Game

Avalanche at Blues

Avalanche 3, Blues 1 · first star Valeri Nichushkin (2 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 3 at St. Louis Blues 1

Avalanche COL

3 FINAL 1

Blues STL

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 · 8:00 PM ET · Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Avalanche	2	1	0	3	37
Blues	0	1	0	1	19

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Avalanche attack left, Blues 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. Boxscore shots on goal: COL 37, STL 19.

COL in red STL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Avalanche 37 shots on goal (3 goals, 17 missed, 19 blocked) attacking left; Blues 19 shots on goal (1 goal, 12 missed, 20 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	COL SOG	COL G	COL ATT	STL SOG	STL G	STL ATT
1st	17	2	33	2	0	7
2nd	14	1	27	7	1	20
3rd	6	0	13	10	0	24
Total	37	3	73	19	1	51

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	COL SOG	COL G	STL SOG	STL G
Even strength	35	2	16	1
Power play	1	0	3	0
Short-handed	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Avalanche took 58.9% of the shot attempts, and 65.7% of the 102 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 Blues 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 Blues
Period	STL CF%	STL FF%
1st	17.5	11.1
2nd	42.5	39.4
3rd	64.9	60.0
Game	41.1	36.5

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

Scoring summary

1st period

16:11 Valeri Nichushkin (16) Devon Toews (21), Sam Malinski (31) · tip-in 1–0
19:32 Martin Necas (37) Nathan MacKinnon (72), Artturi Lehkonen (27) · wrist 2–0

2nd period

01:40 Valeri Nichushkin (17) SH Brock Nelson (31) · between-legs 3–0
15:38 Robert Thomas (22) Theo Lindstein (2), Jimmy Snuggerud (26) · wrist 3–1

Three stars

Valeri Nichushkin COL · R #13 · 2 G, 0 A
Robert Thomas STL · C #18 · 1 G, 0 A
Martin Necas COL · C #88 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	19:57	COL	Devon Toews	tripping	2	Dylan Holloway
2nd	18:57	STL	Logan Mailloux	tripping	2	Valeri Nichushkin
2nd	19:50	COL	Gabriel Landeskog	tripping	2	Pavel Buchnevich
3rd	10:25	COL	Sam Malinski	tripping	2	Philip Broberg

Boxscore

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	2	0	2	+2	6	1	2	0	0.0	15:45
Martin Necas #88	C	1	0	1	+1	4	1	1	0	0.0	21:21
Brock Nelson #11	C	0	1	1	+2	2	0	2	0	52.2	19:13
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	0	1	1	+1	0	3	1	0	53.8	21:08
Artturi Lehkonen #62	L	0	1	1	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	20:11
Devon Toews #7	D	0	1	1	+2	2	0	2	2	0.0	23:44
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	1	1	+1	5	0	1	2	0.0	19:34
Jack Drury #18	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	50.0	13:21
Nazem Kadri #91	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	33.3	06:09
Nicolas Roy #10	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	50.0	11:48
Parker Kelly #17	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	0.0	09:25
Ross Colton #20	C	0	0	0	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	10:54
Gabriel Landeskog #92	L	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	100.0	15:16
Logan O'Connor #25	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	09:35
Brent Burns #84	D	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	19:14
Brett Kulak #27	D	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	22:40
Josh Manson #42	D	0	0	0	+1	3	1	1	0	0.0	21:15
Nick Blankenburg #37	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	13:27

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Scott Wedgewood #41	W	19	18	1	.947	15/16	3/3	60:00

St. Louis Blues

Blues skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Robert Thomas #18	C	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	52.0	24:04
Jimmy Snuggerud #21	R	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	21:38
Theo Lindstein #41	D	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	15:59
Jack Finley #37	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	31.2	07:44
Pius Suter #22	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	66.7	13:16
Dylan Holloway #81	L	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	0.0	24:07
Jake Neighbours #63	L	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	100.0	16:20
Jonathan Drouin #92	L	0	0	0	-2	1	0	1	0	100.0	15:43
Pavel Buchnevich #89	L	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	14:53
Alexey Toropchenko #13	R	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0.0	08:24
Dalibor Dvorsky #54	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	20.0	09:47
Jonatan Berggren #29	R	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	0	0.0	16:47
Jordan Kyrou #25	R	0	0	0	-2	2	1	0	0	0.0	14:35
Cam Fowler #17	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	18:47
Colton Parayko #55	D	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0.0	20:51
Logan Mailloux #23	D	0	0	0	-2	3	1	0	2	0.0	20:04
Philip Broberg #6	D	0	0	0	-1	3	1	3	0	0.0	25:12
Tyler Tucker #75	D	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0.0	13:58

Blues goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Joel Hofer #30	L	37	34	3	.919	33/35	1/1	55:51

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.