Game

Avalanche at Blue Jackets

Avalanche 4, Blue Jackets 1 · first star Scott Wedgewood (0 GA, .957 SV%).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Colorado Avalanche 4 at Columbus Blue Jackets 1

Avalanche COL

4 FINAL 1

Blue Jackets CBJ

Thursday, October 16, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Nationwide Arena, Columbus

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Avalanche	0	3	1	4	36
Blue Jackets	0	1	0	1	23

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Avalanche attack left, Blue Jackets attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 3 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: COL 36, CBJ 23.

COL in red CBJ in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Avalanche 36 shots on goal (4 goals, 19 missed, 22 blocked) attacking left; Blue Jackets 23 shots on goal (1 goal, 17 missed, 16 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	COL SOG	COL G	COL ATT	CBJ SOG	CBJ G	CBJ ATT
1st	12	0	29	7	0	20
2nd	14	3	30	7	1	14
3rd	10	1	18	9	0	22
Total	36	4	77	23	1	56

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	COL SOG	COL G	CBJ SOG	CBJ G
Even strength	35	4	20	1
Power play	1	0	3	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Avalanche took 57.9% of the shot attempts, and 61.9% of the 118 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Blue Jackets and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Avalanche hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Avalanche at Blue Jackets
Period	CBJ CF%	CBJ FF%
1st	40.8	41.2
2nd	31.8	34.4
3rd	55.0	51.7
Game	42.1	42.1

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

2nd period

01:36 Ivan Provorov (1) Kirill Marchenko (1) · wrist 0–1
10:34 Cale Makar (2) Martin Necas (6), Artturi Lehkonen (2) · wrist 1–1
11:46 Brock Nelson (1) Brent Burns (3), Josh Manson (1) · tip-in 2–1
19:56 Valeri Nichushkin (1) Sam Malinski (2), Victor Olofsson (3) · tip-in 3–1

3rd period

18:07 Valeri Nichushkin (2) EN Gabriel Landeskog (1), Cale Makar (5) · wrist 4–1

Three stars

Scott Wedgewood COL · G #41 · 0 GA, .957 SV%
Brock Nelson COL · C #11 · 1 G, 0 A
Elvis Merzlikins CBJ · G #90 · 0 GA, .914 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	17:32	COL	Brent Burns	hooking	2	Mathieu Olivier
3rd	03:20	COL	Martin Necas	hooking	2	Egor Chinakhov
3rd	07:47	CBJ	Dmitri Voronkov	holding	2	Cale Makar

Boxscore

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	2	0	2	+2	4	1	0	0	0.0	17:21
Cale Makar #8	D	1	1	2	+2	3	0	1	0	0.0	23:19
Brock Nelson #11	C	1	0	1	+2	2	2	1	0	47.1	16:46
Martin Necas #88	C	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	2	0.0	19:51
Artturi Lehkonen #62	L	0	1	1	+1	2	1	2	0	0.0	18:03
Gabriel Landeskog #92	L	0	1	1	+1	0	1	0	0	100.0	16:07
Victor Olofsson #95	L	0	1	1	+1	5	0	0	0	0.0	12:57
Brent Burns #84	D	0	1	1	+1	3	0	2	2	0.0	20:54
Josh Manson #42	D	0	1	1	0	1	0	3	0	0.0	19:29
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	1	1	+2	3	1	0	0	0.0	16:39
Gavin Brindley #54	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	10:20
Jack Drury #18	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	70.0	14:33
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	0	0	0	+1	2	1	3	0	52.9	18:24
Parker Kelly #17	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	57.1	11:09
Ross Colton #20	C	0	0	0	0	5	2	0	0	0.0	12:09
Joel Kiviranta #94	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	10:29
Devon Toews #7	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	23:49
Ilya Solovyov #28	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	13:41

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Scott Wedgewood #41	W	23	22	1	.957	19/20	3/3	60:00

Columbus Blue Jackets

Blue Jackets skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ivan Provorov #9	D	1	0	1	-2	1	0	1	0	0.0	24:56
Kirill Marchenko #86	R	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	18:30
Adam Fantilli #19	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	1	0	33.3	17:02
Boone Jenner #38	C	0	0	0	-3	1	2	0	0	62.5	19:45
Charlie Coyle #3	C	0	0	0	-2	2	0	1	0	12.5	16:13
Cole Sillinger #4	C	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	13:17
Isac Lundeström #21	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	2	0	33.3	11:40
Kent Johnson #91	C	0	0	0	+1	3	0	1	0	0.0	17:08
Sean Monahan #23	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	65.0	18:04
Dmitri Voronkov #10	L	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	2	0.0	15:47
Zachary Aston-Reese #27	L	0	0	0	-1	2	2	1	0	0.0	08:48
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0	0.0	09:00
Mathieu Olivier #24	R	0	0	0	-2	2	2	2	0	0.0	17:12
Damon Severson #78	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	2	0	0.0	21:12
Dante Fabbro #15	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	4	0	0.0	21:00
Denton Mateychuk #5	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	15:53
Jake Christiansen #2	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	07:38
Zach Werenski #8	D	0	0	0	0	3	1	3	0	0.0	26:25

Blue Jackets goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Elvis Merzlikins #90	L	35	32	3	.914	31/34	1/1	58:30

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.