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Colorado Avalanche at Minnesota Wild

Dec 21, 2025 · Grand Casino Arena

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 5 42
Minnesota Wild 1 29

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
18:28 COL Martin Necas (16) Cale Makar (31), Gabriel Landeskog (11) 1 - 0
2nd Period
13:37 COL Nathan MacKinnon (29) PP Brock Nelson (10), Cale Makar (32) 2 - 0
18:33 COL Cale Makar (11) PP Brock Nelson (11), Gabriel Landeskog (12) 3 - 0
3rd Period
05:15 MIN Ryan Hartman (9) Jonas Brodin (7), Kirill Kaprizov (20) 3 - 1
15:52 COL Brock Nelson (14) Samuel Girard (6), Valeri Nichushkin (12) 4 - 1
17:35 COL Nathan MacKinnon (30) Devon Toews (11), Valeri Nichushkin (13) 5 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
04:56 COL Josh Manson Interference 2
09:03 MIN Kirill Kaprizov Hooking 2
2nd Period
10:03 COL Jack Drury High sticking 2
12:47 MIN Vladimir Tarasenko Interference 2
15:07 MIN Marcus Foligno Interference 2
15:07 MIN Marcus Foligno Cross checking 2
3rd Period
09:30 COL Gabriel Landeskog Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 91 62 42 5 4.9 60.9
Minnesota Wild 60 50 29 1 3.2 39.1

How the game went

403020100Start2nd3rdMinnesota 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: 4.9 expected, 5 scored · Minnesota Wild: 3.2 expected, 1 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndCOL goal, 18:28 of 1st, a 17% chanceCOL goal, 13:37 of 2nd, a 16% chanceCOL goal, 18:33 of 2nd, a 7% chanceCOL goal, 15:52 of 3rd, a 9% chanceCOL goal, 17:35 of 3rd, a 80% chanceMIN goal, 5:15 of 3rd, a 22% chanceCOL 4.9MIN 3.2

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.

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
Gabriel Landeskog · Nathan MacKinnon · Martin Necas12:5045.753.71-0
Brock Nelson · Artturi Lehkonen · Valeri Nichushkin9:1870.636.41-0
Parker Kelly · Jack Drury · Joel Kiviranta7:2961.535.80-0
Victor Olofsson · Ross Colton · Gavin Brindley7:0086.453.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Devon Toews · Cale Makar13:5662.158.71-0
Brent Burns · Josh Manson12:4664.150.00-0
Samuel Girard · Sam Malinski11:3760.037.71-1

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
8 Cale Makar D 1 2 3 2 0 7 1 23:25 0.44 19-11 0.80-0.53
11 Brock Nelson C 1 2 3 1 0 2 1 17:57 0.31 13-7 0.22-0.41
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 2 0 2 2 0 4 2 22:33 0.31 23-20 1.15-0.58
43 Valeri Nichushkin R 0 2 2 2 0 3 1 19:27 0.49 20-12 0.71-0.60
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 0 2 2 2 2 4 4 20:52 0.68 20-19 1.08-0.56
88 Martin Necas C 1 0 1 1 0 3 2 19:40 0.39 17-20 0.65-0.58
7 Devon Toews D 0 1 1 2 0 4 0 22:23 0.09 21-13 0.76-0.70
49 Samuel Girard D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 14:24 0.01 18-13 0.48-0.79
17 Parker Kelly C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 10:35 8-8 0.21-0.84
18 Jack Drury C 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 11:50 0.04 11-6 0.25-0.42
22 Joel Kiviranta L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:09 0.19 8-5 0.21-0.38
42 Josh Manson D 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 17:27 0.02 28-18 0.97-1.09
54 Gavin Brindley C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 09:45 0.12 22-6 0.64-0.98
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 17:07 0.44 15-11 0.25-0.57
70 Sam Malinski D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 15:43 0.04 19-13 0.44-0.80
79 Ross Colton C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 10:03 0.08 21-11 0.60-1.18
84 Brent Burns D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 20:28 0.04 29-18 0.97-1.16
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 10:12 0.39 23-4 0.64-0.53
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
39 Mackenzie Blackwood W 29 28 1 60:00 3.08 +2.08

Minnesota Wild

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mats Zuccarello · Ryan Hartman · Kirill Kaprizov10:3347.494.51-0
Marcus Johansson · Joel Eriksson Ek · Matt Boldy7:5640.026.30-0
Vladimir Tarasenko · Yakov Trenin · Danila Yurov6:2219.018.00-1
Marcus Foligno · Vinnie Hinostroza · Nico Sturm5:5533.360.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Quinn Hughes · Brock Faber13:1244.748.70-1
Jared Spurgeon · Jonas Brodin12:4423.721.80-1
Jake Middleton · David Jiricek6:5533.359.70-0

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
38 Ryan Hartman R 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 18:09 0.70 15-18 1.54-0.32
25 Jonas Brodin D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 22:35 0.03 15-36 1.18-1.24
97 Kirill Kaprizov L 0 1 1 -1 2 3 2 21:29 0.35 16-15 1.28-0.39
5 David Jiricek D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 06:59 4-6 0.24-0.10
7 Brock Faber D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 23:07 0.05 20-26 0.89-0.93
12 Matt Boldy L 0 0 0 -1 0 5 0 21:34 0.35 14-18 0.43-0.84
13 Yakov Trenin C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 11:41 4-20 0.12-0.71
14 Joel Eriksson Ek C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 20:24 0.34 14-17 0.43-0.90
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 08:50 0.43 9-10 0.63-0.09
22 Danila Yurov R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 10:03 0.08 10-22 0.45-0.80
24 Vinnie Hinostroza C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 08:29 0.09 7-9 0.65-0.10
36 Mats Zuccarello R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 19:56 0.07 13-16 1.18-0.46
43 Quinn Hughes D 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 26:41 0.23 26-25 1.59-0.95
46 Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 21:34 0.01 16-32 0.60-1.05
55 Jake Middleton D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:20 0.02 5-9 0.58-0.15
78 Nico Sturm C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:41 0.02 4-10 0.12-0.18
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 15:30 0.16 13-22 0.42-1.00
91 Vladimir Tarasenko R 0 0 0 -2 2 1 1 13:57 0.26 10-24 0.37-0.82
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Jesper Wallstedt L 41 37 4 58:45 3.91 -0.09