St. Louis Blues vs. Colorado AvalancheMay 19, 2021

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
STL	0	1	2	3		STL	6	14	15	35
COL	2	1	3	6		COL	19	9	7	35

: STL 62COL 56
: STL 2.13COL 3.75
PP goals: STL 1COL 2
Hits: STL 26COL 19
Blocks: STL 14COL 17
PIM: STL 4COL 10
: STL 36%COL 64%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche beat St. Louis Blues 6–3

Colorado Avalanche beat St. Louis Blues 6–3 at home. Nathan MacKinnon (COL) led the scoring with 3G 1A. STL's first power-play unit (Hoffman, Bozak, O'Reilly, Schenn and Krug) scored 1 power-play goal on 9 attempts in 3:20 together.

Points
Nathan MacKinnon had a hat trick and an assist (4 points) on 4 shots in 19:44.MacKinnon
Points
Joonas Donskoi had two goals and an assist (3 points) on 3 shots in 17:09.Donskoi
Points
Devon Toews had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 25:28.Toews
Points
Gabriel Landeskog had 2 assists (2 points) on 4 shots in 20:15.Landeskog
Points
Mikko Rantanen had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 19:54.Rantanen
Points
Torey Krug had 2 assists (2 points) on 5 shots in 26:22.Krug
PP1
STL's first power-play unit (Hoffman, Bozak, O'Reilly, Schenn and Krug) scored 1 power-play goal on 9 attempts in 3:20 together.Hoffman Bozak O'Reilly Schenn Krug
New line
New look for STL: Schenn–Tarasenko–Schwartz skated 7:49 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (44.4% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Schenn Tarasenko Schwartz

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 118 of 118 attempts · COL 56 · STL 62

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 35% 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

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
	56	60
	2.03	2.46
	2.00	2.27
	8	6
	1	2
	18	17
	−0.091	+0.092
	35%	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.

St. Louis Blues

L1Schenn – Tarasenko – Schwartz
7:4944% CF
L2Clifford – Sanford – Blais
7:2525% CF
L3O'Reilly – Barbashev – Kyrou
6:4788% CF
L4Hoffman – Bozak – Thomas
6:0567% CF
D1Faulk – Parayko
6:3143% CF
D2Bortuzzo – Krug
5:0246% CF
D3Scandella – Mikkola
4:2014% CF

PP1Hoffman – Bozak – O'Reilly – Schenn – Krug
3:2090% CF
PP2Tarasenko – Schwartz – Parayko – Kyrou – Thomas
1:36100% CF
PK1FBozak – O'Reilly
0:56
PK1DBortuzzo – Faulk
0:30

Current STL line combinations →

Colorado Avalanche

L1Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen
16:2445% CF
L2Saad – Nichushkin – Jost
10:4157% CF
L3Kadri – Donskoi – Burakovsky
8:5258% CF
L4Compher – Bellemare – Newhook
6:0970% CF
D1Toews – Makar
9:4257% CF
D2Graves – Girard
9:2063% CF
D3Nemeth – Timmins
3:4133% CF

PP1Donskoi – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Makar
0:56100% CF
PK1FNichushkin – Jost
2:14
PK2FDonskoi – Bellemare
0:54
PK1DGraves – Toews
2:25
PK2DNemeth – Girard
0:35

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
Brayden Schenn C	L1	1	0	1	-1	2	0.07	4	1	0	20:22	—	—	55	46
Jaden Schwartz L	L1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.13	1	1	0	18:40	—	—	39	27
Vladimir Tarasenko R	L1	0	0	0	-2	0	0.03	0	2	0	18:03	—	—	35	11
Sammy Blais L	L2	1	0	1	-1	2	0.17	3	0	0	11:18	—	—	35	48
Zachary Sanford L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.19	1	0	0	9:36	—	—	26	45
Kyle Clifford L	L2	0	1	1	+1	2	0.05	0	0	0	8:17	—	—	29	43
Ryan O'Reilly C	L3	0	0	0	-3	4	0.36	1	0	0	20:14	—	—	60	63
Jordan Kyrou R	L3	0	0	0	-2	4	0.17	0	0	0	15:58	—	—	71	77
Ivan Barbashev L	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	2	0	2	14:05	—	—	63	78
Tyler Bozak C	L4	0	1	1	-1	2	0.16	1	1	0	18:48	—	—	49	34
Mike Hoffman C	L4	1	0	1	0	3	0.15	0	2	0	17:18	—	—	55	53
Robert Thomas C	L4	0	1	1	0	1	0.01	0	1	2	14:30	—	—	53	56
Colton Parayko D	D1	0	0	0	0	2	0.06	2	1	0	25:35	—	—	46	46
Justin Faulk D	D1	0	0	0	0	2	0.07	1	0	0	19:26	—	—	58	78
Torey Krug D	D2	0	2	2	-1	5	0.23	2	1	0	26:22	—	—	50	45
Robert Bortuzzo D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	4	0	0	9:56	—	—	50	30
Marco Scandella D	D3	0	0	0	-2	1	0.17	3	0	0	17:16	—	—	37	35
Niko Mikkola D	D3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.08	1	4	0	14:23	—	—	50	44

STL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jordan Binnington(start)	L	33	29	4	.879	2.25	58:57

Colorado Avalanche

COL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	0	2	2	+2	4	0.51	3	1	0	20:15	—	—	47	57
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	0	2	2	+1	2	0.12	0	1	0	19:54	—	—	47	61
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	3	1	4	+2	4	1.34	2	0	0	19:44	—	—	50	62
Tyson Jost C	L2	0	1	1	0	1	0.02	2	0	0	16:08	—	—	57	59
Valeri Nichushkin R	L2	0	0	0	-1	4	0.14	1	1	0	14:42	—	—	55	59
Brandon Saad L	L2	1	0	1	0	2	0.65	1	0	0	12:32	—	—	61	71
Joonas Donskoi R	L3	2	1	3	+1	3	0.34	0	0	0	17:09	—	—	48	52
Andre Burakovsky L	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.10	1	0	0	12:50	—	—	55	50
Nazem Kadri C	L3	0	1	1	0	1	0.01	2	1	10	12:00	—	—	41	46
J.T. Compher L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0	1	0	13:04	—	—	50	31
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L4	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	1	0	10:57	—	—	64	31
Alex Newhook C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.09	0	0	0	6:41	—	—	67	28
Devon Toews D	D1	0	2	2	+2	2	0.06	0	1	0	25:28	—	—	47	59
Cale Makar D	D1	0	1	1	0	2	0.28	0	2	0	21:21	—	—	58	63
Samuel Girard D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	0	1	0	22:27	—	—	60	73
Ryan Graves D	D2	0	1	1	+2	2	0.02	1	4	0	21:44	—	—	45	27
Patrik Nemeth D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	5	3	0	16:53	—	—	44	23
Conor Timmins D	D3	0	0	0	0	3	0.04	0	0	0	11:11	—	—	55	62

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Philipp Grubauer(start)	W	35	32	3	.914	2.13	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 19, 2021

Fantasy takeaways

Colorado Avalanche beat St. Louis Blues 6–3

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