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Pittsburgh Penguins vs. New Jersey DevilsDec 19, 2021

Final· Prudential Center
Goals123TShots123T
PIT1113PIT49922
NJD0112NJD66719
PIT 42NJD 47
PIT 2.00NJD 2.47
PP goals
PIT 0NJD 1
Hits
PIT 13NJD 17
Blocks
PIT 18NJD 9
PIM
PIT 14NJD 8
PIT 51%NJD 49%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Pittsburgh Penguins edge New Jersey Devils 3–2

Pittsburgh Penguins beat New Jersey Devils 3–2 at NJD. Teddy Blueger (PIT) led the scoring with 1G 0A. NJD's first power-play unit (Hamilton, Zacha, Bratt, Bastian and Hughes) scored 1 power-play goal on 13 attempts in 4:16 together.

  1. PP1
    NJD's first power-play unit (Hamilton, Zacha, Bratt, Bastian and Hughes) scored 1 power-play goal on 13 attempts in 4:16 together.HamiltonZachaBrattBastianHughes
  2. New line
    New look for NJD: Bratt–Studenic–Mercer skated 9:20 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (42.1% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.BrattStudenicMercer
  3. Usage
    Yegor Sharangovich (NJD) played 10:13, −6:23 down on his 16:36 season average over 75 games.Sharangovich
  4. Usage
    Nathan Bastian (NJD) played 17:07, +5:17 up on his 11:50 season average over 71 games.Bastian
  5. Usage
    Sam Lafferty (PIT) played 5:35, −8:08 down on his 13:43 season average over 55 games.Lafferty
  6. Usage
    Mike Matheson (PIT) played 14:03, −4:50 down on his 18:53 season average over 73 games.Matheson
  7. New line
    New look for NJD: Tatar–Johnsson–Hughes skated 8:09 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (40% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.TatarJohnssonHughes
  8. New line
    New look for NJD: Zacha–Kuokkanen–Sharangovich skated 5:02 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (42.9% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.ZachaKuokkanenSharangovich

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.

Shot map, PIT at NJD: 89 attempts, 41 on goal, 5 goals, 4.47 expected goals; best chance Nathan Bastian at 0.28 xG.

Strength
Period
Team
← PIT attacks left (bottom on phones)NJD attacks right (top on phones) →
  • NJD
  • PIT
  • Goal
  • Shot on goal
  • Missed
  • Blocked

Showing 89 of 89 attempts · NJD 47 · PIT 42

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

Game flow, PIT at NJD: expected goals 2.47 to 2.00 (NJD led the chances), shot attempts 47 to 42, 5 goals.

0.00.51.01.52.02.51st2nd3rdNJDPITBHKMBnet xGcumulative expected goals · 60:00
  • NJD
  • PIT
  • Goal
  • Power play (shaded)
Pressure Index
NJDPITcontrol2nd3rdBlueger · 1st 9:19Heinen · 2nd 1:03Kuokkanen · 2nd 2:20Matheson · 3rd 9:31Bastian · 3rd 11:12
  • NJD pressure
  • PIT pressure
  • Goal
  • Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: PIT 22% of the game, NJD 35%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

Shift chart, PIT at NJD: 38 players over 60:00; most ice Jon Gillies (57:38) for NJD and Tristan Jarry (60:00) for PIT, 5 goals.

NJD
PIT
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
StatPITNJD
4629
2.141.21
2.071.20
86
44
1711
+0.033−0.033
22%35%

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.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Current PIT line combinations →

New Jersey Devils

Current NJD line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

  1. 9:19
    PIT 1 – 0 NJD

Box score

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

Pittsburgh Penguins

PIT skaters
SkaterLineGAP+/-HitsBlkPIMPPSH
Evan Rodrigues CL1000010.0102021:12——6840
Sidney Crosby CL1000000.0400220:56——6855
Kasperi Kapanen RL1000000.0800016:29——6580
Brock McGinn LL2000+120.4102016:50——7378
Teddy Blueger CL2101+170.6500015:51——6487
Zachary Aston-Reese LL2000000.0131014:51——6499
Jeff Carter CL3000+130.1903019:32——4751
Danton Heinen LL3101+110.0801012:58——3933
Jason Zucker LL3011+100.0000212:57——5363
Drew O'Connor LL4000010.120006:57——7364
Dominik Simon CL4011000.000026:50——6055
Sam Lafferty CL4000010.264045:35——7057
Kris Letang DD1000010.0102226:47——5040
Brian Dumoulin DD1000+100.0023024:06——5559
John Marino DD2000+200.0100022:26——6777
Marcus Pettersson DD2011+120.0601018:44——6866
Mike Matheson DD3101030.0721214:03——7181
Chad Ruhwedel DD3011000.0022012:01——5357
PIT goalies
GoalieDecSASVGATOI
Tristan Jarry(start)W19172.8952.4760:00

New Jersey Devils

NJD skaters
SkaterLineGAP+/-HitsBlkPIMPPSH
Michael McLeod CL1000000.0041217:30——4138
Nathan Bastian RL1101-130.6431017:07——3936
Jimmy Vesey LL1000010.0010214:52——3322
Jesper Bratt LL2000-200.0000019:37——4231
Dawson Mercer CL2000-100.1000018:04——4835
Marián Studenic RL2000-110.1820012:24——3831
Jack Hughes CL3000-110.0500018:32——296
Tomas Tatar LL3000010.0310014:53——4430
Andreas Johnsson LL3000020.2510013:55——4725
Pavel Zacha CL4011-130.4700014:51——5087
Yegor Sharangovich CL4011000.1101010:13——2976
Janne Kuokkanen CL4101010.0801010:05——3162
Damon Severson DD1000-110.1001027:19——3330
Jonas Siegenthaler DD1000000.0004223:34——3026
Dougie Hamilton DD2011-240.4310023:06——3835
Kevin Bahl DD2000-110.0420016:14——3627
Ty Smith D—011+100.0010014:34——6460
Mason Geertsen L—000000.001029:32——3334
NJD goalies
GoalieDecSASVGATOI
Jon Gillies(start)L22193.8642.0057:38