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Pittsburgh Penguins at Colorado Avalanche

Dec 9, 2015 · Pepsi Center

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 4 33
Colorado Avalanche 2 26

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
05:34 COL Matt Duchene (15) Nathan MacKinnon (15), Mikhail Grigorenko (9) 0 - 1
10:56 PIT Matt Cullen (3) Patric Hornqvist (5), Olli Maatta (3) 1 - 1
15:00 COL Erik Johnson (5) Carl Soderberg (14), Francois Beauchemin (12) 1 - 2
3rd Period
07:19 PIT Beau Bennett (4) Chris Kunitz (6), Sidney Crosby (13) 2 - 2
09:24 PIT Patric Hornqvist (5) Olli Maatta (4), Nick Bonino (3) 3 - 2
10:43 PIT Beau Bennett (5) Brian Dumoulin (6) 4 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
07:08 PIT Matt Cullen Interference 2
2nd Period
13:44 COL Reto Berra Interference 2
19:30 PIT Ben Lovejoy Hooking 2
3rd Period
03:30 PIT Evgeni Malkin Delaying game smothering puck 2
04:55 PIT Team Too many men on the ice 2
13:10 COL Nick Holden Holding 2
18:23 PIT David Perron High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 62 49 33 4 2.9 62.2
Colorado Avalanche 52 35 26 2 1.6 37.8

How the game went

151050Start2nd3rdColorado Avalanche 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 Colorado Avalanche had taken more, and below it and blue while Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 2.9 expected, 4 scored · Colorado Avalanche: 1.6 expected, 2 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 10:56 of 1st, a 5% chancePIT goal, 7:19 of 3rd, a 6% chancePIT goal, 9:24 of 3rd, a 5% chancePIT goal, 10:43 of 3rd, a 2% chanceCOL goal, 5:34 of 1st, a 16% chanceCOL goal, 15:00 of 1st, a 9% chancePIT 2.9COL 1.6

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
Colorado Avalanche

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
Evgeni Malkin · Phil Kessel · David Perron12:2266.768.90-1
Chris Kunitz · Sidney Crosby · Beau Bennett10:1558.380.02-0
Eric Fehr · Patric Hornqvist · Nick Bonino6:3461.589.61-0
Matt Cullen · Daniel Sprong · Sergei Plotnikov5:2166.740.70-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kris Letang · Olli Maatta13:3873.978.22-1
Ben Lovejoy · Brian Dumoulin13:2652.484.42-0
Ian Cole · David Warsofsky11:2952.463.60-0

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
78 Beau Bennett R 2 0 2 2 0 6 1 16:15 0.42 21-12 0.93-0.14
70 Patric Hornqvist R 1 1 2 2 0 3 2 12:58 0.35 11-9 0.61-0.19
3 Olli Maatta D 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 20:05 0.04 19-6 0.58-0.15
7 Matt Cullen C 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 13:22 0.08 13-9 0.36-0.32
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 1 1 2 0 1 2 18:20 0.09 16-10 0.91-0.13
12 Nick Bonino C 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 15:38 0.33 9-6 0.54-0.06
14 Chris Kunitz L 0 1 1 2 0 3 2 17:12 0.29 18-12 0.81-0.14
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 17:43 0.20 16-10 0.63-0.13
5 David Warsofsky D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 15:38 0.11 13-10 0.57-0.31
8 Phil Kessel R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:11 0.09 10-6 0.54-0.24
10 Daniel Sprong R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 06:06 0.03 8-4 0.13-0.20
21 Eric Fehr C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:34 10-7 0.60-0.08
21 Ben Lovejoy D 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 20:59 0.03 16-15 0.91-0.32
28 Ian Cole D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 18:51 0.04 15-13 0.74-0.34
57 David Perron L 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 15:24 0.33 10-5 0.54-0.24
58 Kris Letang D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 22:51 0.06 23-8 0.81-0.31
61 Sergei Plotnikov L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 11:14 0.18 14-7 0.38-0.31
71 Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 1 17:48 0.22 13-6 0.74-0.26
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury W 26 24 2 60:00 1.55 -0.45

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Blake Comeau · Carl Soderberg · Andreas Martinsen9:3341.753.11-0
Jarome Iginla · John Mitchell · Cody McLeod7:5546.725.10-1
Alex Tanguay · Matt Duchene · Nathan MacKinnon6:5335.715.90-1
Jack Skille · Chris Wagner · Mikhail Grigorenko6:3528.640.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Holden · Tyson Barrie15:2427.311.00-3
Francois Beauchemin · Erik Johnson14:4645.537.81-0
Nate Guenin · Brandon Gormley8:3733.310.20-1

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
6 Erik Johnson D 1 0 1 1 0 4 3 24:15 0.19 12-12 0.41-0.57
95 Matt Duchene C 1 0 1 -1 0 1 0 21:33 0.16 10-15 0.25-0.68
23 Francois Beauchemin D 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 23:30 0.05 13-15 0.35-0.63
25 Mikhail Grigorenko C 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 10:33 0.01 9-13 0.28-0.27
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 22:04 0.17 10-18 0.25-0.96
34 Carl Soderberg C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 15:17 0.03 5-8 0.17-0.25
5 Nate Guenin D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 09:59 0.03 6-12 0.06-0.53
5 Nick Holden D 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 20:30 0.11 13-26 0.37-1.17
7 John Mitchell C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 15:26 0.11 9-13 0.16-0.81
8 Tyson Barrie D 0 0 0 -3 0 4 1 26:21 0.14 10-25 0.14-1.11
9 Jack Skille R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 4 10:09 0.09 5-14 0.14-0.52
14 Chris Wagner R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 09:32 0.07 7-13 0.20-0.34
15 Blake Comeau L 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 20:52 5-10 0.17-0.32
29 Andreas Martinsen L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 13:13 0.01 6-10 0.18-0.26
40 Alex Tanguay L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 14:24 0.18 8-16 0.16-1.08
46 Brandon Gormley D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10:54 0.01 8-12 0.22-0.53
55 Cody McLeod L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 12:05 8-11 0.16-0.60
88 Jarome Iginla R 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 17:56 0.23 11-12 0.22-0.71
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Reto Berra L 33 29 4 57:27 2.86 -1.14