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Colorado Avalanche at Minnesota Wild

Dec 26, 2011 · Xcel Energy Center

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 4 32
Minnesota Wild 2 22

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
09:31 MIN Pierre-Marc Bouchard (1) PP Dany Heatley (1), Kyle Brodziak (1) 0 - 1
2nd Period
10:34 COL Ryan O'Reilly (1) PP Matt Duchene (1) 1 - 1
12:00 MIN Cal Clutterbuck (1) Mikko Koivu (1), Dany Heatley (2) 1 - 2
18:58 COL Gabriel Landeskog (1) David Van Der Gulik (1), TJ Galiardi (1) 2 - 2
3rd Period
10:20 COL Jan Hejda (1) Ryan O'Reilly (1), David Van Der Gulik (2) 3 - 2
13:06 COL TJ Galiardi (1) Jan Hejda (1) 4 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
00:37 COL Shane O'Brien Interference 2
03:04 MIN Nick Johnson Tripping 2
05:22 COL Cody McLeod Checking from behind 5
05:22 COL Cody McLeod Game misconduct 10
17:46 COL Jan Hejda Holding 2
2nd Period
04:14 MIN Dany Heatley Holding 2
06:11 COL Gabriel Landeskog Interference goalkeeper 2
09:22 MIN Nick Schultz Hooking 2
16:27 MIN Darroll Powe Hooking 2
3rd Period
01:52 COL Matt Hunwick Hooking 2
06:13 MIN Jarod Palmer Interference 2
10:33 MIN Kyle Brodziak Tripping 2
15:33 MIN Matt Cullen Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 53 42 32 4 3.0 43.5
Minnesota Wild 40 31 22 2 2.4 56.5

How the game went

10505Start2nd3rdMinnesota Wild aheadColorado Avalanche ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Minnesota Wild had taken more, and below it and blue while Colorado Avalanche had.

Expected goals

Colorado Avalanche: 3.0 expected, 4 scored · Minnesota Wild: 2.4 expected, 2 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndCOL goal, 10:34 of 2nd, a 11% chanceCOL goal, 18:58 of 2nd, a 13% chanceCOL goal, 10:20 of 3rd, a 10% chanceCOL goal, 13:06 of 3rd, a 4% chanceMIN goal, 9:31 of 1st, a 14% chanceMIN goal, 12:00 of 2nd, a 12% chanceCOL 3.0MIN 2.4

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

Where the attempts came from

Colorado Avalanche
Minnesota Wild

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Daniel Winnik · Paul Stastny · Matt Duchene6:2221.40.00-0
Milan Hejduk · Ryan O'Reilly · Gabriel Landeskog5:2520.06.20-1
Jay McClement · TJ Galiardi · Brad Malone3:52100.0100.00-0
Milan Hejduk · Kevin Porter · Matt Duchene1:340.00.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Shane O'Brien · Erik Johnson10:4133.37.30-1
Ryan O'Byrne · Jan Hejda9:5942.933.12-0
Matt Hunwick · Stefan Elliott7:3545.569.70-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
8 Jan Hejda D 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 18:38 0.10 11-14 0.32-0.75
21 TJ Galiardi L 1 1 2 2 0 4 1 15:01 0.47 5-5 0.28-0.33
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 1 1 2 0 0 4 1 22:21 0.58 3-5 0.13-0.20
36 David Van Der Gulik L 0 2 2 2 0 1 0 08:24 0.02 5-5 0.32-0.24
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 18:28 0.20 4-8 0.20-0.40
95 Matt Duchene C 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 19:20 0.37 6-13 0.16-1.07
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 21:36 0.13 3-7 0.07-0.99
11 Kevin Porter C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 08:15 0.11 1-1 0.04-0.09
18 Jay McClement C 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 16:26 0.06 11-8 0.52-0.72
23 Milan Hejduk R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 20:01 0.16 5-7 0.16-0.71
23 Ryan O'Byrne D 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 20:02 10-12 0.43-0.60
24 Brad Malone C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 09:00 7-3 0.31-0.12
26 Daniel Winnik L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 17:35 0.19 9-11 0.35-0.57
26 Paul Stastny C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 20:09 0.20 4-11 0.01-0.57
29 Stefan Elliott D 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 18:30 0.32 6-6 0.32-0.13
48 Matt Hunwick D 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 15:13 0.07 5-7 0.30-0.14
55 Cody McLeod L 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 00:19
74 Shane O'Brien D 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 17:42 5-7 0.21-0.99
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Semyon Varlamov 22 20 2 60:00 2.39 +0.39

Minnesota Wild

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dany Heatley · Mikko Koivu · Cal Clutterbuck8:2466.784.61-0
Matt Cullen · Pierre-Marc Bouchard · Jarod Palmer5:1942.913.50-1
Kyle Brodziak · Nick Johnson · Darroll Powe4:3075.0100.00-0
Warren Peters · Brad Staubitz · Colton Gillies3:0725.060.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marek Zidlicky · Justin Falk5:4355.684.50-0
Nick Schultz · Mike Lundin5:2871.497.51-0
Justin Falk · Marco Scandella3:57100.0100.00-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
51 Dany Heatley L 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 19:41 0.20 8-5 0.32-0.12
15 Cal Clutterbuck R 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 19:09 0.27 10-6 0.55-0.14
96 Pierre-Marc Bouchard C 1 0 1 -2 0 3 0 16:08 0.25 5-6 0.14-0.47
9 Mikko Koivu C 0 1 1 1 0 3 4 23:32 0.11 6-5 0.26-0.11
28 Kyle Brodziak C 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 21:49 0.26 10-3 0.54-0.00
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 27:09 0.08 12-8 0.68-0.50
7 Matt Cullen C 0 0 0 -2 2 1 3 18:49 0.16 4-9 0.14-0.66
8 Darroll Powe C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 13:24 0.10 11-6 1.04-0.28
9 Colton Gillies C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 05:26 1-3 0.09-0.06
10 Mike Lundin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:13 7-6 0.50-0.30
25 Brad Staubitz R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 04:14 1-3 0.09-0.06
28 Marek Zidlicky D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 21:52 0.07 9-11 0.71-0.40
32 Nick Johnson R 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 10:22 0.75 13-3 1.18-0.00
42 Justin Falk D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 21:54 0.05 13-7 0.94-0.24
43 Warren Peters C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:17 0.09 6-4 0.78-0.09
46 Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 02:15
55 Nick Schultz D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 21:01 0.02 11-8 0.61-0.21
79 Jarod Palmer C 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 11:18 3-7 0.05-0.49
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
32 Niklas Backstrom 32 28 4 59:17 2.95 -1.05