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Pittsburgh Penguins at Vegas Golden Knights

Mar 7, 2025 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 0 22
Vegas Golden Knights 4 27

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
12:58 VGK Tanner Pearson (11) Mark Stone (36), Zach Whitecloud (7) 0 - 1
2nd Period
04:38 VGK Ivan Barbashev (19) Mark Stone (37), Nicolas Hague (6) 0 - 2
3rd Period
02:00 VGK Brandon Saad (10) Tomas Hertl (25), Brayden McNabb (10) 0 - 3
02:54 VGK Mark Stone (17) Tanner Pearson (12), Jack Eichel (55) 0 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
00:58 PIT Evgeni Malkin Tripping 2
07:18 PIT Ryan Shea High sticking 2
18:10 PIT Kris Letang Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 48 33 22 0 1.8 50.5
Vegas Golden Knights 52 43 27 4 4.1 49.5

How the game went

86420246Start2nd3rdVegas Golden Knights 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 Vegas Golden Knights had taken more, and below it and blue while Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 1.8 expected, 0 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 4.1 expected, 4 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndVGK goal, 12:58 of 1st, a 34% chanceVGK goal, 4:38 of 2nd, a 8% chanceVGK goal, 2:00 of 3rd, a 3% chanceVGK goal, 2:54 of 3rd, a 22% chanceVGK 4.1PIT 1.8

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
Vegas Golden Knights

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 · Bryan Rust · Rickard Rakell15:5055.649.60-1
Evgeni Malkin · Kevin Hayes · Emil Bemstrom11:3781.373.80-0
Danton Heinen · Tommy Novak · Philip Tomasino9:0929.418.50-2
Bokondji Imama · Noel Acciari · Blake Lizotte3:5140.023.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Erik Karlsson · Matt Grzelcyk18:4954.843.10-0
Kris Letang · Ryan Shea14:3137.525.50-1
Ryan Graves · Vladislav Kolyachonok9:0668.837.20-1

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
6 Ryan Shea D 0 0 0 -2 2 0 2 21:22 15-24 0.71-1.78
13 Kevin Hayes R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 16:38 0.08 13-7 0.23-0.56
14 Bokondji Imama L 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 05:05 5-3 0.08-0.11
17 Bryan Rust R 0 0 0 -2 0 5 1 19:29 0.47 21-16 1.02-0.90
18 Tommy Novak C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 14:01 0.31 13-18 0.78-1.88
24 Matt Grzelcyk D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:14 0.04 17-17 0.71-0.97
27 Ryan Graves D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 16:09 0.08 15-8 0.47-0.79
46 Blake Lizotte C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:30 5-8 0.12-0.47
52 Noel Acciari C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13:03 0.06 4-9 0.16-0.62
52 Emil Bemstrom C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 13:59 0.01 13-8 0.23-0.68
53 Philip Tomasino R 0 0 0 -2 0 4 2 12:09 0.14 9-13 0.41-1.54
58 Kris Letang D 0 0 0 -2 2 0 4 21:33 15-21 0.53-1.77
58 Danton Heinen L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 13:27 7-15 0.38-1.81
65 Erik Karlsson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 25:19 0.05 20-15 0.87-1.14
67 Rickard Rakell R 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 18:09 0.49 20-16 1.02-0.90
71 Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 1 16:53 0.08 15-9 0.32-0.54
74 Vladislav Kolyachonok D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 14:45 12-7 0.36-1.03
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 19:15 0.01 16-16 0.71-1.21
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
33 Alex Nedeljkovic L 27 23 4 60:00 4.16 +0.16

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brandon Saad · Tomas Hertl · Pavel Dorofeyev11:4558.370.31-0
Mark Stone · Tanner Pearson · Jack Eichel10:3150.075.92-0
Ivan Barbashev · Keegan Kolesar · Brett Howden10:1961.576.20-0
Reilly Smith · Nicolas Roy · Cole Schwindt7:0120.067.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Noah Hanifin · Zach Whitecloud18:1950.073.82-0
Alex Pietrangelo · Nicolas Hague16:2733.339.01-0
Brayden McNabb · Kaedan Korczak10:5452.664.81-0

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
61 Mark Stone R 1 2 3 3 0 3 0 17:42 0.50 12-11 1.07-0.44
70 Tanner Pearson L 1 1 2 2 0 3 1 14:54 0.48 11-16 1.29-0.74
20 Brandon Saad L 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 15:13 0.22 18-10 1.05-0.34
49 Ivan Barbashev L 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 15:11 0.15 11-6 0.91-0.26
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 15:20 14-16 0.95-0.79
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 20:06 0.11 11-15 0.99-0.60
28 Zach Whitecloud D 0 1 1 2 0 2 4 20:47 0.13 22-22 2.17-0.93
41 Nicolas Hague D 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 19:53 12-13 0.76-0.36
48 Tomas Hertl C 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 18:30 0.61 17-10 1.20-0.34
6 Kaedan Korczak D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 11:10 10-9 0.63-0.34
7 Alex Pietrangelo D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 21:01 0.01 10-14 0.48-0.42
10 Nicolas Roy C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 12:50 0.23 8-12 0.72-0.37
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 25:54 0.02 23-20 2.34-0.80
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 18:32 0.74 19-10 1.23-0.34
19 Reilly Smith R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:19 0.29 8-16 0.80-0.53
21 Brett Howden C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 13:55 0.31 10-10 0.83-0.52
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 15:30 0.36 12-14 0.91-0.66
79 Cole Schwindt R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 09:13 2-11 0.37-0.33
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Ilya Samsonov W, SO 22 22 0 60:00 1.83 +1.83