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Pittsburgh Penguins at Minnesota Wild

Dec 31, 2018 · Xcel Energy Center

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 3 32
Minnesota Wild 2 33

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
05:27 MIN Mikko Koivu (5) PP Nino Niederreiter (12), Charlie Coyle (12) 0 - 1
15:43 PIT Sidney Crosby (18) PP Phil Kessel (28), Kris Letang (25) 1 - 1
19:39 PIT Phil Kessel (17) Sidney Crosby (30), Zachary Aston-Reese (4) 2 - 1
2nd Period
10:19 PIT Riley Sheahan (5) Phil Kessel (29), Matt Cullen (4) 3 - 1
3rd Period
15:55 MIN Zach Parise (17) Mikko Koivu (18), Mikael Granlund (26) 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:48 PIT Riley Sheahan Holding 2
14:45 MIN Nate Prosser Kneeing 2
2nd Period
08:08 PIT Zachary Aston-Reese Roughing 2
08:08 MIN Marcus Foligno Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 52 43 32 3 2.6 47.3
Minnesota Wild 62 47 33 2 2.7 52.7

How the game went

20246810Start2nd3rdMinnesota Wild 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 Minnesota Wild had taken more, and below it and blue while Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 2.6 expected, 3 scored · Minnesota Wild: 2.7 expected, 2 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 15:43 of 1st, a 10% chancePIT goal, 19:39 of 1st, a 6% chancePIT goal, 10:19 of 2nd, a 4% chanceMIN goal, 5:27 of 1st, a 7% chanceMIN goal, 15:55 of 3rd, a 10% chanceMIN 2.7PIT 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
Minnesota Wild

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 · Jake Guentzel · Zachary Aston-Reese14:2270.866.50-1
Evgeni Malkin · Patric Hornqvist · Dominik Simon13:0339.141.50-0
Derick Brassard · Phil Kessel · Tanner Pearson10:2738.926.80-0
Matt Cullen · Derek Grant · Riley Sheahan7:3112.50.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kris Letang · Brian Dumoulin18:4050.055.91-0
Olli Maatta · Juuso Riikola15:3957.130.41-1
Jack Johnson · Marcus Pettersson14:0240.736.20-0

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
8 Phil Kessel R 1 2 3 2 0 4 0 14:56 0.22 12-12 0.39-0.58
87 Sidney Crosby C 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 19:56 0.17 20-9 0.84-0.36
8 Riley Sheahan C 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 09:00 0.04 5-9 0.11-0.24
7 Matt Cullen C 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 11:10 0.18 4-7 0.11-0.21
27 Zachary Aston-Reese L 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 17:06 0.08 20-9 0.80-0.51
58 Kris Letang D 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 25:16 18-18 0.86-0.68
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 23:33 0.05 18-18 0.86-0.68
3 Jack Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 19:16 0.09 13-21 0.33-0.63
3 Olli Maatta D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 18:35 0.03 15-12 0.26-0.69
26 Marcus Pettersson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14:32 0.02 12-17 0.31-0.67
38 Derek Grant C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 09:48 1-7 0.00-0.21
50 Juuso Riikola D 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 17:50 0.15 12-12 0.24-0.61
51 Dominik Simon C 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 15:51 0.08 12-17 0.31-0.54
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 18:34 0.54 18-12 0.74-0.69
61 Derick Brassard C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:31 0.02 9-13 0.20-0.61
70 Patric Hornqvist R 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 16:46 0.03 10-17 0.23-0.47
70 Tanner Pearson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:30 0.11 10-15 0.28-0.71
71 Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 18:11 0.23 11-20 0.28-0.80
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Casey DeSmith W 33 31 2 60:00 2.70 +0.70

Minnesota Wild

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mikko Koivu · Nino Niederreiter · Jordan Greenway12:4222.229.50-1
Zach Parise · Charlie Coyle · Luke Kunin10:3075.089.40-0
Eric Staal · Jason Zucker · Mikael Granlund9:2961.970.30-0
Matt Hendricks · Eric Fehr · Marcus Foligno7:4946.219.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ryan Suter · Jared Spurgeon20:5573.782.51-1
Greg Pateryn · Jonas Brodin18:4242.956.30-1
Matt Bartkowski · Nate Prosser6:1522.25.00-0

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
9 Mikko Koivu C 1 1 2 0 0 4 0 16:53 0.32 7-15 0.31-0.25
9 Zach Parise L 1 0 1 0 0 5 3 18:45 0.39 19-7 0.92-0.27
3 Charlie Coyle C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 1 18:09 0.30 19-8 0.85-0.27
62 Nino Niederreiter R 0 1 1 -1 0 0 1 15:28 7-14 0.22-0.22
64 Mikael Granlund C 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 19:32 0.09 21-10 0.89-0.41
12 Eric Staal C 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 18:22 0.44 17-14 0.74-0.60
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 15:39 0.11 5-14 0.13-0.22
15 Matt Hendricks C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 08:26 8-9 0.19-0.34
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 -1 2 0 3 09:19 0.04 6-11 0.08-0.39
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 15:12 0.47 16-14 0.72-0.60
21 Eric Fehr C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 09:19 0.02 6-7 0.08-0.32
22 Ryan Suter D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 27:50 0.06 30-10 1.17-0.24
25 Jonas Brodin D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 25:19 0.15 19-25 0.82-0.98
29 Greg Pateryn D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 21:30 16-22 0.79-0.63
39 Nate Prosser D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 07:16 3-7 0.03-0.18
44 Matt Bartkowski D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:32 3-13 0.02-0.58
46 Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 26:01 0.19 28-11 1.15-0.25
71 Luke Kunin C 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 15:29 0.15 15-9 0.79-0.41
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Devan Dubnyk L 32 29 3 58:01 2.02 -0.98