Game

Penguins at Red Wings

Penguins 4, Red Wings 1 · first star Egor Chinakhov (1 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 Detroit Red Wings 1

Penguins PIT

4 FINAL 1

Red Wings DET

Saturday, January 3, 2026 · 12:00 PM ET · Little Caesars Arena, Detroit · TV ABC · SN · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Penguins	2	0	2	4	31
Red Wings	0	1	0	1	12

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Penguins attack left, Red Wings 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; 2 empty-net goals are drawn as diamonds. Boxscore shots on goal: PIT 31, DET 12.

PIT in red DET in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Penguins 31 shots on goal (4 goals, 12 missed, 14 blocked) attacking left; Red Wings 12 shots on goal (1 goal, 16 missed, 14 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	PIT SOG	PIT G	PIT ATT	DET SOG	DET G	DET ATT
1st	10	2	15	5	0	21
2nd	9	0	18	4	1	15
3rd	12	2	24	3	0	6
Total	31	4	57	12	1	42

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	PIT SOG	PIT G	DET SOG	DET G
Even strength	29	4	10	1
Power play	1	0	2	0
Short-handed	1	0	0	0
Into an empty net	2	2	0	0

Attempt share by period

Penguins took 57.6% of the shot attempts, and 54.1% of the 85 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 Red Wings 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 Red Wings
Period	DET CF%	DET FF%
1st	58.3	51.9
2nd	45.5	45.5
3rd	20.0	18.2
Game	42.4	39.4

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

Scoring summary

1st period

03:44 Bryan Rust (16) Sidney Crosby (21), Parker Wotherspoon (12) · wrist 1–0
17:30 Egor Chinakhov (4) Ben Kindel (8), Parker Wotherspoon (13) · wrist 2–0

2nd period

15:06 Alex DeBrincat (22) Unassisted · snap 2–1

3rd period

19:00 Rickard Rakell (5) EN Sidney Crosby (22), Brett Kulak (4) · wrist 3–1
19:28 Connor Dewar (7) EN Blake Lizotte (5), Kris Letang (18) · wrist 4–1

Three stars

Egor Chinakhov PIT · R #59 · 1 G, 0 A
Alex DeBrincat DET · R #93 · 1 G, 0 A
Bryan Rust PIT · R #17 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	07:45	PIT	Brett Kulak	holding	2	Andrew Copp
1st	08:47	DET	Moritz Seider	high sticking	2	Connor Dewar
2nd	16:41	PIT	Tommy Novak	hooking	2	Emmitt Finnie
3rd	00:34	DET	Simon Edvinsson	hooking	2	Sidney Crosby

Boxscore

Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Sidney Crosby #87	C	0	2	2	+2	1	0	0	0	58.8	18:17
Parker Wotherspoon #28	D	0	2	2	+2	1	2	0	0	0.0	18:49
Connor Dewar #19	C	1	0	1	+1	3	1	0	0	0.0	14:40
Bryan Rust #17	R	1	0	1	+2	5	2	1	0	0.0	18:56
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	1	0	1	0	3	1	1	0	0.0	12:26
Rickard Rakell #67	R	1	0	1	+2	6	2	2	0	0.0	19:02
Ben Kindel #81	C	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	80.0	13:36
Blake Lizotte #46	C	0	1	1	+1	0	1	0	0	42.9	15:12
Brett Kulak #77	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	4	2	0.0	20:13
Kris Letang #58	D	0	1	1	+1	1	2	2	0	0.0	22:26
Noel Acciari #55	C	0	0	0	+1	2	0	1	0	57.1	14:02
Tommy Novak #18	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	62.5	13:07
Anthony Mantha #39	R	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0.0	13:43
Justin Brazeau #16	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	13:00
Rutger McGroarty #2	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	12:25
Erik Karlsson #65	D	0	0	0	+2	0	1	0	0	0.0	20:59
Jack St. Ivany #3	D	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	0.0	16:38
Ryan Shea #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0.0	18:29

Penguins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Stuart Skinner #74	W	12	11	1	.917	9/10	2/2	60:00

Detroit Red Wings

Red Wings skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Alex DeBrincat #93	R	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	0.0	17:45
Andrew Copp #18	C	0	0	-2	1	2	1	0	54.5	16:52
Dylan Larkin #71	C	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	37.5	18:49
Emmitt Finnie #58	C	0	0	-3	1	0	0	0	100.0	15:05
Marco Kasper #92	C	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	25.0	13:06
Mason Appleton #22	C	0	0	0	2	5	0	0	0.0	14:54
Michael Rasmussen #27	C	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	0.0	13:32
Nate Danielson #29	C	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	33.3	11:52
J.T. Compher #37	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	45.5	14:01
James van Riemsdyk #21	L	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	11:22
Lucas Raymond #23	L	0	0	-2	0	1	0	0	0.0	17:34
Patrick Kane #88	R	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	16:45
Albert Johansson #20	D	0	0	-1	0	0	1	0	0.0	15:18
Axel Sandin-Pellikka #44	D	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	17:03
Ben Chiarot #8	D	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0.0	21:35
Jacob Bernard-Docker #25	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0.0	13:48
Moritz Seider #53	D	0	0	-2	0	4	2	2	0.0	26:59
Simon Edvinsson #77	D	0	0	-2	0	0	1	2	0.0	21:24

Red Wings goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
John Gibson #36	L	29	27	2	.931	25/27	1/1	58:16

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.