New York Islanders vs. Pittsburgh PenguinsMar 27, 2021

FinalSaturday, Mar 27, 2021· PPG Paints Arena

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New York IslandersNYI

3

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Pittsburgh PenguinsPIT

6

Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
NYI	0	1	2	3		NYI	9	13	10	32
PIT	2	3	1	6		PIT	4	14	3	21

: NYI 46PIT 42
: NYI 2.76PIT 3.44
PP goals: NYI 0PIT 2
Hits: NYI 37PIT 22
Blocks: NYI 12PIT 4
PIM: NYI 8PIT 8
: NYI 45%PIT 55%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Pittsburgh Penguins beat New York Islanders 6–3

Pittsburgh Penguins beat New York Islanders 6–3 at home. Bryan Rust (PIT) led the scoring with 3G 0A. PIT's first power-play unit (Crosby, Letang, Rust, Guentzel and McCann) scored 2 power-play goals on 3 attempts in 3:42 together.

Points
Bryan Rust had a hat trick (3 points) on 5 shots in 18:18.Rust
Points
Mathew Barzal had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 4 shots in 19:58.Barzal
Points
Sidney Crosby had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 19:33.Crosby
Points
Jake Guentzel had 2 assists (2 points) in 18:33.Guentzel
Points
Jared McCann had 2 assists (2 points) on 1 shot in 14:13.McCann
Points
Kris Letang had 2 assists (2 points) on 3 shots in 23:55.Letang
PP1
PIT's first power-play unit (Crosby, Letang, Rust, Guentzel and McCann) scored 2 power-play goals on 3 attempts in 3:42 together.Crosby Letang Rust Guentzel McCann
Usage
Colton Sceviour (PIT) played 18:32, +9:09 up on his 9:23 season average over 45 games.Sceviour

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

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

PIT
NYI
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 88 of 88 attempts · PIT 42 · NYI 46

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

PIT
NYI
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: NYI 36% of the game, PIT 27%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

PIT

NYI

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	NYI	PIT
	41	41
	1.96	1.90
	1.79	1.84
	8	8
	2	6
	17	10
	−0.030	+0.030
	36%	27%

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.

New York Islanders

L1Pageau – Beauvillier – Wahlstrom
9:5858% CF
L2Komarov – Eberle – Barzal
9:4559% CF
L3Bailey – Nelson – Bellows
9:3640% CF
L4Clutterbuck – Martin – Cizikas
6:2930% CF
D1Hickey – Mayfield
16:3665% CF
D2Greene – Leddy
14:3832% CF
D3Pelech – Pulock
12:2663% CF

PP1Eberle – Martin – Pulock – Barzal – Beauvillier
3:03100% CF
PP2Bailey – Leddy – Nelson – Pageau – Wahlstrom
2:3067% CF
PK1FClutterbuck – Cizikas
2:10
PK2FKomarov – Pageau
1:36
PK1DMayfield – Pelech
2:15
PK2DGreene – Pulock
1:21

Current NYI line combinations →

Pittsburgh Penguins

L1Crosby – Rust – Guentzel
13:1724% CF
L2Sceviour – Gaudreau – Lafferty
12:2375% CF
L3McCann – Rodrigues – Aston-Reese
10:3350% CF
L4Angello – O'Connor – Zohorna
6:0663% CF
D1Letang – Dumoulin
14:4048% CF
D2Pettersson – Marino
14:0639% CF
D3Matheson – Ceci
12:4869% CF

PP1Crosby – Letang – Rust – Guentzel – McCann
3:42100% CF
PP2Matheson – Angello – Marino – Rodrigues – Zohorna
0:44
PK1FSceviour – Rodrigues
1:56
PK2FGaudreau – Aston-Reese
1:38
PK1DDumoulin – Ceci
4:01
PK2DLetang – Marino
1:59

Current PIT line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

5:48
PITFrederick Gaudreau (Sam Lafferty, Colton Sceviour)wrist0.16 xG
NYI: Clutterbuck, Hickey, Martin, Leddy, BarzalPIT: Sceviour, Ceci, Gaudreau, Pettersson, Lafferty
NYI 0 – 1 PIT
10:07
PITEvan Rodrigues (Jared McCann, Cody Ceci)snap0.05 xG
NYI: Eberle, Leddy, Pulock, Barzal, BeauvillierPIT: Letang, Matheson, McCann, Rodrigues, Aston-Reese
NYI 0 – 2 PIT

2nd period

4:26
PITSidney CrosbyPP (Jake Guentzel, Kris Letang)backhand0.13 xG
NYI: Clutterbuck, Cizikas, Mayfield, PelechPIT: Crosby, Letang, Rust, Guentzel, McCann
NYI 0 – 3 PIT
6:18
PITBryan RustPP (Sidney Crosby, Jared McCann)wrist0.13 xG
NYI: Komarov, Pageau, Pelech, PulockPIT: Crosby, Letang, Rust, Guentzel, McCann
NYI 0 – 4 PIT
8:21
PITBryan Rust (Kris Letang, Jake Guentzel)backhand0.02 xG
NYI: Bailey, Nelson, Pelech, Pulock, BellowsPIT: Crosby, Letang, Dumoulin, Rust, Guentzel
NYI 0 – 5 PIT
10:47
NYIMathew Barzal (Scott Mayfield)wrist0.12 xG
NYI: Komarov, Hickey, Eberle, Mayfield, BarzalPIT: Crosby, Letang, Rust, Matheson, Guentzel
NYI 1 – 5 PIT

