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Colorado Avalanche at Minnesota Wild

2nd Round, Game 3 · May 9, 2026 · Grand Casino Arena

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 1 36
Minnesota Wild 5 26

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
15:11 MIN Kirill Kaprizov (4) Brock Faber (4), Quinn Hughes (9) 0 - 1
16:44 MIN Quinn Hughes (4) PP Mats Zuccarello (6), Kirill Kaprizov (9) 0 - 2
2nd Period
04:23 MIN Ryan Hartman (3) PP Mats Zuccarello (7), Kirill Kaprizov (10) 0 - 3
13:11 COL Nathan MacKinnon (5) PP Gabriel Landeskog (5), Nazem Kadri (4) 1 - 3
13:31 MIN Brock Faber (4) Vladimir Tarasenko (2), Michael McCarron (2) 1 - 4
3rd Period
19:56 MIN Matt Boldy (7) Brock Faber (5) 1 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
12:09 MIN Brock Faber High sticking 2
14:54 COL Parker Kelly Roughing 2
14:54 MIN Ryan Hartman Roughing 2
15:52 COL Devon Toews Hooking 2
17:42 MIN Quinn Hughes Cross checking 2
2nd Period
03:39 COL Parker Kelly Holding 2
12:16 MIN Marcus Foligno Interference 2
19:33 COL Nathan MacKinnon Cross checking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 75 59 36 1 3.2 55.6
Minnesota Wild 56 46 26 5 3.8 44.4

How the game went

201510505Start2nd3rdMinnesota 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: 3.2 expected, 1 scored · Minnesota Wild: 3.8 expected, 5 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndCOL goal, 13:11 of 2nd, a 26% chanceMIN goal, 15:11 of 1st, a 10% chanceMIN goal, 16:44 of 1st, a 9% chanceMIN goal, 4:23 of 2nd, a 17% chanceMIN goal, 13:31 of 2nd, a 25% chanceMIN goal, 19:56 of 3rd, a 38% chanceMIN 3.8COL 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
Nazem Kadri · Nicolas Roy · Ross Colton7:2260.030.90-0
Gabriel Landeskog · Nathan MacKinnon · Martin Necas7:1477.372.60-0
Parker Kelly · Jack Drury · Logan O'Connor5:0081.897.20-0
Artturi Lehkonen · Nathan MacKinnon · Martin Necas4:4930.011.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Devon Toews · Cale Makar13:2969.762.60-0
Brett Kulak · Sam Malinski7:3753.336.90-0
Brent Burns · Sam Malinski4:3560.039.20-0

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
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 1 0 1 -1 2 4 1 23:51 0.55 22-16 0.86-0.66
91 Nazem Kadri C 0 1 1 -1 0 3 1 21:07 0.17 11-11 0.28-0.58
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 0 1 1 0 0 7 5 20:40 0.76 21-12 0.88-0.54
7 Devon Toews D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 22:34 0.06 24-16 0.91-0.73
8 Cale Makar D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 29:06 0.45 25-17 0.93-0.61
10 Nicolas Roy C 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 12:39 0.01 8-12 0.11-0.60
11 Brock Nelson C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 19:52 0.20 8-15 0.16-0.66
17 Parker Kelly C 0 0 0 -1 4 4 1 08:54 0.19 12-5 0.38-0.23
18 Jack Drury C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 08:47 0.07 9-2 0.21-0.01
25 Logan O'Connor R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 08:06 0.06 13-3 0.38-0.02
27 Brett Kulak D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 17:25 0.05 11-14 0.24-0.43
37 Nick Blankenburg D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 07:54 8-9 0.18-0.37
43 Valeri Nichushkin R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 13:25 0.07 9-10 0.17-0.42
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 15:30 0.21 10-15 0.13-0.54
70 Sam Malinski D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 18:56 0.06 16-16 0.35-0.86
79 Ross Colton C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 08:08 0.00 6-4 0.05-0.12
84 Brent Burns D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 15:48 0.03 16-8 0.38-0.35
88 Martin Necas C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 24:52 0.27 21-15 0.86-0.64
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
39 Mackenzie Blackwood 13 12 1 32:27 1.63 +0.63
41 Scott Wedgewood L 12 9 3 24:23 1.17 -1.83

Minnesota Wild

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mats Zuccarello · Ryan Hartman · Kirill Kaprizov11:0545.846.70-0
Marcus Johansson · Matt Boldy · Danila Yurov5:0487.578.20-0
Vladimir Tarasenko · Michael McCarron · Yakov Trenin4:4012.50.00-0
Nick Foligno · Marcus Foligno · Nico Sturm4:3160.082.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Quinn Hughes · Brock Faber19:1951.457.70-0
Zach Bogosian · Jake Middleton8:5233.342.40-0
Jared Spurgeon · Daemon Hunt8:1440.062.80-0

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
7 Brock Faber D 1 2 3 3 2 4 1 29:37 0.35 21-22 0.90-0.78
97 Kirill Kaprizov L 1 2 3 3 0 4 0 23:27 0.82 16-20 0.64-0.79
43 Quinn Hughes D 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 28:32 0.09 21-23 0.88-0.77
36 Mats Zuccarello R 0 2 2 0 0 3 1 17:27 0.13 14-16 0.60-0.68
12 Matt Boldy L 1 0 1 2 0 5 1 21:03 0.35 14-8 0.43-0.23
38 Ryan Hartman R 1 0 1 1 2 3 1 21:14 0.33 16-20 0.68-0.83
47 Michael McCarron C 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 13:30 7-20 0.17-0.31
91 Vladimir Tarasenko R 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 12:27 0.21 7-18 0.43-0.37
13 Yakov Trenin C 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 11:14 0.06 4-16 0.28-0.39
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 0 2 0 9 09:01 0.15 6-8 0.20-0.16
22 Danila Yurov R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:23 0.37 13-15 0.65-0.43
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:18 0.03 10-13 0.46-0.37
46 Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 17:36 0.08 11-14 0.50-0.26
48 Daemon Hunt D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14:34 0.01 10-12 0.34-0.30
55 Jake Middleton D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14:26 8-17 0.39-0.50
71 Nick Foligno L 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 11:37 6-6 0.20-0.10
78 Nico Sturm C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 08:45 0.00 4-5 0.16-0.16
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10:57 0.08 17-6 0.51-0.15
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Jesper Wallstedt W 36 35 1 59:57 2.96 +1.96