Carolina Hurricanes vs. Colorado AvalancheOct 23, 2025

Final / SOThursday, Oct 23, 2025· Ball Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	OT	SO	T		Shots	1	2	3	OT	T
CAR	4	0	0	0	1	5		CAR	12	5	12	2	31
COL	1	1	2	0	0	4		COL	18	16	11	3	48

: CAR 54COL 81
: CAR 2.92COL 5.64
PP goals: CAR 0COL 1
Hits: CAR 19COL 28
Blocks: CAR 12COL 12
PIM: CAR 18COL 14
: CAR 45%COL 55%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Carolina Hurricanes edge Colorado Avalanche 5–4 (SO)

Carolina Hurricanes beat Colorado Avalanche 5–4 in a shootout at COL. Valeri Nichushkin (COL) led the scoring with 2G 0A. Frederik Andersen (CAR) faced 48 shots and stopped 44 (.917), +24 against a season average of 24.3; the win.

Points
Valeri Nichushkin had two goals (2 points) on 7 shots in 22:05.Nichushkin
Points
Seth Jarvis had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 5 shots in 23:01.Jarvis
Goalie
Frederik Andersen (CAR) faced 48 shots and stopped 44 (.917), +24 against a season average of 24.3; the win.Andersen
Usage
Mike Reilly (CAR) played 23:12, +8:26 up on his 14:46 season average over 41 games.Reilly
Usage
William Carrier (CAR) played 1:16, −9:37 down on his 10:53 season average over 69 games.Carrier
Usage
Valeri Nichushkin (COL) played 22:05, +4:25 up on his 17:40 season average over 71 games.Nichushkin
Luck
COL scored 4 goals on 5.65 expected goals (81 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Eric Robinson (CAR) played 7:38, −3:51 down on his 11:29 season average over 66 games.Robinson

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

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

COL
CAR
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 135 of 135 attempts · COL 81 · CAR 54

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

COL
CAR
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: CAR 22% of the game, COL 55%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

COL

CAR

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

COL skaters (rows) against CAR skaters (columns) at 5v5. Square size is time together; colour is xGF% from the COL side.

Matchup matrix

COL xGF% 4060square size = TOI together · blank = under 1:00

Sequence card

5-on-5 possession-chain numbers from the sequence engine (Draw Equity and control cover all situations).

Sequence card
Stat	CAR	COL
	38	64
	1.97	4.33
	1.92	4.07
	10	17
	7	7
	12	16
	−0.001	+0.001
	22%	55%

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.

Carolina Hurricanes

L1Ehlers – Aho – Jarvis
9:2735% CF
L2Hall – Stankoven – Blake
8:5536% CF
L3Staal – Martinook – Svechnikov
3:2980% CF
D1Walker – Nystrom
4:5010% CF
D2Nikishin – Legault
4:2647% CF
D3Reilly – Chatfield
3:3011% CF

PP1Ehlers – Aho – Walker – Jarvis – Blake
4:3757% CF
PP2Hall – Reilly – Kotkaniemi – Svechnikov – Stankoven
2:37100% CF
PK1FStaal – Martinook
5:51
PK2FAho – Jarvis
3:49
PK1DReilly – Chatfield
3:48
PK2DWalker – Nystrom
2:08

Current CAR line combinations →

Colorado Avalanche

L1Lehkonen – MacKinnon – Necas
9:2468% CF
L2Nelson – Landeskog – Nichushkin
5:0080% CF
L3Olofsson – Colton – Drury
3:1473% CF
L4Kelly – Bardakov – Brindley
3:1286% CF
D1Burns – Manson
10:1563% CF
D2Toews – Makar
9:5964% CF
D3Solovyov – Malinski
8:1759% CF

PP1Nelson – MacKinnon – Olofsson – Necas – Makar
7:42100% CF
PP2Burns – Landeskog – Lehkonen – Nichushkin – Brindley
3:0650% CF
PK1FKelly – Drury
2:08
PK2FLehkonen – Nichushkin
1:00
PK1DToews – Makar
3:25
PK2DBurns – Manson
2:53

Current COL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

Decided in the shootout: CAR 5 – 4 COL.

Box score

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

Carolina Hurricanes

CAR skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Seth Jarvis R	L1	1	1	2	0	5	0.84	0	1	0	23:01	—	—	37	29
Sebastian Aho C	L1	1	0	1	+1	1	0.54	3	1	2	22:35	—	—	31	32
Nikolaj Ehlers L	L1	0	1	1	+1	2	0.07	1	0	0	19:19	—	—	36	54
Jackson Blake R	L2	0	1	1	0	2	0.22	0	0	0	18:30	—	—	41	54
Logan Stankoven C	L2	1	0	1	0	1	0.34	1	1	2	16:16	—	—	44	48
Taylor Hall L	L2	0	1	1	0	2	0.20	2	0	4	15:07	—	—	38	40
Jordan Staal C	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.06	2	0	0	17:50	—	—	46	20
Jordan Martinook L	L3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.08	0	1	0	16:52	—	—	42	16
Andrei Svechnikov R	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.16	1	0	0	16:14	—	—	46	16
Sean Walker D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	3	1	2	28:16	—	—	43	25
Joel Nystrom D	D1	0	0	0	-2	2	0.10	0	0	0	16:02	—	—	17	10
Alexander Nikishin D	D2	0	0	0	+3	2	0.06	1	1	2	14:42	—	—	46	45
Charles Alexis Legault D	D2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.03	0	2	4	13:11	—	—	45	50
Mike Reilly D	D3	0	1	1	0	1	0.01	1	2	0	23:12	—	—	38	23
Jalen Chatfield D	D3	0	0	0	0	4	0.07	1	2	2	23:05	—	—	31	25
Jesperi Kotkaniemi C	—	0	1	1	+1	1	0.05	2	0	0	10:47	—	—	27	8
Eric Robinson L	—	1	0	1	+1	2	0.10	1	0	0	7:38	—	—	25	16
William Carrier L	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	1:16	—	—	0	0

