Philadelphia Flyers vs. Pittsburgh PenguinsApr 2, 2023

FinalSunday, Apr 2, 2023· PPG Paints Arena

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Philadelphia FlyersPHI

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Pittsburgh PenguinsPIT

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
PHI	0	0	2	2		PHI	7	13	13	33
PIT	2	1	1	4		PIT	15	10	6	31

: PHI 69PIT 50
: PHI 3.87PIT 4.37
PP goals: PHI 0PIT 1
Hits: PHI 30PIT 29
Blocks: PHI 7PIT 21
PIM: PHI 12PIT 34
: PHI 52%PIT 48%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Pittsburgh Penguins beat Philadelphia Flyers 4–2

Pittsburgh Penguins beat Philadelphia Flyers 4–2 at home. Rickard Rakell (PIT) led the scoring with 2G 0A. PIT's first power-play unit (Malkin, Crosby, Letang, Rakell and Guentzel) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 3:00 together.

Points
Rickard Rakell had two goals (2 points) on 6 shots in 14:56.Rakell
Points
Brian Dumoulin had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 24:10.Dumoulin
Points
Evgeni Malkin had 2 assists (2 points) on 3 shots in 14:02.Malkin
Points
Sidney Crosby had 2 assists (2 points) on 3 shots in 21:26.Crosby
PP1
PIT's first power-play unit (Malkin, Crosby, Letang, Rakell and Guentzel) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 3:00 together.Malkin Crosby Letang Rakell Guentzel
Usage
Morgan Frost (PHI) played 23:26, +7:11 up on his 16:15 season average over 80 games.Frost
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James van Riemsdyk (PHI) played 9:29, −5:58 down on his 15:27 season average over 60 games.van Riemsdyk
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Scott Laughton (PHI) played 9:59, −8:25 down on his 18:24 season average over 77 games.Laughton

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

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

PIT
PHI
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 119 of 119 attempts · PIT 50 · PHI 69

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

PIT
PHI
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: PHI 39% of the game, PIT 30%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

PIT

PHI

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	PHI	PIT
	55	44
	2.68	2.98
	2.59	2.86
	18	17
	7	2
	18	16
	−0.034	+0.034
	39%	30%

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.

Philadelphia Flyers

L1Tippett – Frost – Farabee
6:0836% CF
L2Konecny – Allison – Cates
5:0760% CF
L3Deslauriers – Laughton – Lemieux
4:0946% CF
L4van Riemsdyk – Hayes – Bellows
3:3167% CF
D1Provorov – York
9:2350% CF
D2Braun – Sanheim
7:5745% CF
D3Seeler – DeAngelo
6:0967% CF

PP1DeAngelo – Konecny – Tippett – Frost – York
4:24100% CF
PP2van Riemsdyk – Hayes – Provorov – Frost – Farabee
1:07
PK1FLaughton – Farabee
1:28
PK2FDeslauriers – Frost
0:29
PK1DProvorov – York
1:41
PK2DSeeler – Sanheim
0:55

Current PHI line combinations →

Pittsburgh Penguins

L1Crosby – Rust – Guentzel
12:0948% CF
L2Malkin – Zucker – Rakell
7:3370% CF
L3Carter – Archibald – O'Connor
5:1733% CF
L4Granlund – Heinen – Poehling
3:5850% CF
D1Letang – Dumoulin
15:2042% CF
D2Ruhwedel – Friedman
9:0147% CF
D3Petry – Joseph
8:3936% CF

PP1Malkin – Crosby – Letang – Rakell – Guentzel
3:00100% CF
PP2Carter – Petry – Zucker – Granlund – Heinen
0:31
PK1FRust – Poehling
4:06
PK2FCarter – Granlund
0:40
PK1DPetry – Dumoulin
2:31
PK2DLetang – Ruhwedel
1:49

Current PIT line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

11:40
PITRickard Rakell (Brian Dumoulin, Evgeni Malkin)slap0.15 xG
PHI: Seeler, DeAngelo, Konecny, Allison, CatesPIT: Malkin, Letang, Dumoulin, Zucker, Rakell
PHI 0 – 1 PIT
14:53
PITRickard RakellPP (Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby)wrist0.14 xG
PHI: Laughton, Provorov, Farabee, YorkPIT: Malkin, Crosby, Letang, Rakell, Guentzel
PHI 0 – 2 PIT

2nd period

13:23
PITBryan Rust (Sidney Crosby, Jeff Petry)backhand0.15 xG
PHI: Deslauriers, Seeler, Laughton, DeAngelo, AllisonPIT: Crosby, Petry, Rust, Guentzel, Joseph
PHI 0 – 3 PIT

