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Columbus Blue JacketsCBJ 4–3 Final/SO Pittsburgh PenguinsPIT

Saturday, January 17, 2026

Final/SO 1st2nd3rdOTSO T SOG
Columbus Blue JacketsCBJ 12002 4 26
Pittsburgh PenguinsPIT 20101 3 33

No impact calculated for this game. Impacts are calculated for games in the next 7 days.

Highlights

Scoring

1st Period
2:42 CBJ Zachary Aston-Reese (1) Zach Werenski (34), Brendan Gaunce (4) · wrist xG 0.21 1–0 ▶
9:59 PIT Connor Clifton (1) Tommy Novak (16) · snap xG 0.11 1–1 ▶
17:52 PIT Rickard Rakell (7) Sidney Crosby (27) · snap xG 0.26 1–2 ▶
2nd Period
7:32 CBJ Kirill Marchenko (18) Unassisted · wrist xG 0.11 2–2 ▶
17:38 CBJ Danton Heinen (2) Erik Gudbranson (1), Egor Zamula (2) · tip-in xG 0.07 3–2 ▶
3rd Period
18:59 PIT Sidney Crosby (26) Kris Letang (22), Evgeni Malkin (25) · tip-in xG 0.08 3–3 ▶
Overtime
No scoring
Shootout
PIT Rickard Rakell vs Elvis Merzlikins No shot
CBJ Kent Johnson vs Arturs Silovs Goal
PIT Sidney Crosby vs Elvis Merzlikins Saved
CBJ Adam Fantilli vs Arturs Silovs Saved
PIT Egor Chinakhov vs Elvis Merzlikins Goal
CBJ Kirill Marchenko vs Arturs Silovs Saved
PIT Bryan Rust vs Elvis Merzlikins Saved
CBJ Charlie Coyle vs Arturs Silovs Goal

Score away–home after each goal; season totals in parentheses.

Shot quality

Expected goals (xG) rate every unblocked shot by how often shots like it go in, from where it was taken, the shot type, the strength and what happened just before it. How it works

CBJ 20%Deserve to win80% PIT
CBJPIT
2.80Expected goals4.93
3Goals (no shootout)3
2.04Expected goals, 5 on 52.21
55Shot attempts79
39Unblocked attempts55
26Shots on goal33

Game notes

What stood out as the game went on, from the play-by-play and the shifts. Time on the bench is counted in 5-on-5 play outside the penalty box; the note says the player sat, not why. Goals saved are against the shots' expected goals (xG).

2nd Period
2:00 CBJ No shift No shift · Fabbro, 36:01 on the bench
No shift after 11:57 of the 1st; 6 shifts (4:34) before that
3rd Period
18:25 PIT Pulled goalie Pulled goalie · Pulled Silovs, down 3–2
With 1:35 left; PIT scored at 18:59 of the 3rd (3–3)
Overtime
0:50 PIT xG swing xG swing · Out-chanced CBJ 1.95–0.32
In xG over 10 minutes, 11:00 of the 3rd to 1:00 of overtime; goals 1–0

