Game

Penguins at Hurricanes

Hurricanes 6, Penguins 5 in overtime · first star Jackson Blake (1 G, 2 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 Carolina Hurricanes 6

Penguins PIT

5 FINAL/OT 6

Hurricanes CAR

Wednesday, March 18, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Lenovo Center, Raleigh · TV TVAS2

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	OT	T	SOG
Penguins	0	1	4	0	5	35
Hurricanes	1	1	3	1	6	44

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Penguins attack left, Hurricanes attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 3 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 35, CAR 44.

PIT in red CAR in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Penguins 35 shots on goal (5 goals, 7 missed, 10 blocked) attacking left; Hurricanes 44 shots on goal (6 goals, 21 missed, 17 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	PIT SOG	PIT G	PIT ATT	CAR SOG	CAR G	CAR ATT
1st	12	0	19	15	1	31
2nd	7	1	11	14	1	24
3rd	13	4	19	14	3	26
OT	3	0	3	1	1	1
Total	35	5	52	44	6	82

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	PIT SOG	PIT G	CAR SOG	CAR G
Even strength	30	4	38	4
Power play	5	1	2	1
Short-handed	0	0	4	1

Attempt share by period

Hurricanes took 61.2% of the shot attempts, and 64.3% of the 115 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 Hurricanes 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 Hurricanes
Period	CAR CF%	CAR FF%
1st	62.0	64.1
2nd	68.6	67.9
3rd	57.8	55.6
OT	25.0	25.0
Game	61.2	60.8

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

Scoring summary

1st period

09:34 Jordan Martinook (10) SH Jordan Staal (13), Jaccob Slavin (4) · wrist 0–1

2nd period

09:57 Sidney Crosby (28) Rickard Rakell (20), Erik Karlsson (43) · backhand 1–1
16:51 Jackson Blake (20) Taylor Hall (23), Nikolaj Ehlers (34) · backhand 1–2

3rd period

00:59 Erik Karlsson (8) PP Rickard Rakell (21), Evgeni Malkin (36) · slap 2–2
03:27 Taylor Hall (15) Jackson Blake (22), Logan Stankoven (18) · backhand 2–3
07:16 Bryan Rust (26) Unassisted · backhand 3–3
12:59 Logan Stankoven (14) PP Nikolaj Ehlers (35), Jackson Blake (23) · snap 3–4
14:46 Erik Karlsson (9) Parker Wotherspoon (21), Sidney Crosby (33) · snap 4–4
15:09 Ben Kindel (17) Anthony Mantha (27), Ilya Solovyov (7) · snap 5–4
17:09 K'Andre Miller (5) Sean Walker (16), Nikolaj Ehlers (36) · snap 5–5

Overtime

04:31 Sean Walker (7) Sebastian Aho (45), Seth Jarvis (26) · slap 5–6

Three stars

Jackson Blake CAR · R #53 · 1 G, 2 A
Nikolaj Ehlers CAR · L #27 · 0 G, 3 A
Sean Walker CAR · D #26 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	09:24	CAR	Mark Jankowski	holding	2	Elmer Soderblom
2nd	11:55	CAR	K'Andre Miller	hooking	2	Evgeni Malkin
2nd	14:47	PIT	Parker Wotherspoon	tripping	2	Taylor Hall
2nd	19:28	CAR	Andrei Svechnikov	holding the stick	2	Sidney Crosby
2nd	19:28	CAR	Andrei Svechnikov	unsportsmanlike conduct	2	Sidney Crosby
2nd	19:28	PIT	Sidney Crosby	roughing	2	Andrei Svechnikov
3rd	00:29	CAR	Jordan Staal	tripping	2	Evgeni Malkin
3rd	12:17	PIT	Sidney Crosby	tripping	2	Sebastian Aho

Boxscore

Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Erik Karlsson #65	D	2	1	3	0	4	0	1	0	0.0	24:02
Sidney Crosby #87	C	1	1	2	0	4	2	1	4	66.7	18:33
Rickard Rakell #67	R	0	2	2	+2	1	1	0	0	0.0	20:46
Ben Kindel #81	C	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	40.0	14:36
Bryan Rust #17	R	1	0	1	+2	5	0	0	0	0.0	18:33
Evgeni Malkin #71	C	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	50.0	21:43
Anthony Mantha #39	R	0	1	1	-1	4	1	0	0	0.0	17:24
Ilya Solovyov #7	D	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	12:39
Parker Wotherspoon #28	D	0	1	1	+1	0	2	1	2	0.0	18:54
Connor Dewar #19	C	0	0	0	-1	3	5	1	0	0.0	12:53
Noel Acciari #55	C	0	0	0	-2	5	1	1	0	40.0	13:18
Tommy Novak #18	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	42.9	17:44
Elmer Soderblom #25	L	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	0.0	09:59
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	0.0	16:49
Justin Brazeau #16	R	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	10:57
Connor Clifton #75	D	0	0	0	+1	0	3	4	0	0.0	14:34
Kris Letang #58	D	0	0	0	-2	1	1	2	0	0.0	25:28
Ryan Shea #5	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	0	0.0	21:59

Penguins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Stuart Skinner #74	O	44	38	6	.864	34/38	1/2	64:31

Carolina Hurricanes

Hurricanes skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jackson Blake #53	R	1	2	3	+1	3	0	1	0	0.0	18:06
Nikolaj Ehlers #27	L	0	3	3	+2	1	1	0	0	0.0	17:50
Logan Stankoven #22	C	1	1	2	+2	5	1	0	0	57.1	15:19
Taylor Hall #71	L	1	1	2	+1	3	1	0	0	50.0	15:38
Sean Walker #26	D	1	1	2	+2	7	2	1	0	0.0	22:17
Jordan Martinook #48	L	1	0	1	+2	5	2	0	0	0.0	16:38
K'Andre Miller #19	D	1	0	1	+3	1	3	2	2	0.0	25:19
Jordan Staal #11	C	0	1	1	+1	0	4	2	2	59.1	18:00
Sebastian Aho #20	C	0	1	1	-2	5	2	0	0	43.8	20:56
Seth Jarvis #24	R	0	1	1	-2	5	1	0	0	0.0	20:03
Jaccob Slavin #74	D	0	1	1	-2	2	0	1	0	0.0	23:52
Eric Robinson #50	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	07:55
Mark Jankowski #77	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	54.5	08:39
William Carrier #28	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	06:51
Andrei Svechnikov #37	R	0	0	0	-3	0	3	0	4	0.0	18:02
Alexander Nikishin #21	D	0	0	0	-1	3	1	0	0	0.0	16:20
Jalen Chatfield #5	D	0	0	0	-2	0	2	1	0	0.0	20:43
Mike Reilly #6	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	13:34

Hurricanes goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Frederik Andersen #31	W	35	30	5	.857	26/30	4/5	64:31

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.