Game

Penguins at Canucks

Penguins 3, Canucks 2 · first star Ben Kindel (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 3 at Vancouver Canucks 2

Penguins PIT

3 FINAL 2

Canucks VAN

Sunday, January 25, 2026 · 6:00 PM ET · Rogers Arena, Vancouver · TV SN · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Penguins	0	3	0	3	25
Canucks	0	0	2	2	32

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Penguins attack left, Canucks 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 25, VAN 32.

PIT in red VAN in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Penguins 25 shots on goal (3 goals, 17 missed, 14 blocked) attacking left; Canucks 32 shots on goal (2 goals, 20 missed, 16 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	PIT SOG	PIT G	PIT ATT	VAN SOG	VAN G	VAN ATT
1st	8	0	18	8	0	15
2nd	13	3	24	10	0	24
3rd	4	0	14	14	2	29
Total	25	3	56	32	2	68

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	PIT SOG	PIT G	VAN SOG	VAN G
Even strength	25	3	28	2
Power play	0	0	4	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Canucks took 54.8% of the shot attempts, and 49.5% of the 109 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 Canucks 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 Canucks
Period	VAN CF%	VAN FF%
1st	45.5	50.0
2nd	50.0	47.4
3rd	67.4	66.7
Game	54.8	55.3

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

Scoring summary

2nd period

05:24 Evgeni Malkin (13) Tommy Novak (19), Egor Chinakhov (5) · wrist 1–0
08:41 Ben Kindel (9) Ryan Shea (17), Anthony Mantha (19) · tip-in 2–0
17:22 Ben Kindel (10) Justin Brazeau (11), Brett Kulak (6) · slap 3–0

3rd period

06:29 Jake DeBrusk (13) Elias Pettersson (18), Evander Kane (15) · backhand 3–1
14:00 Teddy Blueger (3) Liam Ohgren (3), Filip Hronek (26) · deflected 3–2

Three stars

Ben Kindel PIT · C #81 · 2 G, 0 A
Jake DeBrusk VAN · L #74 · 1 G, 0 A
Evgeni Malkin PIT · C #71 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
2nd	01:57	PIT	Anthony Mantha	elbowing	2	Liam Ohgren
3rd	20:00	PIT	Bryan Rust	illegal check to head	2	Brock Boeser

Boxscore

Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ben Kindel #81	C	2	0	2	+2	5	0	1	0	60.0	13:28
Evgeni Malkin #71	C	1	0	1	+1	5	0	1	0	50.0	16:01
Tommy Novak #18	C	0	1	1	+1	1	0	0	0	27.3	14:35
Anthony Mantha #39	R	0	1	1	+1	0	2	0	2	0.0	12:29
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	0	1	1	+1	0	1	0	0	0.0	16:33
Justin Brazeau #16	R	0	1	1	+2	1	3	0	0	0.0	11:39
Brett Kulak #77	D	0	1	1	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	24:04
Ryan Shea #5	D	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	19:27
Blake Lizotte #46	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	60.0	13:58
Connor Dewar #19	C	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	0.0	13:55
Noel Acciari #55	C	0	0	0	-1	2	2	0	0	50.0	13:56
Sidney Crosby #87	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	70.6	16:43
Bryan Rust #17	R	0	0	0	-1	2	2	1	2	0.0	17:53
Rickard Rakell #67	R	0	0	0	-1	0	5	1	0	0.0	16:20
Erik Karlsson #65	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	23:57
Jack St. Ivany #3	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	02:54
Kris Letang #58	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0.0	26:28
Parker Wotherspoon #28	D	0	0	0	+1	1	3	5	0	0.0	23:40

Penguins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Stuart Skinner #74	W	32	30	2	.938	26/28	4/4	60:00

Vancouver Canucks

Canucks skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	FO%	TOI
Teddy Blueger #53	C	1	0	1	+1	3	5	0	42.9	15:31
Jake DeBrusk #74	L	1	0	1	0	5	3	1	0.0	15:54
Elias Pettersson #40	C	0	1	1	-1	1	5	2	35.3	18:32
Evander Kane #91	L	0	1	1	-1	3	0	0	100.0	16:21
Liam Ohgren #92	L	0	1	1	+1	0	0	2	0.0	16:05
Filip Hronek #17	D	0	1	1	+2	1	1	1	0.0	26:57
Filip Chytil #72	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	50.0	16:59
Linus Karlsson #94	C	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0.0	11:28
Max Sasson #63	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	25.0	09:39
Drew O'Connor #18	L	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	0.0	18:40
Nils Hoglander #21	L	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0.0	09:11
Brock Boeser #6	R	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	100.0	18:10
Conor Garland #8	R	0	0	0	+1	4	1	1	0.0	17:03
Elias Pettersson #25	D	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0.0	17:26
Marcus Pettersson #29	D	0	0	0	+1	0	2	2	0.0	22:26
Pierre-Olivier Joseph #7	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0.0	15:05
Tyler Myers #57	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0.0	20:42
Zeev Buium #24	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	1	0.0	15:41

Canucks goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Kevin Lankinen #32	L	25	22	3	.880	22/25	0/0	58:10

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.