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Pittsburgh Penguins at Boston Bruins

Jan 4, 2024 · TD Garden

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 6 35
Boston Bruins 5 29

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:41 BOS Brad Marchand (14) David Pastrnak (29), Charlie McAvoy (21) 0 - 1
05:04 PIT Drew O'Connor (5) Kris Letang (21), Lars Eller (6) 1 - 1
06:17 PIT Ryan Graves (2) Sidney Crosby (18), Rickard Rakell (9) 2 - 1
06:39 BOS David Pastrnak (23) Hampus Lindholm (10), Morgan Geekie (9) 2 - 2
07:21 PIT Jake Guentzel (18) Sidney Crosby (19), Kris Letang (22) 3 - 2
15:58 PIT Lars Eller (7) Drew O'Connor (8), Erik Karlsson (19) 4 - 2
2nd Period
06:38 PIT Jeff Carter (5) Kris Letang (23), Bryan Rust (11) 5 - 2
09:51 BOS Morgan Geekie (7) David Pastrnak (30), Charlie McAvoy (22) 5 - 3
19:24 BOS Jake DeBrusk (7) Brandon Carlo (7), Morgan Geekie (10) 5 - 4
3rd Period
03:08 BOS Brad Marchand (15) SH Charlie Coyle (15) 5 - 5
11:19 PIT Sidney Crosby (22) PP Erik Karlsson (20) 6 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
07:52 PIT Pierre-Olivier Joseph High sticking 2
2nd Period
04:36 BOS Brandon Carlo Cross checking 2
13:21 PIT Kris Letang Hooking 2
3rd Period
01:38 BOS Charlie McAvoy Delaying game puck over glass 2
11:12 BOS Charlie McAvoy Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 57 45 35 6 4.7 54.7
Boston Bruins 59 38 29 5 2.2 45.3

How the game went

20151050Start2nd3rdBoston Bruins 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 Boston Bruins had taken more, and below it and blue while Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 4.7 expected, 6 scored · Boston Bruins: 2.2 expected, 5 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 5:04 of 1st, a 21% chancePIT goal, 6:17 of 1st, a 4% chancePIT goal, 7:21 of 1st, a 23% chancePIT goal, 15:58 of 1st, a 6% chancePIT goal, 6:38 of 2nd, a 50% chancePIT goal, 11:19 of 3rd, a 5% chanceBOS goal, 0:41 of 1st, a 21% chanceBOS goal, 6:39 of 1st, a 12% chanceBOS goal, 9:51 of 2nd, a 6% chanceBOS goal, 19:24 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBOS goal, 3:08 of 3rd, a 15% chancePIT 4.7BOS 2.2

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.

Where the attempts came from

Pittsburgh Penguins
Boston Bruins

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 · Rickard Rakell · Jake Guentzel12:5853.874.32-1
Evgeni Malkin · Reilly Smith · Bryan Rust10:0858.349.50-2
Jeff Carter · Jansen Harkins · Noel Acciari8:1061.570.10-0
Lars Eller · Valtteri Puustinen · Drew O'Connor6:0963.668.12-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kris Letang · Marcus Pettersson17:2244.163.92-3
Erik Karlsson · Pierre-Olivier Joseph14:4060.071.71-1
Chad Ruhwedel · Ryan Graves10:0269.290.41-0

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
87 Sidney Crosby C 1 2 3 1 0 3 2 18:39 0.37 15-12 1.51-0.44
58 Kris Letang D 0 3 3 -1 2 3 3 24:04 0.06 18-21 1.61-0.62
18 Drew O'Connor L 1 1 2 1 0 2 4 14:28 0.60 11-10 0.64-0.44
20 Lars Eller C 1 1 2 1 0 3 1 15:25 0.10 14-10 1.16-0.44
65 Erik Karlsson D 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 20:28 0.24 19-11 1.59-0.53
27 Ryan Graves D 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 15:26 0.04 11-7 0.36-0.19
59 Jake Guentzel C 1 0 1 1 0 4 1 19:30 0.84 16-12 1.51-0.44
77 Jeff Carter C 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 10:31 0.67 12-5 1.16-0.20
17 Bryan Rust R 0 1 1 -2 0 2 2 17:16 0.03 9-8 0.72-0.24
67 Rickard Rakell R 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 17:18 0.70 15-15 1.51-0.45
5 Chad Ruhwedel D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:28 10-8 0.34-0.20
7 Pierre-Olivier Joseph D 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 16:56 0.02 16-12 1.35-0.68
10 Jansen Harkins C 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 10:31 0.03 10-7 0.49-0.22
19 Reilly Smith R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 3 14:13 0.10 11-10 0.90-0.25
26 Marcus Pettersson D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 25:23 0.07 18-22 1.10-0.63
48 Valtteri Puustinen R 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 07:37 0.28 8-5 0.60-0.29
52 Noel Acciari C 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 17:09 0.43 13-13 0.70-0.25
71 Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 16:38 0.12 9-7 0.45-0.23
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
33 Alex Nedeljkovic W 29 24 5 60:00 2.19 -2.81

Boston Bruins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
David Pastrnak · Pavel Zacha · Morgan Geekie11:4346.767.32-0
Brad Marchand · Charlie Coyle · Jake DeBrusk9:4545.516.30-1
James van Riemsdyk · Danton Heinen · Trent Frederic8:0018.25.80-2
Oskar Steen · John Beecher · Georgii Merkulov4:1714.30.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Hampus Lindholm · Brandon Carlo10:2468.853.61-1
Matt Grzelcyk · Charlie McAvoy9:5638.138.81-1
Hampus Lindholm · Charlie McAvoy8:0145.09.21-0

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
39 Morgan Geekie C 1 2 3 3 0 2 0 18:21 0.15 10-9 0.49-0.21
88 David Pastrnak R 1 2 3 3 0 7 0 23:39 0.35 16-9 0.83-0.21
63 Brad Marchand L 2 0 2 1 0 4 1 20:23 0.39 15-12 0.42-0.96
73 Charlie McAvoy D 0 2 2 1 4 1 3 26:27 0.01 18-26 0.62-1.93
74 Jake DeBrusk L 1 0 1 -2 0 3 1 17:36 0.20 14-19 0.41-1.85
3 Charlie Coyle C 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 19:19 0.15 15-18 0.41-1.35
25 Brandon Carlo D 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 18:32 0.02 14-10 0.57-1.46
27 Hampus Lindholm D 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 29:13 0.04 21-23 0.58-1.60
6 Mason Lohrei D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0 08:29 0.03 3-8 0.03-0.82
10 Trent Frederic C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 3 14:11 0.20 9-12 0.27-0.99
12 Kevin Shattenkirk D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 13:28 0.03 7-10 0.15-0.37
18 Pavel Zacha C 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 21:41 0.31 11-15 0.49-1.24
18 John Beecher C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 06:10 1-10 0.00-0.58
21 James van Riemsdyk L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 12:23 0.29 7-10 0.22-0.75
24 Matt Grzelcyk D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 20:52 0.02 15-19 0.74-1.64
42 Georgii Merkulov C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 06:23 4-7 0.02-0.50
58 Danton Heinen L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 14:42 10-12 0.27-0.77
62 Oskar Steen C 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 06:45 5-6 0.21-0.48
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Jeremy Swayman L 35 29 6 57:19 4.74 -1.26