St. Louis Blues vs Colorado Avalanche
Regular season · Thursday, January 2, 2020 · Pepsi Center
NBCSN
Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the St. Louis Blues 7-3 on Thursday, January 2, 2020 at Pepsi Center. The Avalanche outshot the Blues 42-27.
Nazem Kadri scored twice and Robert Thomas scored twice. Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, Alex Pietrangelo, Cale Makar, J.T. Compher and Joonas Donskoi also scored.
Philipp Grubauer made 24 saves on 27 shots for the win; Jordan Binnington stopped 34 of 41.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Nathan MacKinnon (25)Unassisted0–119:49 COL
2nd period
Nazem Kadri (14)Samuel Girard (16), Matt Calvert (12)0–203:20 COL
Mikko Rantanen (12)Cale Makar (22), Nathan MacKinnon (35)0–307:40 COL · PPG
Robert Thomas (6)Alex Pietrangelo (22), Tyler Bozak (11)1–313:42 STL
Alex Pietrangelo (11)Ryan O'Reilly (27)2–316:19 STL · PPG
Cale Makar (9)Andre Burakovsky (12), Nathan MacKinnon (36)2–419:44 COL · PPG
3rd period
- Nazem Kadri (15)Samuel Girard (17), Valeri Nichushkin (8)2–506:56 COL
J.T. Compher (5)Gabriel Landeskog (7), Samuel Girard (18)2–612:05 COL · PPG
Joonas Donskoi (14)Nathan MacKinnon (37), Samuel Girard (19)2–714:19 COL- Robert Thomas (7)Jaden Schwartz (22)3–716:14 STL
Team stats
STLCOL
27Shots on goal42
39%Faceoff %61%
1/3Power play3/5
10Penalty minutes6
16Hits14
8Blocked shots13
9Giveaways11
12Takeaways16
Penalties
- 1st 09:10
Joonas Donskoi · high sticking2 min - 1st 13:50Matt Nieto · hooking2 min
- 1st 16:18
Brayden Schenn · slashing2 min - 2nd 05:41Tyler Bozak · interference2 min
- 2nd 06:36Alex Pietrangelo · tripping2 min
- 2nd 16:15Samuel Girard · interference2 min
- 2nd 18:59Jay Bouwmeester · tripping2 min
- 3rd 11:22Jaden Schwartz · hooking2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 18Robert ThomasC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 14:25 |
| 27Alex PietrangeloD | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 3 | 21:51 |
| 17Jaden SchwartzC | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 17:03 |
| 21Tyler BozakC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 14:05 |
| 90Ryan O'ReillyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 2 | 19:49 |
| 10Brayden SchennC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 18:17 |
| 12Zachary SanfordL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 12:04 |
| 20Alexander SteenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 14:37 |
| 28Mackenzie MacEachernL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 08:23 |
| 49Ivan BarbashevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 14:17 |
| 57David PerronL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 17:12 |
| 61Jacob de la RoseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:02 |
| 70Oskar SundqvistC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 14:59 |
| 19Jay BouwmeesterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 21:54 |
| 29Vince DunnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:35 |
| 41Robert BortuzzoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:58 |
| 55Colton ParaykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 22:33 |
| 72Justin FaulkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 | 18:29 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Jake AllenG | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 05:41 | |
| 50Jordan BinningtonG | L | 41 | 34 | 7 | .829 | 54:19 |
Colorado Avalanche
| 29Nathan MacKinnonC | 1 | 3 | 4 | +2 | 6 | 18:22 |
| 49Samuel GirardD | 0 | 4 | 4 | +2 | 3 | 20:11 |
| 91Nazem KadriC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 16:32 |
| 8Cale MakarD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 20:14 |
| 11Matt CalvertL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 16:07 |
| 13Valeri NichushkinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 16:15 |
| 37J.T. CompherL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 17:13 |
| 72Joonas DonskoiR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 16:12 |
| 92Gabriel LandeskogL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 17:42 |
| 95Andre BurakovskyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 11:55 |
| 96Mikko RantanenR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 16:52 |
| 17Tyson JostC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 4 | 10:32 |
| 41Pierre-Edouard BellemareL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 12:26 |
| 83Matt NietoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 12:17 |
| 6Erik JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 16:38 |
| 16Nikita ZadorovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:37 |
| 27Ryan GravesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:39 |
| 28Ian ColeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 17:12 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Philipp GrubauerG | W | 27 | 24 | 3 | .889 | 60:00 |
| 39Pavel FrancouzG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 |