Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Florida PanthersJan 3, 2025

Final / SOFriday, Jan 3, 2025· Amerant Bank Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	OT	SO	T		Shots	1	2	3	OT	T
PIT	0	1	1	0	0	2		PIT	13	4	11	3	31
FLA	0	1	1	0	1	3		FLA	10	10	10	3	33

: PIT 65FLA 74
: PIT 3.83FLA 3.88
PP goals: PIT 1FLA 1
Hits: PIT 15FLA 28
Blocks: PIT 10FLA 12
PIM: PIT 10FLA 28
: PIT 48%FLA 52%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Florida Panthers edge Pittsburgh Penguins 3–2 (SO)

Florida Panthers beat Pittsburgh Penguins 3–2 in a shootout at home. Matthew Tkachuk (FLA) led the scoring with 1G 0A. PIT's first power-play unit (Crosby, Rust, Rakell, Grzelcyk and Bunting) scored 1 power-play goal on 12 attempts in 6:10 together.

PP1
PIT's first power-play unit (Crosby, Rust, Rakell, Grzelcyk and Bunting) scored 1 power-play goal on 12 attempts in 6:10 together.Crosby Rust Rakell Grzelcyk Bunting
Usage
Michael Bunting (PIT) played 20:55, +5:27 up on his 15:28 season average over 75 games.Bunting
Luck
FLA scored 2 goals on 3.88 expected goals (74 attempts), well short of its chances.
Luck
PIT scored 2 goals on 3.83 expected goals (65 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Matthew Tkachuk (FLA) played 14:20, −3:58 down on his 18:18 season average over 51 games.Tkachuk
Usage
Philip Tomasino (PIT) played 6:44, −6:26 down on his 13:10 season average over 60 games.Tomasino
Usage
Pierre-Olivier Joseph (PIT) played 21:35, +6:28 up on his 15:07 season average over 46 games.Joseph
Usage
Evgeni Malkin (PIT) played 21:20, +3:36 up on his 17:44 season average over 67 games.Malkin

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

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

FLA
PIT
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 139 of 139 attempts · FLA 74 · PIT 65

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

FLA
PIT
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

FLA 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 32% of the game, FLA 32%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

FLA

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
Stat	PIT	FLA
	46	54
	1.91	2.49
	1.87	2.40
	6	14
	1	6
	10	11
	+0.000	+0.000
	32%	32%

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

L1Malkin – Bunting – Glass
10:5145% CF
L2Crosby – Rust – Rakell
9:2655% CF
L3Nieto – Acciari – Lizotte
8:5437% CF
L4Hayes – Tomasino – O'Connor
2:5164% CF
D1Pettersson – Joseph
15:1556% CF
D2Graves – Pickering
9:3723% CF
D3Karlsson – Grzelcyk
9:2970% CF

PP1Crosby – Rust – Rakell – Grzelcyk – Bunting
6:1071% CF
PP2Malkin – Karlsson – Hayes – Tomasino – O'Connor
4:0957% CF
PK1FNieto – Acciari
2:51
PK2FGlass – Lizotte
0:35
PK1DKarlsson – Pettersson
2:18
PK2DGraves – Pickering
1:47

Current PIT line combinations →

Florida Panthers

L1Verhaeghe – Boqvist – Lundell
7:1620% CF
L2Bennett – Tkachuk – Luostarinen
5:3850% CF
L3Barkov – Reinhart – Rodrigues
5:3060% CF
L4Nosek – Greer – Samoskevich
2:1283% CF
D1Ekblad – Forsling
12:0350% CF
D2Kulikov – Balinskis
11:2965% CF
D3Schmidt – Boqvist
9:3624% CF

PP1Barkov – Ekblad – Reinhart – Bennett – Samoskevich
3:27100% CF
PP2Verhaeghe – Rodrigues – Luostarinen – Boqvist – Lundell
1:2750% CF
PK1FLuostarinen – Lundell
3:14
PK2FBarkov – Reinhart
2:30
PK1DEkblad – Forsling
4:38
PK2DKulikov – Balinskis
3:45

Current FLA line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

0:36
FLAGustav Forsling (Aleksander Barkov, Sam Reinhart)snap0.03 xG
PIT: Crosby, Karlsson, Rust, Rakell, GrzelcykFLA: Barkov, Ekblad, Reinhart, Forsling, Rodrigues
PIT 0 – 1 FLA
11:09
PITSidney CrosbyPP (Bryan Rust, Matt Grzelcyk)slap0.13 xG
PIT: Crosby, Rust, Rakell, Grzelcyk, BuntingFLA: Barkov, Ekblad, Reinhart, Forsling
PIT 1 – 1 FLA

3rd period

8:48
FLAMatthew TkachukPP (Carter Verhaeghe, Adam Boqvist)deflected0.14 xG
PIT: Graves, Acciari, Lizotte, PickeringFLA: Verhaeghe, Bennett, Rodrigues, Tkachuk, Boqvist
PIT 1 – 2 FLA
19:20
PITRickard Rakell (Michael Bunting, Evgeni Malkin)snap0.19 xG
PIT: Malkin, Crosby, Rust, Rakell, Grzelcyk, BuntingFLA: Kulikov, Forsling, Luostarinen, Lundell
PIT 2 – 2 FLA

Decided in the shootout: PIT 2 – 3 FLA.

