Vancouver Canucks vs. Colorado AvalancheFeb 26, 2018

FinalMonday, Feb 26, 2018· Pepsi Center

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
VAN	0	0	1	1		VAN	9	9	14	32
COL	1	0	2	3		COL	11	8	9	28

: VAN 63COL 67
: VAN 2.11COL 5.70
PP goals: VAN 0COL 1
Hits: VAN 17COL 12
Blocks: VAN 16COL 20
PIM: VAN 10COL 4
: VAN 62%COL 38%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche beat Vancouver Canucks 3–1

Colorado Avalanche beat Vancouver Canucks 3–1 at home. Nathan MacKinnon (COL) led the scoring with 2G 1A. COL's first power-play unit (Barrie, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Jost) scored 1 power-play goal on 5 attempts in 5:26 together.

Points
Nathan MacKinnon had two goals and an assist (3 points) on 9 shots in 20:38.MacKinnon
Points
Mikko Rantanen had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 19:38.Rantanen
PP1
COL's first power-play unit (Barrie, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Jost) scored 1 power-play goal on 5 attempts in 5:26 together.Barrie Landeskog MacKinnon Rantanen Jost
Usage
Alex Biega (VAN) played 1:21, −13:59 down on his 15:20 season average over 43 games.Biega
New line
New look for VAN: Sutter–Archibald–Virtanen skated 9:36 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (46.2% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Sutter Archibald Virtanen
Luck
COL scored 3 goals on 5.70 expected goals (67 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Erik Gudbranson (VAN) played 23:17, +4:57 up on his 18:20 season average over 51 games.Gudbranson
Usage
Jake Virtanen (VAN) played 17:06, +5:11 up on his 11:55 season average over 74 games.Virtanen

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

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

COL
VAN
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 130 of 130 attempts · COL 67 · VAN 63

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

COL
VAN
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: VAN 14% of the game, COL 52%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

COL

VAN

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	VAN	COL
	56	64
	1.68	3.69
	1.64	3.50
	11	11
	6	7
	8	4
	+0.176	−0.176
	14%	52%

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.

Vancouver Canucks

L1Sutter – Archibald – Virtanen
9:3646% CF
L2Baertschi – Horvat – Boeser
6:1457% CF
L3Sedin – Sedin – Gagner
3:4550% CF
D1Edler – Gudbranson
15:2450% CF
D2Del Zotto – Stecher
12:3143% CF
D3Pouliot – Hutton
12:0147% CF

PP1Gagner – Baertschi – Pouliot – Virtanen – Goldobin
1:5975% CF
PP2Sedin – Sedin – Edler – Horvat – Boeser
1:5483% CF
PK1FDowd – Horvat
5:27
PK2FSutter – Archibald
3:16
PK1DEdler – Gudbranson
4:14
PK2DDel Zotto – Stecher
3:20

Current VAN line combinations →

Colorado Avalanche

L1Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen
13:0156% CF
L2Wilson – Kerfoot – Jost
8:5760% CF
L3Comeau – Soderberg – Nieto
7:2853% CF
L4Bourque – Toninato – Compher
5:4769% CF
D1Barrie – Zadorov
15:0036% CF
D2Nemeth – Girard
13:0163% CF
D3Warsofsky – Siemens
8:4957% CF

PP1Barrie – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Jost
5:2671% CF
PP2Soderberg – Wilson – Kerfoot – Compher – Girard
3:3275% CF
PK1FSoderberg – Bourque
1:51
PK2FComeau – Nieto
1:17
PK1DNemeth – Siemens
2:02
PK2DWarsofsky – Zadorov
0:00

Current COL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

19:36
COLMikko RantanenPP (Nathan MacKinnon, Tyson Jost)slap0.08 xG
VAN: Edler, Dowd, Gudbranson, HorvatCOL: Barrie, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Jost
VAN 0 – 1 COL

