Game

Penguins at Avalanche

Penguins 7, Avalanche 2 · first star Evgeni Malkin (2 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 7 at Colorado Avalanche 2

Penguins PIT

7 FINAL 2

Avalanche COL

Monday, March 16, 2026 · 9:30 PM ET · Ball Arena, Denver · TV ESPN · Prime · TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Penguins	4	2	1	7	20
Avalanche	2	0	0	2	27

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Penguins attack left, Avalanche 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 20, COL 27.

PIT in red COL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Penguins 20 shots on goal (7 goals, 8 missed, 12 blocked) attacking left; Avalanche 27 shots on goal (2 goals, 19 missed, 22 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	PIT SOG	PIT G	PIT ATT	COL SOG	COL G	COL ATT
1st	7	4	12	17	2	25
2nd	8	2	13	4	0	15
3rd	5	1	15	6	0	28
Total	20	7	40	27	2	68

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	PIT SOG	PIT G	COL SOG	COL G
Even strength	15	6	21	2
Power play	5	1	6	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Avalanche took 63.0% of the shot attempts, and 62.1% of the 87 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 Avalanche 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 Avalanche
Period	COL CF%	COL FF%
1st	67.6	70.0
2nd	53.6	44.4
3rd	65.1	65.4
Game	63.0	62.2

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

Scoring summary

1st period

03:01 Evgeni Malkin (14) Bryan Rust (28), Noel Acciari (10) · backhand 1–0
04:08 Nathan MacKinnon (45) Martin Necas (50), Cale Makar (49) · wrist 1–1
04:23 Anthony Mantha (26) Erik Karlsson (41) · backhand 2–1
13:00 Evgeni Malkin (15) Egor Chinakhov (14), Parker Wotherspoon (20) · wrist 3–1
13:43 Elmer Soderblom (3) Connor Dewar (12), Erik Karlsson (42) · snap 4–1
14:21 Brent Burns (10) Gavin Brindley (7), Josh Manson (23) · snap 4–2

2nd period

10:36 Erik Karlsson (7) Ryan Shea (24) · wrist 5–2
16:20 Bryan Rust (25) PP Evgeni Malkin (35), Rickard Rakell (19) · wrist 6–2

3rd period

09:06 Noel Acciari (9) Elmer Soderblom (2), Connor Dewar (13) · wrist 7–2

Three stars

Evgeni Malkin PIT · C #71 · 2 G, 1 A
Erik Karlsson PIT · D #65 · 1 G, 2 A
Bryan Rust PIT · R #17 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	00:48	PIT	Evgeni Malkin	tripping	2	Devon Toews
1st	05:33	PIT	Ville Koivunen	cross checking	2	Brett Kulak
1st	08:39	COL	Jack Drury	interference	2	Evgeni Malkin
2nd	03:30	PIT	Anthony Mantha	holding	2	Josh Manson
2nd	11:11	PIT	Arturs Silovs	tripping	2	Nicolas Roy
2nd	13:30	COL	Nicolas Roy	hooking	2	Ryan Shea
2nd	15:40	COL	Bench	too many men on the ice	2	—
3rd	10:59	PIT	Evgeni Malkin	roughing	2	Parker Kelly
3rd	10:59	COL	Parker Kelly	roughing	2	Evgeni Malkin
3rd	10:59	PIT	Connor Clifton	fighting (major)	5	Jack Drury
3rd	10:59	COL	Jack Drury	fighting (major)	5	Connor Clifton

Boxscore

Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Evgeni Malkin #71	C	2	1	3	+1	3	0	0	4	50.0	16:18
Erik Karlsson #65	D	1	2	3	+2	4	0	0	0	0.0	21:44
Noel Acciari #55	C	1	1	2	+3	2	0	4	0	50.0	16:36
Elmer Soderblom #25	L	1	1	2	+3	1	1	1	0	0.0	10:00
Bryan Rust #17	R	1	1	2	+1	3	0	0	0	0.0	17:05
Connor Dewar #19	C	0	2	2	+3	1	0	2	0	66.7	16:12
Anthony Mantha #39	R	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	0.0	14:57
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0.0	17:09
Rickard Rakell #67	R	0	1	1	+1	1	1	1	0	50.0	16:23
Parker Wotherspoon #28	D	0	1	1	+2	0	3	1	0	0.0	20:48
Ryan Shea #5	D	0	1	1	+1	0	1	0	0	0.0	23:39
Ben Kindel #81	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	50.0	13:57
Tommy Novak #18	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	45.5	15:29
Justin Brazeau #16	R	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.0	11:52
Ville Koivunen #41	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0.0	10:09
Connor Clifton #75	D	0	0	0	+2	0	5	1	5	0.0	16:07
Ilya Solovyov #7	D	0	0	0	+1	1	2	0	0	0.0	13:21
Kris Letang #58	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	20:14

Penguins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Arturs Silovs #37	W	27	25	2	.926	19/21	6/6	60:00

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Nathan MacKinnon #29	C	1	0	1	-1	4	0	2	0	50.0	22:39
Brent Burns #84	D	1	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	0.0	15:18
Gavin Brindley #54	C	0	1	1	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:20
Martin Necas #88	C	0	1	1	-1	2	2	0	0	0.0	24:08
Cale Makar #8	D	0	1	1	-1	4	0	2	0	0.0	21:31
Josh Manson #42	D	0	1	1	-1	1	1	2	0	0.0	16:43
Brock Nelson #11	C	0	0	0	-1	3	1	1	0	50.0	20:16
Jack Drury #18	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	7	50.0	13:31
Nazem Kadri #91	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	20:18
Nicolas Roy #10	C	0	0	0	-2	2	1	0	2	100.0	15:28
Parker Kelly #17	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	2	0.0	13:45
Zakhar Bardakov #93	C	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	0	0.0	08:10
Joel Kiviranta #94	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:03
Valeri Nichushkin #13	R	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0.0	22:40
Brett Kulak #27	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	16:45
Devon Toews #7	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	1	0	0.0	17:35
Nick Blankenburg #37	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0.0	11:10
Sam Malinski #70	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	1	0	0.0	15:00

Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Scott Wedgewood #41	L	5	2	3	.400	1/4	1/1	13:00
Mackenzie Blackwood #39	—	15	11	4	.733	8/11	3/4	47:00

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.