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Pittsburgh Penguins at Detroit Red Wings

Dec 31, 2017 · Little Caesars Arena

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 1 38
Detroit Red Wings 4 23

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
11:31 DET Gustav Nyquist (11) Henrik Zetterberg (20), Tyler Bertuzzi (2) 0 - 1
2nd Period
00:59 DET Dylan Larkin (6) Tomas Tatar (7), Trevor Daley (4) 0 - 2
08:04 PIT Evgeni Malkin (14) PP Phil Kessel (26), Olli Maatta (13) 1 - 2
15:18 DET Frans Nielsen (10) Darren Helm (9), Mike Green (18) 1 - 3
3rd Period
16:34 DET Gustav Nyquist (12) Tyler Bertuzzi (3), Henrik Zetterberg (21) 1 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
08:14 PIT Evgeni Malkin Tripping 2
12:04 DET Tyler Bertuzzi High sticking double minor 4
2nd Period
06:35 DET Nick Jensen Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 61 49 38 1 2.9 58.9
Detroit Red Wings 43 34 23 4 2.6 41.1

How the game went

151050Start2nd3rdDetroit 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: 2.9 expected, 1 scored · Detroit Red Wings: 2.6 expected, 4 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 8:04 of 2nd, a 10% chanceDET goal, 11:31 of 1st, a 6% chanceDET goal, 0:59 of 2nd, a 17% chanceDET goal, 15:18 of 2nd, a 4% chanceDET goal, 16:34 of 3rd, a 24% chancePIT 2.9DET 2.6

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
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
Evgeni Malkin · Patric Hornqvist · Phil Kessel13:3457.742.80-2
Carl Hagelin · Riley Sheahan · Daniel Sprong12:4071.483.60-0
Sidney Crosby · Jake Guentzel · Conor Sheary11:2163.222.10-1
Ryan Reaves · Tom Kuhnhackl · Carter Rowney2:590.00.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ian Cole · Jamie Oleksiak17:2862.140.60-1
Matt Hunwick · Brian Dumoulin17:2162.254.40-1
Frank Corrado · Olli Maatta11:4355.078.90-1

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
71 Evgeni Malkin C 1 0 1 -3 2 2 1 20:12 0.13 16-18 0.65-1.54
3 Olli Maatta D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 1 18:41 0.05 15-11 0.75-0.29
8 Phil Kessel R 0 1 1 -3 0 2 0 21:45 0.08 19-18 0.87-1.55
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 22:02 0.36 23-14 0.98-0.82
4 Jamie Oleksiak D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 21:34 0.07 18-13 0.73-1.07
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 16:27 0.06 19-6 1.19-0.18
10 Daniel Sprong R 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 18:08 0.31 20-8 1.16-0.19
14 Tom Kuhnhackl R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 04:32 1-6 0.02-0.13
18 Frank Corrado D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 12:15 0.05 11-10 0.66-0.22
28 Ian Cole D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 21:15 0.02 19-13 0.74-1.27
37 Carter Rowney C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:13 4-9 0.07-0.16
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 16:50 0.17 19-8 0.50-0.52
48 Matt Hunwick D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 2 20:57 0.12 26-17 1.06-1.09
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 4 16:03 0.10 15-8 0.30-0.52
62 Carl Hagelin L 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 16:44 0.72 19-7 1.22-0.18
70 Patric Hornqvist R 0 0 0 -2 0 5 4 18:17 0.33 17-11 0.78-0.81
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 04:04 1-7 0.02-0.39
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 20:01 0.30 18-11 0.59-0.98
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Matt Murray L 23 19 4 60:00 2.67 -1.33

Detroit Red Wings

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tomas Tatar · Andreas Athanasiou · Dylan Larkin16:0025.030.61-0
Henrik Zetterberg · Gustav Nyquist · Tyler Bertuzzi12:5154.264.22-0
Frans Nielsen · Justin Abdelkader · Darren Helm10:4033.359.71-0
David Booth · Martin Frk · Andreas Athanasiou1:420.00.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Trevor Daley · Jonathan Ericsson16:0347.458.43-0
Mike Green · Danny DeKeyser15:2128.044.31-0
Niklas Kronwall · Nick Jensen9:5233.38.20-0

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
14 Gustav Nyquist R 2 0 2 2 0 3 0 17:29 0.41 15-16 1.24-0.79
40 Henrik Zetterberg C 0 2 2 2 0 2 1 19:04 0.24 19-16 1.38-0.81
59 Tyler Bertuzzi L 0 2 2 2 4 3 3 16:40 0.45 15-17 1.23-1.04
71 Dylan Larkin C 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 22:55 0.32 10-22 0.35-0.86
81 Frans Nielsen C 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 15:41 0.37 9-15 0.65-0.48
27 Mike Green D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 21:48 0.01 12-23 0.64-0.73
43 Darren Helm C 0 1 1 1 0 1 4 15:59 0.03 10-18 0.63-0.74
83 Trevor Daley D 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 22:30 22-23 1.47-1.41
90 Tomas Tatar L 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 19:02 0.08 10-20 0.40-0.86
3 Nick Jensen D 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 13:54 0.25 5-10 0.27-0.32
8 Justin Abdelkader L 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 17:43 0.26 10-15 0.63-0.45
17 David Booth L 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 04:58 0.11 5-2 0.12-0.07
29 Martin Frk R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 05:21 0.05 5-2 0.08-0.07
52 Jonathan Ericsson D 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 20:16 0.01 18-21 1.35-0.98
55 Niklas Kronwall D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14:37 4-10 0.13-0.35
61 Xavier Ouellet D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 04:39 0.01 7-3 0.19-0.49
65 Danny DeKeyser D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 20:14 0.02 9-22 0.71-0.63
89 Andreas Athanasiou C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 21:41 10-25 0.43-1.21
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Jimmy Howard W 38 37 1 60:00 2.93 +1.93