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Second round, Game 2 · COL leads 2–0 · 2026-05-05 · Ball Arena

2 – 5Final

COL beat MIN 5–2. COL lost the expected-goals battle 2.4 to 3.3 and won anyway, a result the shot quality did not support. The biggest swing: Gabriel Landeskog scored on the power play at 8:24 of the first, moving COL’s win probability from 54% to 70%. Filip Gustavsson allowed 1.6 goals more than expected.

Shots on goal
31 – 23
Expected goals
3.3 – 2.4
xG share
MIN 57%
Home-ice start
COL 53%

Win probability

The site’s win-probability model, second by second: score, time left and the manpower on the ice. Dots are goals; hover for the swing.

MIN goalCOL goal

Expected goals

Running total of each team’s shot quality (unblocked attempts). Dots are goals.

MINCOL

Three stars, by the model

Net goals added in this game versus a league-average player: on-ice goal share, finishing, drawn and taken penalties, faceoffs; goalies by goals saved above expected.

COL
60:00 TOI
GSAx +1.06
+1.06
COL
1 G, 0 A · 9:37 TOI
Finishing +0.77 · Penalties +0.19
+0.97
COL
1 G, 1 A · 19:02 TOI
On-ice +0.09 · Finishing +0.74
+0.82

Rough nights

MIN
Filip Gustavsson
57:08 TOI
GSAx −1.62
−1.62
MIN
0 G, 1 A · 18:21 TOI
On-ice +0.18 · Finishing −0.84 · Penalties −0.19
−0.88
MIN
0 G, 0 A · 11:25 TOI
Finishing −0.21 · Penalties −0.19
−0.38

Scoring

Win probability of the scoring team just before and after each goal.

TimeTeamGoalMIN–COLWin prob.
P1 2:51 COLMartin Necas
from Nathan MacKinnon, Brett Kulak
0–153% → 69%
P1 2:57 MINKirill Kaprizov
from Ryan Hartman, Mats Zuccarello
1–131% → 47%
P1 8:24 COLGabriel LandeskogPP
from Nathan MacKinnon, Martin Necas
1–254% → 70%
P2 1:24 COLNicolas Roy
from Ross Colton, Brock Nelson
1–372% → 86%
P3 13:18 COLNathan MacKinnonPP
from Nazem Kadri, Gabriel Landeskog
1–498% → 100%
P3 14:33 MINMarcus Johansson
from Danila Yurov, Daemon Hunt
2–40% → 2%
P3 19:55 COLValeri NichushkinEN
from Brett Kulak, Brent Burns
2–5100% → 99%

Every player

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MIN

SkaterTOIGANet goalsOn-iceFinishingPenaltiesFaceoffs
Marcus Johansson L12:201+0.80+0.11+0.68+0.00+0.00
Quinn Hughes D28:07+0.60+0.22+0.00+0.39+0.00
Kirill Kaprizov L23:121+0.48+0.28+0.41−0.19−0.01
Jake Middleton D18:09+0.03+0.03−0.00+0.00+0.00
Matt Boldy L19:53+0.01+0.14−0.09+0.00−0.04
Jeff Petry D9:28+0.01+0.01−0.00+0.00+0.00
Jared Spurgeon D19:56−0.02+0.12−0.14+0.00+0.00
Nico Sturm C12:43−0.03−0.02+0.00+0.00−0.01
Marcus Foligno L12:24−0.04−0.02−0.02+0.00+0.00
Danila Yurov R10:041−0.05+0.11−0.14+0.00−0.02
Daemon Hunt D13:041−0.05−0.02−0.03+0.00+0.00
Brock Faber D28:31−0.05−0.05−0.01+0.00+0.00
Nick Foligno L9:42−0.05−0.03+0.00+0.00−0.02
Yakov Trenin C12:57−0.21−0.02+0.00−0.19+0.00
Michael McCarron C15:48−0.31−0.05−0.22+0.00−0.04
Mats Zuccarello C19:041−0.33+0.17−0.32−0.19+0.01
Vladimir Tarasenko R11:25−0.38+0.02−0.21−0.19+0.00
Ryan Hartman R18:211−0.88+0.18−0.84−0.19−0.03
GoalieTOIGSAx (net goals)
Filip Gustavsson G57:08−1.62

COL

SkaterTOIGANet goalsOn-iceFinishingPenaltiesFaceoffs
Nicolas Roy C9:371+0.97−0.03+0.77+0.19+0.04
Martin Necas C19:0211+0.82+0.09+0.74+0.00−0.01
Gabriel Landeskog L19:5411+0.77+0.03+0.74+0.00+0.00
Nathan MacKinnon C22:0612+0.46+0.06+0.44+0.00−0.04
Nick Blankenburg D7:08+0.20+0.01+0.00+0.19+0.00
Cale Makar D24:06+0.10−0.07−0.03+0.19+0.00
Artturi Lehkonen L19:29+0.08−0.11+0.00+0.19+0.00
Ross Colton C9:291+0.01+0.01+0.00+0.00+0.00
Brent Burns D17:361−0.05−0.05−0.00+0.00+0.00
Brett Kulak D21:042−0.11−0.10−0.01+0.00+0.00
Valeri Nichushkin R17:561−0.13−0.13+0.00+0.00+0.00
Sam Malinski D20:57−0.17−0.15−0.02+0.00+0.00
Jack Drury C9:57−0.17−0.14−0.10+0.00+0.07
Parker Kelly C10:05−0.17−0.15−0.02+0.00+0.00
Logan O'Connor R10:02−0.18−0.03−0.16+0.00+0.00
Brock Nelson C18:421−0.30−0.01+0.00−0.39+0.10
Devon Toews D23:26−0.36−0.16−0.20+0.00+0.00
Nazem Kadri C15:241−0.38+0.05−0.62+0.19+0.00
GoalieTOIGSAx (net goals)
Scott Wedgewood G60:00+1.06

Playoff recaps: the playoff ledgers have no per-game split of playmaking and suppression, so those credits stay inside the on-ice and finishing columns.

Net goals for one game are noisy: a single goal against on the ice or a lucky finish moves them a lot. See the card guide and Net Goals 101 for how they are built.