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Minnesota Wild at Colorado Avalanche

2nd Round, Game 2 · May 5, 2026 · Ball Arena

Team Goals Shots
Minnesota Wild 2 31
Colorado Avalanche 5 23

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:51 COL Martin Necas (1) Nathan MacKinnon (5), Brett Kulak (2) 0 - 1
02:57 MIN Kirill Kaprizov (3) Ryan Hartman (4), Mats Zuccarello (5) 1 - 1
08:24 COL Gabriel Landeskog (3) PP Nathan MacKinnon (6), Martin Necas (6) 1 - 2
2nd Period
01:24 COL Nicolas Roy (3) Ross Colton (2), Brock Nelson (1) 1 - 3
3rd Period
13:18 COL Nathan MacKinnon (4) PP Nazem Kadri (3), Gabriel Landeskog (4) 1 - 4
14:33 MIN Marcus Johansson (3) Danila Yurov (2), Daemon Hunt (1) 2 - 4
19:55 COL Valeri Nichushkin (1) Brett Kulak (3), Brent Burns (1) 2 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
08:09 MIN Yakov Trenin High sticking 2
13:16 COL Brock Nelson Holding 2
2nd Period
10:52 MIN Ryan Hartman Tripping 2
3rd Period
04:20 COL Brock Nelson Tripping 2
07:26 MIN Mats Zuccarello Tripping 2
11:49 MIN Vladimir Tarasenko High sticking 2
15:34 MIN Kirill Kaprizov Cross checking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Minnesota Wild 65 51 31 2 3.4 56.0
Colorado Avalanche 53 35 23 5 3.5 44.0

How the game went

151050Start2nd3rdColorado 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: 3.4 expected, 2 scored · Colorado Avalanche: 3.5 expected, 5 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndMIN goal, 2:57 of 1st, a 11% chanceMIN goal, 14:33 of 3rd, a 20% chanceCOL goal, 2:51 of 1st, a 8% chanceCOL goal, 8:24 of 1st, a 21% chanceCOL goal, 1:24 of 2nd, a 12% chanceCOL goal, 13:18 of 3rd, a 10% chanceCOL goal, 19:55 of 3rd, a 39% chanceCOL 3.5MIN 3.4

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.

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
Mats Zuccarello · Ryan Hartman · Kirill Kaprizov11:2154.560.31-1
Vladimir Tarasenko · Michael McCarron · Yakov Trenin8:5845.543.60-0
Marcus Johansson · Matt Boldy · Danila Yurov7:1966.774.01-1
Nick Foligno · Marcus Foligno · Nico Sturm5:5860.042.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Quinn Hughes · Brock Faber18:0738.558.70-0
Jared Spurgeon · Jake Middleton12:4847.449.51-2
Jeff Petry · Daemon Hunt7:3475.078.01-0

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
90 Marcus Johansson L 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 12:20 0.35 11-5 0.75-0.31
97 Kirill Kaprizov L 1 0 1 -1 2 4 3 23:12 0.51 16-13 0.77-0.48
22 Danila Yurov R 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 10:04 0.30 10-4 0.71-0.24
36 Mats Zuccarello R 0 1 1 -1 2 3 1 19:04 0.19 13-12 0.59-0.41
38 Ryan Hartman R 0 1 1 -1 2 5 2 18:21 0.93 15-10 0.57-0.37
48 Daemon Hunt D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 13:04 0.01 14-4 0.49-0.12
2 Jeff Petry D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 09:28 0.00 15-5 0.46-0.14
7 Brock Faber D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 28:31 0.10 15-17 0.71-0.45
12 Matt Boldy L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 19:53 0.51 11-7 0.75-0.35
13 Yakov Trenin C 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 12:57 11-12 0.15-0.18
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 12:24 0.01 6-4 0.05-0.09
43 Quinn Hughes D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 28:07 0.08 14-17 0.64-0.39
46 Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 19:56 0.08 11-12 0.43-0.46
47 Michael McCarron C 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 15:48 0.15 12-14 0.30-0.25
55 Jake Middleton D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 18:09 0.01 15-11 0.62-0.42
71 Nick Foligno L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 09:42 5-3 0.02-0.02
78 Nico Sturm C 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 12:43 5-2 0.05-0.02
91 Vladimir Tarasenko R 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 11:25 0.14 11-13 0.28-0.25
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
32 Filip Gustavsson L 22 18 4 57:08 2.34 -1.66

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Artturi Lehkonen · Nathan MacKinnon · Martin Necas9:4263.668.01-1
Brock Nelson · Gabriel Landeskog · Valeri Nichushkin9:3527.314.50-0
Nazem Kadri · Nicolas Roy · Ross Colton6:3333.341.10-0
Parker Kelly · Jack Drury · Logan O'Connor5:5985.736.80-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Devon Toews · Cale Makar10:1657.175.71-1
Brett Kulak · Sam Malinski8:5627.358.91-0
Brent Burns · Brett Kulak5:4362.530.20-1

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
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 1 2 3 0 0 5 2 22:06 0.59 15-14 0.50-0.42
88 Martin Necas C 1 1 2 0 0 3 0 19:02 0.22 15-12 0.50-0.26
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 1 1 2 0 0 1 4 19:54 0.44 3-12 0.05-0.38
27 Brett Kulak D 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 21:04 0.01 11-16 0.32-0.57
10 Nicolas Roy C 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 09:37 0.12 5-12 0.22-0.53
43 Valeri Nichushkin R 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 17:56 4-13 0.08-0.51
11 Brock Nelson C 0 1 1 2 4 0 2 18:42 0.03 7-16 0.23-0.49
79 Ross Colton C 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 09:29 6-11 0.24-0.18
84 Brent Burns D 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 17:36 0.03 12-10 0.25-0.72
91 Nazem Kadri C 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 15:24 0.37 6-9 0.14-0.20
7 Devon Toews D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 23:26 0.25 15-15 0.59-0.55
8 Cale Makar D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 24:06 0.02 16-18 0.52-0.49
17 Parker Kelly C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 5 10:05 0.01 7-4 0.14-0.56
18 Jack Drury C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 09:57 0.06 7-4 0.18-0.58
25 Logan O'Connor R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 10:02 0.10 8-5 0.20-0.36
37 Nick Blankenburg D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 07:08 0.03 6-4 0.13-0.14
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 19:29 0.08 16-14 0.50-0.53
70 Sam Malinski D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 20:57 0.02 6-21 0.17-0.87
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Scott Wedgewood W 31 29 2 60:00 3.09 +1.09