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Montréal Canadiens at Pittsburgh Penguins

Jan 3, 2015 · CONSOL Energy Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 4 33
Pittsburgh Penguins 1 31

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:30 MTL Max Pacioretty (16) Tom Gilbert (5), Alex Galchenyuk (17) 1 - 0
06:35 MTL David Desharnais (6) Tomas Plekanec (14), Dale Weise (10) 2 - 0
09:59 PIT David Perron (6) Sidney Crosby (32), Steve Downie (13) 2 - 1
2nd Period
01:49 MTL Tom Gilbert (2) Max Pacioretty (15), P.K. Subban (19) 3 - 1
3rd Period
14:08 MTL Alexei Emelin (1) Lars Eller (7), Jiri Sekac (8) 4 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
12:15 PIT Steve Downie Interference goalkeeper 2
19:41 MTL Tom Gilbert Interference 2
19:41 PIT Steve Downie Roughing 2
2nd Period
05:54 PIT Robert Bortuzzo High sticking double minor 4
14:56 MTL Tomas Plekanec Interference 2
19:55 PIT Sidney Crosby Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 52 43 33 4 2.8 37.9
Pittsburgh Penguins 63 45 31 1 2.8 62.1

How the game went

50510Start2nd3rdPittsburgh 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: 2.8 expected, 4 scored · Pittsburgh Penguins: 2.8 expected, 1 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndMTL goal, 2:30 of 1st, a 22% chanceMTL goal, 6:35 of 1st, a 6% chanceMTL goal, 1:49 of 2nd, a 7% chanceMTL goal, 14:08 of 3rd, a 4% chancePIT goal, 9:59 of 1st, a 10% chanceMTL 2.8PIT 2.8

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
Tomas Plekanec · David Desharnais · Dale Weise10:1666.768.71-1
Max Pacioretty · Brendan Gallagher · Alex Galchenyuk9:1630.431.41-0
Brandon Prust · Lars Eller · Jiri Sekac5:3933.367.90-0
Brandon Prust · Lars Eller · Michael Bournival4:3770.065.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Andrei Markov · P.K. Subban16:4441.535.80-1
Tom Gilbert · Alexei Emelin15:4734.636.23-0
Sergei Gonchar · Nathan Beaulieu12:4338.149.20-0

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
14 Tom Gilbert D 1 1 2 4 2 2 1 17:24 0.09 10-18 0.44-0.71
67 Max Pacioretty L 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 19:40 0.38 10-27 0.46-1.18
25 Alexei Emelin D 1 0 1 3 0 1 5 17:07 0.04 9-17 0.37-0.66
51 David Desharnais C 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 17:39 0.56 13-11 0.69-0.74
14 Tomas Plekanec C 0 1 1 0 2 5 1 16:39 0.31 13-8 0.67-0.42
20 Lars Eller C 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 17:31 0.03 15-19 0.50-0.70
22 Dale Weise R 0 1 1 0 0 1 4 13:55 0.13 12-8 0.62-0.39
36 Jiri Sekac L 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 10:43 5-10 0.24-0.27
47 Alex Galchenyuk C 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 15:54 0.09 7-20 0.36-1.19
76 P.K. Subban D 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 27:04 0.05 19-27 0.87-1.57
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 16:55 0.20 8-23 0.36-1.22
9 Brandon Prust L 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 15:01 0.15 11-14 0.37-0.48
10 Sven Andrighetto R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 10:45 0.27 1-8 0.01-0.25
15 Michael Bournival L 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 11:10 0.24 11-11 0.39-0.53
20 Manny Malhotra C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:00 1-17 0.02-0.65
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:34 0.02 8-15 0.34-0.45
55 Sergei Gonchar D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 17:01 9-15 0.34-0.44
79 Andrei Markov D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 24:58 0.22 18-27 0.87-1.59
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Carey Price 31 30 1 60:00 2.75 +1.75

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Chris Kunitz · Brandon Sutter · Beau Bennett10:2966.761.00-1
Sidney Crosby · Steve Downie · David Perron10:1852.476.61-0
Evgeni Malkin · Nick Spaling · Bryan Rust7:4881.866.90-0
Evgeni Malkin · Sidney Crosby · David Perron3:0685.794.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Christian Ehrhoff · Kris Letang18:0668.979.90-1
Rob Scuderi · Simon Despres12:5354.255.21-1
Robert Bortuzzo · Scott Harrington11:5558.845.00-2

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
57 David Perron L 1 0 1 1 0 6 4 15:47 0.61 18-16 1.14-0.66
17 Steve Downie R 0 1 1 -1 4 0 6 14:28 16-14 1.21-0.46
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 1 1 0 2 3 1 18:38 0.74 20-18 1.44-0.77
6 Simon Despres D 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 18:10 0.01 15-11 1.04-0.72
7 Rob Scuderi D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:38 0.02 14-14 0.89-0.83
14 Chris Kunitz L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 17:06 0.06 17-10 0.53-0.34
16 Nick Spaling C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:50 0.03 17-7 0.65-0.49
17 Bryan Rust R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 3 11:06 0.42 15-9 0.57-0.68
17 Scott Harrington D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 12:13 0.07 12-7 0.35-0.40
20 Brandon Sutter C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 17:55 0.17 16-9 0.52-0.35
25 Andrew Ebbett C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 07:35 0.06 8-2 0.21-0.10
27 Craig Adams R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 08:08 7-2 0.32-0.05
41 Robert Bortuzzo D 0 0 0 -2 4 0 2 14:57 10-8 0.33-0.45
55 Christian Ehrhoff D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 4 25:37 0.06 33-17 1.37-0.42
57 Marcel Goc C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 08:21 6-4 0.30-0.28
58 Kris Letang D 0 0 0 -1 0 5 2 28:02 0.20 33-14 1.35-0.31
71 Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 19:06 0.06 19-7 0.59-0.24
78 Beau Bennett R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 17:23 0.27 19-11 0.64-0.38
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury 33 29 4 60:00 2.76 -1.24