Boston Bruins vs. Colorado AvalancheDec 7, 2022

FinalWednesday, Dec 7, 2022· Ball Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
BOS	0	2	2	4		BOS	15	13	9	37
COL	0	0	0	0		COL	11	7	5	23

: BOS 61COL 38
: BOS 2.83COL 0.95
PP goals: BOS 0COL 0
Hits: BOS 15COL 23
Blocks: BOS 9COL 14
PIM: BOS 13COL 11
: BOS 47%COL 53%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Boston Bruins rout Colorado Avalanche 4–0

Boston Bruins beat Colorado Avalanche 4–0 at COL. Taylor Hall (BOS) led the scoring with 2G 1A. New look for BOS: Foligno–Smith–Nosek skated 8:21 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (38.5% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

Points
Taylor Hall had two goals and an assist (3 points) on 5 shots in 14:11.Hall
Points
Trent Frederic had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 11:03.Frederic
Points
Charlie Coyle had 2 assists (2 points) in 16:16.Coyle
New line
New look for BOS: Foligno–Smith–Nosek skated 8:21 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (38.5% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Foligno Smith Nosek
Goalie
Alexandar Georgiev (COL) faced 37 shots and stopped 33 (.892), +6 against a season average of 30.7; the loss.Georgiev
Usage
Ben Meyers (COL) played 16:07, +6:42 up on his 9:26 season average over 38 games.Meyers
Usage
Alex Newhook (COL) played 19:19, +5:26 up on his 13:53 season average over 81 games.Newhook
Usage
Charles Hudon (COL) played 15:35, +5:24 up on his 10:11 season average over 8 games.Hudon

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

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

COL
BOS
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 99 of 99 attempts · COL 38 · BOS 61

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

COL
BOS
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: BOS 51% of the game, COL 6%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

COL

BOS

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	BOS	COL
	64	41
	2.99	1.03
	2.86	1.02
	11	4
	4	7
	11	10
	−0.023	+0.023
	51%	6%

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.

Boston Bruins

L1Krejci – Pastrnak – Zacha
9:2064% CF
L2Foligno – Smith – Nosek
8:2138% CF
L3Bergeron – Marchand – DeBrusk
8:1546% CF
L4Coyle – Hall – Frederic
8:0083% CF
D1Lindholm – McAvoy
12:2652% CF
D2Forbort – Clifton
12:1761% CF
D3Grzelcyk – Carlo
9:5192% CF

PP1Bergeron – Marchand – Pastrnak – DeBrusk – McAvoy
2:33100% CF
PP2Krejci – Foligno – Hall – Lindholm – Zacha
1:50100% CF
PK1FCoyle – Nosek
2:21
PK2FZacha – DeBrusk
1:33
PK1DLindholm – McAvoy
2:30
PK2DForbort – Carlo
2:19

Current BOS line combinations →

Colorado Avalanche

L1Hudon – Rantanen – Newhook
8:0828% CF
L2Cogliano – Compher – O'Connor
7:0867% CF
L3Kaut – Ranta – Meyers
3:3833% CF
L4Hunt – Foudy – Burke
1:2267% CF
D1Girard – Makar
9:2056% CF
D2Johnson – Toews
9:1129% CF
D3Englund – MacDonald
8:5558% CF

PP1Compher – Toews – Rantanen – Makar – Newhook
3:4550% CF
PP2Hudon – Girard – MacDonald – Kaut – Foudy
1:59
PK1FCogliano – Compher
2:15
PK2FO'Connor – Newhook
0:54
PK1DToews – Makar
2:15
PK2DJohnson – Englund
0:00

Current COL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

3:49
BOSDavid Pastrnak (David Krejci, Matt Grzelcyk)wrist0.06 xG
BOS: Krejci, Hall, Grzelcyk, Clifton, PastrnakCOL: Hudon, Girard, MacDonald, Kaut, Foudy
BOS 1 – 0 COL
9:50
BOSTaylor Hall (Charlie Coyle, Trent Frederic)tip-in0.07 xG
BOS: Coyle, Hall, Lindholm, McAvoy, FredericCOL: Cogliano, Johnson, Girard, O'Connor, Meyers
BOS 2 – 0 COL

