Pittsburgh Penguins vs. San Jose SharksOct 18, 2025

FinalSaturday, Oct 18, 2025· SAP Center at San Jose

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
PIT	0	1	2	3		PIT	18	5	4	27
SJS	0	0	0	0		SJS	11	11	9	31

: PIT 53SJS 64
: PIT 3.36SJS 2.60
PP goals: PIT 0SJS 0
Hits: PIT 11SJS 25
Blocks: PIT 21SJS 14
PIM: PIT 4SJS 2
: PIT 45%SJS 55%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Pittsburgh Penguins beat San Jose Sharks 3–0

Pittsburgh Penguins beat San Jose Sharks 3–0 at SJS. Sidney Crosby (PIT) led the scoring with 1G 1A. New look for SJS: Skinner–Gaudette–Celebrini skated 12:26 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (52% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

Points
Evgeni Malkin had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 15:31.Malkin
Points
Sidney Crosby had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 19:04.Crosby
New line
New look for SJS: Skinner–Gaudette–Celebrini skated 12:26 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (52% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Skinner Gaudette Celebrini
Luck
SJS scored 0 goals on 2.60 expected goals (64 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Erik Karlsson (PIT) played 18:30, −5:10 down on his 23:40 season average over 74 games.Karlsson
New line
New look for SJS: Kurashev–Smith–Misa skated 8:34 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (54.5% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Kurashev Smith Misa
Usage
Adam Gaudette (SJS) played 15:45, +4:21 up on his 11:24 season average over 65 games.Gaudette
Usage
Will Smith (SJS) played 13:44, −4:31 down on his 18:15 season average over 68 games.Smith

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 117 of 117 attempts · SJS 64 · PIT 53

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 22% of the game, SJS 36%.

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

Head-to-head matchups

SJS skaters (rows) against PIT skaters (columns) at 5v5. Square size is time together; colour is xGF% from the SJS side.

Matchup matrix

SJS xGF% 4060square size = TOI together · blank = under 1:00

Sequence card

5-on-5 possession-chain numbers from the sequence engine (Draw Equity and control cover all situations).

Sequence card
Stat	PIT	SJS
	55	72
	2.89	2.73
	2.70	2.59
	17	12
	0	2
	23	29
	−0.019	+0.018
	22%	36%

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

L1Crosby – Rust – Rakell
13:0029% CF
L2Malkin – Mantha – Brazeau
9:3236% CF
L3Acciari – Dewar – Lizotte
9:2947% CF
L4Novak – Hallander – Kindel
8:5462% CF
D1Letang – Shea
17:0641% CF
D2Jones – Brunicke
13:2355% CF
D3Karlsson – Wotherspoon
12:4439% CF

PP1Malkin – Crosby – Karlsson – Rust – Rakell
1:20100% CF
PK1FHallander – Lizotte
1:04
PK2FAcciari – Dewar
0:54
PK1DWotherspoon – Shea
1:09
PK2DLetang – Jones
0:49

Current PIT line combinations →

San Jose Sharks

L1Skinner – Gaudette – Celebrini
12:2652% CF
L2Toffoli – Wennberg – Eklund
11:5873% CF
L3Goodrow – Dellandrea – Graf
9:0658% CF
L4Kurashev – Smith – Misa
8:3455% CF
D1Orlov – Ferraro
18:2356% CF
D2Desharnais – Dickinson
13:2964% CF
D3Leddy – Iorio
10:4571% CF

PP1Orlov – Toffoli – Eklund – Smith – Celebrini
1:11100% CF
PP2Skinner – Wennberg – Kurashev – Dickinson – Misa
0:40
PK1FDellandrea – Graf
1:20
PK1DDesharnais – Ferraro
1:20

Current SJS line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

7:35
PITSidney Crosby (Kris Letang, Rickard Rakell)tip-in0.05 xG
PIT: Crosby, Letang, Rust, Rakell, SheaSJS: Leddy, Toffoli, Wennberg, Eklund, Iorio
PIT 1 – 0 SJS

