Final/Fri Dec 5, 2025/Benchmark International Arena, Tampa/2025-26 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdT
1214
0123

02/Scoring summary

7 goals

1st

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsPITTBL
06:12PITNHL 8482758 (1)Kris Letang, Tommy Novak10

2nd

3 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsPITTBL
07:53PITEvgeni Malkin (7)unassisted20
09:49PITBen Kindel (7)Erik Karlsson, Evgeni Malkin30
18:46TBLNikita Kucherov (12)Darren Raddysh, Jake Guentzel31

3rd

3 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsPITTBL
01:17TBLBrandon Hagel (16)Nikita Kucherov, Darren Raddysh32
11:44TBLBrandon Hagel (17)Nick Paul, Gage Goncalves33
17:17PITEvgeni Malkin (8)Tommy Novak, Anthony Mantha43

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
PIT
Away / Home
TBL
4
Goals
3
31
Shots on goal
40
16
Missed shots
18
14
Blocked shots
4
51
Shot attempts
73
21
Hits
13
32
Faceoffs won of 59
27
54.2%
Faceoff win %
45.8%
13
Giveaways
20
4
Takeaways
5
7
Penalties
5
17
Penalty minutes
13
4
Power plays
6

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
Evgeni MalkinC2133101-5
Tommy NovakC0220000-1
Kris LetangD011322
Erik KarlssonD011600
Anthony ManthaR011111
NHL 8482758101211
Ben KindelC1015024-7
Sidney CrosbyC00011016-8
Kevin HayesR0003301-0
Bryan RustR000200
Connor CliftonD000032
NHL 8477435000001
NHL 8478147000000
Parker WotherspoonD000321
Ryan SheaD000011
Connor DewarC000112
Blake LizotteC00002110-6
NHL 8483487000130
Skaters4610312114

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Tristan Jarry40373.925

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/Tampa Bay Lightning

Home · 17 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Nikita KucherovR1121000
Darren RaddyshD022210
Brandon HagelL202700
Jake GuentzelC0113004-1
Nick PaulL0111006-6
Yanni GourdeC0002414-9
Zemgus GirgensonsC0002300-1
Oliver BjorkstrandR000200
Anthony CirelliC00010011-11
Charle-Edouard D'AstousD000100
Curtis DouglasC000100
Pontus HolmbergR000320
Max CrozierD000210
J.J. MoserD000111
Emil LillebergD000000
NHL 8483398000111
Dominic JamesC0001012-4
Skaters35840134

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Jonas Johansson31274.871

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/Club not resolved

PlayerTOIPIM+/-
Gage Goncalves

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

12 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st02:36TBLCurtis DouglasFighting5NHL 8478147
1st02:36PITNHL 8478147Fighting5Curtis Douglas
1st04:59TBLMax CrozierHolding2Ben Kindel
1st11:14PITParker WotherspoonHolding2Dominic James
1st13:58PITNHL 8477435Slashing2Gage Goncalves
1st19:36PITSidney CrosbyCross-checking2J.J. Moser
2nd09:13TBLDarren RaddyshTripping2Sidney Crosby
2nd10:16TBLNHL 8483398Interference2Blake Lizotte
2nd14:02PITErik KarlssonSlashing2Emil Lilleberg
3rd01:02PITKris LetangTripping2Jake Guentzel
3rd03:18PITEvgeni MalkinTripping2J.J. Moser
3rd07:00TBLCharle-Edouard D'AstousHooking2Evgeni Malkin

08/Game

Date
Fri Dec 5, 2025
Venue
Benchmark International Arena, Tampa
Season
2025-26
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2025020428

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. No box score is on file for this game, so time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus are blank throughout. The counting columns are unaffected: they are read off the play-by-play. 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. 5 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.