Nashville Predators vs. Pittsburgh PenguinsMar 30, 2023

FinalThursday, Mar 30, 2023· PPG Paints Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
NSH	0	0	0	0		NSH	12	5	11	28
PIT	0	1	1	2		PIT	16	15	14	45

: NSH 47PIT 87
: NSH 1.63PIT 5.07
PP goals: NSH 0PIT 1
Hits: NSH 36PIT 41
Blocks: NSH 19PIT 15
PIM: NSH 8PIT 6
: NSH 49%PIT 51%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Pittsburgh Penguins beat Nashville Predators 2–0

Pittsburgh Penguins beat Nashville Predators 2–0 at home. Jake Guentzel (PIT) led the scoring with 1G 0A. PIT's first power-play unit (Malkin, Crosby, Letang, Rakell and Guentzel) scored 1 power-play goal on 11 attempts in 4:05 together.

PP1
PIT's first power-play unit (Malkin, Crosby, Letang, Rakell and Guentzel) scored 1 power-play goal on 11 attempts in 4:05 together.Malkin Crosby Letang Rakell Guentzel
Goalie
Juuse Saros (NSH) faced 45 shots and stopped 43 (.956), +12 against a season average of 32.8; the loss.Saros
Luck
PIT scored 2 goals on 5.07 expected goals (87 attempts), well short of its chances.
Luck
NSH scored 0 goals on 1.63 expected goals (47 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Jeff Carter (PIT) played 9:00, −4:46 down on his 13:46 season average over 78 games.Carter
Usage
Mikael Granlund (PIT) played 12:59, −4:54 down on his 17:53 season average over 78 games.Granlund
Usage
Cole Smith (NSH) played 16:34, +3:53 up on his 12:41 season average over 68 games.Smith
Usage
Kiefer Sherwood (NSH) played 17:25, +3:57 up on his 13:28 season average over 31 games.Sherwood

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

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

PIT
NSH
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 134 of 134 attempts · PIT 87 · NSH 47

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

PIT
NSH
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: NSH 12% of the game, PIT 57%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

PIT

NSH

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	NSH	PIT
	41	77
	1.49	3.39
	1.45	3.22
	7	16
	2	12
	18	13
	+0.036	−0.036
	12%	57%

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.

Nashville Predators

L1Novak – Sherwood – Evangelista
10:2638% CF
L2Sissons – Trenin – Smith
8:3833% CF
L3Glass – Tomasino – Afanasyev
8:1422% CF
L4Jankowski – McCarron – Asplund
6:0842% CF
D1McDonagh – Fabbro
10:0648% CF
D2Gravel – Foote
8:3436% CF
D3Barrie – Lauzon
5:5820% CF

PP1Barrie – Novak – Glass – Tomasino – Evangelista
3:1763% CF
PP2Sissons – Trenin – Asplund – Fabbro – Sherwood
2:0867% CF
PK1FSissons – Smith
3:21
PK2FJankowski – Trenin
2:06
PK1DMcDonagh – Fabbro
2:25
PK2DGravel – Foote
1:01

Current NSH line combinations →

Pittsburgh Penguins

L1Crosby – Rust – Guentzel
13:1871% CF
L2Malkin – Zucker – Rakell
12:1681% CF
L3Granlund – Heinen – Poehling
8:0257% CF
L4Carter – Archibald – O'Connor
4:4750% CF
D1Letang – Dumoulin
12:3681% CF
D2Petry – Joseph
11:4967% CF
D3Ruhwedel – Friedman
7:1644% CF

PP1Malkin – Crosby – Letang – Rakell – Guentzel
4:0592% CF
PP2Carter – Petry – Zucker – Granlund – Rust
0:440% CF
PK1FRust – Poehling
2:20
PK2FGranlund – Archibald
1:28
PK1DPetry – Dumoulin
1:45
PK2DLetang – Ruhwedel
0:49

Current PIT line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

14:15
PITJason Zucker (Brian Dumoulin, Evgeni Malkin)tip-in0.31 xG
NSH: Barrie, Gravel, Novak, Sherwood, EvangelistaPIT: Malkin, Dumoulin, Zucker, Rust, Joseph
NSH 0 – 1 PIT