Shot map

CBJ shoots ←Bigger circle: higher xG; filled: goal→ PIT shoots
Bryan Rust: wrist, 23 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 0:16) Brendan Gaunce: wrist, 52 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 2:36) Noel Acciari: tip-in, 11 ft, xG 0.08 (P1 3:06) Ivan Provorov: wrist, 63 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 3:45) Ryan Shea: wrist, 52 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 4:54) Justin Brazeau: tip-in, 7 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 4:55) Boone Jenner: wrist, 70 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 6:54) Ivan Provorov: backhand, 118 ft, xG 0.00 (P1 7:53) Brett Kulak: wrist, 63 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 10:55) Sidney Crosby: wrist, 7 ft, xG 0.43 (P1 10:58) Rickard Rakell: wrist, 34 ft, xG 0.06 (P1 11:45) Bryan Rust: wrist, 8 ft, xG 0.04 (P1 11:46) Boone Jenner: tip-in, 3 ft, xG 0.17 (P1 12:02) Dmitri Voronkov: wrist, 22 ft, xG 0.08 (P1 12:23) Anthony Mantha: wrist, 11 ft, xG 0.05 (P1 12:39) Ben Kindel: wrist, 47 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 12:58) Tommy Novak: wrist, 27 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 13:30) Kris Letang: wrist, 67 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 14:12) Bryan Rust: tip-in, 22 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 14:18) Noel Acciari: tip-in, 18 ft, xG 0.02 (P1 15:42) Anthony Mantha: wrist, 57 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 15:47) Evgeni Malkin: wrist, 44 ft, xG 0.01 (P1 19:32) Egor Chinakhov: slap, 55 ft, xG 0.03 (P1 19:46) Noel Acciari: tip-in, 15 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 1:53) Rickard Rakell: deflected, 23 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 2:07) Evgeni Malkin: wrist, 31 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 2:27) Evgeni Malkin: wrist, 12 ft, xG 0.14 (P2 2:50) Damon Severson: wrist, 165 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 3:07) Bryan Rust: slap, 38 ft, xG 0.09 (P2 3:35) Ivan Provorov: slap, 28 ft, xG 0.15 (P2 4:07) Zach Werenski: wrist, 27 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 4:23) Kirill Marchenko: slap, 37 ft, xG 0.08 (P2 4:36) Egor Zamula: wrist, 57 ft, xG 0.00 (P2 4:43) Boone Jenner: tip-in, 9 ft, xG 0.10 (P2 4:59) Zachary Aston-Reese: wrist, 61 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 5:42) Damon Severson: wrist, 40 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 6:34) Kirill Marchenko: tip-in, 26 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 6:39) Damon Severson: snap, 31 ft, xG 0.11 (P2 6:48) Zach Werenski: wrist, 38 ft, xG 0.01 (P2 8:35) Sidney Crosby: wrist, 20 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 8:54) Bryan Rust: backhand, 4 ft, xG 0.13 (P2 8:55) Damon Severson: wrist, 44 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 9:12) Evgeni Malkin: wrist, 37 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 9:50) Tommy Novak: wrist, 28 ft, xG 0.12 (P2 10:01) Adam Fantilli: wrist, 39 ft, xG 0.06 (P2 10:27) Kirill Marchenko: tip-in, 51 ft, xG 0.03 (P2 10:39) Zach Werenski: wrist, 21 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 13:08) Adam Fantilli: wrist, 37 ft, xG 0.05 (P2 13:40) Damon Severson: wrist, 29 ft, xG 0.09 (P2 15:58) Boone Jenner: tip-in, 17 ft, xG 0.09 (P2 16:06) Ben Kindel: wrist, 44 ft, xG 0.02 (P2 18:08) Connor Clifton: wrist, 23 ft, xG 0.11 (P3 0:11) Sidney Crosby: wrist, 35 ft, xG 0.08 (P3 1:36) Sidney Crosby: slap, 37 ft, xG 0.08 (P3 1:40) Bryan Rust: wrist, 39 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 2:10) Zach Werenski: wrist, 63 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 3:10) Anthony Mantha: wrist, 52 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 3:38) Connor Clifton: wrist, 42 ft, xG 0.01 (P3 4:00) Rickard Rakell: wrist, 40 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 9:02) Adam Fantilli: wrist, 10 ft, xG 0.19 (P3 9:10) Kent Johnson: wrist, 38 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 10:14) Boone Jenner: tip-in, 6 ft, xG 0.10 (P3 10:23) Charlie Coyle: wrist, 37 ft, xG 0.02 (P3 10:58) Bryan Rust: wrist, 7 ft, xG 0.16 (P3 12:49) Bryan Rust: wrist, 32 ft, xG 0.07 (P3 13:05) Brendan Gaunce: wrist, 38 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 13:13) Evgeni Malkin: wrist, 12 ft, xG 0.12 (P3 15:07) Rickard Rakell: slap, 37 ft, xG 0.08 (P3 15:14) Sidney Crosby: slap, 27 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 15:23) Danton Heinen: backhand, 6 ft, xG 0.12 (P3 15:57) Danton Heinen: wrist, 6 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 15:58) Ryan Shea: wrist, 44 ft, xG 0.04 (P3 16:44) Tommy Novak: slap, 8 ft, xG 0.15 (P3 16:57) Egor Chinakhov: wrist, 7 ft, xG 0.06 (P3 16:58) Justin Brazeau: tip-in, 17 ft, xG 0.08 (P3 17:13) Rickard Rakell: wrist, 27 ft, xG 0.03 (P3 18:48) Kent Johnson: wrist, 23 ft, xG 0.11 (P3 19:07) Ben Kindel: backhand, 9 ft, xG 0.23 (OT 0:31) Evgeni Malkin: wrist, 16 ft, xG 0.22 (OT 0:42) Evgeni Malkin: wrist, 14 ft, xG 0.05 (OT 0:43) Ben Kindel: wrist, 5 ft, xG 0.51 (OT 0:45) Charlie Coyle: wrist, 16 ft, xG 0.14 (OT 1:03) Brett Kulak: wrist, 11 ft, xG 0.13 (OT 2:08) Kirill Marchenko: wrist, 40 ft, xG 0.06 (OT 2:41) Sidney Crosby: wrist, 18 ft, xG 0.11 (OT 3:25) Tommy Novak: backhand, 10 ft, xG 0.16 (OT 4:06) Rickard Rakell: wrist, 44 ft, xG 0.04 (OT 4:40) Boone Jenner: wrist, 9 ft, xG 0.23 (OT 4:51) Zachary Aston-Reese: GOAL, wrist, 19 ft, xG 0.21 (P1 2:42) Connor Clifton: GOAL, snap, 31 ft, xG 0.11 (P1 9:59) Rickard Rakell: GOAL, snap, 14 ft, xG 0.26 (P1 17:52) Kirill Marchenko: GOAL, wrist, 29 ft, xG 0.11 (P2 7:32) Danton Heinen: GOAL, tip-in, 18 ft, xG 0.07 (P2 17:38) Sidney Crosby: GOAL, tip-in, 10 ft, xG 0.08 (P3 18:59)
About these numbers

