Game

Blackhawks at Avalanche

Avalanche 3, Blackhawks 1 · first star Gavin Brindley (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.

Chicago Blackhawks 1 at Colorado Avalanche 3

Blackhawks CHI

1 FINAL 3

Avalanche COL

Saturday, February 28, 2026 · 6:00 PM ET · Ball Arena, Denver

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Blackhawks	1	0	0	1	15
Avalanche	0	1	2	3	35

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Blackhawks attack left, Avalanche 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: CHI 15, COL 35.

CHI in red COL in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Blackhawks 15 shots on goal (1 goal, 12 missed, 13 blocked) attacking left; Avalanche 35 shots on goal (3 goals, 20 missed, 16 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CHI SOG	CHI G	CHI ATT	COL SOG	COL G	COL ATT
1st	4	1	14	14	0	29
2nd	5	0	10	10	1	26
3rd	6	0	16	11	2	16
Total	15	1	40	35	3	71

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CHI SOG	CHI G	COL SOG	COL G
Even strength	14	0	26	3
Power play	1	1	7	0
Short-handed	0	0	2	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Avalanche took 64.0% of the shot attempts, and 64.3% of the 84 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 Blackhawks hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Blackhawks at Avalanche
Period	COL CF%	COL FF%
1st	67.4	71.9
2nd	72.2	74.1
3rd	50.0	52.2
Game	64.0	67.1

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

Scoring summary

1st period

06:31 Connor Bedard (25) PP Tyler Bertuzzi (18), Teuvo Teravainen (15) · snap 1–0

2nd period

19:51 Cale Makar (16) Nathan MacKinnon (56), Martin Necas (42) · snap 1–1

3rd period

07:31 Gavin Brindley (6) Sam Malinski (24), Devon Toews (13) · wrist 1–2
18:33 Cale Makar (17) EN Nathan MacKinnon (57), Martin Necas (43) · wrist 1–3

Three stars

Gavin Brindley COL · C #54 · 1 G, 0 A
Cale Makar COL · D #8 · 2 G, 0 A
Mackenzie Blackwood COL · G #39 · 0 GA, .933 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	06:10	COL	Devon Toews	hooking	2	Tyler Bertuzzi
1st	11:55	COL	Josh Manson	tripping	2	Nick Foligno
1st	19:12	CHI	Colton Dach	holding the stick	2	Brett Kulak
2nd	01:58	COL	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
2nd	03:05	CHI	Connor Bedard	slashing	2	Jack Drury
2nd	05:30	CHI	Andre Burakovsky	tripping	2	Brent Burns
2nd	17:46	CHI	Oliver Moore	tripping	2	Martin Necas
3rd	01:37	COL	Devon Toews	hooking	2	Tyler Bertuzzi
3rd	10:40	COL	Gabriel Landeskog	slashing	2	Connor Bedard

Boxscore

Chicago Blackhawks

Blackhawks skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Connor Bedard #98	C	1	0	1	-2	3	1	1	2	26.7	20:33
Teuvo Teravainen #86	C	0	1	1	-2	0	0	0	0	0.0	18:43
Tyler Bertuzzi #59	L	0	1	1	-2	1	1	2	0	0.0	19:36
Colton Dach #34	C	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	2	0.0	07:56
Frank Nazar #91	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	62.5	16:40
Jason Dickinson #16	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	57.1	17:37
Oliver Moore #11	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	2	0.0	11:21
Ryan Donato #8	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	10:27
Ryan Greene #20	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	12.5	14:52
Andre Burakovsky #28	L	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	2	100.0	16:13
Nick Foligno #17	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	42.9	10:48
Ilya Mikheyev #95	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	17:29
Alex Vlasic #72	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	2	0	0.0	23:09
Artyom Levshunov #55	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	2	0	0.0	19:52
Connor Murphy #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0.0	17:08
Kevin Korchinski #14	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	08:24
Louis Crevier #46	D	0	0	0	-1	3	2	0	0	0.0	20:44
Matt Grzelcyk #48	D	0	0	0	-2	1	1	2	0	0.0	22:17

Blackhawks goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Spencer Knight #30	L	34	32	2	.941	23/25	7/7	58:11

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Cale Makar #8	D	2	0	2	+2	3	0	2	0	0.0	23:49
Martin Necas #88	C	0	2	2	+2	2	1	1	0	0.0	23:05
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	0	2	2	+2	6	1	0	0	70.0	23:32
Gavin Brindley #54	C	1	0	1	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	03:26
Devon Toews #7	D	0	1	1	+2	1	1	0	4	0.0	21:15
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	18:18
Brock Nelson #11	C	0	0	0	+1	1	1	1	0	63.6	21:57
Jack Drury #18	C	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	54.5	13:11
Parker Kelly #17	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	75.0	11:26
Ross Colton #20	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	50.0	10:00
Zakhar Bardakov #93	C	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	50.0	04:13
Artturi Lehkonen #62	L	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	16:53
Gabriel Landeskog #92	L	0	0	0	+2	4	0	1	2	63.6	22:16
Victor Olofsson #95	L	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	09:26
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	17:54
Brent Burns #84	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	17:33
Brett Kulak #27	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0.0	16:57
Josh Manson #42	D	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	2	0.0	16:28

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Mackenzie Blackwood #39	W	15	14	1	.933	14/14	0/1	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.