Vegas Golden Knights vs. Colorado AvalancheMar 25, 2021

FinalThursday, Mar 25, 2021· Ball Arena

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Colorado AvalancheCOL

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
VGK	1	0	0	1		VGK	5	5	9	19
COL	0	4	1	5		COL	9	16	7	32

: VGK 44COL 53
: VGK 1.75COL 2.92
PP goals: VGK 0COL 1
Hits: VGK 23COL 16
Blocks: VGK 12COL 20
PIM: VGK 6COL 2
: VGK 57%COL 43%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche rout Vegas Golden Knights 5–1

Colorado Avalanche beat Vegas Golden Knights 5–1 at home. Gabriel Landeskog (COL) led the scoring with 1G 1A. COL scored 5 goals on 2.92 expected goals (53 attempts), finishing well above its chances.

Points
Cale Makar had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 22:20.Makar
Points
Gabriel Landeskog had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 4 shots in 19:18.Landeskog
Points
J.T. Compher had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 12:21.Compher
Luck
COL scored 5 goals on 2.92 expected goals (53 attempts), finishing well above its chances.
New line
New look for COL: Compher–Bellemare–O'Connor skated 11:00 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (69.2% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Compher Bellemare O'Connor
Usage
Devon Toews (COL) played 21:46, −3:04 down on his 24:50 season average over 52 games.Toews
Usage
Jacob MacDonald (COL) played 9:26, −5:41 down on his 15:07 season average over 32 games.MacDonald
Usage
Nicolas Hague (VGK) played 20:05, +4:10 up on his 15:55 season average over 51 games.Hague

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

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

COL
VGK
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 97 of 97 attempts · COL 53 · VGK 44

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

COL
VGK
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: VGK 24% of the game, COL 47%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

COL

VGK

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	VGK	COL
	48	54
	2.00	2.89
	1.90	2.82
	11	14
	4	7
	5	14
	+0.060	−0.060
	24%	47%

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.

Vegas Golden Knights

L1Smith – Karlsson – Marchessault
11:2935% CF
L2Pacioretty – Stone – Stephenson
10:5046% CF
L3Nosek – Tuch – Roy
5:2544% CF
L4Reaves – Carrier – Kolesar
3:3617% CF
D1Holden – McNabb
14:1053% CF
D2Hague – Whitecloud
13:1857% CF
D3Martinez – Theodore
12:3132% CF

PP1Pacioretty – Martinez – Stephenson – Tuch – Roy
0:5650% CF
PP2Smith – Stone – Karlsson – Marchessault – Theodore
0:53100% CF
PK1FSmith – Karlsson
3:12
PK2FStone – Stephenson
2:59
PK1DMartinez – McNabb
3:13
PK2DHague – Whitecloud
2:19

Current VGK line combinations →

Colorado Avalanche

L1Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen
12:2059% CF
L2Donskoi – Nichushkin – Jost
11:2765% CF
L3Compher – Bellemare – O'Connor
11:0069% CF
L4Kadri – Saad – Burakovsky
10:2433% CF
D1Toews – Makar
11:4067% CF
D2Graves – Byram
8:1240% CF
D3Girard – MacDonald
5:2636% CF

PP1Kadri – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Makar
5:15100% CF
PP2Donskoi – Saad – Burakovsky – Toews – Girard
2:10
PK1FNichushkin – Bellemare
0:49
PK2FJost – O'Connor
0:39
PK1DGraves – Girard
0:37
PK2DToews – MacDonald
0:31

Current COL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

0:40
VGKMax Pacioretty (Mark Stone, Alec Martinez)backhand0.05 xG
VGK: Pacioretty, Martinez, Stone, Stephenson, TheodoreCOL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Toews, Rantanen, Makar
VGK 1 – 0 COL

2nd period

4:04
COLJoonas DonskoiPP (Samuel Girard, Devon Toews)slap0.16 xG
VGK: Martinez, Tuch, Roy, WhitecloudCOL: Donskoi, Burakovsky, Nichushkin, Toews, Girard
VGK 1 – 1 COL
9:15
COLJ.T. Compherbackhand0.01 xG
VGK: Pacioretty, Theodore, Nosek, Tuch, WhitecloudCOL: Graves, Compher, Bellemare, O'Connor, Byram
VGK 1 – 2 COL
12:37
COLCale Makar (Logan O'Connor, Gabriel Landeskog)wrist0.16 xG
VGK: Reaves, Holden, Theodore, Carrier, KolesarCOL: Compher, Bellemare, Toews, Makar, O'Connor
VGK 1 – 3 COL
15:41
COLGabriel Landeskog (Mikko Rantanen, Cale Makar)wrist0.05 xG
VGK: Martinez, Smith, Karlsson, Marchessault, TheodoreCOL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Toews, Rantanen, Makar
VGK 1 – 4 COL