3rd period

13:03
PITJake GuentzelPP (Rickard Rakell, Kris Letang)tip-in0.21 xG
NSH: McDonagh, Sissons, Fabbro, SmithPIT: Malkin, Crosby, Letang, Rakell, Guentzel
NSH 0 – 2 PIT

Box score

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

Nashville Predators

NSH skaters
Skater	Line	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Tommy Novak C	L1	-1	2	0.12	1	3	2	18:41	—	—	34	32
Kiefer Sherwood L	L1	-1	3	0.22	6	0	0	17:25	—	—	47	38
Luke Evangelista R	L1	-1	1	0.17	0	0	2	17:01	—	—	42	38
Yakov Trenin C	L2	0	2	0.09	3	0	0	18:51	—	—	38	20
Colton Sissons C	L2	0	2	0.01	2	3	0	16:47	—	—	39	12
Cole Smith R	L2	0	0	0.00	9	0	0	16:34	—	—	22	6
Philip Tomasino R	L3	0	2	0.29	0	0	2	15:55	—	—	27	29
Cody Glass C	L3	0	2	0.12	1	0	0	14:39	—	—	24	29
Egor Afanasyev L	L3	0	0	0.00	1	2	0	11:06	—	—	24	30
Mark Jankowski L	L4	0	3	0.32	1	0	0	11:48	—	—	42	46
Rasmus Asplund C	L4	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	10:39	—	—	47	33
Michael McCarron C	L4	0	2	0.05	2	1	0	10:36	—	—	33	33
Ryan McDonagh D	D1	0	2	0.06	1	1	0	25:24	—	—	38	30
Dante Fabbro D	D1	0	2	0.05	3	2	0	20:46	—	—	42	46
Cal Foote D	D2	0	2	0.04	0	1	2	17:15	—	—	34	32
Kevin Gravel D	D2	-1	1	0.01	0	4	0	14:05	—	—	37	36
Tyson Barrie D	D3	-1	1	0.03	1	0	0	22:23	—	—	29	24
Jeremy Lauzon D	D3	0	1	0.06	5	2	0	14:35	—	—	19	12

NSH goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Juuse Saros(start)	L	45	43	2	.956	5.07	59:22

Pittsburgh Penguins

PIT skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Jake Guentzel C	L1	1	0	1	0	4	0.50	2	1	2	20:57	—	—	64	74
Sidney Crosby C	L1	0	0	0	0	9	0.97	0	1	0	20:53	—	—	73	77
Bryan Rust R	L1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.19	2	0	0	20:25	—	—	72	81
Evgeni Malkin C	L2	0	1	1	+1	4	0.29	1	0	0	18:19	—	—	83	87
Rickard Rakell R	L2	0	1	1	0	2	0.52	6	1	0	17:43	—	—	74	69
Jason Zucker L	L2	1	0	1	+1	2	0.63	2	0	0	16:18	—	—	83	86
Ryan Poehling C	L3	0	0	0	0	5	0.54	0	0	0	14:42	—	—	48	46
Mikael Granlund C	L3	0	0	0	0	5	0.18	0	2	0	12:59	—	—	54	58
Danton Heinen L	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.13	3	1	0	9:57	—	—	58	58
Josh Archibald R	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.32	2	2	0	9:18	—	—	33	64
Jeff Carter C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.08	0	0	0	9:00	—	—	55	72
Drew O'Connor L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.13	5	0	0	7:36	—	—	42	50
Kris Letang D	D1	0	1	1	0	1	0.05	5	2	0	27:25	—	—	73	71
Brian Dumoulin D	D1	0	1	1	+1	3	0.23	1	1	2	19:47	—	—	77	84
Jeff Petry D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.08	4	1	0	25:43	—	—	68	72
Pierre-Olivier Joseph D	D2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.05	1	0	2	18:00	—	—	67	71
Chad Ruhwedel D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	1	0	14:24	—	—	35	44
Mark Friedman D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.17	4	2	0	11:10	—	—	58	62

PIT goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Tristan Jarry(start)	W	28	28	0	.1000	1.63	59:24

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.