3rd period

5:57
PHINicolas Deslauriers (Tony DeAngelo, James van Riemsdyk)wrist0.21 xG
PHI: van Riemsdyk, Deslauriers, Hayes, DeAngelo, ProvorovPIT: Carter, Petry, Heinen, Joseph, Poehling
PHI 1 – 3 PIT
17:31
PHITravis Konecny (Morgan Frost, Joel Farabee)snap0.18 xG
PHI: DeAngelo, Konecny, Tippett, Frost, Farabee, YorkPIT: Carter, Petry, Heinen, Joseph, Poehling
PHI 2 – 3 PIT
18:48
PITRyan PoehlingEN (Mikael Granlund, Brian Dumoulin)wrist0.96 xG
PHI: DeAngelo, Konecny, Tippett, Frost, Farabee, YorkPIT: Carter, Letang, Dumoulin, Granlund, Poehling
PHI 2 – 4 PIT

Box score

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

Philadelphia Flyers

PHI skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Owen Tippett R	L1	0	0	0	0	8	0.76	3	0	0	24:26	—	—	44	56
Morgan Frost C	L1	0	1	1	0	1	0.17	0	1	0	23:26	—	—	52	66
Joel Farabee L	L1	0	1	1	0	0	0.26	0	0	0	19:53	—	—	55	75
Travis Konecny R	L2	1	0	1	-1	5	0.69	2	0	4	22:28	—	—	62	43
Noah Cates L	L2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	0	2	16:15	—	—	60	21
Wade Allison R	L2	0	0	0	-2	1	0.02	6	0	0	12:13	—	—	55	22
Scott Laughton C	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.40	1	0	0	9:59	—	—	57	65
Nicolas Deslauriers L	L3	1	0	1	0	2	0.22	3	0	0	8:03	—	—	48	38
Brendan Lemieux L	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.16	5	1	0	6:39	—	—	45	29
Kevin Hayes R	L4	0	0	0	+1	2	0.19	2	0	0	14:10	—	—	64	37
James van Riemsdyk L	L4	0	1	1	+1	1	0.05	1	0	0	9:29	—	—	85	78
Kieffer Bellows L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	4:45	—	—	67	37
Ivan Provorov D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.04	3	0	0	26:10	—	—	58	51
Cam York D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	0.21	1	1	2	25:22	—	—	63	70
Travis Sanheim D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.05	1	2	4	18:33	—	—	50	37
Justin Braun D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	14:30	—	—	44	30
Tony DeAngelo D	D3	0	1	1	-1	7	0.64	0	0	0	23:25	—	—	67	64
Nick Seeler D	D3	0	0	0	-2	1	0.00	2	1	0	11:07	—	—	55	30

PHI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Samuel Ersson(start)	L	30	27	3	.900	3.41	57:39

Pittsburgh Penguins

PIT skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Bryan Rust R	L1	1	0	1	+1	3	0.60	0	1	0	21:44	—	—	43	57
Sidney Crosby C	L1	0	2	2	+1	3	0.36	1	1	2	21:26	—	—	46	66
Jake Guentzel C	L1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.27	0	3	0	21:10	—	—	43	63
Jason Zucker L	L2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.24	3	0	0	15:24	—	—	50	41
Rickard Rakell R	L2	2	0	2	+1	6	0.50	2	0	0	14:56	—	—	50	39
Evgeni Malkin C	L2	0	2	2	+1	3	0.32	0	0	28	14:02	—	—	57	63
Jeff Carter C	L3	0	0	0	-1	3	0.09	0	0	0	11:22	—	—	37	35
Josh Archibald R	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.05	4	0	0	8:20	—	—	38	45
Drew O'Connor L	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	6:24	—	—	33	21
Ryan Poehling C	L4	1	0	1	-1	2	1.02	0	1	2	14:13	—	—	33	26
Mikael Granlund C	L4	0	1	1	+1	2	0.26	2	0	2	14:02	—	—	47	61
Danton Heinen L	L4	0	0	0	-2	1	0.11	1	0	0	6:35	—	—	55	56
Kris Letang D	D1	0	0	0	+2	1	0.10	4	2	0	30:34	—	—	44	59
Brian Dumoulin D	D1	0	2	2	+2	2	0.40	2	2	0	24:10	—	—	47	58
Chad Ruhwedel D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.05	1	3	0	15:42	—	—	40	20
Mark Friedman D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	6	2	0	12:15	—	—	52	61
Jeff Petry D	D3	0	1	1	-1	0	0.00	2	5	0	19:54	—	—	40	48
Pierre-Olivier Joseph D	D3	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	0	0	0	13:47	—	—	39	47

PIT goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Casey DeSmith(start)	W	33	31	2	.939	3.87	60:00

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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.