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Pittsburgh Penguins at Carolina Hurricanes

Mar 18, 2026 · Lenovo Center

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 5 35
Carolina Hurricanes 6 44

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
09:34 CAR Jordan Martinook (10) SH Jordan Staal (13), Jaccob Slavin (4) 0 - 1
2nd Period
09:57 PIT Sidney Crosby (28) Rickard Rakell (20), Erik Karlsson (43) 1 - 1
16:51 CAR Jackson Blake (20) Taylor Hall (23), Nikolaj Ehlers (34) 1 - 2
3rd Period
00:59 PIT Erik Karlsson (8) PP Rickard Rakell (21), Evgeni Malkin (36) 2 - 2
03:27 CAR Taylor Hall (15) Jackson Blake (22), Logan Stankoven (18) 2 - 3
07:16 PIT Bryan Rust (26) Unassisted 3 - 3
12:59 CAR Logan Stankoven (14) PP Nikolaj Ehlers (35), Jackson Blake (23) 3 - 4
14:46 PIT Erik Karlsson (9) Parker Wotherspoon (21), Sidney Crosby (33) 4 - 4
15:09 PIT Ben Kindel (17) Anthony Mantha (27), Ilya Solovyov (7) 5 - 4
17:09 CAR K'Andre Miller (5) Sean Walker (16), Nikolaj Ehlers (36) 5 - 5
Overtime
04:31 CAR Sean Walker (7) Sebastian Aho (45), Seth Jarvis (26) 5 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
09:24 CAR Mark Jankowski Holding 2
2nd Period
11:55 CAR K'Andre Miller Hooking 2
14:47 PIT Parker Wotherspoon Tripping 2
19:28 CAR Andrei Svechnikov Holding the stick 2
19:28 CAR Andrei Svechnikov Unsportsmanlike conduct 2
19:28 PIT Sidney Crosby Roughing 2
3rd Period
00:29 CAR Jordan Staal Tripping 2
12:17 PIT Sidney Crosby Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 52 42 35 5 3.7 35.7
Carolina Hurricanes 82 65 44 6 5.1 64.3

How the game went

051015202530Start2nd3rdOTCarolina Hurricanes 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 Carolina Hurricanes had taken more, and below it and blue while Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 3.7 expected, 5 scored · Carolina Hurricanes: 5.1 expected, 6 scored

024Start2nd3rdOTPIT goal, 9:57 of 2nd, a 14% chancePIT goal, 0:59 of 3rd, a 7% chancePIT goal, 7:16 of 3rd, a 11% chancePIT goal, 14:46 of 3rd, a 5% chancePIT goal, 15:09 of 3rd, a 18% chanceCAR goal, 9:34 of 1st, a 11% chanceCAR goal, 16:51 of 2nd, a 18% chanceCAR goal, 3:27 of 3rd, a 12% chanceCAR goal, 12:59 of 3rd, a 21% chanceCAR goal, 17:09 of 3rd, a 3% chanceCAR goal, 4:31 of overtime, a 11% chanceCAR 5.1PIT 3.7

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
Carolina Hurricanes

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 Chinakhov12:0826.922.30-0
Sidney Crosby · Bryan Rust · Rickard Rakell11:2845.542.73-0
Anthony Mantha · Justin Brazeau · Ben Kindel9:2430.030.61-1
Noel Acciari · Connor Dewar · Elmer Soderblom8:3736.746.30-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kris Letang · Ryan Shea18:2528.215.90-1
Erik Karlsson · Parker Wotherspoon15:3444.136.23-1
Connor Clifton · Ilya Solovyov11:2426.948.21-0

