Final/Sun Feb 21, 2016/First Niagara Center/2015-16 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdT
1214
1023

02/Scoring summary

7 goals

1st

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsPITBUF
09:09PITNHL 8471887 (12)NHL 8470110, Sidney Crosby10
13:48BUFZach Bogosian (2)NHL 8475796, NHL 846740711

2nd

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsPITBUF
05:28PITNHL 8476293 (3)Kris Letang, NHL 847688421
17:50PITNHL 8473548 (19)Kris Letang31

3rd

3 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsPITBUF
07:52PITNHL 8464989 (8)NHL 8474176, Kris Letang41
08:05BUFNHL 8467407 (8)Zach Bogosian, NHL 847085242
19:38BUFZach Bogosian (3)NHL 847749943

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
PIT
Away / Home
BUF
4
Goals
3
31
Shots on goal
27
8
Missed shots
11
12
Blocked shots
21
60
Shot attempts
50
11
Hits
30
42
Faceoffs won of 72
30
58.3%
Faceoff win %
41.7%
5
Giveaways
5
0
Takeaways
6
3
Penalties
4
6
Penalty minutes
8
4
Power plays
3

Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them. Shot attempts are shots on goal plus misses plus attempts that were blocked. A club's blocked shots are the blocks it made, credited to the blocker's club: a shot that deflects off one of the shooter's own teammates is credited to neither side, so this can run under the raw count of blocked shots in the game. Penalty minutes are the durations the feed publishes, plus the ten minute misconduct that automatically rides with a match penalty.

Power plays are opportunities, and they are derived rather than stored. The feed carries no strength on a goal and no end time on a penalty, so the penalty record is run forward to find the seconds a club really had a skater more than its opponent: coincidental penalties offset, a double minor counts twice, a misconduct costs no skater, and a call at the final horn counts for nothing. Power play time is not printed, it would rest on the same reconstruction with nothing published to check it against.


04/Pittsburgh Penguins

Away · 18 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Kris LetangD033+2051128:43
Sidney CrosbyC011+1011120-1420:23
NHL 846498910140112-8
NHL 8470110011201
NHL 8471887101301
NHL 84735481014001-0
NHL 8474176011100
NHL 8476293101100
NHL 8476884011000
Olli MäättäD000+1230125:33
Brian DumoulinD000+1000118:31
Ian ColeD0000003113:48
Oskar SundqvistC000000014-512:42
Bryan RustR0000013212:23
NHL 8470543000210
NHL 84713310001105-3
NHL 8475832000210
Conor ShearyL000101
Skaters4711311112

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
NHL 847059427243.889

One line here is not in the box score feed's dressed list for this game. Shots against, saves and goals against are counted off the play-by-play, which names the goaltender who faced every shot and every goal; time on ice is blank on those lines, because only the box score carries it.


05/Buffalo Sabres

Home · 18 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Zach BogosianD2130031222:50
NHL 84674071122001-1
NHL 8470852011300
NHL 8475796011001
NHL 8477499011337
Jake McCabeD000-1004221:37
Jack EichelC000020008-1021:11
Evander KaneL000-222202-319:53
Sam ReinhartC000-101024-716:28
Zemgus GirgensonsC000000231-216:16
Marcus FolignoL000-1013115:06
Nicolas DeslauriersL000002208:24
NHL 84673300001005-4
NHL 8470324000011
NHL 8473426000120
NHL 8473465000421
NHL 84757280002509-15
NHL 8477473000231
Skaters358273021

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
NHL 847521531274.871

One line here is not in the box score feed's dressed list for this game. Shots against, saves and goals against are counted off the play-by-play, which names the goaltender who faced every shot and every goal; time on ice is blank on those lines, because only the box score carries it.


06/Penalties

7 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st12:21PITNHL 8471887Slashing2NHL 8475728
1st17:47BUFNHL 8475796Cross-checking2NHL 8476293
1st19:17BUFNHL 8467330Tripping2NHL 8473548
2nd04:45PITOlli MäättäInterference2Nicolas Deslauriers
2nd05:11BUFJack EichelCross-checking2NHL 8474176
3rd07:24PITConor ShearyTripping2Jake McCabe
3rd16:34BUFEvander KaneTripping2NHL 8470110

07/Game

Date
Sun Feb 21, 2016
Venue
First Niagara Center
Season
2015-16
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2015020883

Goals, assists, shots, hits, blocks and faceoffs are counted from the play-by-play for this game. Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them, so a club's skater shot total is the shot total the opposing goaltender faced. The skater line does not include a goaltender's own assists. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus come from the box score. Save percentage is saves over shots faced and excludes any empty-net goal, which the feed does not credit to a goaltender. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus are on file for 15 of the 38 players on this page. The dressed list itself is short: the box score feed names 36 players for this game, where a club normally dresses twenty and a full game is forty. The names it leaves out cannot be recovered from it, and this page does not invent them. 2 goaltenders are missing from that list, and their lines are built from the play-by-play instead: every shot and every goal names the goaltender who faced it, so shots against, saves and goals against are counted the same way the skater columns are. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus stay blank for them, because only the box score carries those. 22 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.