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
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Evgeni Malkin C	L1	0	1	1	0	0	0.10	1	1	0	21:20	—	—	43	40
Michael Bunting L	L1	0	1	1	0	1	0.35	1	2	2	20:55	—	—	44	40
Cody Glass C	L1	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	2	0	0	14:44	—	—	42	34
Sidney Crosby C	L2	1	0	1	-1	5	0.83	0	0	0	22:35	—	—	48	59
Bryan Rust R	L2	0	1	1	-1	4	0.20	1	0	2	22:08	—	—	50	72
Rickard Rakell R	L2	1	0	1	-1	5	0.84	0	0	2	19:33	—	—	50	60
Noel Acciari C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.13	2	1	0	16:50	—	—	39	26
Blake Lizotte C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	15:37	—	—	38	28
Matt Nieto L	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	13:08	—	—	37	22
Drew O'Connor L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	12:44	—	—	57	42
Kevin Hayes R	L4	0	0	0	0	5	0.44	0	0	0	9:39	—	—	67	44
Philip Tomasino R	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.18	0	0	0	6:44	—	—	64	40
Marcus Pettersson D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.07	2	0	2	22:08	—	—	44	26
Pierre-Olivier Joseph D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	0	0	2	21:35	—	—	59	45
Owen Pickering D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	2	0	0	13:44	—	—	25	16
Ryan Graves D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	2	0	13:03	—	—	23	13
Erik Karlsson D	D3	0	0	0	-1	4	0.23	0	0	0	23:42	—	—	59	79
Matt Grzelcyk D	D3	0	1	1	-1	1	0.42	0	2	0	19:44	—	—	67	91

PIT goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Tristan Jarry(start)	O	33	31	2	.939	3.88	64:16

Florida Panthers

FLA skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Anton Lundell C	L1	0	0	0	0	6	0.21	2	1	0	21:04	—	—	30	22
Carter Verhaeghe C	L1	0	1	1	0	3	0.43	1	1	0	18:29	—	—	36	40
Jesper Boqvist C	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	0	1	0	15:40	—	—	24	11
Sam Bennett C	L2	0	0	0	0	4	0.89	1	0	2	19:45	—	—	67	65
Eetu Luostarinen C	L2	0	0	0	0	1	0.42	1	0	0	18:24	—	—	52	43
Matthew Tkachuk L	L2	1	0	1	0	5	0.44	1	0	12	14:20	—	—	68	68
Sam Reinhart C	L3	0	1	1	+1	0	0.06	2	2	4	21:03	—	—	61	62
Aleksander Barkov C	L3	0	1	1	+1	2	0.07	2	1	0	19:54	—	—	56	46
Evan Rodrigues C	L3	0	0	0	+1	2	0.10	4	0	2	11:33	—	—	83	95
Mackie Samoskevich R	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.51	2	0	0	12:48	—	—	69	74
Tomas Nosek L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.04	1	0	0	7:06	—	—	85	93
A.J. Greer L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.23	5	0	6	6:54	—	—	87	93
Gustav Forsling D	D1	1	0	1	+1	3	0.15	1	0	0	26:13	—	—	53	31
Aaron Ekblad D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.02	2	1	2	21:42	—	—	56	36
Dmitry Kulikov D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	2	3	0	21:01	—	—	66	70
Uvis Balinskis D	D2	0	0	0	0	1	0.20	0	0	0	20:23	—	—	70	79
Nate Schmidt D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	1	0	0	14:14	—	—	41	64
Adam Boqvist D	D3	0	1	1	0	0	0.07	0	2	0	13:26	—	—	33	60

FLA goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Spencer Knight(start)	W	31	29	2	.935	3.83	64:35

Goal anatomy

Animated replays from NHL EDGE tracking, with the entry, passes and shot speed for each goal.

Gustav Forsling (FLA) 2nd 0:36 · assists Aleksander Barkov, Sam Reinhart · Point shot · 64.4 mph shot.

Gustav Forsling · 2nd 0:36 · FLA

Play: point-shot
Passes: 3
Shot: 64.4 mph
Distance: 46 ft

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Sidney Crosby · 2nd 11:09 · PIT PP

Play: faceoff
Passes: 3
Shot: 52.5 mph
Distance: 29 ft
Type: one-timer

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Matthew Tkachuk · 3rd 8:48 · FLA PP

Play: deflection
Passes: 4 (royal road)
Shot: 10.6 mph
Distance: 4 ft
Type: rebound

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Rickard Rakell · 3rd 19:20 · PIT

Play: cycle
Passes: 5 (royal road)
Shot: 49.4 mph
Distance: 14 ft

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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.