Vegas Golden Knights vs. Colorado AvalancheMay 30, 2021

FinalPlayoffsSunday, May 30, 2021· Ball Arena

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Colorado AvalancheCOL

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
VGK	0	1	0	1		VGK	8	9	8	25
COL	2	4	1	7		COL	14	13	10	37

: VGK 46COL 57
: VGK 1.21COL 3.35
PP goals: VGK 0COL 2
Hits: VGK 26COL 17
Blocks: VGK 10COL 11
PIM: VGK 44COL 30
: 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 7–1

Colorado Avalanche beat Vegas Golden Knights 7–1 at home. Cale Makar (COL) led the scoring with 1G 3A. COL's first power-play unit (Donskoi, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Makar) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 6:19 together.

Points
Cale Makar had a goal and 3 assists (4 points) on 4 shots in 21:57.Makar
Points
Gabriel Landeskog had two goals and an assist (3 points) on 2 shots in 20:36.Landeskog
Points
Nathan MacKinnon had two goals and an assist (3 points) on 8 shots in 20:32.MacKinnon
Points
Mikko Rantanen had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 4 shots in 20:55.Rantanen
PP1
COL's first power-play unit (Donskoi, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Makar) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 6:19 together.Donskoi Landeskog MacKinnon Rantanen Makar
Luck
COL scored 7 goals on 3.35 expected goals (57 attempts), finishing well above its chances.
Usage
Mattias Janmark (VGK) played 5:15, −9:08 down on his 14:23 season average over 15 games.Janmark
Goalie
Robin Lehner (VGK) faced 37 shots and stopped 30 (.811), +5 against a season average of 32.3; the loss.Lehner

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 103 of 103 attempts · COL 57 · VGK 46

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 16% of the game, COL 50%.

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	44
	0.82	1.99
	0.81	1.94
	6	6
	5	5
	8	10
	+0.011	−0.011
	16%	50%

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

L1Pacioretty – Stone – Stephenson
9:4973% CF
L2Smith – Karlsson – Marchessault
8:4447% CF
L3Reaves – Carrier – Brown
7:0638% CF
L4Janmark – Tuch – Roy
5:1130% CF
D1Holden – Theodore
11:4147% CF
D2Martinez – Pietrangelo
10:3750% CF
D3Hague – Whitecloud
10:1643% CF

PP1Pacioretty – Martinez – Stone – Stephenson – Theodore
2:0975% CF
PP2Pietrangelo – Smith – Karlsson – Marchessault – Tuch
1:51100% CF
PK1FStone – Stephenson
1:24
PK2FSmith – Brown
1:08
PK1DMartinez – Theodore
2:58
PK2DHolden – Hague
2:39

Current VGK line combinations →

Colorado Avalanche

L1Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen
12:0462% CF
L2Saad – Nichushkin – Jost
10:5839% CF
L3Bellemare – Ranta – Newhook
6:1450% CF
L4Donskoi – Burakovsky – Compher
5:1933% CF
D1Toews – Makar
9:5455% CF
D2Graves – Girard
6:1950% CF
D3Nemeth – Timmins
5:0929% CF

PP1Donskoi – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Makar
6:1986% CF
PP2Burakovsky – Compher – Toews – Jost – Girard
3:41100% CF
PK1FCompher – Bellemare
1:15
PK2FNichushkin – Jost
1:01
PK1DNemeth – Toews
1:40
PK2DGirard – Makar
0:57

Current COL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

4:55
COLMikko Rantanen (Devon Toews, Cale Makar)backhand0.01 xG
VGK: Pietrangelo, Smith, Marchessault, Theodore, RoyCOL: Burakovsky, Compher, Toews, Rantanen, Girard
VGK 0 – 1 COL
10:13
COLGabriel Landeskog (Cale Makar, Samuel Girard)wrist0.08 xG
VGK: Martinez, Pietrangelo, Janmark, Tuch, RoyCOL: Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Girard, Makar
VGK 0 – 2 COL

