Game

Penguins at Blue Jackets

Penguins 5, Blue Jackets 4 in overtime · first star Sidney Crosby (1 G, 1 A).

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

Pittsburgh Penguins 5 at Columbus Blue Jackets 4

Penguins PIT

5 FINAL/OT 4

Blue Jackets CBJ

Sunday, January 4, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET · Nationwide Arena, Columbus · TV SNW · SN1

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Penguins	1	1	2	1	5	43
Blue Jackets	3	1	0	0	4	25

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 a mark in a team's own end would be an attempt logged from there (none in this game). Boxscore shots on goal: PIT 43, CBJ 25.

PIT in red CBJ in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Penguins 43 shots on goal (5 goals, 24 missed, 25 blocked) attacking left; Blue Jackets 25 shots on goal (4 goals, 12 missed, 16 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	9	1	25	12	3	26
2nd	21	1	35	6	1	13
3rd	11	2	30	7	0	13
OT	2	1	2	0	0	1
Total	43	5	92	25	4	53

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	38	4	22	4
Power play	5	1	0	0
Short-handed	0	0	3	0

Attempt share by period

Penguins took 63.5% of the shot attempts, and 62.6% of the 123 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	51.0	51.4
2nd	27.1	22.9
3rd	30.2	31.0
OT	33.3	33.3
Game	36.5	35.6

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

Scoring summary

1st period

01:50 Ville Koivunen (2) Ben Kindel (9), Jack St. Ivany (3) · snap 1–0
08:21 Dmitri Voronkov (15) Denton Mateychuk (12) · tip-in 1–1
08:48 Mason Marchment (9) Adam Fantilli (14), Kirill Marchenko (18) · backhand 1–2
18:38 Kirill Marchenko (15) Zach Werenski (29), Denton Mateychuk (13) · snap 1–3

2nd period

00:47 Zach Werenski (15) Boone Jenner (13), Mathieu Olivier (7) · snap 1–4
16:51 Noel Acciari (4) Connor Dewar (7) · wrist 2–4

3rd period

03:28 Tommy Novak (8) PP Ben Kindel (10) · slap 3–4
19:46 Rickard Rakell (6) Anthony Mantha (15), Sidney Crosby (23) · snap 4–4

Overtime

02:22 Sidney Crosby (24) Erik Karlsson (28), Egor Chinakhov (4) · backhand 5–4

Three stars

Sidney Crosby PIT · C #87 · 1 G, 1 A
Zach Werenski CBJ · D #8 · 1 G, 1 A
Rickard Rakell PIT · R #67 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	09:14	CBJ	Ivan Provorov	tripping	2	Blake Lizotte
2nd	13:37	CBJ	Adam Fantilli	cross checking	2	Blake Lizotte
3rd	02:06	CBJ	Dmitri Voronkov	tripping	2	Egor Chinakhov

Boxscore

Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	FO%	TOI
Sidney Crosby #87	C	1	1	2	+1	3	1	0	50.0	24:34
Ben Kindel #81	C	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	76.9	14:01
Noel Acciari #55	C	1	0	1	0	3	2	0	54.5	12:43
Tommy Novak #18	C	1	0	1	-1	3	0	0	20.0	13:29
Rickard Rakell #67	R	1	0	1	0	5	4	2	0.0	24:14
Ville Koivunen #41	R	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	100.0	11:28
Connor Dewar #19	C	0	1	1	0	2	2	0	0.0	13:18
Anthony Mantha #39	R	0	1	1	0	2	1	1	0.0	15:23
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0.0	12:38
Erik Karlsson #65	D	0	1	1	+2	4	0	2	0.0	25:46
Jack St. Ivany #3	D	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0.0	15:06
Blake Lizotte #46	C	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	20.0	13:54
Bryan Rust #17	R	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	0.0	22:46
Justin Brazeau #16	R	0	0	0	-1	3	1	0	0.0	13:07
Brett Kulak #77	D	0	0	0	-2	2	0	2	0.0	18:06
Kris Letang #58	D	0	0	0	-1	3	0	2	0.0	23:17
Parker Wotherspoon #28	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.0	18:43
Ryan Shea #5	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	16:14

Penguins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Arturs Silovs #37	W	25	21	4	.840	18/22	0/0	60:41

Columbus Blue Jackets

Blue Jackets skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Kirill Marchenko #86	R	1	1	2	+1	4	0	1	0	0.0	16:45
Zach Werenski #8	D	1	1	2	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	25:54
Denton Mateychuk #5	D	0	2	2	+3	2	0	2	0	0.0	25:01
Dmitri Voronkov #10	L	1	0	1	-1	2	3	1	2	0.0	10:07
Mason Marchment #17	L	1	0	1	+1	3	2	0	0	50.0	16:00
Adam Fantilli #19	C	0	1	1	+1	3	1	0	2	37.5	17:37
Boone Jenner #38	C	0	1	1	+1	0	3	0	0	16.7	20:49
Mathieu Olivier #24	R	0	1	1	+1	2	5	0	0	0.0	19:14
Brendan Gaunce #16	C	0	0	0	-1	3	1	1	0	64.3	14:13
Charlie Coyle #3	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	52.9	22:08
Cole Sillinger #4	C	0	0	0	-2	0	1	2	0	44.4	12:35
Kent Johnson #91	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	09:48
Danton Heinen #43	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0.0	10:42
Zachary Aston-Reese #27	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	09:10
Damon Severson #78	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	21:14
Dante Fabbro #15	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	2	0	0.0	14:37
Ivan Provorov #9	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	2	0.0	28:44
Jake Christiansen #2	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	0.0	07:06

Blue Jackets goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jet Greaves #73	O	43	38	5	.884	34/38	4/5	62:22

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.