Game

Blues at Avalanche

Avalanche 6, Blues 1 · first star Valeri Nichushkin (3 G, 0 A).

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

St. Louis Blues 1 at Colorado Avalanche 6

Blues STL

1 FINAL 6

Avalanche COL

Wednesday, December 31, 2025 · 9:00 PM ET · Ball Arena, Denver

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Blues	0	0	1	1	13
Avalanche	4	1	1	6	43

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Blues attack left, Avalanche attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 2 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: STL 13, COL 43.

STL in red COL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Blues 13 shots on goal (1 goal, 8 missed, 7 blocked) attacking left; Avalanche 43 shots on goal (6 goals, 12 missed, 24 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	STL SOG	STL G	STL ATT	COL SOG	COL G	COL ATT
1st	4	0	8	20	4	36
2nd	3	0	8	14	1	26
3rd	6	1	12	9	1	17
Total	13	1	28	43	6	79

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	STL SOG	STL G	COL SOG	COL G
Even strength	9	1	40	5
Power play	3	0	2	1
Short-handed	1	0	1	0

Attempt share by period

Avalanche took 73.8% of the shot attempts, and 76.3% of the 93 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 Avalanche and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Blues hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Blues at Avalanche
Period	COL CF%	COL FF%
1st	81.8	74.2
2nd	76.5	79.2
3rd	58.6	61.9
Game	73.8	72.4

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

Scoring summary

1st period

01:00 Valeri Nichushkin (9) Artturi Lehkonen (18), Brock Nelson (14) · wrist 0–1
03:13 Nathan MacKinnon (33) Josh Manson (11), Devon Toews (12) · wrist 0–2
03:26 Valeri Nichushkin (10) Josh Manson (12), Brent Burns (15) · snap 0–3
04:39 Nathan MacKinnon (34) Martin Necas (32), Gabriel Landeskog (15) · slap 0–4

2nd period

09:41 Brock Nelson (16) PP Cale Makar (33), Nathan MacKinnon (35) · slap 0–5

3rd period

14:32 Dalibor Dvorsky (6) Matthew Kessel (1) · snap 1–5
16:06 Valeri Nichushkin (11) Sam Malinski (19), Nathan MacKinnon (36) · wrist 1–6

Three stars

Valeri Nichushkin COL · R #13 · 3 G, 0 A
Nathan MacKinnon COL · C #29 · 2 G, 2 A
Brock Nelson COL · C #11 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
2nd	08:16	STL	Jake Neighbours	tripping	2	Gabriel Landeskog
2nd	11:07	COL	Josh Manson	tripping	2	Jimmy Snuggerud
2nd	14:50	COL	Parker Kelly	high sticking	2	Jake Neighbours
2nd	15:32	STL	Justin Faulk	interference	2	Valeri Nichushkin
2nd	19:51	STL	Jake Neighbours	tripping	2	Sam Malinski
3rd	06:52	COL	Zakhar Bardakov	tripping	2	Robby Fabbri

Boxscore

St. Louis Blues

Blues skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Dalibor Dvorsky #54	R	1	0	1	+1	2	2	0	0	55.6	15:49
Matthew Kessel #51	D	0	1	1	0	1	2	3	0	0.0	16:03
Brayden Schenn #10	C	0	0	0	-2	1	4	0	0	41.2	15:22
Oskar Sundqvist #70	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	42.9	14:41
Otto Stenberg #28	C	0	0	0	+1	2	2	3	0	40.0	13:33
Robby Fabbri #9	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	0	0.0	13:08
Robert Thomas #18	C	0	0	0	-2	0	0	2	0	50.0	17:56
Jake Neighbours #63	L	0	0	0	-3	0	1	3	4	0.0	13:51
Pavel Buchnevich #89	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	0.0	16:47
Alexey Toropchenko #13	R	0	0	0	-1	0	4	0	0	0.0	14:00
Jimmy Snuggerud #21	R	0	0	0	-3	1	0	3	0	0.0	15:30
Jonatan Berggren #29	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	14:21
Jordan Kyrou #25	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	100.0	14:09
Cam Fowler #17	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	19:29
Colton Parayko #55	D	0	0	0	-3	1	2	2	0	0.0	20:18
Justin Faulk #72	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	2	2	0.0	21:53
Philip Broberg #6	D	0	0	0	-3	0	0	1	0	0.0	22:09
Tyler Tucker #75	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	15:57

Blues goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jordan Binnington #50	L	43	37	6	.860	35/40	1/2	59:39

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	2	2	4	+3	7	0	0	0	70.0	17:12
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	3	0	3	+3	6	1	1	0	0.0	17:05
Brock Nelson #11	C	1	1	2	+2	1	0	0	0	64.3	16:48
Josh Manson #42	D	0	2	2	+2	3	0	1	2	0.0	17:59
Martin Necas #88	C	0	1	1	+2	5	0	0	0	0.0	17:11
Artturi Lehkonen #62	L	0	1	1	+3	0	1	0	0	0.0	14:44
Gabriel Landeskog #92	L	0	1	1	+2	0	1	0	0	72.7	14:08
Brent Burns #84	D	0	1	1	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	18:06
Cale Makar #8	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	20:59
Devon Toews #7	D	0	1	1	+2	4	0	0	0	0.0	19:33
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	1	1	+1	3	1	1	0	0.0	19:47
Gavin Brindley #54	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	50.0	11:50
Jack Drury #18	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	50.0	13:58
Parker Kelly #17	C	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	2	38.5	16:39
Ross Colton #20	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	0	0.0	12:54
Zakhar Bardakov #93	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	2	0.0	13:27
Victor Olofsson #95	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	11:39
Samuel Girard #49	D	0	0	0	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	20:26

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Mackenzie Blackwood #39	W	13	12	1	.923	8/9	3/3	59:35

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.