New York Rangers vs. Pittsburgh PenguinsFeb 26, 2022

FinalSaturday, Feb 26, 2022· PPG Paints Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
NYR	0	0	0	0		NYR	12	5	10	27
PIT	0	0	1	1		PIT	6	9	11	26

: NYR 53PIT 51
: NYR 2.19PIT 2.50
PP goals: NYR 0PIT 1
Hits: NYR 43PIT 39
Blocks: NYR 16PIT 19
PIM: NYR 10PIT 10
: NYR 54%PIT 46%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Pittsburgh Penguins edge New York Rangers 1–0

Pittsburgh Penguins beat New York Rangers 1–0 at home. Evgeni Malkin (PIT) led the scoring with 1G 0A. PIT's first power-play unit (Malkin, Crosby, Letang, Rust and Guentzel) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 1:43 together.

PP1
PIT's first power-play unit (Malkin, Crosby, Letang, Rust and Guentzel) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 1:43 together.Malkin Crosby Letang Rust Guentzel
Luck
NYR scored 0 goals on 2.19 expected goals (53 attempts), well short of its chances.
Luck
PIT scored 1 goal on 2.51 expected goals (51 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Kris Letang (PIT) played 29:04, +3:20 up on his 25:44 season average over 77 games.Letang
Usage
Artemi Panarin (NYR) played 22:11, +3:01 up on his 19:11 season average over 74 games.Panarin
PP1
NYR's PP1 (Kreider, Strome, Zibanejad, Panarin and Fox) went scoreless in 3:04 of 5v4 time with 9 attempts.Kreider Strome Zibanejad Panarin Fox
Cats
Adam Fox (NYR) blocked 6 shots in 26:22.Fox
Cats
Jacob Trouba (NYR) threw 6 hits, a night for hits leagues.Trouba

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

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

PIT
NYR
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 104 of 104 attempts · PIT 51 · NYR 53

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

PIT
NYR
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: NYR 29% of the game, PIT 31%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

PIT

NYR

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	NYR	PIT
	35	48
	0.93	1.98
	0.93	1.83
	5	11
	2	8
	16	13
	+0.025	−0.025
	29%	31%

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.

New York Rangers

L1Strome – Hunt – Panarin
10:4659% CF
L2Reaves – Goodrow – Rooney
10:1640% CF
L3Kreider – Zibanejad – Lafrenière
10:1653% CF
L4McKegg – Gauthier – Barron
6:0120% CF
D1Fox – Lindgren
14:4916% CF
D2Trouba – Miller
13:2858% CF
D3Jones – Schneider
13:0435% CF

PP1Kreider – Strome – Zibanejad – Panarin – Fox
3:04100% CF
PP2Goodrow – Trouba – Gauthier – Miller – Lafrenière
0:46100% CF
PK1FGoodrow – Rooney
1:51
PK2FMcKegg – Zibanejad
0:29
PK1DFox – Lindgren
1:01
PK2DTrouba – Miller
0:45

Current NYR line combinations →

Pittsburgh Penguins

L1Crosby – Rust – Guentzel
11:5053% CF
L2Carter – McGinn – Rodrigues
10:3041% CF
L3Malkin – Kapanen – Heinen
9:4182% CF
L4Boyle – Simon – Aston-Reese
6:2167% CF
D1Letang – Dumoulin
17:3652% CF
D2Pettersson – Marino
14:1648% CF
D3Ruhwedel – Friedman
10:0292% CF

PP1Malkin – Crosby – Letang – Rust – Guentzel
1:4367% CF
PP2Carter – Kapanen – Pettersson – Heinen – Rodrigues
0:51100% CF
PK1FBoyle – McGinn
1:21
PK2FCarter – Aston-Reese
0:45
PK1DLetang – Dumoulin
1:17
PK2DRuhwedel – Marino
0:27

