Pittsburgh Penguins vs. San Jose SharksJan 20, 2018

FinalSaturday, Jan 20, 2018· SAP Center at San Jose

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
PIT	1	0	0	1		PIT	8	16	8	32
SJS	1	0	1	2		SJS	14	11	11	36

: PIT 78SJS 70
: PIT 2.83SJS 3.52
PP goals: PIT 0SJS 1
Hits: PIT 21SJS 15
Blocks: PIT 17SJS 28
PIM: PIT 6SJS 8
: PIT 49%SJS 51%

Fantasy takeaways

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

San Jose Sharks edge Pittsburgh Penguins 2–1

San Jose Sharks beat Pittsburgh Penguins 2–1 at home. Brent Burns (SJS) led the scoring with 0G 2A. SJS's first power-play unit (Thornton, Burns, Pavelski, Couture and Hertl) scored 1 power-play goal on 11 attempts in 2:28 together.

Points
Brent Burns had 2 assists (2 points) on 5 shots in 24:36.Burns
Points
Joe Pavelski had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 18:47.Pavelski
PP1
SJS's first power-play unit (Thornton, Burns, Pavelski, Couture and Hertl) scored 1 power-play goal on 11 attempts in 2:28 together.Thornton Burns Pavelski Couture Hertl
Usage
Dominik Simon (PIT) played 18:24, +7:12 up on his 11:12 season average over 32 games.Simon
Goalie
Casey DeSmith (PIT) faced 36 shots and stopped 34 (.944), +11 against a season average of 25.4; the loss.DeSmith
Luck
PIT scored 1 goal on 2.83 expected goals (78 attempts), well short of its chances.
Luck
SJS scored 2 goals on 3.52 expected goals (70 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Justin Schultz (PIT) played 22:57, +3:30 up on his 19:27 season average over 62 games.Schultz

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)SJS attacks right (top on phones) →

SJS
PIT
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 148 of 148 attempts · SJS 70 · PIT 78

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

SJS
PIT
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

SJS 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 37% of the game, SJS 25%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

SJS

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	SJS
	73	60
	2.55	2.11
	2.39	2.02
	14	10
	4	4
	16	25
	−0.014	+0.014
	37%	25%

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 – Hornqvist – Hagelin
10:5548% CF
L2Crosby – Sheary – Simon
10:5443% CF
L3Kessel – Sheahan – Guentzel
6:5356% CF
L4Reaves – Kuhnhackl – Dea
3:5757% CF
D1Schultz – Maatta
17:2460% CF
D2Letang – Dumoulin
15:0967% CF
D3Hunwick – Oleksiak
11:3930% CF

PP1Malkin – Crosby – Letang – Hornqvist – Kessel
3:1670% CF
PP2Schultz – Maatta – Guentzel – Sheary – Simon
1:5175% CF
PK1FHagelin – Sheahan
1:41
PK2FKuhnhackl – Guentzel
1:39
PK1DHunwick – Oleksiak
2:09
PK2DLetang – Dumoulin
1:41

Current PIT line combinations →

San Jose Sharks

L1Thornton – Pavelski – Meier
12:1544% CF
L2Couture – Hertl – Labanc
10:3948% CF
L3Boedker – Donskoi – Tierney
9:2842% CF
L4Ward – Goodrow – Karlsson
6:4244% CF
D1Burns – Ryan
17:3359% CF
D2Vlasic – Braun
17:2435% CF
D3Dillon – DeMelo
9:3045% CF

PP1Thornton – Burns – Pavelski – Couture – Hertl
2:28100% CF
PP2Vlasic – Donskoi – Tierney – Labanc – Meier
1:16
PK1FCouture – Hertl
2:16
PK2FWard – Goodrow
2:09
PK1DVlasic – Braun
3:06
PK2DBurns – Dillon
1:27

Current SJS line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

3:18
PITConor Sheary (Dominik Simon, Sidney Crosby)slap0.26 xG
PIT: Hunwick, Crosby, Schultz, Sheary, SimonSJS: Thornton, Pavelski, Vlasic, Braun, Meier
PIT 1 – 0 SJS
17:44
SJSTimo Meier (Joe Pavelski, Brent Burns)wrist0.06 xG
PIT: Malkin, Hornqvist, Hagelin, Schultz, MaattaSJS: Thornton, Burns, Pavelski, Ryan, Meier
PIT 1 – 1 SJS

