Game

Penguins at Blue Jackets

Penguins 4, Blue Jackets 3 in overtime · first star Sidney Crosby (2 G, 0 A).

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

Pittsburgh Penguins 4 at Columbus Blue Jackets 3

Penguins PIT

4 FINAL/OT 3

Blue Jackets CBJ

Friday, November 28, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Nationwide Arena, Columbus · TV NHLN · SN · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Penguins	1	0	2	1	4	24
Blue Jackets	1	2	0	0	3	29

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Penguins attack left, Blue Jackets 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: PIT 24, CBJ 29.

PIT in red CBJ in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Penguins 24 shots on goal (4 goals, 17 missed, 15 blocked) attacking left; Blue Jackets 29 shots on goal (3 goals, 12 missed, 22 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	PIT SOG	PIT G	PIT ATT	CBJ SOG	CBJ G	CBJ ATT
1st	8	1	18	8	1	23
2nd	7	0	20	13	2	22
3rd	8	2	17	8	0	18
OT	1	1	1	0	0	0
Total	24	4	56	29	3	63

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	PIT SOG	PIT G	CBJ SOG	CBJ G
Even strength	23	4	22	2
Power play	1	0	5	0
Short-handed	0	0	2	1

Attempt share by period

Blue Jackets took 52.9% of the shot attempts, and 50.5% of the 99 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 Blue Jackets and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Penguins hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Penguins at Blue Jackets
Period	CBJ CF%	CBJ FF%
1st	56.1	46.4
2nd	52.4	56.7
3rd	51.4	47.8
OT	0.0	0.0
Game	52.9	50.0

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

Scoring summary

1st period

06:10 Sidney Crosby (14) Kris Letang (8) · tip-in 1–0
13:40 Sean Monahan (3) Brendan Smith (1), Damon Severson (7) · wrist 1–1

2nd period

03:51 Brendan Gaunce (1) SH Miles Wood (2), Zach Werenski (15) · tip-in 1–2
19:56 Zach Werenski (9) Charlie Coyle (12) · slap 1–3

3rd period

00:13 Bryan Rust (7) Erik Karlsson (14) · snap 2–3
08:28 Sidney Crosby (15) Tommy Novak (6), Parker Wotherspoon (7) · snap 3–3

Overtime

00:59 Kris Letang (2) Tommy Novak (7) · snap 4–3

Three stars

Sidney Crosby PIT · C #87 · 2 G, 0 A
Kris Letang PIT · D #58 · 1 G, 1 A
Zach Werenski CBJ · D #8 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	02:25	CBJ	Zachary Aston-Reese	high sticking	2	Parker Wotherspoon
1st	18:23	PIT	Kevin Hayes	holding	2	Charlie Coyle
2nd	02:46	CBJ	Kent Johnson	tripping	2	Kevin Hayes
2nd	07:12	PIT	Evgeni Malkin	tripping	2	Zach Werenski

Boxscore

Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Sidney Crosby #87	C	2	0	2	+1	3	2	0	0	54.5	19:10
Kris Letang #58	D	1	1	2	0	3	2	0	0	0.0	22:33
Tommy Novak #18	C	0	2	2	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	16:42
Bryan Rust #17	R	1	0	1	+2	5	0	0	0	0.0	20:07
Erik Karlsson #65	D	0	1	1	+1	2	1	1	0	0.0	22:13
Parker Wotherspoon #28	D	0	1	1	+1	1	8	3	0	0.0	23:14
Ben Kindel #81	C	0	0	0	-2	0	0	3	0	30.0	12:17
Blake Lizotte #46	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	57.1	13:18
Connor Dewar #19	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	12:16
Evgeni Malkin #71	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	2	50.0	18:46
Danton Heinen #43	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	10:23
Joona Koppanen #15	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	33.3	12:24
Anthony Mantha #39	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	17:57
Kevin Hayes #13	R	0	0	0	+1	2	1	0	2	75.0	18:06
Ville Koivunen #41	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	11:40
Mathew Dumba #24	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	3	0	0.0	14:14
Ryan Graves #27	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0.0	15:19
Ryan Shea #5	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	3	0	0.0	19:41

Penguins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Tristan Jarry #35	W	29	26	3	.897	20/22	5/5	59:36

Columbus Blue Jackets

Blue Jackets skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Zach Werenski #8	D	1	1	2	-1	2	0	2	0	0.0	26:06
Brendan Gaunce #16	C	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	57.1	09:59
Sean Monahan #23	C	1	0	1	+1	4	0	0	0	68.8	19:01
Charlie Coyle #3	C	0	1	1	-2	0	2	0	0	50.0	18:30
Miles Wood #11	L	0	1	1	-2	3	2	0	0	0.0	16:00
Brendan Smith #7	D	0	1	1	+1	2	1	1	0	0.0	13:54
Damon Severson #78	D	0	1	1	+1	1	1	1	0	0.0	19:07
Adam Fantilli #19	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	37.5	18:08
Cole Sillinger #4	C	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	18:01
Isac Lundeström #21	C	0	0	0	-2	2	0	1	0	0.0	16:02
Kent Johnson #91	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0.0	12:46
Luca Pinelli #53	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	18:00
Dmitri Voronkov #10	L	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	14:42
Zachary Aston-Reese #27	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	100.0	07:23
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	0	0	0	0	1	4	1	0	0.0	09:16
Dante Fabbro #15	D	0	0	0	0	3	3	1	0	0.0	16:23
Denton Mateychuk #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.0	19:13
Ivan Provorov #9	D	0	0	0	-2	2	0	1	0	0.0	26:29

Blue Jackets goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jet Greaves #73	O	24	20	4	.833	19/23	1/1	60:56

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.