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

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
65 Erik Karlsson D 2 1 3 0 0 4 0 24:02 0.20 17-19 0.70-1.15
87 Sidney Crosby C 1 1 2 0 4 4 2 18:33 0.34 12-16 0.58-0.93
67 Rickard Rakell R 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 20:46 0.02 12-15 0.58-0.80
17 Bryan Rust R 1 0 1 2 0 5 0 18:33 0.74 10-12 0.47-0.63
81 Ben Kindel C 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 14:36 0.38 7-14 0.33-0.74
7 Ilya Solovyov D 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 12:39 8-20 0.75-0.98
29 Parker Wotherspoon D 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 18:54 19-27 1.27-1.43
39 Anthony Mantha R 0 1 1 -1 0 4 1 17:24 0.16 10-16 0.49-0.92
71 Evgeni Malkin C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 21:43 10-22 0.28-1.17
6 Ryan Shea D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 21:59 14-29 0.44-2.06
16 Justin Brazeau R 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 10:57 0.00 7-15 0.34-0.74
18 Tommy Novak C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:44 0.12 8-23 0.27-1.11
19 Connor Dewar C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 5 12:53 0.39 14-23 1.28-1.60
25 Elmer Soderblom L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 09:59 0.18 11-23 1.11-1.49
52 Noel Acciari C 0 0 0 -2 0 5 1 13:18 0.70 14-22 1.37-1.64
58 Kris Letang D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 25:28 0.09 13-31 0.54-2.32
59 Egor Chinakhov R 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 16:49 0.38 8-20 0.27-0.95
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 14:34 11-23 1.21-0.82
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
74 Stuart Skinner OTL 44 38 6 64:31 4.94 -1.06

Carolina Hurricanes

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Sebastian Aho · Andrei Svechnikov · Seth Jarvis12:4961.568.50-3
Taylor Hall · Logan Stankoven · Jackson Blake11:4472.053.01-1
Jordan Staal · Jordan Martinook · Nikolaj Ehlers11:4266.775.90-0
Mark Jankowski · William Carrier · Eric Robinson5:1380.068.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Sean Walker · K'Andre Miller17:3875.687.11-0
Jaccob Slavin · Jalen Chatfield14:2550.050.20-3
Mike Reilly · Alexander Nikishin11:5363.054.20-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
53 Jackson Blake R 1 2 3 1 0 3 0 18:06 0.34 22-13 1.35-1.03
27 Nikolaj Ehlers L 0 3 3 2 0 1 1 17:50 0.06 23-12 1.22-0.39
22 Logan Stankoven C 1 1 2 2 0 5 1 15:19 0.65 22-12 1.32-1.03
26 Sean Walker D 1 1 2 2 0 7 2 22:17 0.30 35-11 2.16-0.32
71 Taylor Hall L 1 1 2 1 0 3 1 15:38 0.39 21-7 1.21-0.84
19 K'Andre Miller D 1 0 1 3 2 1 3 25:19 0.07 39-16 2.58-0.95
48 Jordan Martinook L 1 0 1 2 0 5 2 16:38 0.56 21-11 0.96-0.32
11 Jordan Staal C 0 1 1 1 2 0 4 18:00 0.39 22-10 1.07-0.27
20 Sebastian Aho C 0 1 1 -2 0 5 2 20:56 0.74 18-12 1.24-0.58
24 Seth Jarvis R 0 1 1 -2 0 5 1 20:03 0.60 18-14 1.28-0.79
74 Jaccob Slavin D 0 1 1 -2 0 2 0 23:52 0.04 17-15 0.88-0.79
5 Jalen Chatfield D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 20:43 18-16 0.91-0.79
6 Mike Reilly D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 13:34 0.07 20-10 1.04-0.71
21 Alexander Nikishin D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 16:20 0.25 18-14 0.85-1.35
28 William Carrier L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 06:51 13-9 0.83-0.59
37 Andrei Svechnikov R 0 0 0 -3 4 0 3 18:02 0.08 17-13 1.18-0.63
50 Eric Robinson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 07:55 0.34 13-3 0.71-0.32
77 Mark Jankowski L 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 08:39 0.25 13-7 0.72-0.58
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Frederik Andersen W 35 30 5 64:31 3.56 -1.44