L3Donskoi – Nichushkin – Jost
7:1057% CF
L4O'Brien – Compher – Bellemare
5:3250% CF
D1Toews – Girard
8:4033% CF
D2Graves – Makar
4:2250% CF
D3Renouf – MacDonald
0:380% CF

PP1Donskoi – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Makar
4:5286% CF
PP2Kadri – Saad – Burakovsky – Toews – Girard
1:41
PK1FBellemare – Jost
1:30
PK2FDonskoi – Compher
0:57
PK1DGraves – Toews
3:08
PK2DGirard – MacDonald
0:00

Current COL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

11:27
COLNathan MacKinnon (Gabriel Landeskog, Devon Toews)wrist0.01 xG
STL: Perron, Hoffman, Schenn, Faulk, KrugCOL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Toews, Rantanen, Makar
STL 0 – 1 COL
18:04
STLRyan O'Reilly (Brayden Schenn, David Perron)wrist0.21 xG
STL: O'Reilly, Schenn, Krug, Dunn, ThomasCOL: Landeskog, Graves, Bellemare, Toews, Jost
STL 1 – 1 COL

3rd period

19:19
COLCale Makarwrist0.00 xG
STL: O'Reilly, Faulk, Tarasenko, Schwartz, KrugCOL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Toews, Rantanen, Makar
STL 1 – 2 COL

Box score

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

St. Louis Blues

STL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Brayden Schenn C	L1	0	1	1	0	0	0.05	0	1	2	19:25	—	—	40	49
David Perron L	L1	0	1	1	-1	3	0.32	1	0	0	17:49	—	—	33	33
Mike Hoffman C	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.05	0	0	0	13:28	—	—	27	18
Ivan Barbashev L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	1	0	0	14:35	—	—	32	36
Zachary Sanford L	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	4	0	14:29	—	—	22	32
Tyler Bozak C	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.15	2	0	2	14:23	—	—	22	36
Ryan O'Reilly C	L3	1	0	1	0	3	0.46	0	0	0	20:36	—	—	42	44
Jaden Schwartz L	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.32	1	1	2	16:28	—	—	39	31
Vladimir Tarasenko R	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.17	3	2	0	15:31	—	—	35	27
Robert Thomas C	L4	0	0	0	+1	1	0.11	0	0	0	12:16	—	—	74	78
Jordan Kyrou R	L4	0	0	0	0	3	0.17	0	0	0	10:32	—	—	69	60
Kyle Clifford L	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.23	1	0	0	9:02	—	—	63	69
Torey Krug D	D1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.04	0	1	0	25:27	—	—	42	26
Justin Faulk D	D1	0	0	0	-2	3	0.07	0	0	2	22:23	—	—	40	22
Marco Scandella D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	1	2	0	21:20	—	—	27	24
Vince Dunn D	D2	0	0	0	+1	3	0.11	1	2	0	17:50	—	—	28	48
Jake Walman D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	2	0	0	15:33	—	—	55	76
Robert Bortuzzo D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	1	5	11:07	—	—	67	97

STL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Ville Husso(start)	L	34	32	2	.941	3.31	59:42

Colorado Avalanche

COL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	0	1	1	+1	0	0.23	1	1	2	23:14	—	—	52	34
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	0	0	0	+2	5	1.06	0	1	0	21:51	—	—	56	39
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	1	0	1	+2	5	0.26	0	0	0	21:05	—	—	63	75
Nazem Kadri C	L2	0	0	0	0	4	0.41	0	1	2	15:45	—	—	63	62
Andre Burakovsky L	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.13	0	0	0	14:57	—	—	64	73
Brandon Saad L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	0	0	11:15	—	—	65	82
Joonas Donskoi R	L3	0	0	0	0	4	0.52	0	0	0	17:15	—	—	62	53
Tyson Jost C	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.18	0	0	0	12:51	—	—	62	57
Valeri Nichushkin R	L3	0	0	0	0	3	0.37	0	0	0	12:37	—	—	73	75
J.T. Compher L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	11:23	—	—	58	67
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.25	0	0	0	10:27	—	—	38	29
Liam O'Brien C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	0	0	5	6:03	—	—	50	51
Devon Toews D	D1	0	1	1	+1	1	0.04	2	0	2	28:44	—	—	52	30
Samuel Girard D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	23:03	—	—	58	58
Cale Makar D	D2	1	0	1	+2	4	0.26	0	1	0	26:43	—	—	58	63
Ryan Graves D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	3	0	21:17	—	—	69	60
Jacob MacDonald D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.11	0	0	0	10:12	—	—	70	79
Dan Renouf D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	5:18	—	—	62	78

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Philipp Grubauer(start)	W	28	27	1	.964	2.29	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.