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Minnesota Wild at Colorado Avalanche

Dec 27, 2019 · Pepsi Center

Team Goals Shots
Minnesota Wild 6 33
Colorado Avalanche 4 44

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
05:33 MIN Carson Soucy (5) Jordan Greenway (11), Kevin Fiala (14) 1 - 0
09:22 MIN Eric Staal (15) Kevin Fiala (15), Zach Parise (9) 2 - 0
18:24 COL Matt Calvert (9) Ian Cole (15), Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (7) 2 - 1
19:10 COL Gabriel Landeskog (9) Unassisted 2 - 2
2nd Period
11:18 MIN Brad Hunt (7) PP Mathew Dumba (8), Luke Kunin (7) 3 - 2
19:12 COL Nathan MacKinnon (22) Cale Makar (21), Mikko Rantanen (15) 3 - 3
3rd Period
01:33 COL Matt Calvert (10) Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (8), Valeri Nichushkin (7) 3 - 4
10:41 MIN Mats Zuccarello (10) Jonas Brodin (16), Zach Parise (10) 4 - 4
11:58 MIN Victor Rask (4) Unassisted 5 - 4
18:48 MIN Ryan Suter (5) Joel Eriksson Ek (11) 6 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
15:11 MIN Carson Soucy Interference 2
2nd Period
01:10 COL Ryan Graves Cross checking 2
09:39 COL Samuel Girard Holding 2
3rd Period
04:20 MIN Joel Eriksson Ek Holding 2
18:44 MIN Ryan Hartman Holding 2
18:44 COL Nazem Kadri Embellishment 2
18:44 COL Nazem Kadri Misconduct 10

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Minnesota Wild 51 39 33 6 3.1 47.9
Colorado Avalanche 64 54 44 4 4.1 52.1

How the game went

105051015Start2nd3rdColorado Avalanche aheadMinnesota Wild 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 Colorado Avalanche had taken more, and below it and blue while Minnesota Wild had.

Expected goals

Minnesota Wild: 3.1 expected, 6 scored · Colorado Avalanche: 4.1 expected, 4 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndMIN goal, 5:33 of 1st, a 6% chanceMIN goal, 9:22 of 1st, a 17% chanceMIN goal, 11:18 of 2nd, a 3% chanceMIN goal, 10:41 of 3rd, a 26% chanceMIN goal, 11:58 of 3rd, a 3% chanceMIN goal, 18:48 of 3rd, a 51% chanceCOL goal, 18:24 of 1st, a 21% chanceCOL goal, 19:10 of 1st, a 13% chanceCOL goal, 19:12 of 2nd, a 8% chanceCOL goal, 1:33 of 3rd, a 9% chanceCOL 4.1MIN 3.1

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

Minnesota Wild
Colorado Avalanche

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.

Minnesota Wild

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jordan Greenway · Luke Kunin · Nico Sturm12:3734.835.61-0
Eric Staal · Zach Parise · Mats Zuccarello11:2059.170.91-1
Kevin Fiala · Ryan Donato · Joel Eriksson Ek9:2335.318.90-1
Marcus Foligno · Victor Rask · Ryan Hartman8:2969.285.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ryan Suter · Jared Spurgeon17:5841.246.00-1
Jonas Brodin · Carson Soucy15:2755.244.52-2
Brad Hunt · Mathew Dumba13:3860.971.12-1

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
9 Zach Parise L 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 16:20 0.33 15-9 1.23-0.40
22 Kevin Fiala L 0 2 2 1 0 3 0 12:41 0.10 14-11 0.69-0.86
7 Carson Soucy D 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 18:42 0.10 16-17 0.54-1.26
12 Eric Staal C 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 17:18 0.73 18-10 1.40-0.42
17 Brad Hunt D 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 15:05 0.09 14-9 1.00-0.41
22 Ryan Suter D 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 25:16 0.01 15-24 0.80-1.48
36 Mats Zuccarello R 1 0 1 -1 0 2 1 15:01 0.30 13-10 0.98-0.53
49 Victor Rask C 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 10:01 0.03 11-5 0.51-0.16
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 17:50 0.03 10-23 0.23-1.19
14 Joel Eriksson Ek C 0 1 1 -1 2 0 3 14:09 6-15 0.20-1.11
24 Mathew Dumba D 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 18:01 0.02 14-12 1.00-0.54
25 Jonas Brodin D 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 18:38 0.09 17-13 0.58-0.68
71 Luke Kunin C 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 17:22 0.10 9-17 0.23-0.41
8 Ryan Donato C 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 10:41 0.26 10-11 0.41-0.86
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 14:48 0.34 10-6 0.48-0.24
38 Ryan Hartman R 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 13:12 0.03 9-10 0.44-0.80
46 Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 24:48 0.03 14-26 0.76-1.56
78 Nico Sturm C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14:52 10-17 0.23-0.56
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Devan Dubnyk 44 40 4 59:59 4.16 +0.16

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Gabriel Landeskog · Nathan MacKinnon · Mikko Rantanen15:5358.164.21-2
Nazem Kadri · Joonas Donskoi · Andre Burakovsky10:0843.833.60-0
Matt Nieto · J.T. Compher · Tyson Jost7:5844.419.70-0
Matt Calvert · Valeri Nichushkin · Pierre-Edouard Bellemare7:0742.938.51-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Samuel Girard · Cale Makar14:3440.031.21-3
Erik Johnson · Ryan Graves12:5460.069.91-1
Ian Cole · Nikita Zadorov12:4345.531.21-0

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
11 Matt Calvert L 2 0 2 1 0 3 1 12:07 0.45 9-8 0.53-0.35
41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L 0 2 2 0 0 1 1 11:36 0.11 8-9 0.44-0.39
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 1 0 1 -1 0 5 1 21:31 0.31 19-15 0.98-0.53
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 1 0 1 -2 0 7 5 22:20 1.09 19-13 0.99-0.51
8 Cale Makar D 0 1 1 -2 0 2 1 23:23 0.12 17-20 0.86-0.92
28 Ian Cole D 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 15:03 0.13 11-12 0.54-1.10
43 Valeri Nichushkin R 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 11:14 12-9 0.88-0.36
96 Mikko Rantanen R 0 1 1 -1 0 2 0 22:08 0.16 19-15 0.98-0.53
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 19:17 0.01 21-13 1.29-0.32
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 11:00 0.10 9-11 0.19-0.74
27 Ryan Graves D 0 0 0 1 2 4 1 18:39 0.10 22-13 1.23-0.41
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:28 0.03 11-9 0.91-0.67
37 J.T. Compher L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 12:35 0.14 9-12 0.19-0.78
49 Samuel Girard D 0 0 0 -2 2 2 0 20:37 0.03 16-18 0.97-0.75
72 Joonas Donskoi R 0 0 0 -1 0 8 0 14:45 1.02 12-10 0.99-0.68
83 Matt Nieto L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:09 10-11 0.40-0.76
91 Nazem Kadri C 0 0 0 1 12 2 3 17:26 0.36 10-13 0.59-0.72
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 18:17 11-14 0.50-1.18
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
39 Pavel Francouz 32 27 5 58:30 2.59 -2.41