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Montréal Canadiens at Pittsburgh Penguins

Jan 20, 2012 · CONSOL Energy Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 4 29
Pittsburgh Penguins 5 38

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:34 MTL Lars Eller (1) P.K. Subban (1) 1 - 0
04:02 PIT Kris Letang (1) Pascal Dupuis (1), Dustin Jeffrey (1) 1 - 1
05:41 MTL Erik Cole (1) Andrei Kostitsyn (1), Tomas Kaberle (1) 2 - 1
2nd Period
01:09 MTL Andrei Kostitsyn (1) PP Tomas Kaberle (2), David Desharnais (1) 3 - 1
05:32 PIT Dustin Jeffrey (1) SH Zbynek Michalek (1) 3 - 2
10:34 MTL Max Pacioretty (1) Erik Cole (1), Peter Budaj (1) 4 - 2
3rd Period
03:32 PIT Dustin Jeffrey (2) Tyler Kennedy (1) 4 - 3
17:17 PIT Evgeni Malkin (1) James Neal (1), Kris Letang (1) 4 - 4
Shootout
PIT Evgeni Malkin Shootout winner 4 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:57 MTL Max Pacioretty Fighting 5
02:57 PIT Chris Kunitz Fighting 5
02:57 MTL Max Pacioretty Roughing 2
03:16 PIT Steve Sullivan Interference 2
06:22 PIT James Neal Tripping 2
11:37 MTL P.K. Subban Roughing 2
19:16 PIT Brooks Orpik Hooking 2
2nd Period
05:14 PIT Craig Adams Holding 2
19:45 PIT Kris Letang Slashing 2
20:00 PIT Craig Adams Misconduct 10
3rd Period
06:55 MTL Erik Cole Slashing 2
12:42 MTL Erik Cole Interference 2
13:25 PIT Chris Kunitz Boarding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 57 44 29 4 3.3 44.6
Pittsburgh Penguins 76 54 38 4 3.5 55.4

How the game went

505101520Start2nd3rdOTPittsburgh Penguins aheadMontréal Canadiens ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Pittsburgh Penguins had taken more, and below it and blue while Montréal Canadiens had.

Expected goals

Montréal Canadiens: 3.3 expected, 4 scored · Pittsburgh Penguins: 3.5 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTMTL goal, 0:34 of 1st, a 20% chanceMTL goal, 5:41 of 1st, a 24% chanceMTL goal, 1:09 of 2nd, a 11% chanceMTL goal, 10:34 of 2nd, a 13% chancePIT goal, 4:02 of 1st, a 6% chancePIT goal, 5:32 of 2nd, a 17% chancePIT goal, 3:32 of 3rd, a 5% chancePIT goal, 17:17 of 3rd, a 2% chancePIT 3.5MTL 3.3

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

Where the attempts came from

Montréal Canadiens
Pittsburgh Penguins

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Travis Moen · Tomas Plekanec · Rene Bourque10:2658.864.50-0
Erik Cole · David Desharnais · Max Pacioretty8:1150.067.01-1
Andrei Kostitsyn · Mike Blunden · Lars Eller5:3246.243.31-1
Scott Gomez · Mathieu Darche · Petteri Nokelainen3:5820.014.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Hal Gill · Josh Gorges14:3342.451.80-1
Chris Campoli · P.K. Subban11:2257.949.82-1
Tomas Kaberle · Alexei Emelin10:1340.966.21-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
46 Andrei Kostitsyn L 1 1 2 0 0 3 0 17:12 0.26 15-16 1.00-0.50
72 Erik Cole L 1 1 2 1 4 2 2 21:09 0.50 15-15 0.84-0.45
22 Tomas Kaberle D 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 18:26 0.10 10-14 0.59-0.33
20 Lars Eller C 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 10:26 0.34 8-9 0.37-0.43
67 Max Pacioretty L 1 0 1 0 7 5 0 14:29 0.49 9-11 0.39-0.38
51 David Desharnais C 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 19:26 0.15 15-15 0.84-0.27
76 P.K. Subban D 0 1 1 -1 2 1 0 23:04 0.01 12-12 0.48-0.58
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 24:45 0.08 15-21 0.79-0.69
14 Tomas Plekanec C 0 0 0 -2 0 4 2 24:00 0.46 10-9 0.39-0.41
15 Petteri Nokelainen C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 05:33 0.04 2-11 0.06-0.42
17 Chris Campoli D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 21:53 0.16 13-9 0.55-0.46
17 Rene Bourque R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 18:48 0.02 10-9 0.39-0.28
20 Mike Blunden R 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 07:34 0.08 7-8 0.28-0.43
23 Scott Gomez C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 15:47 0.19 4-14 0.24-0.45
25 Alexei Emelin D 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 17:31 0.08 10-15 0.57-0.31
27 Travis Moen L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 21:06 0.15 10-11 0.39-0.24
52 Mathieu Darche L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:01 0.13 6-10 0.32-0.37
75 Hal Gill D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 20:50 0.02 14-21 0.70-0.72
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Peter Budaj OTL 38 34 4 65:00 3.50 -0.50

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Chris Kunitz · Evgeni Malkin · James Neal10:5248.024.41-1
Pascal Dupuis · Tyler Kennedy · Dustin Jeffrey4:4758.378.60-0
Richard Park · Steve Sullivan · Matt Cooke3:2023.118.90-2
Pascal Dupuis · Evgeni Malkin · James Neal2:16100.0100.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brooks Orpik · Kris Letang13:4666.747.91-1
Paul Martin · Zbynek Michalek10:3642.133.30-0
Deryk Engelland · Matt Niskanen8:2761.149.90-1

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
37 Dustin Jeffrey L 2 1 3 3 0 4 2 16:19 0.31 14-7 0.46-0.11
58 Kris Letang D 1 1 2 2 2 4 0 28:14 0.23 22-11 0.66-0.53
71 Evgeni Malkin C 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 25:56 0.39 16-17 0.37-1.08
4 Zbynek Michalek D 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 22:09 10-15 0.27-0.70
9 Pascal Dupuis R 0 1 1 1 0 6 2 20:19 0.35 13-5 0.39-0.06
48 Tyler Kennedy C 0 1 1 1 0 3 3 15:03 0.08 16-11 0.59-0.31
81 James Neal L 0 1 1 0 2 5 1 23:11 0.53 17-14 0.54-0.82
5 Deryk Engelland D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 10:29 0.02 14-7 0.63-0.52
7 Paul Martin D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 24:55 0.04 15-16 0.48-0.52
12 Richard Park R 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 11:27 9-12 0.45-0.65
14 Chris Kunitz L 0 0 0 0 7 1 3 19:03 0.38 18-16 0.59-1.01
14 Joe Vitale C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 08:12 0.16 8-1 0.20-0.00
15 Steve Sullivan L 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 14:02 0.27 10-14 0.48-0.75
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 14:00 0.05 12-11 0.55-0.62
24 Matt Cooke L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 15:21 0.14 5-12 0.23-0.73
27 Craig Adams R 0 0 0 0 12 3 2 08:52 0.33 8-1 0.32-0.00
34 Eric Tangradi L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 04:50 0.25 4-1 0.02-0.00
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 26:13 0.01 19-14 0.50-0.81
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury W 29 25 4 64:32 3.24 -0.76