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Pittsburgh Penguins at Colorado Avalanche

Dec 18, 2017 · Pepsi Center

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 2 32
Colorado Avalanche 4 37

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
05:04 COL Tyson Barrie (3) Matt Nieto (6) 0 - 1
10:39 PIT Chad Ruhwedel (1) Carter Rowney (2) 1 - 1
2nd Period
05:56 COL Tyson Barrie (4) PP Mikko Rantanen (19), Sven Andrighetto (10) 1 - 2
18:20 COL J.T. Compher (5) Sven Andrighetto (11) 1 - 3
3rd Period
01:25 PIT Evgeni Malkin (11) Ian Cole (4), Chad Ruhwedel (2) 2 - 3
18:27 COL Mikko Rantanen (10) Nathan MacKinnon (24), Gabriel Landeskog (12) 2 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
10:52 COL Nikita Zadorov High sticking 2
2nd Period
04:54 PIT Ian Cole Cross checking 2
10:26 COL Nikita Zadorov Interference 2
11:00 PIT Kris Letang Tripping 2
13:53 PIT Ian Cole Holding 2
19:02 PIT Olli Maatta Tripping 2
19:23 COL Mikko Rantanen Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 56 40 32 2 2.4 47.4
Colorado Avalanche 64 46 37 4 3.6 52.6

How the game went

1050510Start2nd3rdColorado 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: 2.4 expected, 2 scored · Colorado Avalanche: 3.6 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 10:39 of 1st, a 1% chancePIT goal, 1:25 of 3rd, a 4% chanceCOL goal, 5:04 of 1st, a 1% chanceCOL goal, 5:56 of 2nd, a 3% chanceCOL goal, 18:20 of 2nd, a 29% chanceCOL goal, 18:27 of 3rd, a 54% chanceCOL 3.6PIT 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
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
Sidney Crosby · Bryan Rust · Jake Guentzel7:5637.527.10-1
Ryan Reaves · Josh Archibald · Carter Rowney7:5286.793.51-0
Evgeni Malkin · Phil Kessel · Conor Sheary5:4764.371.90-0
Evgeni Malkin · Phil Kessel · Carl Hagelin4:3933.320.31-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kris Letang · Brian Dumoulin13:1644.476.00-0
Ian Cole · Chad Ruhwedel8:1019.010.80-0
Olli Maatta · Chad Ruhwedel7:2261.965.11-1

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

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
5 Chad Ruhwedel D 1 1 2 -1 0 3 0 18:48 0.08 18-25 0.66-0.95
71 Evgeni Malkin C 1 0 1 1 0 7 0 16:55 0.44 13-9 0.57-0.36
28 Ian Cole D 0 1 1 0 4 1 2 18:00 0.12 10-22 0.22-1.12
37 Carter Rowney C 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 16:11 0.02 15-9 0.97-0.18
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 19:21 13-18 0.82-0.64
3 Olli Maatta D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 19:32 0.01 21-13 0.96-0.85
8 Phil Kessel R 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 19:34 0.18 15-19 0.60-0.91
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 12:50 0.11 9-9 0.21-0.50
14 Tom Kuhnhackl R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:23 5-8 0.10-0.48
15 Josh Archibald R 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 09:27 0.17 13-6 0.95-0.09
17 Bryan Rust R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 15:05 0.19 11-13 0.34-0.57
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 16:52 0.27 13-16 0.56-0.42
48 Matt Hunwick D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 16:47 0.02 15-6 0.49-0.55
58 Kris Letang D 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 25:35 0.04 13-17 0.77-0.32
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 15:47 0.05 10-23 0.23-1.17
62 Carl Hagelin L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 15:01 9-10 0.16-0.62
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 08:39 0.72 14-3 0.96-0.08
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 20:47 8-24 0.21-1.24
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Matt Murray 36 33 3 58:24 3.08 +0.08

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Blake Comeau · Carl Soderberg · Matt Nieto12:0047.442.51-0
Gabriel Landeskog · Nathan MacKinnon · Mikko Rantanen11:4272.785.30-0
Colin Wilson · Sven Andrighetto · J.T. Compher10:3560.666.21-0
Nail Yakupov · Alexander Kerfoot · Tyson Jost6:2620.08.60-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tyson Barrie · Patrik Nemeth13:5651.435.70-0
Mark Barberio · Nikita Zadorov11:3777.882.60-0
Anton Lindholm · Samuel Girard7:5835.776.40-1

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
8 Tyson Barrie D 2 0 2 1 0 5 0 24:31 0.19 21-19 0.54-0.84
96 Mikko Rantanen R 1 1 2 0 2 5 0 17:49 0.19 18-7 0.44-0.11
10 Sven Andrighetto R 0 2 2 1 0 4 0 14:29 0.36 21-13 1.43-0.73
37 J.T. Compher L 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 16:26 0.76 21-15 1.42-0.77
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 19:26 0.21 17-6 0.44-0.06
83 Matt Nieto L 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 14:19 9-10 0.31-0.42
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 18:28 0.14 17-6 0.37-0.06
2 Patrik Nemeth D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 24:34 0.07 23-24 0.85-1.07
14 Alexander Kerfoot C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 09:47 3-9 0.04-0.35
15 Blake Comeau L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 18:50 0.06 9-18 0.31-0.87
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 09:43 2-14 0.03-0.70
22 Colin Wilson C 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 13:32 0.45 22-13 1.50-0.73
34 Carl Soderberg C 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 17:23 0.36 9-15 0.31-0.78
44 Mark Barberio D 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 19:46 0.15 19-12 1.19-0.76
49 Samuel Girard D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:32 0.02 8-12 0.47-0.20
54 Anton Lindholm D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:33 0.03 8-18 0.50-0.87
64 Nail Yakupov R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 07:32 0.03 2-8 0.03-0.29
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 1 4 0 5 19:20 21-5 0.87-0.17
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Semyon Varlamov 32 30 2 60:00 2.46 +0.46