3rd period

7:52
COLNathan MacKinnon (Gabriel Landeskog, Nikita Zadorov)wrist0.05 xG
VAN: Sedin, Gagner, Del Zotto, Archibald, StecherCOL: Warsofsky, Landeskog, Siemens, MacKinnon, Rantanen
VAN 0 – 2 COL
18:44
VANDaniel Sedin (Alexander Edler, Henrik Sedin)wrist0.07 xG
VAN: Sedin, Sedin, Edler, Baertschi, Horvat, BoeserCOL: Comeau, Soderberg, Barrie, Nieto, Siemens
VAN 1 – 2 COL
19:15
COLNathan MacKinnonEN (Mikko Rantanen)wrist0.96 xG
VAN: Sedin, Sedin, Edler, Baertschi, Horvat, BoeserCOL: Nemeth, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Zadorov, Rantanen
VAN 1 – 3 COL

Box score

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

Vancouver Canucks

VAN skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Brandon Sutter C	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.09	1	0	0	17:44	—	—	36	28
Jake Virtanen R	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.32	1	0	6	17:06	—	—	46	52
Darren Archibald R	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.02	2	1	0	16:38	—	—	42	38
Bo Horvat C	L2	0	0	0	0	5	0.33	0	0	0	22:04	—	—	58	45
Brock Boeser R	L2	0	0	0	0	4	0.26	2	0	0	17:47	—	—	49	25
Sven Baertschi L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	1	0	17:02	—	—	50	37
Sam Gagner C	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.34	0	1	0	15:26	—	—	58	39
Henrik Sedin C	L3	0	1	1	-1	1	0.01	0	0	0	14:46	—	—	44	19
Daniel Sedin L	L3	1	0	1	0	1	0.11	0	0	0	14:43	—	—	52	20
Alexander Edler D	D1	0	1	1	0	1	0.13	3	2	2	25:31	—	—	51	34
Erik Gudbranson D	D1	0	0	0	0	2	0.13	2	0	0	23:17	—	—	47	35
Michael Del Zotto D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.03	1	3	0	17:58	—	—	42	30
Troy Stecher D	D2	0	0	0	-1	2	0.09	2	0	2	16:49	—	—	44	27
Derrick Pouliot D	D3	0	0	0	0	2	0.02	1	5	0	16:07	—	—	46	27
Ben Hutton D	D3	0	0	0	0	3	0.09	1	2	0	15:31	—	—	47	27
Nikolay Goldobin R	—	0	0	0	0	2	0.11	0	0	0	12:25	—	—	42	36
Nic Dowd C	—	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	1	1	0	10:09	—	—	13	6
Alex Biega D	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	1:21	—	—	33	0

VAN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jacob Markstrom(start)	L	27	25	2	.926	4.24	58:19

Colorado Avalanche

COL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	2	1	3	+2	9	1.99	0	0	0	20:38	—	—	51	58
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	0	1	1	+2	2	0.66	3	0	0	20:02	—	—	57	62
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	1	1	2	+2	1	0.08	0	0	0	19:38	—	—	53	60
Tyson Jost C	L2	0	1	1	0	2	0.28	0	0	0	17:19	—	—	46	62
Colin Wilson C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.10	0	3	0	14:56	—	—	58	67
Alexander Kerfoot C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.13	1	0	2	14:37	—	—	48	49
Carl Soderberg C	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.21	0	1	0	15:47	—	—	48	70
Blake Comeau L	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.28	0	1	0	15:43	—	—	48	76
Matt Nieto L	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.52	0	0	0	13:56	—	—	50	79
J.T. Compher L	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.55	0	0	0	13:30	—	—	59	73
Gabriel Bourque L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.17	2	1	0	10:33	—	—	52	68
Dominic Toninato C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.60	0	0	0	8:27	—	—	69	90
Tyson Barrie D	D1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.07	0	2	0	24:30	—	—	39	46
Nikita Zadorov D	D1	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	4	1	2	19:22	—	—	39	42
Patrik Nemeth D	D2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.04	0	5	0	21:14	—	—	65	82
Samuel Girard D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	18:24	—	—	67	87
Duncan Siemens D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	1	3	0	15:14	—	—	54	75
David Warsofsky D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	0	3	0	12:17	—	—	59	77

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Semyon Varlamov(start)	W	32	31	1	.969	2.11	59:53

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.