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New Jersey Devils at Pittsburgh Penguins

Mar 25, 2012 · CONSOL Energy Center

Team Goals Shots
New Jersey Devils 2 34
Pittsburgh Penguins 5 28

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:04 PIT Chris Kunitz (1) Evgeni Malkin (1) 0 - 1
05:10 NJD Zach Parise (1) Unassisted 1 - 1
19:04 PIT Jordan Staal (1) Matt Cooke (1) 1 - 2
2nd Period
15:34 PIT Pascal Dupuis (1) Sidney Crosby (1), Craig Adams (1) 1 - 3
3rd Period
03:37 NJD Ilya Kovalchuk (1) Travis Zajac (1), Alexei Ponikarovsky (1) 2 - 3
04:55 PIT Sidney Crosby (1) Zbynek Michalek (1), Pascal Dupuis (1) 2 - 4
18:28 PIT Evgeni Malkin (1) Jordan Staal (1), Chris Kunitz (1) 2 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
09:36 PIT James Neal Tripping 2
2nd Period
12:13 NJD Travis Zajac Slashing 2
14:06 NJD Andy Greene Slashing 2
14:06 PIT Jordan Staal Tripping 2
3rd Period
05:30 NJD Ryan Carter Tripping 2
11:20 PIT Matt Cooke Interference 2
19:20 NJD Petr Sykora High sticking 2
19:58 NJD Martin Brodeur Delaying game illegal play by goalie 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
New Jersey Devils 67 49 34 2 3.0 61.5
Pittsburgh Penguins 45 34 28 5 3.3 38.5

How the game went

201510505Start2nd3rdPittsburgh Penguins aheadNew Jersey Devils 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 New Jersey Devils had.

Expected goals

New Jersey Devils: 3.0 expected, 2 scored · Pittsburgh Penguins: 3.3 expected, 5 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndNJD goal, 5:10 of 1st, a 10% chanceNJD goal, 3:37 of 3rd, a 10% chancePIT goal, 1:04 of 1st, a 15% chancePIT goal, 19:04 of 1st, a 8% chancePIT goal, 15:34 of 2nd, a 34% chancePIT goal, 4:55 of 3rd, a 12% chancePIT goal, 18:28 of 3rd, a 41% chancePIT 3.3NJD 3.0

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

New Jersey Devils
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.

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Patrik Elias · Dainius Zubrus · Zach Parise11:4652.046.51-1
Petr Sykora · David Clarkson · Adam Henrique10:2141.243.20-1
Alexei Ponikarovsky · Ilya Kovalchuk · Travis Zajac10:1876.972.61-1
Steve Bernier · Ryan Carter · Jacob Josefson6:1272.762.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Bryce Salvador · Marek Zidlicky17:0457.162.32-2
Matt Taormina · Adam Larsson16:1467.650.10-1
Mark Fayne · Andy Greene14:0860.053.80-0

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 Zach Parise L 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 18:41 0.35 15-12 0.53-0.59
17 Ilya Kovalchuk L 1 0 1 -1 0 8 0 22:53 0.74 25-10 1.47-0.69
12 Alexei Ponikarovsky L 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 14:40 0.20 23-9 1.41-0.61
14 Travis Zajac C 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 13:31 0.52 21-7 1.32-0.57
4 Andy Greene D 0 0 0 -1 2 3 1 18:23 0.05 12-9 0.40-0.38
5 Mark Fayne D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 18:54 0.02 16-10 0.74-0.74
6 Adam Larsson D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 16:25 0.06 23-11 0.63-0.63
8 Steve Bernier R 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 08:31 0.19 12-3 0.42-0.14
9 Dainius Zubrus C 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 17:08 0.05 13-12 0.51-0.59
10 Jacob Josefson C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:58 10-8 0.33-0.66
15 Petr Sykora R 0 0 0 -3 2 2 1 14:36 0.13 8-13 0.28-0.85
18 Ryan Carter L 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 09:06 0.14 13-3 0.44-0.14
19 Adam Henrique C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 15:47 13-10 0.47-0.37
20 Matt Taormina D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 16:29 0.05 23-11 0.63-0.63
23 David Clarkson R 0 0 0 -3 0 1 2 14:52 0.15 9-12 0.28-0.77
24 Bryce Salvador D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 20:52 0.06 23-17 1.56-1.18
26 Patrik Elias C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 18:38 0.24 15-12 0.55-0.59
28 Marek Zidlicky D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 25:06 0.01 21-16 1.38-0.82
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Martin Brodeur 27 23 4 58:48 2.57 -1.43

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Chris Kunitz · Evgeni Malkin · James Neal9:2559.174.51-0
Craig Adams · Matt Cooke · Jordan Staal6:4942.964.51-0
Pascal Dupuis · Tyler Kennedy · Sidney Crosby4:4662.556.30-1
Richard Park · Pascal Dupuis · Sidney Crosby2:3166.789.01-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brooks Orpik · Zbynek Michalek10:1244.440.60-0
Paul Martin · Kris Letang8:2259.160.32-0
Brooks Orpik · Kris Letang6:4130.013.70-0

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
9 Pascal Dupuis R 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 17:02 0.45 9-14 0.79-0.89
11 Jordan Staal C 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 18:55 0.24 8-21 0.46-1.18
14 Chris Kunitz L 1 1 2 2 0 3 5 18:40 0.30 19-15 0.78-0.68
71 Evgeni Malkin C 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 21:34 0.22 21-15 0.90-0.65
87 Sidney Crosby C 1 1 2 1 0 3 1 19:53 0.24 13-12 0.90-0.53
4 Zbynek Michalek D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 25:13 0.03 10-31 0.53-1.26
24 Matt Cooke L 0 1 1 1 2 1 4 14:34 0.29 6-19 0.46-0.89
27 Craig Adams R 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 13:34 0.05 8-13 0.86-0.67
5 Deryk Engelland D 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 16:24 11-18 0.60-0.68
7 Paul Martin D 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 22:35 20-23 1.57-1.03
12 Richard Park R 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 08:56 4-11 0.21-0.38
21 Ben Lovejoy D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 01:43 1-3 0.00-0.23
37 Dustin Jeffrey L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 08:35 0.12 1-14 0.04-0.47
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 26:35 0.02 13-23 0.55-0.98
45 Arron Asham R 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 10:01 2-16 0.07-0.56
48 Tyler Kennedy C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 09:58 0.14 6-9 0.29-0.47
58 Kris Letang D 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 22:10 0.14 19-20 1.15-1.16
81 James Neal L 0 0 0 1 2 4 1 19:38 0.30 14-18 0.81-0.66
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury 34 32 2 60:00 2.94 +0.94