Game

Avalanche at Senators

Senators 5, Avalanche 2 · first star Nick Cousins (1 G, 0 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 Ottawa Senators 5

Avalanche COL

2 FINAL 5

Senators OTT

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 · 7:30 PM ET · Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa · TV SN · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Avalanche	0	1	1	2	18
Senators	0	2	3	5	23

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Avalanche attack left, Senators attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 2 empty-net goals are drawn as diamonds. Boxscore shots on goal: COL 18, OTT 23.

COL in red OTT in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Avalanche 18 shots on goal (2 goals, 19 missed, 11 blocked) attacking left; Senators 23 shots on goal (5 goals, 10 missed, 12 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	COL SOG	COL G	COL ATT	OTT SOG	OTT G	OTT ATT
1st	4	0	5	9	0	17
2nd	4	1	12	6	2	17
3rd	10	1	31	8	3	11
Total	18	2	48	23	5	45

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	COL SOG	COL G	OTT SOG	OTT G
Even strength	18	2	17	5
Power play	0	0	6	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0
Into an empty net	0	0	2	2

Attempt share by period

Avalanche took 51.6% of the shot attempts, and 57.1% of the 70 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 Senators 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 Senators
Period	OTT CF%	OTT FF%
1st	77.3	77.8
2nd	58.6	52.6
3rd	26.2	27.3
Game	48.4	47.1

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

Scoring summary

2nd period

03:21 Nick Cousins (7) Artem Zub (14), Tim Stützle (31) · backhand 0–1
14:05 Parker Kelly (11) Brock Nelson (19), Keaton Middleton (1) · snap 1–1
14:22 Ridly Greig (9) Tyler Kleven (9), Jordan Spence (13) · wrist 1–2

3rd period

02:06 Claude Giroux (10) Drake Batherson (26), Nick Jensen (11) · wrist 1–3
03:30 Valeri Nichushkin (12) Jack Drury (9) · backhand 2–3
17:44 Brady Tkachuk (13) EN Jake Sanderson (32) · wrist 2–4
18:53 Tim Stützle (24) EN Thomas Chabot (17), Artem Zub (15) · wrist 2–5

Three stars

Nick Cousins OTT · C #21 · 1 G, 0 A
Tim Stützle OTT · C #18 · 1 G, 1 A
Claude Giroux OTT · R #28 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	01:20	COL	Sam Malinski	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
1st	17:13	COL	Taylor Makar	hooking	2	Drake Batherson
2nd	10:06	COL	Artturi Lehkonen	hooking	2	Thomas Chabot

Boxscore

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Parker Kelly #17	C	1	0	1	-1	2	2	1	0	0.0	14:04
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	1	0	1	-1	2	1	1	0	0.0	15:59
Brock Nelson #11	C	0	1	1	-2	0	0	1	0	42.9	22:23
Jack Drury #18	C	0	1	1	-1	1	2	0	0	75.0	16:30
Keaton Middleton #67	D	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	10:23
Gavin Brindley #54	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	08:43
Martin Necas #88	C	0	0	0	-3	0	3	0	0	0.0	22:37
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	0	0	0	-3	1	0	1	0	83.3	23:36
Zakhar Bardakov #93	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	04:42
Artturi Lehkonen #62	L	0	0	0	+1	0	2	0	2	0.0	16:51
Joel Kiviranta #94	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	0.0	11:41
Taylor Makar #16	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0.0	05:30
Victor Olofsson #95	L	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0.0	15:22
Brent Burns #84	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	21:45
Cale Makar #8	D	0	0	0	-2	4	0	3	0	0.0	27:22
Josh Manson #42	D	0	0	0	-1	1	4	0	0	0.0	20:55
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	2	0.0	20:52
Samuel Girard #49	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	0.0	17:04

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Mackenzie Blackwood #39	L	21	18	3	.857	12/15	6/6	57:41

Ottawa Senators

Senators skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	FO%	TOI
Tim Stützle #18	C	1	1	2	+3	3	1	0	50.0	18:28
Artem Zub #2	D	0	2	2	+3	1	2	1	0.0	21:55
Nick Cousins #21	C	1	0	1	+1	3	3	1	100.0	16:44
Ridly Greig #71	C	1	0	1	+2	1	1	0	20.0	18:45
Brady Tkachuk #7	L	1	0	1	+1	3	1	0	66.7	15:12
Claude Giroux #28	R	1	0	1	+2	4	0	0	50.0	17:34
Drake Batherson #19	R	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0.0	16:08
Jake Sanderson #85	D	0	1	1	+2	1	4	1	0.0	24:43
Jordan Spence #10	D	0	1	1	+1	0	3	2	0.0	15:06
Nick Jensen #3	D	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0.0	17:04
Thomas Chabot #72	D	0	1	1	0	2	1	1	0.0	21:24
Tyler Kleven #43	D	0	1	1	0	1	4	1	0.0	13:59
Dylan Cozens #24	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	36.4	14:44
Lars Eller #89	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	50.0	08:14
Shane Pinto #12	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	16.7	22:19
Fabian Zetterlund #20	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0.0	12:16
Michael Amadio #22	R	0	0	0	+1	0	1	2	0.0	20:13
Xavier Bourgault #53	R	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0.0	05:12

Senators goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
James Reimer #47	W	18	16	2	.889	16/18	0/0	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.