Game

Avalanche at Lightning

Lightning 4, Avalanche 2 · first star Nikita Kucherov (0 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 2 at Tampa Bay Lightning 4

Avalanche COL

2 FINAL 4

Lightning TBL

Tuesday, January 6, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Benchmark International Arena, Tampa · TV SNE · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Avalanche	0	2	0	2	33
Lightning	1	1	2	4	28

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Avalanche attack left, Lightning 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: COL 33, TBL 28.

COL in red TBL in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Avalanche 33 shots on goal (2 goals, 13 missed, 21 blocked) attacking left; Lightning 28 shots on goal (4 goals, 20 missed, 19 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	COL SOG	COL G	COL ATT	TBL SOG	TBL G	TBL ATT
1st	7	0	17	12	1	25
2nd	13	2	23	10	1	27
3rd	13	0	27	6	2	15
Total	33	2	67	28	4	67

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	COL SOG	COL G	TBL SOG	TBL G
Even strength	29	2	25	3
Power play	4	0	3	1
Short-handed	0	0	0	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Lightning took 50.0% of the shot attempts, and 53.4% of the 103 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 Lightning 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 Lightning
Period	TBL CF%	TBL FF%
1st	59.5	64.3
2nd	54.0	50.0
3rd	35.7	40.0
Game	50.0	51.1

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

Scoring summary

1st period

19:48 Jake Guentzel (19) PP Nikita Kucherov (40), Darren Raddysh (23) · wrist 0–1

2nd period

03:22 Parker Kelly (8) Zakhar Bardakov (5), Ilya Solovyov (1) · wrist 1–1
09:31 Brock Nelson (19) Cale Makar (36) · snap 2–1
17:22 Zemgus Girgensons (6) Yanni Gourde (9), Pontus Holmberg (7) · tip-in 2–2

3rd period

08:31 Brandon Hagel (20) Max Crozier (9), Nikita Kucherov (41) · snap 2–3
18:35 Anthony Cirelli (12) EN Brandon Hagel (18), Darren Raddysh (24) · snap 2–4

Three stars

Nikita Kucherov TBL · R #86 · 0 G, 2 A
Brandon Hagel TBL · L #38 · 1 G, 1 A
Zemgus Girgensons TBL · C #28 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:58	TBL	Darren Raddysh	holding	2	Nathan MacKinnon
1st	18:14	COL	Brent Burns	tripping	2	Nikita Kucherov
2nd	07:28	COL	Zakhar Bardakov	slashing	2	Darren Raddysh
3rd	01:19	TBL	Charle-Edouard D'Astous	holding	2	Valeri Nichushkin
3rd	20:00	TBL	Nick Paul	roughing	2	Martin Necas
3rd	20:00	COL	Martin Necas	roughing	2	Nick Paul
3rd	20:00	TBL	Charle-Edouard D'Astous	roughing	2	Artturi Lehkonen
3rd	20:00	TBL	Charle-Edouard D'Astous	misconduct (misconduct)	10	—

Boxscore

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Brock Nelson #11	C	1	0	1	-1	4	0	1	0	76.2	22:14
Parker Kelly #17	C	1	0	1	+1	2	2	0	0	100.0	11:20
Zakhar Bardakov #93	C	0	1	1	+2	1	1	1	2	0.0	07:23
Cale Makar #8	D	0	1	1	-2	1	0	5	0	0.0	26:04
Ilya Solovyov #28	D	0	1	1	+1	0	2	0	0	0.0	12:53
Gavin Brindley #54	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	14:49
Jack Drury #18	C	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	0	50.0	15:54
Martin Necas #88	C	0	0	0	-2	3	4	0	2	0.0	21:54
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	0	0	0	-2	5	3	0	0	66.7	22:37
Ross Colton #20	C	0	0	0	0	4	1	2	0	0.0	12:34
Artturi Lehkonen #62	L	0	0	0	-2	2	1	1	0	0.0	18:55
Taylor Makar #16	L	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	05:29
Victor Olofsson #95	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	11:54
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	0	0.0	19:30
Brent Burns #84	D	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	2	0.0	18:19
Josh Manson #42	D	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0.0	19:02
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	0	0	+1	3	2	2	0	0.0	18:51
Samuel Girard #49	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	2	0	0.0	18:42

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Scott Wedgewood #41	L	27	24	3	.889	22/24	2/3	58:02

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Brandon Hagel #38	L	1	1	2	+2	2	0	1	0	0.0	17:39
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	0	2	2	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	16:20
Darren Raddysh #43	D	0	2	2	+2	4	1	0	2	0.0	24:39
Anthony Cirelli #71	C	1	0	1	+1	2	0	0	0	27.3	14:05
Jake Guentzel #59	C	1	0	1	-1	3	0	1	0	66.7	18:38
Zemgus Girgensons #28	C	1	0	1	+1	1	2	0	0	50.0	14:40
Yanni Gourde #37	C	0	1	1	+1	0	2	3	0	21.4	16:15
Pontus Holmberg #29	R	0	1	1	+1	1	1	1	0	0.0	14:27
Max Crozier #24	D	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	15:33
Brayden Point #21	C	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	35.7	16:50
Dominic James #17	C	0	0	0	-1	1	4	0	0	20.0	12:08
Gage Goncalves #93	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	11:47
Nick Paul #20	L	0	0	0	-1	2	3	1	2	33.3	12:12
Oliver Bjorkstrand #22	R	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0.0	13:43
Charle-Edouard D'Astous #51	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	5	14	0.0	21:10
Declan Carlile #67	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	11:30
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	-1	1	4	1	0	0.0	20:18
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	0	0	+2	2	2	2	0	0.0	24:06

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88	W	33	31	2	.939	27/29	4/4	60:00

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.