Game

Predators at Avalanche

Predators 7, Avalanche 3 · first star Ryan O'Reilly (3 G, 1 A).

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

Nashville Predators 7 at Colorado Avalanche 3

Predators NSH

7 FINAL 3

Avalanche COL

Friday, January 16, 2026 · 9:00 PM ET · Ball Arena, Denver · TV SNE (JIP) · SN360 · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Predators	2	2	3	7	30
Avalanche	2	0	1	3	43

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Predators attack left, Avalanche 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; 2 empty-net goals are drawn as diamonds. Boxscore shots on goal: NSH 30, COL 43.

NSH in red COL in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Predators 30 shots on goal (7 goals, 9 missed, 18 blocked) attacking left; Avalanche 43 shots on goal (3 goals, 10 missed, 13 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NSH SOG	NSH G	NSH ATT	COL SOG	COL G	COL ATT
1st	11	2	24	17	2	26
2nd	11	2	18	16	0	23
3rd	8	3	15	10	1	17
Total	30	7	57	43	3	66

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NSH SOG	NSH G	COL SOG	COL G
Even strength	26	5	40	3
Power play	3	1	3	0
Short-handed	1	1	0	0
Into an empty net	2	2	0	0

Attempt share by period

Avalanche took 53.7% of the shot attempts, and 55.9% of the 111 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 Predators hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Predators at Avalanche
Period	COL CF%	COL FF%
1st	52.0	56.8
2nd	56.1	60.0
3rd	53.1	56.0
Game	53.7	57.6

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

Scoring summary

1st period

00:30 Ryan O'Reilly (14) Filip Forsberg (17) · backhand 1–0
01:24 Brock Nelson (23) Brent Burns (16), Valeri Nichushkin (16) · backhand 1–1
07:32 Ryan O'Reilly (15) Luke Evangelista (26), Filip Forsberg (18) · wrist 2–1
11:16 Brock Nelson (24) Josh Manson (16), Sam Malinski (21) · wrist 2–2

2nd period

13:01 Ryan O'Reilly (16) Luke Evangelista (27), Roman Josi (16) · wrist 3–2
18:04 Michael Bunting (12) Steven Stamkos (12) · wrist 4–2

3rd period

01:09 Martin Necas (22) Nathan MacKinnon (46), Artturi Lehkonen (20) · snap 4–3
15:13 Filip Forsberg (17) PP Ryan O'Reilly (27), Roman Josi (17) · wrist 5–3
17:04 Steven Stamkos (21) EN Michael Bunting (16), Roman Josi (18) · wrist 6–3
17:41 Michael McCarron (2) SH EN Unassisted · wrist 7–3

Three stars

Ryan O'Reilly NSH · C #90 · 3 G, 1 A
Filip Forsberg NSH · L #9 · 1 G, 2 A
Juuse Saros NSH · G #74 · 0 GA, .930 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
2nd	13:22	NSH	Erik Haula	interference	2	Ross Colton
3rd	13:55	COL	Zakhar Bardakov	interference	2	Erik Haula
3rd	17:31	NSH	Cole Smith	slashing	2	Zakhar Bardakov

Boxscore

Nashville Predators

Predators skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ryan O'Reilly #90	C	3	1	4	+4	6	0	0	0	83.3	19:44
Filip Forsberg #9	L	1	2	3	+3	5	0	1	0	33.3	18:35
Roman Josi #59	D	0	3	3	+3	2	0	2	0	0.0	26:16
Steven Stamkos #91	C	1	1	2	+1	2	0	0	0	66.7	16:55
Michael Bunting #58	L	1	1	2	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	15:19
Luke Evangelista #77	R	0	2	2	+3	0	0	0	0	0.0	18:11
Michael McCarron #47	C	1	0	1	0	1	3	1	0	58.3	12:23
Fedor Svechkov #40	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	72.7	12:26
Tyson Jost #17	C	0	0	0	0	4	2	1	0	0.0	12:05
Erik Haula #56	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	50.0	15:07
Reid Schaefer #49	L	0	0	0	-2	1	6	0	0	0.0	11:04
Cole Smith #36	R	0	0	0	-2	0	2	0	2	0.0	12:13
Matthew Wood #71	R	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	11:11
Brady Skjei #76	D	0	0	0	+4	3	0	1	0	0.0	23:58
Justin Barron #20	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	0	0.0	13:12
Nick Blankenburg #37	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	14:18
Nick Perbix #48	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	20:55
Nicolas Hague #41	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	22:08

Predators goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Juuse Saros #74	W	43	40	3	.930	37/40	3/3	60:00

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Brock Nelson #11	C	2	0	2	-3	4	1	2	0	35.0	16:13
Martin Necas #88	C	1	0	1	-2	2	1	3	0	0.0	20:07
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	0	1	1	-2	4	0	1	0	30.4	20:37
Artturi Lehkonen #62	L	0	1	1	-3	4	0	0	0	0.0	18:30
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	0	1	1	-3	3	0	1	0	0.0	15:18
Brent Burns #84	D	0	1	1	+1	4	0	0	0	0.0	18:53
Josh Manson #42	D	0	1	1	+1	4	2	2	0	0.0	21:11
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	1	1	+1	6	0	3	0	0.0	22:33
Gavin Brindley #54	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	12:13
Ivan Ivan #82	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	25.0	09:36
Jack Drury #18	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	57.1	14:35
Parker Kelly #17	C	0	0	0	-1	0	4	0	0	100.0	16:52
Ross Colton #20	C	0	0	0	+1	5	0	0	0	0.0	13:31
Zakhar Bardakov #93	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0.0	10:24
Victor Olofsson #95	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	13:33
Cale Makar #8	D	0	0	0	-3	1	0	1	0	0.0	23:26
Ilya Solovyov #28	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	0.0	11:35
Samuel Girard #49	D	0	0	0	-3	0	0	1	0	0.0	20:04

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Mackenzie Blackwood #39	L	28	23	5	.821	21/25	2/3	59:31

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.