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Pittsburgh Penguins at Colorado Avalanche

Mar 16, 2026 · Ball Arena

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 7 20
Colorado Avalanche 2 27

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:01 PIT Evgeni Malkin (14) Bryan Rust (28), Noel Acciari (10) 1 - 0
04:08 COL Nathan MacKinnon (45) Martin Necas (50), Cale Makar (49) 1 - 1
04:23 PIT Anthony Mantha (26) Erik Karlsson (41) 2 - 1
13:00 PIT Evgeni Malkin (15) Egor Chinakhov (14), Parker Wotherspoon (20) 3 - 1
13:43 PIT Elmer Soderblom (3) Connor Dewar (12), Erik Karlsson (42) 4 - 1
14:21 COL Brent Burns (10) Gavin Brindley (7), Josh Manson (23) 4 - 2
2nd Period
10:36 PIT Erik Karlsson (7) Ryan Shea (24) 5 - 2
16:20 PIT Bryan Rust (25) PP Evgeni Malkin (35), Rickard Rakell (19) 6 - 2
3rd Period
09:06 PIT Noel Acciari (9) Elmer Soderblom (2), Connor Dewar (13) 7 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
00:48 PIT Evgeni Malkin Tripping 2
05:33 PIT Ville Koivunen Cross checking 2
08:39 COL Jack Drury Interference 2
2nd Period
03:30 PIT Anthony Mantha Holding 2
11:11 PIT Arturs Silovs Tripping 2
13:30 COL Nicolas Roy Hooking 2
15:40 COL Team Too many men on the ice 2
3rd Period
10:59 PIT Evgeni Malkin Roughing 2
10:59 COL Parker Kelly Roughing 2
10:59 PIT Connor Clifton Fighting 5
10:59 COL Jack Drury Fighting 5

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 43 28 20 7 2.3 39.1
Colorado Avalanche 65 46 27 2 3.4 60.9

How the game went

0510152025Start2nd3rdColorado Avalanche 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 Colorado Avalanche had taken more, and below it and blue while Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 2.3 expected, 7 scored · Colorado Avalanche: 3.4 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 3:01 of 1st, a 7% chancePIT goal, 4:23 of 1st, a 12% chancePIT goal, 13:00 of 1st, a 17% chancePIT goal, 13:43 of 1st, a 6% chancePIT goal, 10:36 of 2nd, a 0% chancePIT goal, 16:20 of 2nd, a 14% chancePIT goal, 9:06 of 3rd, a 22% chanceCOL goal, 4:08 of 1st, a 4% chanceCOL goal, 14:21 of 1st, a 1% chanceCOL 3.4PIT 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.

Where the attempts came from

Pittsburgh Penguins
Colorado Avalanche

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 · Tommy Novak · Egor Chinakhov9:3142.947.41-1
Bryan Rust · Rickard Rakell · Anthony Mantha9:1542.141.81-1
Noel Acciari · Connor Dewar · Elmer Soderblom8:3441.262.23-0
Justin Brazeau · Ville Koivunen · Ben Kindel6:1238.511.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Erik Karlsson · Parker Wotherspoon14:4344.853.63-1
Kris Letang · Ryan Shea12:4936.015.41-1
Connor Clifton · Ilya Solovyov8:1075.0100.01-0

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
71 Evgeni Malkin C 2 1 3 1 4 3 0 16:18 0.31 7-11 0.35-0.82
65 Erik Karlsson D 1 2 3 2 0 4 0 21:44 0.21 14-17 0.62-0.63
17 Bryan Rust R 1 1 2 1 0 3 0 17:05 0.24 10-13 0.43-0.57
25 Elmer Soderblom L 1 1 2 3 0 1 1 10:00 0.06 7-11 0.45-0.27
52 Noel Acciari C 1 1 2 3 0 2 0 16:36 0.40 9-13 0.64-0.27
19 Connor Dewar C 0 2 2 3 0 1 0 16:12 0.09 8-12 0.64-0.27
39 Anthony Mantha R 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 14:57 0.12 10-13 0.55-0.61
6 Ryan Shea D 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 23:39 11-29 0.35-1.96
29 Parker Wotherspoon D 0 1 1 2 0 0 3 20:48 0.08 14-24 0.81-0.84
59 Egor Chinakhov R 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 17:09 0.22 7-17 0.31-1.13
67 Rickard Rakell R 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 16:23 0.40 11-13 0.45-0.54
7 Ilya Solovyov D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 13:21 0.05 9-10 0.37-0.20
16 Justin Brazeau R 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 11:52 0.07 8-13 0.14-0.98
18 Tommy Novak C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:29 8-14 0.37-0.62
41 Ville Koivunen R 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 10:09 9-12 0.14-0.64
58 Kris Letang D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 20:14 0.05 14-21 0.57-1.66
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 2 5 0 5 16:07 0.02 7-5 0.33-0.01
81 Ben Kindel C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13:57 7-17 0.10-1.22
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
37 Arturs Silovs W 27 25 2 60:00 3.28 +1.28

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nathan MacKinnon · Valeri Nichushkin · Martin Necas14:1059.445.41-2
Nazem Kadri · Brock Nelson · Nicolas Roy7:1070.685.90-1
Parker Kelly · Jack Drury · Joel Kiviranta5:4428.668.40-0
Nicolas Roy · Zakhar Bardakov · Gavin Brindley1:4066.787.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Devon Toews · Cale Makar10:3463.675.41-2
Brett Kulak · Sam Malinski10:0056.352.30-1
Brent Burns · Josh Manson5:3364.390.41-0

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 1 0 1 -1 0 4 0 22:39 0.23 20-14 0.51-0.64
84 Brent Burns D 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 15:18 0.30 16-8 1.03-0.26
8 Cale Makar D 0 1 1 -1 0 4 0 21:31 0.25 24-8 1.27-0.30
42 Josh Manson D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 1 16:43 0.10 15-15 1.18-0.82
54 Gavin Brindley C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 1 10:20 0.10 11-6 0.30-0.38
88 Martin Necas C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 2 24:08 0.29 23-16 0.75-0.65
7 Devon Toews D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 17:35 0.03 18-10 1.01-0.37
10 Nicolas Roy C 0 0 0 -2 2 2 1 15:28 0.24 21-9 1.60-0.31
11 Brock Nelson C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 20:16 1.05 17-8 1.38-0.47
17 Parker Kelly C 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 13:45 5-5 0.32-0.13
18 Jack Drury C 0 0 0 -1 7 1 0 13:31 0.04 6-9 0.44-0.32
22 Joel Kiviranta L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 10:03 6-6 0.33-0.30
27 Brett Kulak D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 16:45 12-10 0.44-0.26
37 Nick Blankenburg D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 11:10 8-6 0.08-0.65
43 Valeri Nichushkin R 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 22:40 0.20 23-16 0.61-0.70
70 Sam Malinski D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 15:00 0.07 13-11 0.29-0.40
91 Nazem Kadri C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 20:18 0.29 19-9 1.44-0.27
93 Zakhar Bardakov C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 08:10 0.21 8-4 0.28-0.42
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
39 Mackenzie Blackwood 15 11 4 47:00 1.60 -2.40
41 Scott Wedgewood L 5 2 3 13:00 0.64 -2.36