St. Louis Blues vs. Colorado AvalancheMay 17, 2021

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
STL	0	1	0	1		STL	5	11	7	23
COL	1	0	3	4		COL	18	14	18	50

: STL 48COL 80
: STL 2.01COL 4.98
PP goals: STL 0COL 1
Hits: STL 21COL 16
Blocks: STL 19COL 15
PIM: STL 11COL 9
: STL 53%COL 47%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche beat St. Louis Blues 4–1

Colorado Avalanche beat St. Louis Blues 4–1 at home. Nathan MacKinnon (COL) led the scoring with 2G 1A. Jordan Binnington (STL) faced 49 shots and stopped 46 (.939), +14 against a season average of 34.8; the loss.

Points
Nathan MacKinnon had two goals and an assist (3 points) on 6 shots in 21:14.MacKinnon
Points
Gabriel Landeskog had a goal and 2 assists (3 points) on 4 shots in 18:16.Landeskog
Points
Mikko Rantanen had 2 assists (2 points) on 6 shots in 21:23.Rantanen
Goalie
Jordan Binnington (STL) faced 49 shots and stopped 46 (.939), +14 against a season average of 34.8; the loss.Binnington
Usage
Patrik Nemeth (COL) played 18:43, +3:16 up on his 15:27 season average over 9 games.Nemeth
PP1
COL's PP1 (Donskoi, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Makar) went scoreless in 3:26 of 5v4 time with 5 attempts.Donskoi Landeskog MacKinnon Rantanen Makar
Cats
Ryan Graves (COL) blocked 5 shots in 16:30.Graves

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 128 of 128 attempts · COL 80 · STL 48

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 58%.

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	80
	1.94	3.70
	1.88	3.51
	6	14
	2	4
	14	19
	+0.027	−0.027
	21%	58%

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

L1O'Reilly – Schenn – Schwartz
12:0248% CF
L2Clifford – Sanford – Blais
6:0738% CF
L3Bozak – Tarasenko – Barbashev
6:0415% CF
L4Hoffman – Kyrou – Thomas
4:5638% CF
D1Scandella – Parayko
15:3438% CF
D2Faulk – Krug
14:3523% CF
D3Bortuzzo – Mikkola
9:5837% CF

PP1Hoffman – O'Reilly – Schenn – Tarasenko – Krug
2:35100% CF
PP2Bozak – Faulk – Schwartz – Kyrou – Thomas
1:04100% CF
PK1FBozak – O'Reilly
1:11
PK2FSchenn – Barbashev
0:35
PK1DScandella – Faulk
1:51
PK2DBortuzzo – Parayko
1:16

Current STL line combinations →

Colorado Avalanche

L1Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen
13:3859% CF
L2Saad – Nichushkin – Jost
8:2071% CF
L3Kadri – Donskoi – Burakovsky
8:1282% CF
L4Compher – Bellemare – Newhook
5:0463% CF
D1Toews – Makar
12:4068% CF
D2Nemeth – Graves
7:2255% CF
D3Girard – Timmins
2:5857% CF

PP1Donskoi – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Makar
3:2683% CF
PP2Kadri – Saad – Burakovsky – Toews – Girard
1:09100% CF
PK1FCompher – Bellemare
1:48
PK2FNichushkin – Jost
1:08
PK1DNemeth – Toews
1:48
PK2DGirard – Makar
0:00

Current COL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

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
Ryan O'Reilly C	L1	0	0	0	-3	2	0.19	1	2	2	22:05	—	—	44	32
Brayden Schenn C	L1	0	0	0	-3	1	0.19	3	0	5	19:36	—	—	38	26
Jaden Schwartz L	L1	0	0	0	-2	3	0.09	0	1	0	18:58	—	—	45	28
Zachary Sanford L	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	11:09	—	—	35	22
Sammy Blais L	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.06	1	0	2	10:15	—	—	42	21
Kyle Clifford L	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.09	2	0	0	8:16	—	—	53	43
Vladimir Tarasenko R	L3	0	0	0	-2	1	0.40	0	0	0	16:21	—	—	27	26
Tyler Bozak C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	15:25	—	—	20	28
Ivan Barbashev L	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.30	0	0	0	15:12	—	—	23	45
Mike Hoffman C	L4	0	0	0	-1	3	0.14	1	0	0	15:32	—	—	32	5
Robert Thomas C	L4	0	1	1	+1	1	0.12	1	1	0	14:40	—	—	32	57
Jordan Kyrou R	L4	1	0	1	+1	3	0.25	0	1	0	13:32	—	—	26	51
Colton Parayko D	D1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.01	1	2	0	23:56	—	—	37	26
Marco Scandella D	D1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	1	0	20:05	—	—	43	31
Justin Faulk D	D2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.10	3	1	2	21:51	—	—	33	35
Torey Krug D	D2	0	0	0	-2	3	0.07	1	3	0	21:48	—	—	27	26
Robert Bortuzzo D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	3	5	0	15:29	—	—	31	54
Niko Mikkola D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.03	1	1	0	11:31	—	—	35	57

STL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jordan Binnington(start)	L	49	46	3	.939	4.00	59:08

Colorado Avalanche

COL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	0	2	2	+2	6	0.42	1	1	0	21:23	—	—	60	76
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	2	1	3	+3	6	1.96	5	0	0	21:14	—	—	55	75
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	1	2	3	+3	4	0.35	1	1	5	18:16	—	—	64	80
Brandon Saad L	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.23	0	0	0	14:38	—	—	68	56
Tyson Jost C	L2	0	0	0	0	4	0.33	2	0	0	14:08	—	—	65	40
Valeri Nichushkin R	L2	0	0	0	0	6	0.36	1	3	0	13:41	—	—	66	49
Joonas Donskoi R	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.21	0	0	0	16:25	—	—	68	47
Nazem Kadri C	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.04	0	0	0	14:09	—	—	83	81
Andre Burakovsky L	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.20	0	0	0	14:08	—	—	77	56
J.T. Compher L	L4	0	0	0	+1	1	0.24	1	1	0	13:50	—	—	63	81
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	1	0	0	10:03	—	—	64	85
Alex Newhook C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	1	0	0	7:07	—	—	64	83
Devon Toews D	D1	0	0	0	+2	3	0.23	0	1	0	26:19	—	—	63	64
Cale Makar D	D1	1	0	1	0	3	0.20	1	0	0	24:01	—	—	66	81
Patrik Nemeth D	D2	0	0	0	+1	3	0.09	1	2	0	18:43	—	—	72	39
Ryan Graves D	D2	0	0	0	+2	3	0.09	0	5	4	16:30	—	—	63	72
Samuel Girard D	D3	0	1	1	0	1	0.00	1	1	0	22:41	—	—	67	63
Conor Timmins D	D3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.02	0	0	0	8:44	—	—	63	69

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Philipp Grubauer(start)	W	23	22	1	.957	2.01	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.

St. Louis Blues vs. Colorado AvalancheMay 17, 2021

Fantasy takeaways

Colorado Avalanche beat St. Louis Blues 4–1

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Sequence card

Lines used

St. Louis Blues

Colorado Avalanche

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

St. Louis Blues

Colorado Avalanche