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Pittsburgh Penguins at Montréal Canadiens

Mar 15, 2018 · Centre Bell

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 5 39
Montréal Canadiens 3 20

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:15 MTL Artturi Lehkonen (9) Jeff Petry (25), Alex Galchenyuk (27) 0 - 1
06:31 MTL Paul Byron (17) PP Brendan Gallagher (18), Alex Galchenyuk (28) 0 - 2
10:05 PIT Phil Kessel (29) Bryan Rust (24), Derick Brassard (23) 1 - 2
14:33 PIT Patric Hornqvist (21) Evgeni Malkin (49), Kris Letang (37) 2 - 2
2nd Period
10:30 PIT Evgeni Malkin (40) PP Kris Letang (38), Sidney Crosby (54) 3 - 2
12:57 MTL Nicolas Deslauriers (8) Daniel Carr (10), Jonathan Drouin (26) 3 - 3
3rd Period
12:24 PIT Patric Hornqvist (22) Carl Hagelin (18), Brian Dumoulin (10) 4 - 3
18:07 PIT Bryan Rust (12) Patric Hornqvist (17), Jamie Oleksiak (9) 5 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
06:08 PIT Jamie Oleksiak Holding 2
2nd Period
01:07 MTL Brendan Gallagher Interference 2
10:07 MTL Jeff Petry Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 66 52 39 5 3.0 60.2
Montréal Canadiens 48 32 20 3 2.3 39.8

How the game went

25201510505Start2nd3rdMontréal Canadiens 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 Montréal Canadiens had taken more, and below it and blue while Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 3.0 expected, 5 scored · Montréal Canadiens: 2.3 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 10:05 of 1st, a 13% chancePIT goal, 14:33 of 1st, a 8% chancePIT goal, 10:30 of 2nd, a 6% chancePIT goal, 12:24 of 3rd, a 10% chancePIT goal, 18:07 of 3rd, a 36% chanceMTL goal, 3:15 of 1st, a 20% chanceMTL goal, 6:31 of 1st, a 37% chanceMTL goal, 12:57 of 2nd, a 10% chancePIT 3.0MTL 2.3

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
Montréal Canadiens

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 · Carl Hagelin13:5351.957.32-0
Sidney Crosby · Jake Guentzel · Conor Sheary13:4962.556.00-1
Derick Brassard · Phil Kessel · Bryan Rust10:4580.089.51-0
Riley Sheahan · Tom Kuhnhackl · Carter Rowney3:1616.70.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Justin Schultz · Jamie Oleksiak17:0372.079.70-0
Olli Maatta · Chad Ruhwedel16:2550.040.50-0
Kris Letang · Brian Dumoulin15:2961.159.22-1

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
70 Patric Hornqvist R 2 1 3 2 0 10 3 18:07 0.79 16-15 0.63-0.61
17 Bryan Rust R 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 14:19 0.09 13-4 0.42-0.07
71 Evgeni Malkin C 1 1 2 3 0 1 1 20:05 0.06 14-15 0.62-0.54
58 Kris Letang D 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 22:58 0.04 24-17 0.90-0.67
8 Phil Kessel R 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 17:41 0.22 15-4 0.51-0.07
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 18:40 0.05 24-15 0.90-0.56
4 Jamie Oleksiak D 0 1 1 0 2 1 4 18:37 0.06 18-8 0.87-0.32
61 Derick Brassard C 0 1 1 0 0 1 4 13:51 0.13 13-5 0.41-0.15
62 Carl Hagelin L 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 18:58 0.16 17-15 0.79-0.59
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 1 1 -1 0 5 3 21:18 0.14 25-14 0.95-0.68
3 Olli Maatta D 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 17:54 0.09 16-15 0.41-0.57
4 Justin Schultz D 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 21:02 0.03 21-8 1.02-0.22
5 Chad Ruhwedel D 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 19:04 0.03 15-15 0.44-0.57
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:28 9-7 0.39-0.15
14 Tom Kuhnhackl R 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 07:32 3-5 0.03-0.10
37 Carter Rowney C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 04:11 4-5 0.17-0.10
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:55 0.15 22-14 0.93-0.69
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 18:57 0.63 26-14 0.96-0.66
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Tristan Jarry 20 17 3 60:00 2.32 -0.68

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Galchenyuk · Jacob de la Rose · Artturi Lehkonen13:5136.740.31-0
Paul Byron · Brendan Gallagher · Jonathan Drouin13:3752.245.80-2
Logan Shaw · Charles Hudon · Nikita Scherbak9:1425.013.60-0
Nicolas Deslauriers · Byron Froese · Daniel Carr7:5938.529.10-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Petry · Mike Reilly19:4642.936.71-2
Karl Alzner · Noah Juulsen16:2244.451.91-1
Jordie Benn · Brett Lernout13:5934.627.30-0

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
47 Alex Galchenyuk C 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 18:22 0.09 12-24 0.54-0.97
41 Paul Byron L 1 0 1 -3 0 1 3 18:43 0.42 12-12 0.40-0.47
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 1 0 1 0 0 3 4 10:57 0.27 7-9 0.36-0.49
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 16:57 0.31 11-21 0.52-0.79
2 Jeff Petry D 0 1 1 -2 2 2 4 24:49 0.07 18-27 0.72-1.26
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 1 1 -3 2 2 0 18:52 0.51 17-16 0.60-0.63
28 Daniel Carr L 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 10:53 6-8 0.29-0.47
92 Jonathan Drouin L 0 1 1 -2 0 2 2 20:39 0.35 17-14 0.64-0.54
6 Mike Reilly D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 22:23 18-24 0.72-1.25
18 Jordie Benn D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16:53 9-20 0.19-0.52
20 Logan Shaw R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:33 4-12 0.05-0.31
21 Nikita Scherbak R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:52 0.05 8-14 0.16-0.34
27 Karl Alzner D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 20:21 0.01 12-15 0.55-0.51
36 Brett Lernout D 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 16:09 0.02 9-17 0.19-0.51
47 Noah Juulsen D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 19:02 0.02 12-15 0.55-0.51
51 Byron Froese C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 11:03 0.05 6-8 0.26-0.47
54 Charles Hudon L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:48 5-15 0.05-0.38
61 Jacob de la Rose L 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 16:17 0.11 12-24 0.52-0.96
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
37 Antti Niemi 38 34 4 58:04 2.71 -1.29