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Colorado Avalanche at Montréal Canadiens

Jan 29, 2026 · Centre Bell

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 3 29
Montréal Canadiens 7 28

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:56 MTL Noah Dobson (10) Lane Hutson (45), Juraj Slafkovský (23) 0 - 1
04:09 COL Brock Nelson (28) Josh Manson (18), Samuel Girard (9) 1 - 1
05:51 MTL Nick Suzuki (17) PP Ivan Demidov (33), Lane Hutson (46) 1 - 2
07:33 MTL Nick Suzuki (18) SH Oliver Kapanen (12), Mike Matheson (22) 1 - 3
2nd Period
16:36 MTL Jake Evans (7) Kaiden Guhle (3), Zachary Bolduc (11) 1 - 4
17:16 MTL Kirby Dach (6) Zachary Bolduc (12) 1 - 5
18:06 COL Joel Kiviranta (2) Sam Malinski (22), Jack Drury (10) 2 - 5
3rd Period
04:38 COL Ross Colton (6) Valeri Nichushkin (18) 3 - 5
05:45 MTL Alexandre Carrier (6) Nick Suzuki (44), Kirby Dach (3) 3 - 6
09:55 MTL Juraj Slafkovský (20) Oliver Kapanen (13), Ivan Demidov (34) 3 - 7

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:24 COL Keaton Middleton Cross checking 2
06:14 MTL Josh Anderson Tripping 2
2nd Period
00:37 MTL Cole Caufield High sticking 2
03:14 COL Sam Malinski High sticking 2
3rd Period
19:39 MTL Arber Xhekaj Roughing 2
19:39 COL Keaton Middleton Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 62 40 29 3 3.4 55.2
Montréal Canadiens 52 43 28 7 3.3 44.8

How the game went

151050Start2nd3rdMontréal Canadiens 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 Montréal Canadiens had taken more, and below it and blue while Colorado Avalanche had.

Expected goals

Colorado Avalanche: 3.4 expected, 3 scored · Montréal Canadiens: 3.3 expected, 7 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndCOL goal, 4:09 of 1st, a 5% chanceCOL goal, 18:06 of 2nd, a 8% chanceCOL goal, 4:38 of 3rd, a 39% chanceMTL goal, 0:56 of 1st, a 4% chanceMTL goal, 5:51 of 1st, a 36% chanceMTL goal, 7:33 of 1st, a 15% chanceMTL goal, 16:36 of 2nd, a 8% chanceMTL goal, 17:16 of 2nd, a 7% chanceMTL goal, 5:45 of 3rd, a 21% chanceMTL goal, 9:55 of 3rd, a 47% chanceCOL 3.4MTL 3.3

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
Montréal Canadiens

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
Artturi Lehkonen · Nathan MacKinnon · Martin Necas12:0256.351.80-2
Parker Kelly · Zakhar Bardakov · Gavin Brindley8:4336.434.60-0
Brock Nelson · Valeri Nichushkin · Victor Olofsson4:2460.028.21-0
Victor Olofsson · Jack Drury · Joel Kiviranta4:1250.044.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Cale Makar · Sam Malinski16:0460.678.41-1
Brent Burns · Josh Manson11:2360.954.40-2
Keaton Middleton · Samuel Girard7:2745.521.00-1

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
11 Brock Nelson C 1 0 1 -2 0 1 2 17:10 0.05 13-12 1.25-1.04
22 Joel Kiviranta L 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 11:14 0.08 12-8 0.47-0.20
79 Ross Colton C 1 0 1 -1 0 2 3 12:37 0.40 15-9 1.18-0.99
18 Jack Drury C 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 14:20 14-11 0.47-0.37
42 Josh Manson D 0 1 1 -1 0 2 1 19:13 0.26 19-12 0.92-0.68
43 Valeri Nichushkin R 0 1 1 -1 0 0 2 15:13 0.07 18-13 1.21-1.34
49 Samuel Girard D 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 17:28 0.34 17-13 1.23-1.01
70 Sam Malinski D 0 1 1 1 2 4 0 21:00 0.24 28-22 1.80-0.65
8 Cale Makar D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 24:02 0.19 21-16 0.97-0.55
17 Parker Kelly C 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 13:11 0.22 6-8 0.29-0.50
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 0 0 0 -3 0 2 0 21:09 0.21 23-19 1.21-0.65
54 Gavin Brindley C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:37 0.07 6-7 0.32-0.45
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 0 0 0 -2 0 4 2 17:55 0.58 28-18 1.14-0.82
67 Keaton Middleton D 0 0 0 -1 4 0 2 12:58 9-11 0.46-1.30
84 Brent Burns D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0 21:30 0.01 22-20 0.80-1.09
88 Martin Necas C 0 0 0 -3 0 3 0 20:57 0.55 23-18 1.16-0.63
93 Zakhar Bardakov C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:17 0.02 6-8 0.39-0.52
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 15:21 0.08 10-10 0.17-0.41
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Scott Wedgewood L 28 21 7 60:00 3.18 -3.82

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Oliver Kapanen · Juraj Slafkovský · Ivan Demidov11:2742.956.22-1
Nick Suzuki · Alexandre Texier · Cole Caufield10:4531.87.20-0
Jake Evans · Kirby Dach · Zachary Bolduc10:2052.448.81-0
Brendan Gallagher · Phillip Danault · Josh Anderson9:1450.030.50-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Matheson · Kaiden Guhle14:2244.418.80-0
Noah Dobson · Lane Hutson11:0454.253.83-1
Alexandre Carrier · Arber Xhekaj8:2825.033.80-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
14 Nick Suzuki C 2 1 3 2 0 4 1 17:42 0.77 12-18 0.44-0.99
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 1 1 2 1 0 4 1 16:57 0.78 17-18 1.33-0.87
77 Kirby Dach C 1 1 2 3 0 2 0 14:36 0.30 16-16 0.83-0.52
48 Lane Hutson D 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 20:23 23-18 1.48-1.14
76 Zachary Bolduc R 0 2 2 2 0 3 0 15:12 0.29 15-13 0.63-0.42
91 Oliver Kapanen C 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 14:24 0.07 13-16 1.17-0.86
93 Ivan Demidov R 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 15:05 0.30 13-20 1.16-1.02
45 Alexandre Carrier D 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 19:26 0.22 13-20 1.14-0.93
53 Noah Dobson D 1 0 1 2 0 5 2 19:34 0.15 17-27 1.04-1.13
71 Jake Evans C 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 16:12 0.08 16-12 0.77-0.39
8 Mike Matheson D 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 21:36 0.06 18-18 0.61-1.00
21 Kaiden Guhle D 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 22:56 0.02 18-25 0.62-1.48
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 13:25 0.01 6-10 0.27-0.74
13 Cole Caufield R 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 12:49 0.03 8-15 0.28-0.94
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 -2 2 1 1 12:36 0.22 7-10 0.40-0.82
24 Phillip Danault C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 14:50 0.01 6-11 0.27-0.77
72 Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 4 13:38 5-8 0.41-0.50
85 Alexandre Texier L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:33 0.00 12-15 0.38-0.94
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
75 Jakub Dobes W 29 26 3 59:45 3.25 +0.25