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2025-04-05 · American Airlines Center

5 – 3Final

PIT beat DAL 5–3. PIT also won the expected-goals battle 3.9 to 2.9: the better chances went the right way. The biggest swing: Blake Lizotte scored at 18:17 of the third, moving PIT’s win probability from 50% to 93%.

Shots on goal
40 – 24
Expected goals
3.9 – 2.9
xG share
PIT 57%
Home-ice start
DAL 53%

Win probability

The site’s win-probability model, second by second: score, time left and the manpower on the ice. Dots are goals; hover for the swing.

PIT goalDAL goal

Expected goals

Running total of each team’s shot quality (unblocked attempts). Dots are goals.

PITDAL

Three stars, by the model

Net goals added in this game versus a league-average player: on-ice goal share, finishing, playmaking, suppression, drawn and taken penalties, faceoffs; goalies by goals saved above expected.

DAL
3 G, 0 A · 13:09 TOI
Finishing +2.01
+2.00
PIT
3 G, 1 A · 19:29 TOI
On-ice +0.21 · Finishing +1.27 · Playmaking +0.06
+1.56
PIT
1 G, 0 A · 15:34 TOI
Finishing +0.62
+0.68

Rough nights

PIT
0 G, 0 A · 18:55 TOI
On-ice +0.07 · Finishing −0.67
−0.59
PIT
60:00 TOI
GSAx −0.47
−0.47
DAL
0 G, 0 A · 10:47 TOI
On-ice −0.33 · Finishing −0.09
−0.45

Scoring

Win probability of the scoring team just before and after each goal.

TimeTeamGoalPIT–DALWin prob.
P1 4:16 PITSidney CrosbyPP
from Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang
1–047% → 63%
P1 10:43 DALEvgenii Dadonov
from Oskar Bäck, Lian Bichsel
1–136% → 53%
P2 12:36 DALEvgenii DadonovPP
from Matt Duchene, Mathew Dumba
1–254% → 74%
P3 0:20 PITSidney Crosby
from Rutger McGroarty
2–223% → 48%
P3 3:11 DALEvgenii Dadonov
from Thomas Harley, Ilya Lyubushkin
2–352% → 79%
P3 8:49 PITBryan Rust
from Sidney Crosby
3–318% → 48%
P3 18:17 PITBlake Lizotte
from Danton Heinen
4–350% → 93%
P3 18:45 PITSidney CrosbyEN
from Conor Timmins
5–394% → 100%

Every player

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PIT

SkaterTOIGANet goalsOn-iceFinishingPlaymakingSuppressionPenaltiesFaceoffs
Sidney Crosby C19:2931+1.56+0.21+1.27+0.06−0.00+0.00+0.02
Blake Lizotte C15:341+0.68+0.04+0.62−0.02−0.00+0.00+0.04
Bryan Rust R18:091+0.61+0.18+0.45−0.01−0.01+0.00+0.00
Rutger McGroarty R17:331+0.28+0.10−0.00−0.01−0.00+0.20+0.00
Ville Koivunen R17:57+0.21+0.15−0.12−0.02−0.01+0.20+0.00
Kris Letang D24:301+0.02+0.29−0.08+0.02−0.01−0.20+0.00
Ryan Graves D13:08−0.01−0.00−0.01+0.00+0.00+0.00+0.00
Matt Grzelcyk D24:04−0.06+0.48−0.56+0.01+0.01+0.00+0.00
Noel Acciari C15:26−0.07+0.10−0.17−0.03+0.01+0.00+0.01
Evgeni Malkin C18:241−0.07+0.00−0.13+0.04−0.02+0.00+0.03
Danton Heinen L15:321−0.08+0.09−0.18−0.01+0.01+0.00+0.00
Erik Karlsson D20:22−0.10+0.01−0.08+0.01−0.05+0.00+0.00
Philip Tomasino C7:09−0.14−0.01−0.13−0.00+0.00+0.00+0.00
Connor Dewar C8:47−0.15−0.10−0.04−0.01+0.01+0.00+0.00
Kevin Hayes R6:39−0.16+0.09−0.27+0.00+0.00+0.00+0.02
Ryan Shea D14:58−0.22−0.24+0.01−0.00+0.01+0.00+0.00
Conor Timmins D19:431−0.38−0.30−0.08+0.01−0.00+0.00+0.00
Rickard Rakell R18:55−0.59+0.07−0.67+0.02−0.01+0.00+0.00
GoalieTOIGSAx (net goals)
Tristan Jarry G60:00−0.47

DAL

SkaterTOIGANet goalsOn-iceFinishingPlaymakingSuppressionPenaltiesFaceoffs
Evgenii Dadonov L13:093+2.00+0.00+2.01−0.00−0.01+0.00+0.00
Oskar Bäck C9:331+0.07+0.11−0.00−0.01+0.00+0.00−0.04
Colin Blackwell C12:30+0.05−0.13−0.00−0.01+0.00+0.20−0.01
Roope Hintz C17:02−0.01+0.00−0.01+0.01+0.00+0.00−0.02
Mavrik Bourque C13:43−0.02−0.04−0.00−0.01+0.00+0.00+0.02
Esa Lindell D21:27−0.02−0.02−0.04+0.01+0.02+0.00+0.00
Jason Robertson L16:46−0.08−0.00−0.09+0.03−0.01+0.00+0.00
Mikael Granlund C14:54−0.09+0.16−0.26+0.01+0.01+0.00−0.01
Lian Bichsel D18:011−0.11−0.10+0.01+0.00−0.01+0.00+0.00
Cody Ceci D17:37−0.15−0.08−0.07−0.00+0.01+0.00+0.00
Mathew Dumba D16:061−0.18−0.03−0.15+0.01−0.01+0.00+0.00
Thomas Harley D24:151−0.19−0.11−0.06+0.01−0.03+0.00+0.00
Mikko Rantanen R23:15−0.20−0.16−0.08+0.06−0.01+0.00+0.00
Matt Duchene C15:131−0.23+0.09−0.32+0.01−0.01+0.00+0.00
Ilya Lyubushkin D18:341−0.34−0.15+0.01−0.01+0.01−0.20+0.00
Mason Marchment L14:21−0.35+0.09−0.24+0.00−0.00−0.20+0.00
Wyatt Johnston C17:31−0.44−0.21−0.17+0.00−0.01+0.00−0.05
Sam Steel C10:47−0.45−0.33−0.09−0.01−0.02+0.00−0.01
GoalieTOIGSAx (net goals)
Casey DeSmith G59:40+0.17

Net goals for one game are noisy: a single goal against on the ice or a lucky finish moves them a lot. See the card guide and Net Goals 101 for how they are built.