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Colorado Avalanche at Vegas Golden Knights

Western Conference Finals, Game 3 · May 24, 2026 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 3 35
Vegas Golden Knights 5 23

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:21 COL Gabriel Landeskog (5) Devon Toews (8), Nathan MacKinnon (8) 1 - 0
07:03 COL Nazem Kadri (3) Martin Necas (11), Josh Manson (3) 2 - 0
13:15 COL Jack Drury (3) SH Parker Kelly (2), Devon Toews (9) 3 - 0
2nd Period
00:19 VGK Mark Stone (4) PP Mitch Marner (13), Tomas Hertl (6) 3 - 1
04:05 VGK William Karlsson (1) Mitch Marner (14) 3 - 2
12:46 VGK Keegan Kolesar (1) Dylan Coghlan (1), Kaedan Korczak (2) 3 - 3
3rd Period
08:21 VGK Tomas Hertl (3) Mark Stone (5), Kaedan Korczak (3) 3 - 4
19:01 VGK Brett Howden (10) William Karlsson (4), Shea Theodore (6) 3 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
09:31 VGK Cole Smith Tripping 2
11:28 COL Nazem Kadri High sticking 2
17:09 VGK Rasmus Andersson Hooking 2
19:19 COL Brock Nelson Tripping 2
2nd Period
05:28 COL Brent Burns Cross checking 2
08:03 VGK Cole Smith High sticking 2
3rd Period
02:14 VGK Mark Stone Slashing 2
02:14 COL Ross Colton Roughing 2
09:54 VGK Mitch Marner Tripping 2
19:20 COL Ross Colton Misconduct 10

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 71 49 35 3 3.7 57.5
Vegas Golden Knights 49 36 23 5 3.8 42.5

How the game went

20151050Start2nd3rdVegas Golden Knights 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 Vegas Golden Knights had taken more, and below it and blue while Colorado Avalanche had.

Expected goals

Colorado Avalanche: 3.7 expected, 3 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 3.8 expected, 5 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndCOL goal, 3:21 of 1st, a 44% chanceCOL goal, 7:03 of 1st, a 9% chanceCOL goal, 13:15 of 1st, a 24% chanceVGK goal, 0:19 of 2nd, a 20% chanceVGK goal, 4:05 of 2nd, a 38% chanceVGK goal, 12:46 of 2nd, a 28% chanceVGK goal, 8:21 of 3rd, a 7% chanceVGK goal, 19:01 of 3rd, a 44% chanceVGK 3.8COL 3.7

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
Vegas Golden Knights

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 · Artturi Lehkonen · Nathan MacKinnon7:2561.566.90-0
Parker Kelly · Jack Drury · Logan O'Connor7:1837.516.70-2
Nazem Kadri · Brock Nelson · Martin Necas5:2957.145.51-0
Valeri Nichushkin · Nicolas Roy · Ross Colton4:5254.540.00-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Devon Toews · Cale Makar13:1053.354.90-0
Brent Burns · Josh Manson9:4858.848.70-1
Brett Kulak · Sam Malinski9:3755.626.30-2

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
7 Devon Toews D 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 23:14 0.05 20-14 0.93-0.35
18 Jack Drury C 1 0 1 -1 0 1 1 11:04 0.24 6-12 0.11-0.58
91 Nazem Kadri C 1 0 1 1 2 3 1 19:19 0.33 13-7 0.71-0.33
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 1 0 1 0 0 6 0 24:04 1.26 17-12 0.83-0.34
17 Parker Kelly C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 1 12:52 12-11 0.24-0.66
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 0 1 1 -1 0 5 2 18:02 0.32 10-7 0.38-0.25
42 Josh Manson D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 16:20 0.04 10-11 0.53-0.64
88 Martin Necas C 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 21:18 0.33 8-4 0.39-0.14
8 Cale Makar D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 27:14 0.34 23-15 0.59-0.35
10 Nicolas Roy C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 11:17 0.01 11-9 0.42-0.61
11 Brock Nelson C 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 19:02 0.27 13-6 0.85-0.14
25 Logan O'Connor R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 12:02 0.07 14-12 0.35-0.58
27 Brett Kulak D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 15:04 0.07 11-12 0.27-0.68
43 Valeri Nichushkin R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 08:34 0.20 6-6 0.27-0.53
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:15 0.07 18-10 0.69-0.16
70 Sam Malinski D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 12:57 0.02 12-8 0.66-0.60
79 Ross Colton C 0 0 0 -1 12 1 4 08:29 0.06 9-6 0.28-0.44
84 Brent Burns D 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 16:38 0.02 17-8 0.70-0.56
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Scott Wedgewood L 22 18 4 58:15 2.84 -1.16

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
William Karlsson · Mitch Marner · Brett Howden9:5053.375.51-0
Ivan Barbashev · Jack Eichel · Pavel Dorofeyev9:2937.520.20-0
Mark Stone · Tomas Hertl · Colton Sissons6:4423.10.00-0
Nic Dowd · Keegan Kolesar · Cole Smith4:1083.398.81-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Shea Theodore15:0545.559.30-0
Noah Hanifin · Rasmus Andersson14:0221.418.40-1
Dylan Coghlan · Kaedan Korczak8:4070.077.33-1

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
48 Tomas Hertl C 1 1 2 0 0 3 2 13:23 0.53 5-11 0.19-0.20
61 Mark Stone R 1 1 2 -1 2 3 4 15:45 0.43 4-14 0.07-0.50
71 William Karlsson C 1 1 2 3 0 2 0 17:22 0.52 11-7 0.81-0.20
6 Kaedan Korczak D 0 2 2 2 0 0 1 09:38 0.02 16-6 1.05-0.27
93 Mitch Marner R 0 2 2 0 2 2 1 23:59 0.11 13-13 0.72-0.79
21 Brett Howden C 1 0 1 2 0 2 4 17:03 0.28 13-10 0.81-0.35
55 Keegan Kolesar R 1 0 1 1 0 1 3 05:19 0.36 6-1 0.56-0.01
27 Shea Theodore D 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 23:32 0.03 12-15 0.33-0.33
52 Dylan Coghlan D 0 1 1 2 0 3 1 11:04 0.07 15-9 0.99-0.62
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 23:45 0.02 12-12 0.40-0.18
4 Rasmus Andersson D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 21:06 6-23 0.20-1.10
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 23:02 0.15 11-21 0.14-1.20
15 Colton Sissons C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:27 0.16 5-12 0.12-0.20
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 23:17 0.08 7-27 0.20-1.18
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 17:09 0.35 10-19 0.10-0.54
22 Cole Smith R 0 0 0 0 4 0 3 06:08 7-2 0.57-0.09
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10:20 6-6 0.51-0.24
49 Ivan Barbashev L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 5 15:57 11-22 0.14-1.20
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
79 Carter Hart W 35 32 3 59:44 3.39 +0.39