NHL Recaps: Monday, Feb 5, 2024

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

Game recaps

Final / OT

Full report

Colorado Avalanche

New York Rangers

New York Rangers edge Colorado Avalanche 2–1 (OT)

New York Rangers beat Colorado Avalanche 2–1 in overtime at home. Nathan MacKinnon (COL) led the scoring with 1G 0A. New look for COL: Parise–Johansen–Lehkonen skated 6:44 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (80% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

•New look for COL: Parise–Johansen–Lehkonen skated 6:44 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (80% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.
•Braden Schneider (NYR) played 19:41, +3:50 up on his 15:51 season average over 81 games.
•Ross Colton (COL) played 18:18, +4:38 up on his 13:40 season average over 79 games.

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New York Islanders edge Toronto Maple Leafs 3–2

New York Islanders beat Toronto Maple Leafs 3–2 at TOR. John Tavares (TOR) led the scoring with 1G 1A. TOR's first power-play unit (Tavares, Rielly, Nylander, Marner and Matthews) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 2:27 together.

•John Tavares had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 6 shots in 21:16.
•TOR's first power-play unit (Tavares, Rielly, Nylander, Marner and Matthews) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 2:27 together.
•Ilya Sorokin (NYI) faced 36 shots and stopped 34 (.944), +3 against a season average of 32.5; the win.

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Goal of the night

The hardest tracked shot of the night: Artemi Panarin for NYR vs COL, 57.5 mph. Full game report →

Artemi Panarin (NYR vs COL): Point shot, 0 passes, 57.5 mph shot.

Top performers

Player	Game	G	A	P	SOG	Hits	Blk	TOI	PP
John Tavares TOR	vs NYI	1	1	2	6	0	1	21:16	—
Nathan MacKinnon COL	at NYR	1	0	1	7	0	2	24:02	—
Chris Kreider NYR	vs COL	0	0	0	7	2	2	19:07	—

Line changes

New look for COL: Parise–Johansen–Lehkonen skated 6:44 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (80% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →
New look for TOR: Domi–Gregor–Robertson skated 5:51 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (64.3% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →
New look for TOR: Reaves–Holmberg–McMann skated 5:38 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (33.3% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →

Goalie notes

Goalie	Game	Dec	SA	GA	SV%
Ilya Sorokin NYI	at TOR	W	36	2	.944
Jonathan Quick NYR	vs COL	W	33	1	.970
Alexandar Georgiev COL	at NYR	O	29	2	.931
Ilya Samsonov TOR	vs NYI	L	29	3	.897

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.