2nd period

1:04
COLBrandon Saad (Valeri Nichushkin, Cale Makar)wrist0.10 xG
VGK: Martinez, Holden, Stone, Karlsson, MarchessaultCOL: Saad, Nichushkin, Toews, Jost, Makar
VGK 0 – 3 COL
4:03
COLNathan MacKinnon (Ryan Graves)wrist0.11 xG
VGK: Holden, Smith, Karlsson, Marchessault, TheodoreCOL: Saad, Graves, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Makar
VGK 0 – 4 COL
14:23
COLGabriel LandeskogPP (Mikko Rantanen, Nathan MacKinnon)tip-in0.11 xG
VGK: Martinez, Smith, Brown, WhitecloudCOL: Donskoi, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Makar
VGK 0 – 5 COL
14:59
VGKWilliam Karlsson (Max Pacioretty, Jonathan Marchessault)tip-in0.10 xG
VGK: Pacioretty, Holden, Karlsson, Marchessault, TheodoreCOL: Graves, Burakovsky, Compher, Girard, Ranta
VGK 1 – 5 COL
17:05
COLNathan MacKinnon (Joonas Donskoi, Gabriel Landeskog)wrist0.11 xG
VGK: Smith, Karlsson, Carrier, Hague, WhitecloudCOL: Donskoi, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Girard, Makar
VGK 1 – 6 COL

3rd period

15:49
COLCale MakarPP (Tyson Jost, Andre Burakovsky)slap0.09 xG
VGK: Martinez, Theodore, Brown, RoyCOL: Burakovsky, Compher, Jost, Girard, Makar
VGK 1 – 7 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
Mark Stone R	L1	0	0	0	-1	4	0.29	1	0	0	18:22	—	—	70	21
Chandler Stephenson C	L1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	18:02	—	—	74	35
Max Pacioretty L	L1	0	1	1	+1	1	0.01	2	0	2	16:53	—	—	56	41
Reilly Smith R	L2	0	0	0	-3	1	0.01	1	1	0	16:17	—	—	40	22
Jonathan Marchessault R	L2	0	1	1	-2	2	0.09	2	1	0	15:39	—	—	52	38
William Karlsson C	L2	1	0	1	-2	3	0.16	0	1	0	15:25	—	—	50	33
Patrick Brown C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.21	5	0	0	14:03	—	—	33	35
William Carrier L	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.00	3	0	4	12:28	—	—	50	33
Ryan Reaves R	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	5	1	14	9:33	—	—	44	41
Alex Tuch R	L4	0	0	0	-1	4	0.20	0	0	0	17:01	—	—	61	19
Nicolas Roy C	L4	0	0	0	-2	0	0.00	1	0	2	13:30	—	—	47	16
Mattias Janmark C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	0	0	5:15	—	—	30	2
Shea Theodore D	D1	0	0	0	-1	3	0.11	0	0	0	24:22	—	—	54	31
Nick Holden D	D1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.00	2	0	0	19:31	—	—	50	26
Alec Martinez D	D2	0	0	0	-2	1	0.00	0	3	0	22:12	—	—	52	18
Alex Pietrangelo D	D2	0	0	0	-2	2	0.04	1	1	10	19:32	—	—	56	30
Nicolas Hague D	D3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.03	0	1	2	18:19	—	—	39	32
Zach Whitecloud D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.05	2	1	10	15:20	—	—	57	45

VGK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Robin Lehner(start)	L	37	30	7	.811	3.35	59:45

Colorado Avalanche

COL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	1	1	2	+3	4	0.27	2	0	0	20:55	—	—	63	96
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	2	1	3	+2	2	0.24	3	0	0	20:36	—	—	63	96
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	2	1	3	+3	8	0.90	0	1	0	20:32	—	—	67	97
Tyson Jost C	L2	0	1	1	+1	2	0.19	1	0	2	19:11	—	—	37	71
Valeri Nichushkin R	L2	0	1	1	+1	4	0.23	2	0	10	13:52	—	—	42	71
Brandon Saad L	L2	1	0	1	+2	2	0.23	1	1	12	12:53	—	—	46	78
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.11	0	0	0	12:21	—	—	36	37
Alex Newhook C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	1	0	0	9:14	—	—	50	39
Sampo Ranta L	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	0	0	7:47	—	—	33	28
Joonas Donskoi R	L4	0	1	1	+1	3	0.38	0	0	0	18:23	—	—	50	71
J.T. Compher L	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.16	0	1	2	14:29	—	—	36	44
Andre Burakovsky L	L4	0	1	1	0	0	0.15	0	0	2	12:05	—	—	39	40
Devon Toews D	D1	0	1	1	+2	1	0.01	1	2	0	24:55	—	—	58	90
Cale Makar D	D1	1	3	4	+3	4	0.34	1	1	0	21:57	—	—	58	93
Samuel Girard D	D2	0	1	1	+2	1	0.08	4	2	0	21:24	—	—	59	77
Ryan Graves D	D2	0	1	1	+1	1	0.03	1	3	2	16:23	—	—	26	42
Patrik Nemeth D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	18:43	—	—	32	54
Conor Timmins D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	10:20	—	—	45	57

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Philipp Grubauer(start)	W	25	24	1	.960	1.21	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.