3rd period

7:02
PITAnthony Mantha (Justin Brazeau, Evgeni Malkin)wrist0.25 xG
PIT: Malkin, Mantha, Jones, Brazeau, BrunickeSJS: Leddy, Skinner, Gaudette, Desharnais, Celebrini
PIT 2 – 0 SJS
19:38
PITEvgeni MalkinEN (Sidney Crosby, Erik Karlsson)wrist0.52 xG
PIT: Malkin, Crosby, Karlsson, Rakell, WotherspoonSJS: Skinner, Gaudette, Kurashev, Dickinson, Graf, Misa
PIT 3 – 0 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
Bryan Rust R	L1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.14	0	0	2	19:28	—	—	34	44
Sidney Crosby C	L1	1	1	2	+2	1	0.04	0	0	2	19:04	—	—	28	47
Rickard Rakell R	L1	0	1	1	+2	1	0.42	1	2	0	17:12	—	—	28	46
Evgeni Malkin C	L2	1	1	2	+2	1	0.52	0	0	0	15:31	—	—	42	35
Anthony Mantha R	L2	1	0	1	+1	5	0.50	0	2	0	13:53	—	—	39	44
Justin Brazeau R	L2	0	1	1	+1	0	0.03	2	1	0	13:03	—	—	34	37
Noel Acciari C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.28	2	3	0	14:39	—	—	50	71
Blake Lizotte C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	14:25	—	—	47	70
Connor Dewar C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.25	1	0	0	14:01	—	—	44	50
Filip Hallander C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	12:40	—	—	64	65
Ben Kindel C	L4	0	0	0	0	5	0.72	0	1	0	12:25	—	—	63	68
Tommy Novak C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	0	1	0	10:51	—	—	67	66
Ryan Shea D	D1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.03	1	2	0	22:03	—	—	43	43
Kris Letang D	D1	0	1	1	+1	1	0.03	1	2	0	21:50	—	—	44	42
Caleb Jones D	D2	0	0	0	+1	3	0.09	1	3	0	18:51	—	—	42	61
Harrison Brunicke D	D2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.17	0	2	0	17:15	—	—	54	66
Parker Wotherspoon D	D3	0	0	0	+1	2	0.03	0	1	0	20:19	—	—	43	36
Erik Karlsson D	D3	0	1	1	+1	1	0.07	0	1	0	18:30	—	—	34	28

PIT goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Tristan Jarry(start)	W	31	31	0	.1000	2.60	60:00

San Jose Sharks

SJS skaters
Skater	Line	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Macklin Celebrini C	L1	-1	1	0.07	1	0	0	18:24	—	—	50	35
Jeff Skinner L	L1	-2	3	0.41	1	0	0	16:17	—	—	54	47
Adam Gaudette R	L1	-2	1	0.04	1	0	0	15:45	—	—	52	40
Alexander Wennberg C	L2	-1	2	0.10	0	0	0	19:52	—	—	69	60
William Eklund L	L2	-1	3	0.42	1	1	0	18:15	—	—	71	61
Tyler Toffoli C	L2	-1	1	0.12	0	2	0	16:40	—	—	71	60
Collin Graf R	L3	-1	2	0.06	2	2	0	15:15	—	—	50	46
Ty Dellandrea C	L3	0	0	0.00	2	1	0	13:30	—	—	52	57
Barclay Goodrow C	L3	0	3	0.24	0	1	0	11:04	—	—	50	51
Philipp Kurashev C	L4	-1	2	0.33	0	1	0	13:53	—	—	50	42
Will Smith C	L4	0	1	0.29	3	1	0	13:44	—	—	52	50
Michael Misa C	L4	-1	2	0.32	1	0	0	12:56	—	—	50	49
Mario Ferraro D	D1	0	2	0.08	4	0	0	24:16	—	—	50	36
Dmitry Orlov D	D1	0	2	0.04	2	0	0	23:14	—	—	55	33
Vincent Desharnais D	D2	-1	1	0.02	3	2	0	20:21	—	—	58	53
Sam Dickinson D	D2	-1	3	0.04	2	0	0	16:48	—	—	60	54
Nick Leddy D	D3	-2	0	0.00	0	1	2	17:12	—	—	61	52
Vincent Iorio D	D3	-1	2	0.01	2	2	0	13:02	—	—	63	69

SJS goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Alex Nedeljkovic(start)	L	26	24	2	.923	2.60	57:32

Goal anatomy

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

Sidney Crosby (PIT) 2nd 7:35 · assists Kris Letang, Rickard Rakell · Deflection · 24.2 mph shot.

Sidney Crosby · 2nd 7:35 · PIT

Play: deflection
Passes: 0
Shot: 24.2 mph
Distance: 43 ft

Watch on NHL.com → · Tracking-derived via NHL EDGE

Anthony Mantha · 3rd 7:02 · PIT

Play: rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 41.5 mph
Distance: 10 ft
Entry to goal: 4.4 s

Watch on NHL.com → · Tracking-derived via NHL EDGE

Evgeni Malkin · 3rd 19:38 · PIT EN

Play: point-shot
Passes: 2
Shot: 59.7 mph
Distance: 80 ft

Watch on NHL.com → · Tracking-derived via NHL EDGE

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.