3rd period

1:53
SJSTomas HertlPP (Joe Pavelski, Brent Burns)wrist0.05 xG
PIT: Letang, Hagelin, Dumoulin, SheahanSJS: Thornton, Burns, Pavelski, Couture, Hertl
PIT 1 – 2 SJS

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	0	0	-1	2	0.24	0	1	2	19:54	—	—	49	34
Patric Hornqvist R	L1	0	0	0	-1	3	0.49	0	1	0	19:34	—	—	45	28
Carl Hagelin L	L1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.16	0	0	0	16:02	—	—	50	54
Sidney Crosby C	L2	0	1	1	+1	4	0.43	2	1	0	21:44	—	—	55	72
Dominik Simon C	L2	0	1	1	+1	1	0.03	1	0	2	18:24	—	—	56	68
Conor Sheary L	L2	1	0	1	+1	2	0.36	0	2	0	16:37	—	—	51	61
Phil Kessel R	L3	0	0	0	0	5	0.39	0	0	0	20:15	—	—	67	62
Jake Guentzel C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.14	2	1	0	16:44	—	—	64	53
Riley Sheahan C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.17	1	1	0	14:19	—	—	58	54
Tom Kuhnhackl R	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.11	2	1	0	9:24	—	—	64	97
Ryan Reaves R	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	4:43	—	—	63	71
Jean-Sebastien Dea C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	4:29	—	—	50	15
Justin Schultz D	D1	0	0	0	0	1	0.12	1	1	0	22:57	—	—	62	54
Olli Maatta D	D1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	0	0	0	20:08	—	—	60	45
Kris Letang D	D2	0	0	0	0	5	0.13	1	3	0	23:29	—	—	65	73
Brian Dumoulin D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	17:33	—	—	67	76
Jamie Oleksiak D	D3	0	0	0	0	2	0.07	7	2	2	15:04	—	—	31	38
Matt Hunwick D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	2	0	14:50	—	—	37	46

PIT goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Casey DeSmith(start)	L	36	34	2	.944	2.75	57:46

San Jose Sharks

SJS skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Joe Pavelski C	L1	0	2	2	0	2	0.24	2	0	0	18:47	—	—	41	31
Joe Thornton C	L1	0	0	0	0	0	0.26	0	0	0	16:30	—	—	44	31
Timo Meier R	L1	1	0	1	0	4	0.15	1	1	0	15:23	—	—	43	28
Logan Couture C	L2	0	0	0	0	4	0.79	0	1	0	19:31	—	—	47	48
Tomas Hertl C	L2	1	0	1	0	2	0.40	4	0	2	18:53	—	—	53	63
Kevin Labanc R	L2	0	0	0	0	4	0.40	0	1	0	13:05	—	—	48	49
Chris Tierney C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.20	0	2	0	16:19	—	—	47	60
Joonas Donskoi R	L3	0	0	0	0	4	0.41	1	3	0	13:21	—	—	50	60
Mikkel Boedker L	L3	0	0	0	0	3	0.15	0	0	0	11:15	—	—	39	49
Joel Ward R	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	2	0	11:51	—	—	41	28
Melker Karlsson C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.34	0	0	2	11:11	—	—	44	44
Barclay Goodrow C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.01	3	0	0	9:23	—	—	42	36
Brent Burns D	D1	0	2	2	+1	5	0.11	0	5	2	24:36	—	—	57	69
Joakim Ryan D	D1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.01	0	2	0	18:38	—	—	53	69
Justin Braun D	D2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.02	1	1	0	23:49	—	—	33	16
Marc-Edouard Vlasic D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	6	0	23:45	—	—	35	18
Brenden Dillon D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	0	2	0	14:20	—	—	43	62
Dylan DeMelo D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	2	2	2	11:23	—	—	48	73

SJS goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Aaron Dell(start)	W	32	31	1	.969	2.83	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.