San Jose Sharks vs. Colorado AvalancheJan 28, 2021

FinalThursday, Jan 28, 2021· Ball Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
SJS	0	0	0	0		SJS	7	6	8	21
COL	0	0	3	3		COL	6	12	20	38

: SJS 52COL 76
: SJS 1.78COL 4.87
PP goals: SJS 0COL 1
Hits: SJS 15COL 12
Blocks: SJS 18COL 15
PIM: SJS 8COL 8
: SJS 45%COL 55%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Colorado Avalanche beat San Jose Sharks 3–0

Colorado Avalanche beat San Jose Sharks 3–0 at home. Nazem Kadri (COL) led the scoring with 2G 1A. COL's first power-play unit (Kadri, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Makar) scored 1 power-play goal on 19 attempts in 3:42 together.

Points
Nazem Kadri had two goals and an assist (3 points) on 10 shots in 17:14.Kadri
Points
Brandon Saad had 2 assists (2 points) on 1 shot in 13:13.Saad
PP1
COL's first power-play unit (Kadri, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen and Makar) scored 1 power-play goal on 19 attempts in 3:42 together.Kadri Landeskog MacKinnon Rantanen Makar
Goalie
Devan Dubnyk (SJS) faced 38 shots and stopped 35 (.921), +11 against a season average of 27.4; the loss.Dubnyk
Usage
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (COL) played 2:20, −9:10 down on his 11:30 season average over 52 games.Bellemare
New line
New look for SJS: Marleau–Sorensen–Noesen skated 7:55 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (50% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Marleau Sorensen Noesen
New line
New look for SJS: Nieto–Gregor–Gambrell skated 8:51 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (47.1% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Nieto Gregor Gambrell
Luck
COL scored 3 goals on 4.87 expected goals (76 attempts), well short of its chances.

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

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

COL
SJS
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 128 of 128 attempts · COL 76 · SJS 52

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

COL
SJS
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: SJS 18% 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

SJS

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	SJS	COL
	54	59
	1.57	3.18
	1.52	2.94
	8	17
	5	5
	10	4
	−0.067	+0.067
	18%	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.

San Jose Sharks

L1Couture – Donato – Labanc
11:1242% CF
L2Kane – Hertl – Meier
9:3565% CF
L3Nieto – Gregor – Gambrell
8:5147% CF
L4Marleau – Sorensen – Noesen
7:5550% CF
D1Burns – Vlasic
17:5948% CF
D2Karlsson – Ferraro
13:4648% CF
D3Simek – Knyzhov
9:2047% CF

PP1Burns – Couture – Karlsson – Donato – Labanc
3:0350% CF
PP2Kane – Hertl – Meier – Gregor – Ferraro
1:3850% CF
PK1FCouture – Nieto
1:35
PK2FKane – Hertl
0:30
PK1DBurns – Vlasic
2:37
PK2DKarlsson – Ferraro
1:50

Current SJS line combinations →

Colorado Avalanche

L1Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen
13:2674% CF
L2Kadri – Saad – Burakovsky
8:1069% CF
L3Donskoi – Compher – Nichushkin
3:3455% CF
D1Johnson – Graves
10:0733% CF
D2Toews – Makar
9:5550% CF
D3Girard – Byram
9:0573% CF

PP1Kadri – Landeskog – MacKinnon – Rantanen – Makar
3:42100% CF
PP2Donskoi – Burakovsky – Nichushkin – Toews – Girard
0:43100% CF
PK1FCompher – Nichushkin
0:58
PK2FDonskoi – Jost
0:42
PK1DJohnson – Graves
2:07
PK2DToews – Makar
1:29

Current COL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

3rd period

9:55
COLNazem Kadri (Joonas Donskoi, Brandon Saad)wrist0.33 xG
SJS: Burns, Vlasic, Couture, Donato, LabancCOL: Kadri, Donskoi, Saad, Graves, Girard
SJS 0 – 1 COL
11:53
COLAndre Burakovsky (Nazem Kadri, Brandon Saad)tip-in0.04 xG
SJS: Couture, Donato, Labanc, Simek, KnyzhovCOL: Johnson, Kadri, Saad, Burakovsky, Girard
SJS 0 – 2 COL
18:54
COLNazem KadriPP (Cale Makar, Nathan MacKinnon)tip-in0.11 xG
SJS: Vlasic, Couture, Nieto, FerraroCOL: Kadri, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Makar
SJS 0 – 3 COL

