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Nashville Predators at Pittsburgh Penguins

Mar 22, 2012 · CONSOL Energy Center

Team Goals Shots
Nashville Predators 1 30
Pittsburgh Penguins 5 23

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:23 PIT Evgeni Malkin (1) James Neal (1), Kris Letang (1) 0 - 1
04:06 PIT Pascal Dupuis (1) Kris Letang (2), Steve Sullivan (1) 0 - 2
2nd Period
01:58 PIT Matt Cooke (1) James Neal (2) 0 - 3
07:35 PIT Chris Kunitz (1) James Neal (3), Brooks Orpik (1) 0 - 4
12:01 NSH Alexander Radulov (1) Hal Gill (1), Patric Hornqvist (1) 1 - 4
3rd Period
02:03 PIT Evgeni Malkin (2) James Neal (4), Chris Kunitz (1) 1 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
19:01 NSH Shea Weber Interference 2
19:26 PIT Evgeni Malkin Tripping 2
2nd Period
19:04 PIT Sidney Crosby High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Nashville Predators 61 43 30 1 2.4 60.0
Pittsburgh Penguins 44 30 23 5 2.1 40.0

How the game went

1510505Start2nd3rdPittsburgh Penguins aheadNashville Predators 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 Nashville Predators had.

Expected goals

Nashville Predators: 2.4 expected, 1 scored · Pittsburgh Penguins: 2.1 expected, 5 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndNSH goal, 12:01 of 2nd, a 14% chancePIT goal, 1:23 of 1st, a 2% chancePIT goal, 4:06 of 1st, a 11% chancePIT goal, 1:58 of 2nd, a 16% chancePIT goal, 7:35 of 2nd, a 5% chancePIT goal, 2:03 of 3rd, a 5% chanceNSH 2.4PIT 2.1

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

Nashville Predators
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.

Nashville Predators

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Fisher · Martin Erat · Sergei Kostitsyn13:1467.976.80-1
Andrei Kostitsyn · Nick Spaling · Gabriel Bourque11:0850.048.00-0
Jordin Tootoo · Brandon Yip · Craig Smith10:0853.843.20-0
David Legwand · Alexander Radulov · Patric Hornqvist9:0575.084.91-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ryan Suter · Shea Weber20:4066.750.50-1
Francis Bouillon · Kevin Klein16:2660.055.40-1
Hal Gill · Jack Hillen13:5251.969.91-2

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
47 Alexander Radulov R 1 0 1 -2 0 2 2 15:54 0.17 16-5 0.79-0.25
70 Patric Hornqvist R 0 1 1 -1 0 5 0 12:10 0.47 13-6 0.82-0.24
75 Hal Gill D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 3 15:55 0.01 16-14 1.04-0.44
6 Shea Weber D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 23:20 0.03 22-10 0.49-0.46
8 Kevin Klein D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 18:45 0.19 20-13 0.82-0.57
10 Martin Erat R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 17:56 0.01 22-13 0.59-0.20
12 Mike Fisher C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 18:02 0.22 20-10 0.47-0.24
15 Craig Smith C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 12:55 0.14 12-9 0.42-0.50
16 Nick Spaling C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 14:51 0.21 12-15 0.56-0.73
17 David Legwand C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 15:12 0.16 16-7 0.85-0.35
22 Jordin Tootoo R 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 12:54 0.11 10-8 0.30-0.50
22 Ryan Suter D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 25:49 0.02 24-12 0.61-0.61
32 Brandon Yip R 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 12:52 0.14 8-6 0.35-0.34
38 Jack Hillen D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 15:44 0.04 17-17 0.97-0.67
46 Andrei Kostitsyn L 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 14:13 0.06 14-11 0.59-0.61
55 Francis Bouillon D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 20:36 0.02 21-14 0.66-0.67
57 Gabriel Bourque L 0 0 0 -1 0 4 2 14:25 0.12 15-17 0.62-0.86
74 Sergei Kostitsyn L 0 0 0 -2 0 3 2 16:27 0.25 22-13 0.54-0.31
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Pekka Rinne L 23 18 5 60:00 2.05 -2.95

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Chris Kunitz · Evgeni Malkin · James Neal12:5163.064.22-0
Richard Park · Arron Asham · Craig Adams6:3642.919.40-0
Matt Cooke · Tyler Kennedy · Sidney Crosby5:3833.336.50-0
Steve Sullivan · Sidney Crosby · Jordan Staal5:1260.085.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brooks Orpik · Zbynek Michalek13:3832.052.71-0
Paul Martin · Kris Letang13:3844.452.23-0
Deryk Engelland · Matt Niskanen8:2750.027.10-0

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
81 James Neal L 0 4 4 4 0 2 1 17:04 0.22 19-15 0.83-0.48
71 Evgeni Malkin C 2 0 2 2 2 10 0 19:33 0.86 20-19 0.95-0.66
14 Chris Kunitz L 1 1 2 3 0 1 0 17:14 0.10 19-17 0.86-0.49
58 Kris Letang D 0 2 2 2 0 0 4 23:50 15-24 0.74-0.99
9 Pascal Dupuis R 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 13:21 0.11 4-18 0.20-0.55
24 Matt Cooke L 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 13:36 0.16 5-13 0.29-0.43
15 Steve Sullivan L 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 13:56 0.11 10-18 0.47-0.98
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 1 1 1 0 0 5 23:55 13-26 0.59-0.81
4 Zbynek Michalek D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 22:45 0.01 11-19 0.46-0.31
5 Deryk Engelland D 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 20:36 0.01 14-24 0.46-1.27
7 Paul Martin D 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 19:53 18-18 0.98-0.70
11 Jordan Staal C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 16:22 10-14 0.36-0.69
12 Richard Park R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:16 0.01 5-10 0.16-0.48
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 08:36 0.02 9-9 0.19-0.51
27 Craig Adams R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:05 0.01 7-10 0.21-0.27
45 Arron Asham R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10:18 0.02 6-8 0.10-0.31
48 Tyler Kennedy C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:41 0.33 8-17 0.45-0.96
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 19:02 0.10 7-21 0.26-0.58
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury W 30 29 1 59:57 2.36 +1.36