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Colorado Avalanche at Pittsburgh Penguins

Dec 4, 2018 · PPG Paints Arena

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 3 45
Pittsburgh Penguins 6 32

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:46 PIT Jake Guentzel (12) Kris Letang (16), Brian Dumoulin (7) 0 - 1
06:52 PIT Evgeni Malkin (10) Tanner Pearson (3), Patric Hornqvist (7) 0 - 2
07:27 PIT Derick Brassard (3) Olli Maatta (8), Zachary Aston-Reese (1) 0 - 3
2nd Period
08:16 COL Tyson Barrie (4) PP Mikko Rantanen (35), Gabriel Landeskog (15) 1 - 3
09:32 COL Carl Soderberg (9) Matt Calvert (6), Ian Cole (8) 2 - 3
13:17 COL Matt Nieto (3) SH Gabriel Bourque (4) 3 - 3
3rd Period
06:11 PIT Patric Hornqvist (10) PP Kris Letang (17), Phil Kessel (19) 3 - 4
07:32 PIT Patric Hornqvist (11) Evgeni Malkin (22) 3 - 5
08:58 PIT Patric Hornqvist (12) Unassisted 3 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
12:47 PIT Dominik Simon Hooking 2
2nd Period
06:42 PIT Kris Letang Interference 2
10:59 PIT Sidney Crosby Tripping 2
11:44 COL Mikko Rantanen Interference 2
3rd Period
05:47 COL Patrik Nemeth Slashing 2
14:48 PIT Jack Johnson Roughing 2
14:48 COL J.T. Compher Roughing 2
17:01 COL Nathan MacKinnon Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 78 62 45 3 4.0 56.6
Pittsburgh Penguins 54 39 32 6 4.7 43.4

How the game went

302520151050Start2nd3rdPittsburgh Penguins aheadColorado Avalanche 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 Pittsburgh Penguins had taken more, and below it and blue while Colorado Avalanche had.

Expected goals

Colorado Avalanche: 4.0 expected, 3 scored · Pittsburgh Penguins: 4.7 expected, 6 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndCOL goal, 8:16 of 2nd, a 5% chanceCOL goal, 9:32 of 2nd, a 24% chanceCOL goal, 13:17 of 2nd, a 10% chancePIT goal, 2:46 of 1st, a 10% chancePIT goal, 6:52 of 1st, a 31% chancePIT goal, 7:27 of 1st, a 10% chancePIT goal, 6:11 of 3rd, a 32% chancePIT goal, 7:32 of 3rd, a 2% chancePIT goal, 8:58 of 3rd, a 7% chancePIT 4.7COL 4.0

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

Colorado Avalanche
Pittsburgh Penguins

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.

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Gabriel Landeskog · Nathan MacKinnon · Mikko Rantanen15:3060.666.00-1
Colin Wilson · J.T. Compher · Tyson Jost9:0557.145.40-1
Carl Soderberg · Matt Calvert · Matt Nieto8:2876.269.71-1
Gabriel Bourque · Alexander Kerfoot · Vladislav Kamenev6:3745.520.50-2
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Erik Johnson · Samuel Girard11:2447.650.80-0
Ian Cole · Tyson Barrie10:3658.648.60-3
Patrik Nemeth · Nikita Zadorov6:2656.349.40-1

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

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
8 Tyson Barrie D 1 0 1 -3 0 5 1 24:10 0.17 24-20 0.83-1.17
34 Carl Soderberg C 1 0 1 0 0 4 1 12:31 0.56 16-6 0.90-0.39
83 Matt Nieto L 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 11:11 0.10 16-6 0.90-0.44
11 Matt Calvert L 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 10:33 0.36 16-7 0.90-0.52
28 Ian Cole D 0 1 1 -2 0 3 2 20:23 0.06 29-18 1.40-1.00
57 Gabriel Bourque L 0 1 1 -1 0 1 3 10:19 0.08 8-11 0.37-0.65
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 0 1 1 -1 0 4 0 22:24 0.67 20-14 1.15-0.59
96 Mikko Rantanen R 0 1 1 -1 2 5 1 22:23 0.52 21-15 1.25-0.61
2 Patrik Nemeth D 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 13:02 0.04 17-9 1.09-0.62
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 23:37 0.04 24-19 1.52-1.15
14 Alexander Kerfoot C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 11:25 9-8 0.23-0.51
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 15:07 0.40 21-20 1.01-1.45
22 Colin Wilson C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 17:26 0.11 16-15 0.80-1.25
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 1 21:52 0.35 20-17 1.15-0.95
37 J.T. Compher L 0 0 0 -1 2 4 0 17:37 0.44 22-19 1.19-1.31
49 Samuel Girard D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:48 0.01 18-15 0.99-0.99
81 Vladislav Kamenev C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 09:19 0.01 7-9 0.21-0.61
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 15:07 0.11 16-17 0.89-1.26
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Semyon Varlamov L 32 26 6 57:47 3.65 -2.35

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Evgeni Malkin · Patric Hornqvist · Tanner Pearson10:5144.854.13-1
Derick Brassard · Phil Kessel · Zachary Aston-Reese10:3637.550.61-0
Sidney Crosby · Riley Sheahan · Jake Guentzel4:4523.18.30-0
Sidney Crosby · Jake Guentzel · Dominik Simon4:3744.445.21-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kris Letang · Brian Dumoulin16:5248.646.73-1
Jamie Oleksiak · Olli Maatta15:5033.351.91-0
Jack Johnson · Marcus Pettersson12:3540.446.81-0

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
70 Patric Hornqvist R 3 1 4 1 0 8 2 16:32 1.10 18-20 1.54-0.89
71 Evgeni Malkin C 1 1 2 1 0 2 2 17:51 0.43 20-20 1.44-0.98
58 Kris Letang D 0 2 2 1 2 3 2 24:46 0.14 21-22 1.05-1.33
59 Jake Guentzel C 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 18:36 0.20 13-22 0.64-1.53
61 Derick Brassard C 1 0 1 1 0 3 2 15:35 0.42 10-17 0.71-0.75
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 20:26 18-19 0.98-1.13
3 Olli Maatta D 0 1 1 1 0 1 4 21:00 0.04 8-14 0.51-0.45
8 Phil Kessel R 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 17:42 0.23 18-21 1.01-0.95
27 Zachary Aston-Reese L 0 1 1 1 0 3 5 18:30 0.24 14-16 0.84-0.63
70 Tanner Pearson L 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 12:23 0.26 15-18 1.07-0.81
3 Jack Johnson D 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 20:08 0.07 23-30 1.60-1.78
4 Jamie Oleksiak D 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 19:25 8-15 0.63-0.45
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:43 6-16 0.35-1.07
17 Bryan Rust R 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 10:20 0.05 5-7 0.28-0.26
26 Marcus Pettersson D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 13:54 0.02 20-28 1.41-1.58
38 Derek Grant C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 06:48 0.08 5-5 0.09-0.18
51 Dominik Simon C 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 05:01 0.14 6-5 0.49-0.39
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 19:46 0.13 17-25 0.80-1.63
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Casey DeSmith W 45 42 3 60:00 4.01 +1.01