3rd period

6:24
BOSTrent Frederic (Taylor Hall, Charlie Coyle)snap0.09 xG
BOS: Coyle, Forbort, Hall, Clifton, FredericCOL: Englund, Hunt, MacDonald, Burke, Meyers
BOS 3 – 0 COL
9:42
BOSTaylor Hall (Jake DeBrusk)wrist0.08 xG
BOS: Forbort, Hall, Zacha, DeBrusk, McAvoyCOL: Hudon, Girard, MacDonald, Kaut, Foudy
BOS 4 – 0 COL

Box score

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

Boston Bruins

BOS skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
David Pastrnak R	L1	1	0	1	+1	4	0.39	0	0	0	17:39	—	—	70	74
Pavel Zacha C	L1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.33	2	0	0	16:46	—	—	62	87
David Krejci C	L1	0	1	1	+1	2	0.48	1	1	0	16:42	—	—	72	96
Nick Foligno L	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	2	14:19	—	—	44	50
Tomas Nosek L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.10	1	1	7	12:29	—	—	47	47
Craig Smith C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	0	0	12:03	—	—	46	34
Brad Marchand L	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.19	1	0	0	15:41	—	—	61	84
Jake DeBrusk L	L3	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	1	0	0	14:44	—	—	57	85
Patrice Bergeron C	L3	0	0	0	0	3	0.39	0	0	0	14:44	—	—	56	85
Charlie Coyle C	L4	0	2	2	+2	0	0.00	0	0	0	16:16	—	—	68	55
Taylor Hall L	L4	2	1	3	+4	5	0.25	0	0	0	14:11	—	—	81	67
Trent Frederic C	L4	1	1	2	+2	2	0.21	1	0	0	11:03	—	—	65	68
Hampus Lindholm D	D1	0	0	0	+1	4	0.21	1	0	0	24:01	—	—	60	83
Charlie McAvoy D	D1	0	0	0	+2	1	0.02	1	2	2	20:36	—	—	46	62
Derek Forbort D	D2	0	0	0	+2	1	0.03	3	0	0	19:46	—	—	54	52
Connor Clifton D	D2	0	0	0	+2	4	0.09	2	1	0	17:22	—	—	65	74
Brandon Carlo D	D3	0	0	0	0	4	0.04	0	2	0	18:28	—	—	70	93
Matt Grzelcyk D	D3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.09	0	1	2	15:28	—	—	73	85

BOS goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Linus Ullmark(start)	W	23	23	0	.1000	0.95	59:41

Colorado Avalanche

COL skaters
Skater	Line	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	0	2	0.05	2	1	0	20:18	—	—	28	12
Alex Newhook C	L1	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	19:19	—	—	30	13
Charles Hudon L	L1	-2	3	0.11	2	1	2	15:35	—	—	34	19
J.T. Compher L	L2	0	0	0.05	1	0	0	21:27	—	—	52	48
Logan O'Connor R	L2	-1	3	0.21	3	0	0	13:16	—	—	44	46
Andrew Cogliano C	L2	-1	0	0.00	0	1	2	13:07	—	—	50	30
Ben Meyers C	L3	-2	0	0.02	1	1	0	16:07	—	—	48	19
Sampo Ranta L	L3	0	1	0.03	2	0	0	11:50	—	—	37	31
Martin Kaut R	L3	-2	0	0.05	0	0	0	11:31	—	—	29	41
Jean-Luc Foudy C	L4	-2	0	0.03	0	0	0	11:37	—	—	36	45
Callahan Burke C	L4	-1	1	0.02	0	2	0	10:44	—	—	35	8
Dryden Hunt L	L4	-1	0	0.00	3	0	5	8:45	—	—	50	37
Cale Makar D	D1	0	3	0.14	1	1	0	24:59	—	—	48	22
Samuel Girard D	D1	-3	3	0.05	0	2	2	19:40	—	—	36	26
Devon Toews D	D2	0	2	0.03	1	0	0	27:08	—	—	31	23
Erik Johnson D	D2	-1	3	0.05	1	3	0	19:55	—	—	31	20
Andreas Englund D	D3	-1	0	0.00	5	1	0	14:53	—	—	55	47
Jacob MacDonald D	D3	-3	2	0.10	0	1	0	13:49	—	—	43	37

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Alexandar Georgiev(start)	L	37	33	4	.892	2.83	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.