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Pittsburgh Penguins at Montréal Canadiens

Feb 7, 2012 · Centre Bell

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 2 34
Montréal Canadiens 3 30

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
11:21 MTL Louis Leblanc (1) Andrei Kostitsyn (1), Chris Campoli (1) 0 - 1
3rd Period
01:03 PIT Pascal Dupuis (1) SH Joe Vitale (1) 1 - 1
03:00 MTL Lars Eller (1) Alexei Emelin (1) 1 - 2
07:32 PIT James Neal (1) Evgeni Malkin (1), Paul Martin (1) 2 - 2
Shootout
MTL Tomas Plekanec Shootout winner 2 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
02:33 MTL Lars Eller Interference goalkeeper 2
07:19 MTL Tomas Plekanec Slashing 2
13:17 PIT James Neal Cross checking 2
15:24 MTL Scott Gomez Holding 2
20:00 PIT Craig Adams Tripping 2
3rd Period
15:18 PIT James Neal High sticking 2
Overtime
05:00 MTL Mathieu Darche Interference 2
05:00 PIT Evgeni Malkin Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 65 51 34 2 3.3 54.1
Montréal Canadiens 48 41 30 2 2.6 45.9

How the game went

151050Start2nd3rdOTMontréal Canadiens aheadPittsburgh Penguins 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 Montréal Canadiens had taken more, and below it and blue while Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 3.3 expected, 2 scored · Montréal Canadiens: 2.6 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTPIT goal, 1:03 of 3rd, a 17% chancePIT goal, 7:32 of 3rd, a 9% chanceMTL goal, 11:21 of 2nd, a 10% chanceMTL goal, 3:00 of 3rd, a 1% chancePIT 3.3MTL 2.6

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

Pittsburgh Penguins
Montréal Canadiens

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.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Chris Kunitz · Evgeni Malkin · James Neal12:0660.071.11-0
Steve Sullivan · Pascal Dupuis · Cal O'Reilly3:4657.137.00-0
Craig Adams · Pascal Dupuis · Joe Vitale3:450.00.00-0
Matt Cooke · Jason Williams · Dustin Jeffrey3:2880.0100.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Paul Martin · Zbynek Michalek12:3582.480.21-0
Brooks Orpik · Kris Letang11:3756.358.20-0
Deryk Engelland · Matt Niskanen9:1927.338.30-0

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
9 Pascal Dupuis R 1 0 1 1 0 3 2 19:41 0.23 12-14 0.66-0.63
81 James Neal L 1 0 1 0 4 3 2 21:12 0.59 14-10 0.56-0.23
7 Paul Martin D 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 24:51 0.06 18-9 0.93-0.43
14 Joe Vitale C 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 11:55 0.08 4-6 0.12-0.24
71 Evgeni Malkin C 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 23:34 0.12 13-12 0.55-0.32
4 Zbynek Michalek D 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 23:10 0.08 21-11 0.93-0.49
5 Deryk Engelland D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 12:09 0.09 5-11 0.23-0.41
14 Chris Kunitz L 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 20:13 0.47 14-11 0.61-0.28
15 Steve Sullivan L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:04 0.11 9-7 0.32-0.31
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 14:31 0.09 5-12 0.29-0.54
18 Cal O'Reilly C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:10 0.18 11-9 0.43-0.51
19 Jason Williams C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:01 0.01 10-8 0.42-0.39
24 Matt Cooke L 0 0 0 0 0 7 4 17:51 0.37 13-5 0.68-0.26
27 Craig Adams R 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 13:01 0.27 4-5 0.10-0.24
36 Colin McDonald R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 08:09 0.01 4-7 0.12-0.30
37 Dustin Jeffrey L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:48 0.34 12-8 0.65-0.31
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 24:09 0.03 16-16 0.57-0.53
58 Kris Letang D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 27:31 0.16 15-9 0.54-0.29
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury OTL 30 28 2 65:00 2.59 +0.59

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mathieu Darche · Travis Moen · Tomas Plekanec9:2040.027.70-0
Erik Cole · David Desharnais · Max Pacioretty6:5775.079.70-0
Rene Bourque · Lars Eller · Louis Leblanc6:4666.783.00-0
Scott Gomez · Andrei Kostitsyn · Max Pacioretty3:4350.060.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Josh Gorges · P.K. Subban13:1452.628.80-0
Hal Gill · Yannick Weber7:0057.144.10-1
Tomas Kaberle · Chris Campoli6:1380.098.21-0

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
20 Lars Eller C 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 14:25 0.02 10-7 0.42-0.17
71 Louis Leblanc C 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 15:16 0.30 11-12 0.40-0.45
17 Chris Campoli D 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 15:13 11-5 0.73-0.13
25 Alexei Emelin D 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 17:39 0.01 7-17 0.24-0.72
46 Andrei Kostitsyn L 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 14:30 0.09 7-9 0.34-0.27
3 Yannick Weber D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 13:06 0.04 6-4 0.19-0.19
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 24:20 0.01 14-14 0.31-0.63
14 Tomas Plekanec C 0 0 0 -2 2 6 3 23:54 0.36 12-16 0.48-1.01
17 Rene Bourque R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 18:08 0.37 7-12 0.28-0.45
22 Tomas Kaberle D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:07 0.06 12-12 0.84-0.40
23 Scott Gomez C 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 11:12 0.12 5-8 0.23-0.35
27 Travis Moen L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:08 0.11 6-13 0.18-0.71
51 David Desharnais C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:35 0.28 9-6 0.33-0.31
52 Mathieu Darche L 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 21:18 0.36 11-11 0.27-0.54
67 Max Pacioretty L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 19:03 0.12 13-15 0.57-0.65
72 Erik Cole L 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 17:30 0.24 11-11 0.54-0.32
75 Hal Gill D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 14:40 0.02 5-8 0.14-0.33
76 P.K. Subban D 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 26:09 0.08 13-20 0.25-1.08
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Carey Price W 34 32 2 64:47 3.25 +1.25