Game

Islanders at Penguins

Penguins 4, Islanders 3 · first star Evgeni Malkin (0 G, 3 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

New York Islanders 3 at Pittsburgh Penguins 4

Islanders NYI

3 FINAL 4

Penguins PIT

Thursday, October 9, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh · TV TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Islanders	1	2	0	3	37
Penguins	1	2	1	4	28

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Islanders attack left, Penguins attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 2 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: NYI 37, PIT 28.

NYI in red PIT in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Islanders 37 shots on goal (3 goals, 12 missed, 20 blocked) attacking left; Penguins 28 shots on goal (4 goals, 13 missed, 15 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NYI SOG	NYI G	NYI ATT	PIT SOG	PIT G	PIT ATT
1st	12	1	23	11	1	19
2nd	13	2	20	9	2	18
3rd	12	0	26	8	1	19
Total	37	3	69	28	4	56

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NYI SOG	NYI G	PIT SOG	PIT G
Even strength	27	3	23	2
Power play	7	0	5	2
Short-handed	3	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Islanders took 55.2% of the shot attempts, and 50.0% of the 92 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Penguins and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Islanders hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Islanders at Penguins
Period	PIT CF%	PIT FF%
1st	45.2	48.4
2nd	47.4	44.8
3rd	42.2	43.3
Game	44.8	45.6

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

03:23 Rickard Rakell (1) PP Evgeni Malkin (3), Sidney Crosby (1) · backhand 0–1
12:02 Jonathan Drouin (1) Matthew Schaefer (1) · snap 1–1

2nd period

04:04 Kyle Palmieri (1) Mathew Barzal (1), Scott Mayfield (1) · wrist 2–1
05:41 Harrison Brunicke (1) Filip Hallander (1), Tommy Novak (1) · snap 2–2
08:58 Sidney Crosby (1) PP Evgeni Malkin (4), Rickard Rakell (1) · tip-in 2–3
19:19 Max Shabanov (1) Simon Holmstrom (1) · snap 3–3

3rd period

14:21 Justin Brazeau (3) Evgeni Malkin (5), Anthony Mantha (2) · backhand 3–4

Three stars

Evgeni Malkin PIT · C #71 · 0 G, 3 A
Harrison Brunicke PIT · D #45 · 1 G, 0 A
Justin Brazeau PIT · R #16 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:00	NYI	Alexander Romanov	high sticking	2	Filip Hallander
1st	07:41	PIT	Noel Acciari	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
2nd	07:00	NYI	Kyle Palmieri	roughing	2	Parker Wotherspoon
2nd	07:00	PIT	Parker Wotherspoon	roughing	2	Kyle Palmieri
2nd	08:43	NYI	Bo Horvat	hooking	2	Anthony Mantha
2nd	11:40	PIT	Erik Karlsson	tripping	2	Anders Lee
2nd	13:38	NYI	Mathew Barzal	tripping	2	Ryan Shea
3rd	02:15	NYI	Simon Holmstrom	hooking	2	Harrison Brunicke
3rd	16:15	PIT	Ben Kindel	hooking	2	Adam Pelech
3rd	19:45	NYI	Jonathan Drouin	cross checking (major)	5	Connor Dewar
3rd	19:45	NYI	Jonathan Drouin	game misconduct	10	—

Boxscore

New York Islanders

Islanders skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Kyle Palmieri #21	C	1	0	1	0	8	0	0	2	0.0	20:39
Jonathan Drouin #29	L	1	0	1	+1	1	0	0	15	0.0	19:47
Max Shabanov #49	R	1	0	1	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	09:45
Mathew Barzal #13	C	0	1	1	0	4	0	1	2	70.0	21:01
Simon Holmstrom #10	R	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	2	0.0	11:50
Matthew Schaefer #48	D	0	1	1	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	17:15
Scott Mayfield #24	D	0	1	1	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	15:30
Bo Horvat #14	C	0	0	0	+1	7	2	0	2	62.1	21:16
Casey Cizikas #53	C	0	0	0	-1	1	2	2	0	46.7	12:33
Jean-Gabriel Pageau #44	C	0	0	0	+1	1	3	1	0	60.0	13:21
Anders Lee #27	L	0	0	0	0	4	3	1	0	0.0	16:47
Anthony Duclair #11	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	2	0	0.0	11:19
Emil Heineman #51	L	0	0	0	+1	0	2	1	0	100.0	13:12
Maxim Tsyplakov #7	R	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	10:59
Adam Pelech #3	D	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	18:05
Alexander Romanov #28	D	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	2	0.0	20:24
Ryan Pulock #6	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	18:04
Tony DeAngelo #77	D	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0.0	23:35

Islanders goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Ilya Sorokin #30	L	28	24	4	.857	21/23	3/5	57:45

Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Evgeni Malkin #71	C	0	3	3	0	4	0	0	0	36.4	18:11
Sidney Crosby #87	C	1	1	2	-1	1	2	2	0	46.7	19:30
Rickard Rakell #67	R	1	1	2	0	2	2	2	0	0.0	20:01
Justin Brazeau #16	R	1	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	11:22
Harrison Brunicke #45	D	1	0	1	+1	3	1	0	0	0.0	12:43
Filip Hallander #11	C	0	1	1	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	12:36
Tommy Novak #18	C	0	1	1	-1	2	2	1	0	0.0	10:04
Anthony Mantha #39	R	0	1	1	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	13:30
Ben Kindel #81	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	50.0	13:06
Blake Lizotte #46	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	14.3	16:12
Connor Dewar #19	C	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	100.0	13:27
Noel Acciari #55	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	55.6	13:10
Ville Koivunen #41	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	12:21
Caleb Jones #82	D	0	0	0	+1	0	2	1	0	0.0	15:21
Erik Karlsson #65	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	2	0.0	20:34
Kris Letang #58	D	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	0	0.0	26:50
Parker Wotherspoon #28	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	1	2	0.0	20:53
Ryan Shea #5	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	22:45

Penguins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Tristan Jarry #35	W	37	34	3	.919	24/27	7/7	59:24

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.