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Pittsburgh Penguins at Detroit Red Wings

Dec 31, 2015 · Joe Louis Arena

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 5 37
Detroit Red Wings 2 35

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
06:47 DET Justin Abdelkader (12) Dylan Larkin (12), Niklas Kronwall (14) 0 - 1
12:15 DET Brendan Smith (3) Gustav Nyquist (10), Alexey Marchenko (4) 0 - 2
2nd Period
00:45 PIT Patric Hornqvist (7) PP Evgeni Malkin (15), Kris Letang (16) 1 - 2
11:44 PIT Kris Letang (2) PP Evgeni Malkin (16), Patric Hornqvist (7) 2 - 2
3rd Period
07:48 PIT Sidney Crosby (9) David Perron (11) 3 - 2
08:22 PIT Evgeni Malkin (18) Phil Kessel (10), Patric Hornqvist (8) 4 - 2
18:20 PIT Kris Letang (3) Nick Bonino (6) 5 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
10:15 PIT Kris Letang Cross checking 2
10:15 DET Luke Glendening Slashing 2
2nd Period
00:15 DET Danny DeKeyser Hooking 2
02:35 PIT Kris Letang Slashing 2
08:28 PIT Kris Letang Cross checking 2
11:14 DET Danny DeKeyser Interference 2
18:17 DET Team Too many men on the ice 2
19:55 DET Luke Glendening Roughing 2
19:55 PIT David Perron Cross checking 2
3rd Period
05:13 PIT Phil Kessel Slashing 2
16:33 PIT Chris Kunitz Roughing 2
16:33 DET Justin Abdelkader Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 51 44 37 5 4.4 49.4
Detroit Red Wings 56 39 35 2 2.4 50.6

How the game went

50510Start2nd3rdDetroit Red Wings 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 Detroit Red Wings had taken more, and below it and blue while Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 4.4 expected, 5 scored · Detroit Red Wings: 2.4 expected, 2 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 0:45 of 2nd, a 4% chancePIT goal, 11:44 of 2nd, a 8% chancePIT goal, 7:48 of 3rd, a 12% chancePIT goal, 8:22 of 3rd, a 8% chancePIT goal, 18:20 of 3rd, a 55% chanceDET goal, 6:47 of 1st, a 12% chanceDET goal, 12:15 of 1st, a 23% chancePIT 4.4DET 2.4

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
Detroit Red Wings

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
Matt Cullen · Evgeni Malkin · Phil Kessel10:4847.168.40-0
Chris Kunitz · Sidney Crosby · David Perron10:1080.085.41-0
Patric Hornqvist · Nick Bonino · Conor Sheary6:3250.055.40-0
Eric Fehr · Kevin Porter · Sergei Plotnikov5:5640.036.10-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ben Lovejoy · Brian Dumoulin15:2241.754.40-0
Kris Letang · Olli Maatta13:1360.985.10-0
Trevor Daley · Kris Letang6:1146.256.20-0

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
58 Kris Letang D 2 1 3 0 6 5 4 25:55 0.13 22-17 2.21-0.81
70 Patric Hornqvist R 1 2 3 1 0 6 1 12:18 0.90 8-9 0.91-0.60
71 Evgeni Malkin C 1 2 3 1 0 3 0 16:44 0.54 12-13 0.93-0.32
87 Sidney Crosby C 1 0 1 1 0 4 2 17:34 0.55 16-6 1.33-0.25
8 Phil Kessel R 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 15:52 0.29 11-12 0.73-0.30
12 Nick Bonino C 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 14:42 7-10 0.72-0.58
57 David Perron L 0 1 1 0 2 3 3 13:47 0.59 16-9 1.33-0.51
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 23:27 0.13 12-16 0.32-0.47
3 Olli Maatta D 0 0 0 2 0 2 3 21:48 0.10 15-11 1.54-0.26
7 Matt Cullen C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 17:37 0.03 10-11 0.74-0.51
11 Kevin Porter C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15:55 4-14 0.12-0.31
14 Chris Kunitz L 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 15:52 0.22 16-7 1.33-0.26
21 Eric Fehr C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:08 0.12 4-10 0.12-0.26
21 Ben Lovejoy D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 23:19 0.04 13-18 0.53-0.66
28 Ian Cole D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 05:22 3-4 0.27-0.17
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 09:55 0.15 9-9 0.91-0.60
61 Sergei Plotnikov L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 08:23 4-9 0.12-0.22
83 Trevor Daley D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 18:22 0.08 13-14 1.31-0.91
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Jeff Zatkoff W 35 33 2 60:00 2.35 +0.35

Detroit Red Wings

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henrik Zetterberg · Justin Abdelkader · Dylan Larkin9:0242.117.51-0
Brad Richards · Pavel Datsyuk · Darren Helm8:0141.727.00-0
Gustav Nyquist · Tomas Tatar · Riley Sheahan6:4885.792.60-0
Tomas Jurco · Luke Glendening · Tomas Nosek3:0625.078.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Niklas Kronwall · Mike Green12:4345.522.20-0
Jonathan Ericsson · Danny DeKeyser12:3840.922.91-1
Brendan Smith · Alexey Marchenko10:1745.010.40-1

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
7 Brendan Smith D 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 15:54 0.25 13-12 0.39-0.92
8 Justin Abdelkader L 1 0 1 1 2 1 5 18:41 0.30 12-15 0.50-1.60
3 Alexey Marchenko D 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 12:51 0.18 13-11 0.87-0.92
14 Gustav Nyquist R 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 17:00 0.01 18-5 0.91-0.19
55 Niklas Kronwall D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 24:19 0.06 15-14 0.74-0.97
71 Dylan Larkin C 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 17:14 0.13 9-17 0.32-1.79
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 15:05 0.09 15-8 0.68-0.92
13 Pavel Datsyuk C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 19:59 0.12 9-11 0.16-0.45
13 Tomas Jurco R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 04:09 1-4 0.08-0.13
17 Brad Richards C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 16:38 0.12 9-11 0.18-0.98
27 Mike Green D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 21:53 0.09 14-13 0.39-0.97
40 Henrik Zetterberg C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 18:18 0.24 12-15 0.37-1.64
41 Luke Glendening C 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 13:19 0.13 3-9 0.26-0.24
43 Darren Helm C 0 0 0 -3 0 2 2 17:14 0.03 10-11 0.13-0.96
52 Jonathan Ericsson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 18:21 12-14 0.45-1.20
65 Danny DeKeyser D 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 18:55 0.08 13-14 0.45-1.21
90 Tomas Tatar L 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 14:25 0.54 17-3 0.89-0.13
92 Tomas Nosek L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:23 4-8 0.23-0.26
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Petr Mrazek L 36 32 4 57:23 3.82 -0.18