3rd period

5:23
NYIAnthony Beauvillier (Mathew Barzal, Nick Leddy)wrist0.24 xG
NYI: Hickey, Eberle, Mayfield, Barzal, BeauvillierPIT: Sceviour, Gaudreau, Pettersson, Lafferty, Marino
NYI 2 – 5 PIT
17:33
NYIJordan Eberle (Brock Nelson, Josh Bailey)snap0.15 xG
NYI: Bailey, Eberle, Nelson, Pulock, BarzalPIT: Dumoulin, Ceci, Gaudreau, Aston-Reese
NYI 3 – 5 PIT
19:18
PITBryan RustENwrist0.97 xG
NYI: Bailey, Eberle, Nelson, Pulock, Barzal, WahlstromPIT: Letang, Dumoulin, Rust, Gaudreau, Aston-Reese
NYI 3 – 6 PIT

Box score

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

New York Islanders

NYI skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Oliver Wahlstrom R	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.21	0	0	4	17:24	—	—	50	27
Jean-Gabriel Pageau C	L1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	4	1	0	17:18	—	—	56	28
Anthony Beauvillier R	L1	1	0	1	0	2	0.36	0	1	0	15:42	—	—	63	57
Mathew Barzal C	L2	1	1	2	0	4	0.58	0	0	0	19:58	—	—	58	79
Jordan Eberle R	L2	1	0	1	+1	5	0.42	0	0	0	17:06	—	—	63	83
Leo Komarov R	L2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.03	4	1	0	14:15	—	—	50	68
Josh Bailey R	L3	0	1	1	-1	0	0.00	0	0	0	18:13	—	—	39	18
Brock Nelson C	L3	0	1	1	-1	1	0.12	0	0	0	17:45	—	—	46	20
Kieffer Bellows L	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.12	4	0	0	11:54	—	—	46	22
Matt Martin L	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.33	5	0	0	11:57	—	—	38	49
Cal Clutterbuck R	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	3	1	0	11:55	—	—	40	52
Casey Cizikas C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	5	0	0	11:35	—	—	31	61
Scott Mayfield D	D1	0	1	1	+2	3	0.09	1	2	2	19:13	—	—	65	83
Thomas Hickey D	D1	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	3	0	0	18:10	—	—	60	71
Nick Leddy D	D2	0	1	1	-2	2	0.05	1	0	2	19:30	—	—	29	25
Andy Greene D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	3	0	16:50	—	—	35	31
Ryan Pulock D	D3	0	0	0	-2	7	0.34	3	3	0	20:36	—	—	59	64
Adam Pelech D	D3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.09	3	0	0	17:13	—	—	67	87

NYI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Semyon Varlamov	—	11	10	1	.909	1.66	32:03
Ilya Sorokin(start)	L	9	5	4	.556	0.81	26:18

Pittsburgh Penguins

PIT skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Sidney Crosby C	L1	1	1	2	0	1	0.44	0	0	0	19:33	—	—	21	24
Jake Guentzel C	L1	0	2	2	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	18:33	—	—	25	23
Bryan Rust R	L1	3	0	3	+1	5	1.39	0	0	2	18:18	—	—	25	23
Colton Sceviour C	L2	0	1	1	0	1	0.17	1	0	0	18:32	—	—	67	46
Frederick Gaudreau C	L2	1	0	1	0	1	0.17	1	0	2	17:01	—	—	67	45
Sam Lafferty C	L2	0	1	1	0	1	0.09	3	0	2	14:12	—	—	67	46
Evan Rodrigues C	L3	1	0	1	+1	2	0.09	0	0	0	17:23	—	—	52	64
Zachary Aston-Reese L	L3	0	0	0	+1	2	0.66	3	0	0	15:17	—	—	50	65
Jared McCann L	L3	0	2	2	+1	1	0.16	1	0	0	14:13	—	—	55	64
Anthony Angello C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	7:31	—	—	67	58
Radim Zohorna L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	7:20	—	—	67	55
Drew O'Connor L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	1	0	0	6:24	—	—	67	58
Kris Letang D	D1	0	2	2	+2	3	0.23	2	1	0	23:55	—	—	52	60
Brian Dumoulin D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.00	2	0	0	22:01	—	—	44	56
John Marino D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	1	0	18:47	—	—	39	31
Marcus Pettersson D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	16:53	—	—	38	37
Cody Ceci D	D3	0	1	1	0	1	0.02	1	1	0	20:28	—	—	60	53
Mike Matheson D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	1	0	0	15:39	—	—	67	54

PIT goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Tristan Jarry(start)	W	32	29	3	.906	2.76	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.