Game

Avalanche at Wild

Avalanche 5, Wild 1 · first star Cale Makar (1 G, 2 A).

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

Colorado Avalanche 5 at Minnesota Wild 1

Avalanche COL

5 FINAL 1

Wild MIN

Sunday, December 21, 2025 · 6:00 PM ET · Grand Casino Arena, St. Paul

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Avalanche	1	2	2	5	42
Wild	0	0	1	1	29

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Avalanche attack left, Wild 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 42, MIN 29.

COL in red MIN in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Avalanche 42 shots on goal (5 goals, 20 missed, 27 blocked) attacking left; Wild 29 shots on goal (1 goal, 21 missed, 12 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	COL SOG	COL G	COL ATT	MIN SOG	MIN G	MIN ATT
1st	14	1	33	7	0	15
2nd	19	2	36	13	0	24
3rd	9	2	20	9	1	23
Total	42	5	89	29	1	62

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	COL SOG	COL G	MIN SOG	MIN G
Even strength	28	3	23	1
Power play	11	2	4	0
Short-handed	3	0	2	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Avalanche took 58.9% of the shot attempts, and 59.1% of the 110 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 Wild 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 Wild
Period	MIN CF%	MIN FF%
1st	31.3	31.4
2nd	40.0	42.5
3rd	53.5	63.3
Game	41.1	44.6

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

Scoring summary

1st period

18:28 Martin Necas (16) Cale Makar (31), Gabriel Landeskog (11) · snap 1–0

2nd period

13:37 Nathan MacKinnon (29) PP Brock Nelson (10), Cale Makar (32) · slap 2–0
18:33 Cale Makar (11) PP Brock Nelson (11), Gabriel Landeskog (12) · snap 3–0

3rd period

05:15 Ryan Hartman (9) Jonas Brodin (7), Kirill Kaprizov (20) · wrist 3–1
15:52 Brock Nelson (14) Samuel Girard (6), Valeri Nichushkin (12) · slap 4–1
17:35 Nathan MacKinnon (30) EN Devon Toews (11), Valeri Nichushkin (13) · wrist 5–1

Three stars

Cale Makar COL · D #8 · 1 G, 2 A
Nathan MacKinnon COL · C #29 · 2 G, 0 A
Mackenzie Blackwood COL · G #39 · 0 GA, .966 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	04:56	COL	Josh Manson	interference	2	Kirill Kaprizov
1st	09:03	MIN	Kirill Kaprizov	hooking	2	Cale Makar
2nd	10:03	COL	Jack Drury	high sticking	2	Ryan Hartman
2nd	12:47	MIN	Vladimir Tarasenko	interference	2	Nathan MacKinnon
2nd	15:07	MIN	Marcus Foligno	interference	2	Gavin Brindley
2nd	15:07	MIN	Marcus Foligno	cross checking	2	Gavin Brindley
3rd	09:30	COL	Gabriel Landeskog	holding	2	Jonas Brodin

Boxscore

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Brock Nelson #11	C	1	2	3	+1	2	1	0	0	28.6	17:57
Cale Makar #8	D	1	2	3	+2	7	1	0	0	0.0	23:25
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	2	0	2	+2	4	2	1	0	52.2	22:33
Gabriel Landeskog #92	L	0	2	2	+2	4	4	1	2	81.8	20:52
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	0	2	2	+2	3	1	1	0	0.0	19:27
Martin Necas #88	C	1	0	1	+1	3	2	0	0	0.0	19:40
Devon Toews #7	D	0	1	1	+2	4	0	2	0	0.0	22:23
Samuel Girard #49	D	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	14:24
Gavin Brindley #54	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	50.0	09:45
Jack Drury #18	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	83.3	11:50
Parker Kelly #17	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	100.0	10:35
Ross Colton #20	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	40.0	10:03
Artturi Lehkonen #62	L	0	0	0	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	17:07
Joel Kiviranta #94	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:09
Victor Olofsson #95	L	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	10:12
Brent Burns #84	D	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0.0	20:28
Josh Manson #42	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0.0	17:27
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	15:43

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Mackenzie Blackwood #39	W	29	28	1	.966	22/23	4/4	60:00

Minnesota Wild

Wild skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ryan Hartman #38	R	1	0	1	+1	3	1	3	0	63.2	18:09
Kirill Kaprizov #97	L	0	1	1	-1	3	2	0	2	0.0	21:29
Jonas Brodin #25	D	0	1	1	0	1	0	4	0	0.0	22:35
Joel Eriksson Ek #14	C	0	0	0	-1	3	1	1	0	43.3	20:24
Nico Sturm #78	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	37.5	10:41
Vinnie Hinostroza #18	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	50.0	08:29
Yakov Trenin #13	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	2	0	66.7	11:41
Marcus Foligno #17	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	0.0	08:50
Marcus Johansson #90	L	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	15:30
Matt Boldy #12	L	0	0	0	-1	5	0	0	0	50.0	21:34
Danila Yurov #22	R	0	0	0	-2	1	0	1	0	16.7	10:03
Mats Zuccarello #36	R	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	19:56
Vladimir Tarasenko #91	R	0	0	0	-2	1	1	1	2	0.0	13:57
Brock Faber #7	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	3	0	0.0	23:07
David Jiricek #55	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	06:59
Jake Middleton #5	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0.0	13:20
Jared Spurgeon #46	D	0	0	0	-1	1	2	5	0	0.0	21:34
Quinn Hughes #43	D	0	0	0	-1	4	0	2	0	0.0	26:41

Wild goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jesper Wallstedt #30	L	41	37	4	.902	25/27	9/11	58:45

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.