Box score

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

San Jose Sharks

SJS skaters
Skater	Line	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Logan Couture C	L1	-2	0	0.00	1	1	0	22:04	—	—	31	16
Ryan Donato C	L1	-2	0	0.10	0	1	2	18:30	—	—	39	24
Kevin Labanc R	L1	-2	1	0.08	2	0	0	17:31	—	—	39	19
Tomas Hertl C	L2	0	4	0.28	2	1	0	15:45	—	—	67	66
Timo Meier R	L2	0	2	0.33	1	1	0	15:04	—	—	62	58
Evander Kane L	L2	0	1	0.17	0	0	2	14:19	—	—	58	40
Matt Nieto L	L3	0	3	0.03	0	2	0	15:35	—	—	36	17
Dylan Gambrell C	L3	0	1	0.30	0	3	2	14:04	—	—	44	30
Noah Gregor L	L3	0	0	0.00	0	0	2	14:00	—	—	53	31
Patrick Marleau C	L4	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	10:47	—	—	50	46
Marcus Sorensen L	L4	0	1	0.12	0	0	0	10:37	—	—	50	49
Stefan Noesen R	L4	0	1	0.12	0	0	0	8:49	—	—	56	65
Brent Burns D	D1	-1	3	0.07	0	0	0	28:03	—	—	45	39
Marc-Edouard Vlasic D	D1	-1	1	0.02	1	3	0	24:26	—	—	49	39
Erik Karlsson D	D2	0	0	0.03	2	0	0	23:58	—	—	44	33
Mario Ferraro D	D2	0	1	0.06	5	3	0	20:08	—	—	54	35
Radim Simek D	D3	-1	1	0.04	1	2	0	12:09	—	—	50	23
Nikolai Knyzhov D	D3	-1	1	0.02	0	1	0	9:38	—	—	50	20

SJS goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Devan Dubnyk(start)	L	38	35	3	.921	4.87	58:25

Colorado Avalanche

COL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Nathan MacKinnon C	L1	0	1	1	0	6	0.53	0	0	0	21:44	—	—	56	56
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.77	0	0	0	20:52	—	—	60	61
Gabriel Landeskog L	L1	0	0	0	0	4	0.33	1	2	2	20:40	—	—	63	63
Nazem Kadri C	L2	2	1	3	+2	10	1.41	0	1	0	17:14	—	—	57	78
Brandon Saad L	L2	0	2	2	+2	1	0.03	0	0	0	13:13	—	—	60	82
Andre Burakovsky L	L2	1	0	1	+1	3	0.33	0	0	0	12:44	—	—	68	72
J.T. Compher L	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	15:19	—	—	46	67
Valeri Nichushkin R	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	1	1	0	14:36	—	—	36	62
Joonas Donskoi R	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.67	0	0	0	14:30	—	—	41	73
Erik Johnson D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.00	4	3	0	19:34	—	—	40	59
Ryan Graves D	D1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.02	0	4	2	15:46	—	—	40	57
Cale Makar D	D2	0	1	1	0	2	0.09	1	0	0	24:05	—	—	54	61
Devon Toews D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.07	0	1	2	19:22	—	—	44	74
Samuel Girard D	D3	0	0	0	+2	0	0.00	0	1	2	19:59	—	—	63	82
Bowen Byram D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.16	0	1	0	18:18	—	—	62	67
Tyson Jost C	—	0	0	0	0	1	0.18	2	0	0	13:06	—	—	40	56
Kiefer Sherwood L	—	0	0	0	0	1	0.09	3	1	0	8:46	—	—	43	52
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.15	0	0	0	2:20	—	—	50	64

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Philipp Grubauer(start)	W	21	21	0	.1000	1.78	59:52

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.