Current PIT line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

3rd period

5:09
PITEvgeni MalkinPP (Bryan Rust, Sidney Crosby)slap0.17 xG
NYR: Goodrow, Rooney, Fox, MillerPIT: Malkin, Crosby, Letang, Rust, Guentzel
NYR 0 – 1 PIT

Box score

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

New York Rangers

NYR skaters
Skater	Line			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Artemi Panarin L	L1	2	0.09	0	1	0	22:11	—	—	50	51
Ryan Strome C	L1	2	0.05	0	0	0	19:42	—	—	54	51
Dryden Hunt L	L1	2	0.21	4	0	2	14:04	—	—	57	61
Kevin Rooney C	L2	0	0.00	1	1	4	16:21	—	—	20	6
Barclay Goodrow C	L2	1	0.07	2	1	0	15:20	—	—	42	19
Ryan Reaves R	L2	1	0.03	4	0	0	11:18	—	—	36	12
Mika Zibanejad C	L3	4	0.35	2	1	0	20:34	—	—	52	46
Chris Kreider L	L3	6	0.75	2	0	2	19:18	—	—	48	42
Alexis Lafrenière L	L3	0	0.24	0	0	0	14:51	—	—	56	46
Greg McKegg C	L4	0	0.00	3	1	0	8:05	—	—	8	7
Julien Gauthier R	L4	0	0.00	5	0	0	7:56	—	—	17	20
Morgan Barron C	L4	0	0.00	2	0	0	7:41	—	—	9	7
Adam Fox D	D1	1	0.04	2	6	0	26:22	—	—	26	10
Ryan Lindgren D	D1	1	0.09	5	1	2	19:37	—	—	20	12
Jacob Trouba D	D2	4	0.21	6	0	0	20:48	—	—	59	51
K'Andre Miller D	D2	2	0.05	2	1	0	19:52	—	—	59	56
Zac Jones D	D3	1	0.02	1	1	0	14:51	—	—	40	7
Braden Schneider D	D3	0	0.00	2	2	0	14:20	—	—	37	6

NYR goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Igor Shesterkin(start)	L	26	25	1	.962	2.50	58:15

Pittsburgh Penguins

PIT skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Jake Guentzel C	L1	0	0	0	4	0.48	1	1	0	19:27	—	—	58	71
Sidney Crosby C	L1	0	1	1	3	0.30	4	1	0	19:18	—	—	60	75
Bryan Rust R	L1	0	1	1	4	0.34	0	0	0	16:47	—	—	58	72
Jeff Carter C	L2	0	0	0	2	0.22	2	0	0	18:21	—	—	44	44
Brock McGinn L	L2	0	0	0	1	0.01	3	0	0	14:51	—	—	38	40
Evan Rodrigues C	L2	0	0	0	2	0.10	2	0	2	14:30	—	—	46	43
Evgeni Malkin C	L3	1	0	1	3	0.39	0	0	4	15:30	—	—	74	77
Kasperi Kapanen R	L3	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	12:24	—	—	60	68
Danton Heinen L	L3	0	0	0	3	0.44	2	0	0	12:15	—	—	85	72
Brian Boyle C	L4	0	0	0	1	0.06	2	1	0	10:48	—	—	70	92
Zachary Aston-Reese L	L4	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	10:22	—	—	56	92
Dominik Simon C	L4	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	1	0	8:00	—	—	71	92
Kris Letang D	D1	0	0	0	1	0.08	2	4	0	29:04	—	—	52	60
Brian Dumoulin D	D1	0	0	0	0	0.02	4	3	0	23:40	—	—	50	59
John Marino D	D2	0	0	0	0	0.00	4	4	2	20:36	—	—	50	61
Marcus Pettersson D	D2	0	0	0	0	0.02	4	1	2	18:04	—	—	46	59
Chad Ruhwedel D	D3	0	0	0	1	0.02	4	1	0	13:55	—	—	80	95
Mark Friedman D	D3	0	0	0	1	0.04	0	1	0	12:11	—	—	93	98

PIT goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Tristan Jarry(start)	W	27	27	0	.1000	2.19	59:57

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.