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Penguins at Flames

Penguins 4, Flames 1 · first star Evgeni Malkin (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 4 at Calgary Flames 1

Wednesday, January 21, 2026 · 9:30 PM ET · Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary · TV SNW · SN1 · TVAS

Line score by period
Team 1 2 3 T SOG
Penguins 112425
Flames 010119

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Penguins attack left, Flames 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 25, CGY 19.

Shot chart, Penguins at Flames Penguins 25 shots on goal (4 goals, 17 missed, 12 blocked) attacking left; Flames 19 shots on goal (1 goal, 21 missed, 19 blocked) attacking right.
PIT in red CGY in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Penguins 25 shots on goal (4 goals, 17 missed, 12 blocked) attacking left; Flames 19 shots on goal (1 goal, 21 missed, 19 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period PIT SOG PIT G PIT ATT CGY SOG CGY G CGY ATT
1st111215021
2nd81209125
3rd62135013
Total2545419159

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation PIT SOG PIT G CGY SOG CGY G
Even strength244171
Power play1020
Short-handed0000

Attempt share by period

Flames took 52.2% of the shot attempts, and 51.9% of the 108 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 Flames 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 Flames
Period CGY CF% CGY FF%
1st50.048.4
2nd55.653.1
3rd50.042.1
Game52.248.8

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

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Scoring summary

1st period

  1. 07:49 PIT Evgeni Malkin (11) Ryan Shea (15), Jack St. Ivany (4) · tip-in 1–0

2nd period

  1. 12:32 PIT Egor Chinakhov (7) Tommy Novak (17), Evgeni Malkin (26) · snap 2–0
  2. 19:57 CGY Yegor Sharangovich (11) Zach Whitecloud (6), Kevin Bahl (9) · tip-in 2–1

3rd period

  1. 00:50 PIT Bryan Rust (18) Sidney Crosby (30), Rickard Rakell (13) · wrap-around 3–1
  2. 09:19 PIT Tommy Novak (9) Jack St. Ivany (5) · backhand 4–1

Three stars

  1. Evgeni Malkin PIT · C #71 · 1 G, 1 A
  2. Tommy Novak PIT · C #18 · 1 G, 1 A
  3. Jack St. Ivany PIT · D #3 · 0 G, 2 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period Time Team Player Infraction Min Drawn by
1st02:29 CGY Ryan Lomberghooking2Connor Dewar
3rd01:04 PIT Tommy Novaktripping2Matvei Gridin

Boxscore

Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins skaters · by points
Player Pos G A PTS +/- SOG HITS BLK PIM FO% TOI
Evgeni Malkin #71 C112+331100.015:26
Tommy Novak #18 C112+3201218.214:13
Jack St. Ivany #3 D022+211200.016:55
Bryan Rust #17 R101031100.017:14
Egor Chinakhov #59 R101+3201033.314:35
Sidney Crosby #87 C0110101052.616:23
Rickard Rakell #67 R011031100.016:18
Ryan Shea #5 D011+240100.019:47
Ben Kindel #81 C0000000037.514:33
Blake Lizotte #46 C0000010060.013:57
Connor Dewar #19 C000023000.014:13
Noel Acciari #55 C0000022057.113:28
Anthony Mantha #39 R0000110050.015:06
Justin Brazeau #16 R000020000.014:32
Brett Kulak #77 D000001100.021:39
Connor Clifton #75 D000011100.019:06
Parker Wotherspoon #28 D000+103100.022:14
Ryan Graves #27 D000+101300.018:21
Penguins goalies
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% EV PP TOI
Stuart Skinner #74 W19181.94716/172/260:00

Calgary Flames

Flames skaters · by points
Player Pos G A PTS +/- SOG HITS BLK PIM FO% TOI
Yegor Sharangovich #17 C101030100.017:58
Kevin Bahl #7 D011-110100.025:12
Zach Whitecloud #28 D011020000.023:34
Connor Zary #47 C000-120000.015:26
Justin Kirkland #23 C000+1020066.709:51
Martin Pospisil #76 C000-2051050.012:51
Mikael Backlund #11 C000-1100052.217:50
Morgan Frost #16 C000-1000075.013:26
Nazem Kadri #91 C000-2230052.619:37
Joel Farabee #86 L000-200000.016:05
Ryan Lomberg #70 L000012120.013:00
Adam Klapka #43 R000005100.014:05
Matt Coronato #27 R000030000.018:02
Matvei Gridin #92 R000-120000.011:25
Hunter Brzustewicz #48 D000-110100.015:55
Joel Hanley #44 D000-102000.015:16
MacKenzie Weegar #52 D000-203200.020:33
Yan Kuznetsov #37 D000-112300.017:54
Flames goalies
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% EV PP TOI
Dustin Wolf #32 L25214.84020/241/160:00

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.