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First round, Game 3 · PHI leads 3–0 · 2026-04-22 · Xfinity Mobile Arena

2 – 5Final

PHI beat PIT 5–2. PHI lost the expected-goals battle 2.5 to 3.2 and won anyway, a result the shot quality did not support. The biggest swing: Rasmus Ristolainen scored at 9:06 of the second, moving PHI’s win probability from 53% to 74%.

Shots on goal
29 – 29
Expected goals
3.2 – 2.5
xG share
PIT 57%
Home-ice start
PHI 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 goalPHI goal

Expected goals

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

PITPHI

Three stars, by the model

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

PHI
1 G, 0 A · 24:33 TOI
Finishing +0.85
+0.84
PHI
1 G, 1 A · 15:53 TOI
On-ice +0.12 · Finishing +0.67
+0.82
PHI
1 G, 0 A · 16:08 TOI
Finishing +0.85 · Penalties −0.19
+0.65

Rough nights

PIT
58:01 TOI
GSAx −0.87
−0.87
PHI
0 G, 2 A · 16:37 TOI
Finishing −0.42 · Penalties −0.39
−0.75
PIT
0 G, 1 A · 20:25 TOI
On-ice +0.05 · Finishing −0.34 · Penalties −0.19
−0.48

Scoring

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

TimeTeamGoalPIT–PHIWin prob.
P1 4:18 PITEvgeni MalkinPP
from Bryan Rust, Sidney Crosby
1–047% → 63%
P2 5:18 PHITrevor ZegrasPP
from Jamie Drysdale, Porter Martone
1–134% → 53%
P2 9:06 PHIRasmus Ristolainen
from Noah Juulsen, Sean Couturier
1–253% → 74%
P2 11:18 PHINick Seeler
from Noah Juulsen, Sean Couturier
1–374% → 89%
P3 9:39 PITErik KarlssonPP
from Rickard Rakell, Tommy Novak
2–34% → 17%
P3 12:30 PHINoah CatesPP
from Trevor Zegras, Jamie Drysdale
2–486% → 97%
P3 18:48 PHIOwen TippettEN
from Noah Cates
2–5100% → 100%

Every player

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PIT

SkaterTOIGANet goalsOn-iceFinishingPenaltiesFaceoffs
Evgeni Malkin C20:061+0.53+0.02+0.71−0.19+0.00
Erik Karlsson D28:591+0.53−0.08+0.81−0.19+0.00
Ben Kindel C13:07+0.35+0.12−0.13+0.39−0.03
Connor Dewar C10:37+0.13−0.06+0.00+0.19+0.00
Samuel Girard D17:59+0.13+0.00−0.07+0.19+0.00
Kris Letang D22:08+0.03+0.10−0.07+0.00+0.00
Rickard Rakell R24:341+0.03+0.16−0.13+0.00+0.00
Justin Brazeau R8:24−0.00−0.00+0.00+0.00+0.00
Sidney Crosby C23:001−0.03+0.17−0.34+0.19−0.05
Blake Lizotte C12:32−0.14−0.09−0.05+0.00+0.00
Ryan Shea D13:20−0.14−0.11−0.03+0.00+0.00
Connor Clifton D9:33−0.15−0.13−0.02+0.00+0.00
Parker Wotherspoon D19:37−0.21−0.19−0.02+0.00+0.00
Tommy Novak C12:421−0.24−0.13−0.12+0.00+0.01
Egor Chinakhov R10:27−0.26−0.01−0.25+0.00+0.00
Noel Acciari C11:58−0.37−0.16−0.19+0.00−0.02
Anthony Mantha R12:28−0.43−0.09−0.34+0.00+0.00
Bryan Rust R20:251−0.48+0.05−0.34−0.19+0.00
GoalieTOIGSAx (net goals)
Stuart Skinner G58:01−0.87

PHI

SkaterTOIGANet goalsOn-iceFinishingPenaltiesFaceoffs
Rasmus Ristolainen D24:331+0.84−0.01+0.85+0.00+0.00
Trevor Zegras C15:5311+0.82+0.12+0.67+0.00+0.03
Nick Seeler D16:081+0.65−0.01+0.85−0.19+0.00
Noah Cates L13:0811+0.43+0.03+0.40+0.00+0.00
Travis Konecny R16:28+0.12+0.12−0.20+0.19+0.00
Cam York D20:01+0.08+0.01−0.12+0.19+0.00
Travis Sanheim D25:08+0.07+0.07+0.00+0.00+0.00
Luke Glendening C14:41+0.01−0.00+0.00+0.00+0.01
Denver Barkey C6:46−0.02−0.02+0.00+0.00+0.00
Noah Juulsen D12:292−0.02−0.02+0.00+0.00+0.00
Owen Tippett R14:171−0.09−0.08+0.00+0.00−0.01
Garnet Hathaway R12:02−0.18+0.02−0.01−0.19+0.00
Jamie Drysdale D18:052−0.19+0.08−0.26+0.00+0.00
Christian Dvorak C17:13−0.20+0.05−0.26+0.00+0.01
Matvei Michkov R8:08−0.25+0.02−0.09−0.19+0.01
Porter Martone R16:301−0.27+0.22−0.30−0.19+0.00
Tyson Foerster R17:29−0.41+0.04−0.26−0.19+0.00
Sean Couturier C16:372−0.75+0.02−0.42−0.39+0.04
GoalieTOIGSAx (net goals)
Dan Vladar G60:00+0.64

Playoff recaps: the playoff ledgers have no per-game split of playmaking and suppression, so those credits stay inside the on-ice and finishing columns.

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.