CAR goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Frederik Andersen(start)	W	48	44	4	.917	5.64	65:00

Colorado Avalanche

COL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	1	1	-2	4	0.38	2	0	0	25:25	—	—	69	55
Martin Necas C	L1	1	0	1	-1	3	0.64	2	0	2	21:25	—	—	72	59
Artturi Lehkonen L	L1	0	1	1	-2	4	0.58	1	1	0	19:57	—	—	55	49
Valeri Nichushkin R	L2	2	0	2	0	7	1.39	1	0	2	22:05	—	—	63	85
Brock Nelson C	L2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.20	2	0	4	19:55	—	—	52	85
Gabriel Landeskog L	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.09	0	1	0	13:21	—	—	58	88
Jack Drury C	L3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.08	1	1	2	14:57	—	—	63	82
Victor Olofsson L	L3	0	1	1	0	7	0.58	0	0	0	14:45	—	—	77	95
Ross Colton C	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.15	5	0	0	10:04	—	—	59	56
Parker Kelly C	L4	1	0	1	0	2	0.12	4	1	2	14:38	—	—	63	81
Gavin Brindley C	L4	0	0	0	-2	2	0.04	2	0	0	11:17	—	—	47	43
Zakhar Bardakov C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.28	1	0	0	4:24	—	—	67	58
Brent Burns D	D1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.04	0	1	0	21:55	—	—	57	83
Josh Manson D	D1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.35	3	4	0	20:20	—	—	71	94
Cale Makar D	D2	0	1	1	0	4	0.53	1	1	0	28:30	—	—	69	75
Devon Toews D	D2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.13	1	2	0	22:07	—	—	61	66
Sam Malinski D	D3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.03	1	0	2	13:42	—	—	67	66
Ilya Solovyov D	D3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.02	1	0	0	9:13	—	—	52	30

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Trent Miner	O	20	20	0	.1000	1.28	51:20
Scott Wedgewood(start)	—	11	7	4	.636	1.64	13:40

Goal anatomy

Animated replays from NHL EDGE tracking, with the entry, passes and shot speed for each goal.

Eric Robinson (CAR) 1st 3:07 · assists Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Mike Reilly · Odd-man rush · loose puck · 1-on-0 at the blue line · 69.4 mph shot · 2.1 s from entry to goal.

Eric Robinson · 1st 3:07 · CAR

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: loose
Odd man: 1-on-0
Passes: 0
Shot: 69.4 mph
Distance: 22 ft
Entry to goal: 2.1 s

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Logan Stankoven · 1st 13:40 · CAR

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 1
Shot: 5.3 mph
Distance: 10 ft

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Valeri Nichushkin · 1st 4:04 · COL

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 25.9 mph
Distance: 6 ft

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Seth Jarvis · 1st 7:17 · CAR SH

Play: odd-man-rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: 2-on-0
Passes: 0
Shot: 32.3 mph
Distance: 3 ft
Entry to goal: 2.3 s

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Sebastian Aho · 1st 12:41 · CAR

Play: deflection
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 9.0 mph
Distance: 5 ft
Entry to goal: 5.6 s
Type: rebound

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Parker Kelly · 2nd 4:46 · COL

Play: deflection
Passes: 3
Shot: 32.5 mph
Distance: 12 ft
Type: deflection

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Martin Necas · 3rd 4:45 · COL

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 2 (royal road)
Shot: 4.4 mph
Distance: 14 ft

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Valeri Nichushkin · 3rd 14:09 · COL PP

Play: rebound
Passes: 0
Shot: 20.5 mph
Distance: 6 ft
Type: rebound

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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.

Carolina Hurricanes vs. Colorado AvalancheOct 23, 2025

Fantasy takeaways

Carolina Hurricanes edge Colorado Avalanche 5–4 (SO)

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Head-to-head matchups

Matchup matrix

Sequence card

Lines used

Carolina Hurricanes

Colorado Avalanche

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

Carolina Hurricanes

Colorado Avalanche

Goal anatomy

Eric Robinson · 1st 3:07 · CAR

Logan Stankoven · 1st 13:40 · CAR

Valeri Nichushkin · 1st 4:04 · COL

Seth Jarvis · 1st 7:17 · CAR SH

Sebastian Aho · 1st 12:41 · CAR

Parker Kelly · 2nd 4:46 · COL

Martin Necas · 3rd 4:45 · COL

Valeri Nichushkin · 3rd 14:09 · COL PP