3rd period

3:54
COLPierre-Edouard Bellemare (J.T. Compher)snap0.14 xG
VGK: McNabb, Smith, Karlsson, Marchessault, TheodoreCOL: Compher, Bellemare, Toews, Makar, O'Connor
VGK 1 – 5 COL

Box score

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

Vegas Golden Knights

VGK skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Reilly Smith R	L1	0	0	0	-2	1	0.17	1	0	0	17:16	—	—	42	27
William Karlsson C	L1	0	0	0	-2	2	0.04	0	0	0	16:05	—	—	39	25
Jonathan Marchessault R	L1	0	0	0	-2	0	0.00	1	0	2	14:48	—	—	33	18
Chandler Stephenson C	L2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.04	0	0	0	16:49	—	—	46	61
Mark Stone R	L2	0	1	1	+1	0	0.09	1	1	0	16:19	—	—	41	50
Max Pacioretty L	L2	1	0	1	0	2	0.10	0	2	2	15:36	—	—	43	49
Alex Tuch R	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.57	3	0	0	18:21	—	—	56	51
Tomas Nosek L	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	1	1	2	16:41	—	—	54	43
Nicolas Roy C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	13:04	—	—	57	17
Keegan Kolesar R	L4	0	0	0	-1	3	0.15	2	0	0	11:42	—	—	60	52
Ryan Reaves R	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.29	2	0	0	9:18	—	—	50	42
William Carrier L	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	4	0	0	7:55	—	—	46	35
Brayden McNabb D	D1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	2	0	19:59	—	—	45	36
Nick Holden D	D1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.04	1	1	0	16:53	—	—	50	38
Nicolas Hague D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	3	1	0	20:05	—	—	67	52
Zach Whitecloud D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	0	0	19:29	—	—	54	25
Alec Martinez D	D3	0	1	1	0	2	0.20	0	4	0	21:16	—	—	34	37
Shea Theodore D	D3	0	0	0	-3	1	0.03	1	0	0	20:29	—	—	39	48

VGK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Marc-Andre Fleury(start)	L	32	27	5	.844	2.92	60:00

Colorado Avalanche

COL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	1	1	2	0	4	0.36	2	0	0	19:18	—	—	53	49
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	0	1	1	0	2	0.22	1	0	0	18:48	—	—	55	57
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	0	0	0	3	0.34	0	1	0	18:26	—	—	59	72
Joonas Donskoi R	L2	1	0	1	0	5	0.72	0	0	0	16:58	—	—	56	58
Valeri Nichushkin R	L2	0	0	0	0	3	0.08	1	0	0	14:05	—	—	58	100
Tyson Jost C	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	13:24	—	—	57	81
Logan O'Connor R	L3	0	1	1	+3	1	0.13	1	0	0	12:35	—	—	69	95
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L3	1	0	1	+3	4	0.29	0	1	0	12:27	—	—	64	73
J.T. Compher L	L3	1	1	2	+3	1	0.01	1	2	0	12:21	—	—	67	95
Nazem Kadri C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.06	2	0	2	16:54	—	—	30	18
Brandon Saad L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	13:55	—	—	35	25
Andre Burakovsky L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.16	1	0	0	13:45	—	—	38	40
Cale Makar D	D1	1	1	2	+2	2	0.19	2	1	0	22:20	—	—	60	60
Devon Toews D	D1	0	1	1	+2	1	0.15	1	2	0	21:46	—	—	64	79
Ryan Graves D	D2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.01	1	5	0	19:43	—	—	40	39
Bowen Byram D	D2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.12	2	2	0	18:54	—	—	42	88
Samuel Girard D	D3	0	1	1	0	1	0.04	0	1	0	22:55	—	—	54	54
Jacob MacDonald D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	0	3	0	9:26	—	—	38	21

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Philipp Grubauer(start)	W	19	18	1	.947	1.75	60:00

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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.