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Final/Wed Mar 5, 2025/Ball Arena, Denver/2024-25 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdT
0101
0134

02/Scoring summary

5 goals

2nd

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsPITCOL
06:36COLArtturi Lehkonen (25)Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar01
18:04PITRickard Rakell (29)Bryan Rust, Sidney Crosby11

3rd

3 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsPITCOL
15:51COLCasey Mittelstadt (11)Valeri Nichushkin, Nathan MacKinnon12
18:52COLArtturi Lehkonen (26)unassisted13
19:52COLJack Drury (7)Parker Kelly14

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
PIT
Away / Home
COL
1
Goals
4
33
Shots on goal
25
11
Missed shots
18
10
Blocked shots
15
60
Shot attempts
54
8
Hits
12
30
Faceoffs won of 53
23
56.6%
Faceoff win %
43.4%
15
Giveaways
16
6
Takeaways
5
1
Penalties
2
2
Penalty minutes
4
2
Power plays
1

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
Bryan RustR011-1031020:02
Rickard RakellR101-1021019:40
Sidney CrosbyC011-2020015-719:11
Kris LetangD0000020024:18
Ryan SheaD0000000021:57
Matt GrzelcykD0000001221:08
Evgeni MalkinC000-202005-718:55
Philip TomasinoR0000020116:31
Anthony BeauvillierL0000250014:56
Vincent DesharnaisD0000011013:45
Kevin HayesR000-202006-413:39
Blake LizotteC000-101111-213:28
Cody GlassC000002113-312:46
Erik KarlssonD000301
NHL 8478046000200
Noel AcciariC000113
NHL 8480205000100
NHL 8481609000211
Skaters12333810

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Alex Nedeljkovic23212.913

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/Colorado Avalanche

Home · 17 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Nathan MacKinnonC022+102018-1421:00
Artturi LehkonenL202+2050020:22
Cale MakarD011+1020123:22
Valeri NichushkinR011+1022117:34
Casey MittelstadtC101002017-613:46
Parker KellyC011+101022-312:56
Jack DruryC101+102114-512:26
Devon ToewsD000+3220024:23
Samuel GirardD000+1002022:32
Ryan LindgrenD0000001120:33
Martin NecasC0000020015:23
Jonathan DrouinL000-101001-014:47
Ross ColtonC000000211-112:33
Joel KivirantaL0000002012:15
Miles WoodL000120
NHL 8478430000202
Sam MalinskiD000102
Skaters459251213

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Scott Wedgewood33321.97060:00

06/Club not resolved

PlayerTOIPIM+/-
NHL 8481186

These players dressed for this game but neither the play-by-play nor the box score feed attributes them to a club, so they are printed apart rather than guessed at.


07/Penalties

3 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
2nd10:16COLSam MalinskiHooking2NHL 8480205
2nd15:02COLDevon ToewsHolding2Sidney Crosby
3rd14:23PITAnthony BeauvillierTripping2NHL 8481186

08/Game

Date
Wed Mar 5, 2025
Venue
Ball Arena, Denver
Season
2024-25
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2024020980

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 28 of the 38 players on this page. The dressed list itself is short: the box score feed names 37 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. One goaltender is missing from that list, and his line is 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 him, because only the box score carries those. 5 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.