xG comes from hockeystats.io's own model, a gradient-boosted tree model trained on every unblocked shot from the 2021-22 to 2025-26 regular seasons using the NHL's public play-by-play. Each shot's value is the share of similar shots that became goals. A team's xG is the sum over its shots; "deserve to win" asks how often the team would outscore its opponent if every shot went in at exactly that rate. Blocked shots count as attempts but have no xG (the NHL records where they were blocked, not where they were taken), so the map leaves them out.

Box score

Columbus Blue Jackets

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
22 Boone Jenner 000 -2 70.70 2121:17
19 Adam Fantilli 000 0 40.30 2220:46
3 Charlie Coyle 000 -2 30.15 2020:30
86 Kirill Marchenko 101 +1 60.30 0218:38
91 Kent Johnson 000 -1 30.16 0118:31
23 Sean Monahan 000 0 10.00 0117:59
4 Cole Sillinger 000 +1 00.00 2315:37
24 Mathieu Olivier 000 0 10.00 4114:40
58 Danton Heinen 101 +1 30.25 1110:33
50 Brendan Gaunce 011 +2 20.04 2109:25
10 Dmitri Voronkov 000 -1 10.08 2008:57
21 Zachary Aston-Reese 101 +1 20.22 5107:32
Defense
8 Zach Werenski 011 -1 60.13 0029:18
78 Damon Severson 000 0 70.28 0628:06
9 Ivan Provorov 000 0 50.16 0227:07
44 Erik Gudbranson 011 -1 10.00 2219:50
6 Egor Zamula 011 +1 20.00 0013:40
15 Dante Fabbro 000 +1 10.00 0004:34
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Elvis Merzlikins 33330 .909 4.93 +1.93

Pittsburgh Penguins

Skater GAP+/− AttxG HitBlkTOI
Forwards
87 Sidney Crosby 112 +1 90.90 2021:57
67 Rickard Rakell 101 +1 90.58 1021:55
17 Bryan Rust 000 +2 100.58 2121:55
71 Evgeni Malkin 011 +1 80.75 0220:06
81 Ben Kindel 000 0 40.77 1016:59
59 Egor Chinakhov 000 0 40.10 0015:05
18 Tommy Novak 011 0 50.45 0114:24
39 Anthony Mantha 000 +1 30.07 1013:14
16 Justin Brazeau 000 -1 30.11 0012:13
19 Connor Dewar 000 -1 00.00 0011:50
52 Noel Acciari 000 -1 40.18 1111:12
46 Blake Lizotte 000 -1 00.00 0110:09
Defense
58 Kris Letang 011 0 20.01 1125:55
27 Brett Kulak 000 -1 50.15 0221:54
6 Ryan Shea 000 0 70.07 1019:41
75 Connor Clifton 101 0 50.23 5018:13
29 Parker Wotherspoon 000 0 00.00 1316:46
6 Jack St. Ivany 000 0 10.00 1216:06
Goalie SAGA SVSV% xGA GSAx
Arturs Silovs 26323 .885 2.80 -0.20

Skaters by time on ice. Goalie lines count shots with the goalie in net, from the NHL play-by-play.

Player ratings

What each player added to the result, in goals, from most to least. Hover a number for what it's made of.

