NHL Recaps: Wednesday, May 20, 2026

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

Game recaps

Final

PlayoffsFull report

Vegas Golden Knights

Colorado Avalanche

Vegas Golden Knights beat Colorado Avalanche 4–2

Vegas Golden Knights beat Colorado Avalanche 4–2 at COL. Brett Howden (VGK) led the scoring with 1G 0A. VGK's first power-play unit (Hertl, Theodore, Eichel, Marner and Dorofeyev) scored 1 power-play goal on 1 attempt in 2:04 together.

•VGK's first power-play unit (Hertl, Theodore, Eichel, Marner and Dorofeyev) scored 1 power-play goal on 1 attempt in 2:04 together.
•New look for COL: Nelson–Lehkonen–Roy skated 7:40 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (69.2% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.
•Carter Hart (VGK) faced 38 shots and stopped 36 (.947), +9 against a season average of 29.0; the win.

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

Goal of the night

The hardest tracked shot of the night: Nic Dowd for VGK @ COL, 65.8 mph. Full game report →

Nic Dowd (VGK @ COL): Dump and chase, dumped in, 1 pass, 65.8 mph shot.

Top performers

Player	Game	G	A	P	SOG	Hits	Blk	TOI	PP
Brayden McNabb VGK	at COL	0	0	0	1	5	3	25:42	—
Cole Smith VGK	at COL	0	0	0	0	8	0	11:56	—

Line changes

New look for COL: Nelson–Lehkonen–Roy skated 7:40 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (69.2% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →
New look for COL: Kadri–Nichushkin–Colton skated 6:48 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 →

Goalie notes

Goalie	Game	Dec	SA	GA	SV%
Carter Hart VGK	at COL	W	38	2	.947
Scott Wedgewood COL	vs VGK	L	27	3	.889

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.