St. Louis Blues vs. Pittsburgh PenguinsDec 4, 2019

FinalWednesday, Dec 4, 2019· PPG Paints Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
STL	0	0	0	0		STL	10	14	4	28
PIT	1	1	1	3		PIT	15	11	7	33

: STL 42PIT 50
: STL 2.48PIT 3.39
PP goals: STL 0PIT 0
Hits: STL 46PIT 37
Blocks: STL 8PIT 10
PIM: STL 8PIT 8
: STL 48%PIT 52%

Fantasy takeaways

Generated from the play-by-play, shifts and season context. No opinions, just what changed.

Pittsburgh Penguins beat St. Louis Blues 3–0

Pittsburgh Penguins beat St. Louis Blues 3–0 at home. Teddy Blueger (PIT) led the scoring with 1G 0A. New look for PIT: Blueger–Tanev–Kahun skated 6:42 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (72.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

New line
New look for PIT: Blueger–Tanev–Kahun skated 6:42 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (72.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Blueger Tanev Kahun
Luck
STL scored 0 goals on 2.48 expected goals (42 attempts), well short of its chances.
New line
New look for PIT: Noesen–Galchenyuk–McCann skated 4:47 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (18.2% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Noesen Galchenyuk McCann
Usage
Marcus Pettersson (PIT) played 23:42, +4:22 up on his 19:20 season average over 68 games.Pettersson
Usage
Sam Lafferty (PIT) played 5:02, −4:41 down on his 9:43 season average over 49 games.Lafferty
Usage
Alex Galchenyuk (PIT) played 9:05, −3:16 down on his 12:21 season average over 58 games.Galchenyuk
Usage
Zach Trotman (PIT) played 9:43, −5:43 down on his 15:26 season average over 7 games.Trotman
Usage
Carl Gunnarsson (STL) played 11:58, −3:55 down on his 15:53 season average over 35 games.Gunnarsson

Shot map

Both teams on one rink, filtered by strength and period.

Shot map

Every attempt, sized by expected goals. Goals are rings, shots on goal dots, misses hollow, blocks crosses.

Strength

Period

Team

← STL attacks left (bottom on phones)PIT attacks right (top on phones) →

PIT
STL
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 92 of 92 attempts · PIT 50 · STL 42

Game flow

Cumulative expected goals and shot attempts, with power plays shaded and goals marked.

Cumulative shot attempts

PIT
STL
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

PIT pressure
STL pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: STL 27% of the game, PIT 53%.

Shift chart

Every shift, grouped by line and pair; bars are coloured by strength state. Click a player to highlight.

Shifts

PIT

STL

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Sequence card

5-on-5 possession-chain numbers from the sequence engine (Draw Equity and control cover all situations).

Sequence card
Stat	STL	PIT
	34	47
	2.05	3.24
	1.93	3.05
	7	19
	4	1
	8	16
	−0.023	+0.024
	27%	53%

Definitions: sequence xG, transition attempts, Draw Equity, control and the Pressure Index.

Lines used

Detected from who actually shared the ice, with time together. Percentages are the unit's share of shot attempts.

St. Louis Blues

L1Bozak – Barbashev – Thomas
6:5542% CF
L2Perron – O'Reilly – Sanford
6:3736% CF
L3Schenn – Schwartz – Walker
4:4458% CF
L4Brouwer – MacEachern – de la Rose
3:03100% CF
D1Bouwmeester – Parayko
11:1533% CF
D2Pietrangelo – Dunn
9:1450% CF
D3Gunnarsson – Faulk
7:2669% CF

PP1Perron – Pietrangelo – O'Reilly – Schenn – Schwartz
6:03100% CF
PP2Bozak – Parayko – Sanford – Dunn – Thomas
1:41100% CF
PK1FO'Reilly – Barbashev
1:48
PK2FSchenn – Schwartz
1:47
PK1DBouwmeester – Parayko
4:16
PK2DPietrangelo – Faulk
1:33

Current STL line combinations →

Pittsburgh Penguins

L1Malkin – Guentzel – Simon
12:4962% CF
L2Blueger – Tanev – Kahun
6:4273% CF
L3Noesen – Galchenyuk – McCann
4:4718% CF
L4Blandisi – Lafferty – Aston-Reese
3:5925% CF
D1Letang – Marino
14:1145% CF
D2Ruhwedel – Pettersson
13:4672% CF
D3Trotman – Riikola
8:4153% CF

PP1Malkin – Letang – Noesen – Galchenyuk – Guentzel
3:12100% CF
PP2McCann – Pettersson – Aston-Reese – Riikola – Kahun
3:11
PK1FBlueger – Tanev
3:37
PK2FMcCann – Aston-Reese
3:10
PK1DLetang – Marino
4:36
PK2DRuhwedel – Pettersson
2:25

Current PIT line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

Box score

Skaters grouped by the line they played on; CF% is the 5v5 share of shot attempts while on the ice.

