NHL Recaps: Monday, May 23, 2022

2 games: what happened that matters for your fantasy team, built from the play-by-play and shift charts.

Game recaps

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Florida Panthers

Tampa Bay Lightning

Tampa Bay Lightning beat Florida Panthers 2–0

Tampa Bay Lightning beat Florida Panthers 2–0 at home. Ondrej Palat (TBL) led the scoring with 1G 0A. Andrei Vasilevskiy (TBL) faced 49 shots and stopped 49 (.1000), +16 against a season average of 32.7; the win.

•Andrei Vasilevskiy (TBL) faced 49 shots and stopped 49 (.1000), +16 against a season average of 32.7; the win.
•New look for FLA: Giroux–Verhaeghe–Bennett skated 10:07 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (80% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.
•New look for FLA: Huberdeau–Barkov–Mamin skated 6:39 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (56.3% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

Full report: shot map, shifts, lines, box score →

Colorado Avalanche beat St. Louis Blues 6–3

Colorado Avalanche beat St. Louis Blues 6–3 at STL. Nazem Kadri (COL) led the scoring with 3G 1A.

•Nazem Kadri had a hat trick and an assist (4 points) on 3 shots in 15:06.
•David Perron had two goals (2 points) on 2 shots in 23:10.
•Pavel Buchnevich had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 21:50.

Full report: shot map, shifts, lines, box score →

Top performers

Player	Game	G	A	P	SOG	Hits	Blk	TOI	PP
Nazem Kadri COL	at STL	3	1	4	3	2	0	15:06	—
David Perron STL	vs COL	2	0	2	2	1	1	23:10	—
Pavel Buchnevich STL	vs COL	1	1	2	2	2	0	21:50	—
Bowen Byram COL	at STL	0	2	2	3	1	0	15:53	—
Valeri Nichushkin COL	at STL	0	2	2	2	2	1	18:22	—
Claude Giroux FLA	at TBL	0	0	0	9	2	0	19:37	—
Radko Gudas FLA	at TBL	0	0	0	2	9	0	18:09	—
Erik Cernak TBL	vs FLA	0	0	0	0	7	2	19:55	—

Line changes

New look for FLA: Giroux–Verhaeghe–Bennett skated 10:07 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (80% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →
New look for FLA: Huberdeau–Barkov–Mamin skated 6:39 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (56.3% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →
New look for FLA: Reinhart–Luostarinen–Lundell skated 5:59 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (66.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →
New look for FLA: Thornton–Hornqvist–Acciari skated 4:21 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (57.1% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →

Goalie notes

Goalie	Game	Dec	SA	GA	SV%
Andrei Vasilevskiy TBL	vs FLA	W	49	0	.1000
Ville Husso STL	vs COL	L	36	5	.861
Sergei Bobrovsky FLA	at TBL	L	25	1	.960
Darcy Kuemper COL	at STL	W	20	3	.850

Next up: tonight's starting goalies, today's line combinations and today's games. Takeaways are generated from the numbers with fixed rules; nothing is written by a language model.