Columbus Blue Jackets

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
90 Elvis Merzlikins G +1.93 0.00 — — 0.00 — — +1.93 65:00
43 Danton Heinen L +1.78 +0.75 +0.16 +0.78 0.00 0.00 +0.09 — 10:33
78 Damon Severson D +1.28 0.00 +0.18 +0.81 0.00 0.00 +0.28 — 28:06
86 Kirill Marchenko R +1.27 +0.75 +0.20 +0.18 0.00 0.00 +0.14 — 18:38
27 Zachary Aston-Reese L +1.17 +0.75 +0.14 +0.37 -0.15 0.00 +0.05 — 7:32
6 Egor Zamula D +0.95 +0.55 0.00 +0.40 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 13:40
16 Brendan Gaunce C +0.94 +0.55 +0.03 +0.38 0.00 -0.02 +0.01 — 9:25
44 Erik Gudbranson D +0.60 +0.70 0.00 -0.22 0.00 0.00 +0.12 — 19:50
24 Mathieu Olivier R +0.29 0.00 0.00 +0.24 0.00 0.00 +0.05 — 14:40
8 Zach Werenski D +0.23 +0.70 +0.09 -0.52 0.00 0.00 -0.04 — 29:18
38 Boone Jenner C +0.18 0.00 +0.45 -0.64 +0.30 +0.01 +0.05 — 21:17
19 Adam Fantilli C +0.10 0.00 +0.20 -0.03 -0.15 -0.01 +0.10 — 20:46
9 Ivan Provorov D +0.09 0.00 +0.11 +0.03 -0.15 0.00 +0.10 — 27:07
3 Charlie Coyle C +0.08 0.00 +0.10 0.00 0.00 -0.04 +0.02 — 20:30
4 Cole Sillinger C -0.17 0.00 0.00 -0.32 0.00 0.00 +0.15 — 15:37
23 Sean Monahan C -0.20 0.00 0.00 -0.17 0.00 -0.04 +0.01 — 17:59
10 Dmitri Voronkov L -0.33 0.00 +0.05 -0.38 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 8:57
15 Dante Fabbro D -0.40 0.00 0.00 -0.40 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 4:34
91 Kent Johnson C -0.56 0.00 +0.11 -0.67 0.00 0.00 +0.01 — 18:31

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player Rating Points Shots On ice Pen FO Other GSAx TOI
87 Sidney Crosby C +2.77 +1.45 +0.59 +0.60 0.00 +0.13 0.00 — 21:57
71 Evgeni Malkin C +2.03 +0.55 +0.49 +0.94 0.00 -0.01 +0.06 — 20:06
67 Rickard Rakell R +1.52 +0.75 +0.38 +0.41 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 21:55
18 Tommy Novak C +1.50 +0.70 +0.29 +0.45 0.00 -0.01 +0.07 — 14:24
75 Connor Clifton D +1.11 +0.75 +0.15 +0.21 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 18:13
58 Kris Letang D +0.81 +0.70 0.00 -0.05 +0.15 0.00 +0.01 — 25:55
17 Bryan Rust R +0.60 0.00 +0.38 +0.19 0.00 0.00 +0.03 — 21:55
81 Ben Kindel C +0.29 0.00 +0.50 -0.44 +0.30 -0.07 0.00 — 16:59
28 Parker Wotherspoon D +0.21 0.00 0.00 +0.08 0.00 0.00 +0.13 — 16:46
5 Ryan Shea D +0.20 0.00 +0.04 +0.21 0.00 0.00 -0.06 — 19:41
59 Egor Chinakhov R +0.07 0.00 +0.06 +0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 15:05
3 Jack St. Ivany D -0.05 0.00 0.00 -0.13 0.00 0.00 +0.08 — 16:06
16 Justin Brazeau R -0.11 0.00 +0.07 -0.16 0.00 0.00 -0.02 — 12:13
39 Anthony Mantha R -0.18 0.00 +0.05 -0.25 0.00 0.00 +0.02 — 13:14
37 Arturs Silovs G -0.20 0.00 — — 0.00 — — -0.20 64:26
77 Brett Kulak D -0.21 0.00 +0.10 -0.26 -0.15 0.00 +0.10 — 21:54
55 Noel Acciari C -0.28 0.00 +0.12 -0.49 0.00 +0.05 +0.05 — 11:12
19 Connor Dewar C -0.49 0.00 0.00 -0.49 0.00 0.00 0.00 — 11:50
46 Blake Lizotte C -0.78 0.00 0.00 -0.67 -0.15 +0.01 +0.03 — 10:09

An expected-goals take on Dom Luszczyszyn's Game Score: goals and assists, the quality of a player's own shots, shot quality for and against while they were on the ice at 5v5, penalties, faceoffs and puck plays, all in goals; goalies by goals saved above expected. From the NHL play-by-play and shift charts.