St. Louis Blues

STL skaters
Skater	Line	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Ivan Barbashev L	L1	-2	0	0.00	4	1	0	17:27	—	—	23	21
Tyler Bozak C	L1	-1	1	0.01	3	0	2	15:19	—	—	50	51
Robert Thomas C	L1	-1	3	0.43	0	0	0	14:40	—	—	55	53
Ryan O'Reilly C	L2	0	2	0.27	2	0	0	23:01	—	—	35	20
David Perron L	L2	0	4	0.31	2	0	0	20:43	—	—	39	18
Zachary Sanford L	L2	0	3	0.43	2	1	2	11:27	—	—	44	54
Brayden Schenn C	L3	-1	2	0.47	2	0	0	20:38	—	—	50	70
Jaden Schwartz L	L3	-1	2	0.18	3	1	0	20:13	—	—	48	64
Nathan Walker L	L3	-2	1	0.16	2	0	0	8:08	—	—	50	52
Jacob de la Rose L	L4	-1	1	0.02	8	0	0	10:43	—	—	10	3
Troy Brouwer R	L4	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	8:55	—	—	33	5
Mackenzie MacEachern L	L4	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	7:36	—	—	67	12
Colton Parayko D	D1	-1	1	0.00	2	3	0	22:41	—	—	31	11
Jay Bouwmeester D	D1	-2	2	0.04	6	0	0	20:42	—	—	26	9
Alex Pietrangelo D	D2	-1	2	0.13	3	1	0	23:34	—	—	50	61
Vince Dunn D	D2	0	2	0.01	1	0	2	17:16	—	—	41	47
Justin Faulk D	D3	-1	2	0.01	2	1	0	17:46	—	—	50	54
Carl Gunnarsson D	D3	-1	0	0.03	1	0	2	11:58	—	—	58	55

STL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jordan Binnington(start)	L	33	30	3	.909	3.39	58:06

Pittsburgh Penguins

PIT skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Evgeni Malkin C	L1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.07	1	2	2	22:26	—	—	64	72
Jake Guentzel C	L1	0	0	0	0	3	0.44	1	0	2	22:10	—	—	63	69
Dominik Simon C	L1	0	0	0	0	4	0.85	2	0	0	18:21	—	—	62	66
Teddy Blueger C	L2	1	0	1	+1	2	0.08	1	0	0	16:27	—	—	65	76
Brandon Tanev L	L2	0	1	1	+1	1	0.00	8	1	0	15:51	—	—	59	74
Dominik Kahun C	L2	0	1	1	+2	4	0.47	0	0	0	14:09	—	—	79	78
Jared McCann L	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.07	2	1	0	16:11	—	—	44	26
Stefan Noesen R	L3	1	0	1	+1	2	0.14	1	1	0	12:48	—	—	47	31
Alex Galchenyuk C	L3	1	0	1	+1	1	0.26	0	0	0	9:05	—	—	44	36
Zachary Aston-Reese L	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.02	3	0	0	15:36	—	—	50	90
Joseph Blandisi C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.16	2	0	2	6:58	—	—	50	86
Sam Lafferty C	L4	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	2	0	0	5:02	—	—	57	94
Kris Letang D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	1	0	0	27:48	—	—	48	76
John Marino D	D1	0	0	0	0	2	0.40	5	3	0	24:14	—	—	45	71
Marcus Pettersson D	D2	0	1	1	+2	1	0.09	1	0	0	23:42	—	—	68	65
Chad Ruhwedel D	D2	0	0	0	+2	4	0.24	4	0	2	17:48	—	—	73	67
Juuso Riikola D	D3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.06	0	1	0	13:41	—	—	58	41
Zach Trotman D	D3	0	0	0	+1	2	0.04	3	1	0	9:43	—	—	50	28

PIT goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Tristan Jarry(start)	W	28	28	0	.1000	2.48	60:00

Methodology

Shot locations come from the NHL play-by-play, normalised so each shooter attacks the same way, then flipped so the home team attacks right. On-ice stats and lines come from the shift charts: a unit is the exact set of skaters sharing the ice, and CF% is the share of all shot attempts while they were out. Head-to-head cells are 5v5 time against each opponent. Expected goals and the Pressure Index appear as their models are released.

St. Louis Blues vs. Pittsburgh PenguinsDec 4, 2019

Fantasy takeaways

Pittsburgh Penguins beat St. Louis Blues 3–0

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Sequence card

Lines used

St. Louis Blues

Pittsburgh Penguins

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

St. Louis Blues

Pittsburgh Penguins