Game

Penguins at Lightning

Lightning 6, Penguins 3 · first star Anthony Cirelli (3 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 Tampa Bay Lightning 6

Penguins PIT

3 FINAL 6

Lightning TBL

Thursday, April 2, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Benchmark International Arena, Tampa

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Penguins	2	0	1	3	24
Lightning	1	3	2	6	33

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Penguins attack left, Lightning attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 1 mark in a team's own end is an attempt logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: PIT 24, TBL 33.

PIT in red TBL in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Penguins 24 shots on goal (3 goals, 12 missed, 10 blocked) attacking left; Lightning 33 shots on goal (6 goals, 15 missed, 19 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	PIT SOG	PIT G	PIT ATT	TBL SOG	TBL G	TBL ATT
1st	11	2	15	11	1	22
2nd	8	0	18	9	3	25
3rd	5	1	13	13	2	20
Total	24	3	46	33	6	67

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	PIT SOG	PIT G	TBL SOG	TBL G
Even strength	21	2	29	5
Power play	2	1	1	0
Short-handed	1	0	3	1
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Lightning took 59.3% of the shot attempts, and 58.1% of the 93 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 Lightning 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 Lightning
Period	TBL CF%	TBL FF%
1st	59.5	53.3
2nd	58.1	53.6
3rd	60.6	65.4
Game	59.3	57.1

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

Scoring summary

1st period

05:06 Anthony Cirelli (21) Gage Goncalves (19) · snap 0–1
07:01 Rickard Rakell (21) Samuel Girard (13), Kris Letang (29) · snap 1–1
16:10 Egor Chinakhov (19) Bryan Rust (35), Samuel Girard (14) · backhand 2–1

2nd period

00:11 Anthony Cirelli (22) SH Unassisted · backhand 2–2
14:08 Brayden Point (18) Jake Guentzel (46), Nikita Kucherov (82) · wrist 2–3
19:05 Zemgus Girgensons (9) Yanni Gourde (19), Ryan McDonagh (11) · backhand 2–4

3rd period

13:50 Nikita Kucherov (41) Charle-Edouard D'Astous (23), Jake Guentzel (47) · wrist 2–5
15:33 Anthony Cirelli (23) EN Gage Goncalves (20), Nikita Kucherov (83) · wrist 2–6
19:58 Egor Chinakhov (20) PP Kris Letang (30), Anthony Mantha (29) · snap 3–6

Three stars

Anthony Cirelli TBL · C #71 · 3 G, 0 A
Nikita Kucherov TBL · R #86 · 1 G, 2 A
Zemgus Girgensons TBL · C #28 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	17:52	PIT	Connor Clifton	interference	2	Oliver Bjorkstrand
1st	18:24	TBL	Darren Raddysh	holding	2	Noel Acciari
3rd	01:04	PIT	Evgeni Malkin	roughing	2	Oliver Bjorkstrand
3rd	01:04	TBL	Oliver Bjorkstrand	roughing	2	Evgeni Malkin
3rd	01:04	PIT	Evgeni Malkin	cross checking	2	Oliver Bjorkstrand
3rd	07:35	TBL	Emil Lilleberg	holding	2	Kris Letang
3rd	10:15	PIT	Connor Dewar	holding the stick	2	J.J. Moser
3rd	10:37	TBL	Darren Raddysh	tripping	2	Bryan Rust
3rd	18:10	TBL	Charle-Edouard D'Astous	cross checking	2	Rickard Rakell

Boxscore

Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Egor Chinakhov #59	R	2	0	2	-2	4	1	0	0	0.0	18:19
Kris Letang #58	D	0	2	2	+1	0	2	0	0	0.0	20:04
Samuel Girard #49	D	0	2	2	+1	1	0	6	0	0.0	18:20
Rickard Rakell #67	R	1	0	1	-2	3	1	0	0	50.0	18:24
Anthony Mantha #39	R	0	1	1	-3	3	0	0	0	66.7	13:59
Bryan Rust #17	R	0	1	1	-2	1	1	2	0	0.0	18:05
Ben Kindel #81	C	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	27.3	11:59
Connor Dewar #19	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	2	83.3	13:11
Evgeni Malkin #71	C	0	0	0	-1	2	2	1	4	0.0	18:18
Noel Acciari #55	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	80.0	12:21
Sidney Crosby #87	C	0	0	0	-2	0	0	2	0	65.0	19:43
Tommy Novak #18	C	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	77.8	14:27
Elmer Soderblom #25	L	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	10:41
Justin Brazeau #16	R	0	0	0	-2	0	4	1	0	0.0	09:53
Connor Clifton #75	D	0	0	0	-1	2	2	3	2	0.0	16:52
Erik Karlsson #65	D	0	0	0	-4	3	0	1	0	0.0	23:48
Parker Wotherspoon #28	D	0	0	0	-2	1	3	1	0	0.0	20:00
Ryan Shea #5	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	16:13

Penguins goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Stuart Skinner #74	L	32	27	5	.844	24/28	1/1	59:23

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lightning skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Anthony Cirelli #71	C	3	0	3	+3	3	0	1	0	42.1	15:08
Nikita Kucherov #86	R	1	2	3	+3	4	0	1	0	0.0	20:45
Gage Goncalves #93	C	0	2	2	+2	1	1	0	0	0.0	15:43
Jake Guentzel #59	C	0	2	2	+2	7	3	0	0	55.6	21:24
Brayden Point #21	C	1	0	1	+2	3	0	0	0	37.5	17:59
Zemgus Girgensons #28	C	1	0	1	0	1	4	0	0	0.0	14:50
Yanni Gourde #37	C	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	28.6	15:43
Charle-Edouard D'Astous #51	D	0	1	1	+2	2	1	0	2	0.0	20:58
Ryan McDonagh #27	D	0	1	1	+2	1	0	3	0	0.0	18:04
Nick Paul #20	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	35.7	11:00
Corey Perry #10	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	12:26
Mitchell Chaffee #41	R	0	0	0	-1	1	3	2	0	0.0	09:23
Oliver Bjorkstrand #22	R	0	0	0	+1	2	0	1	2	0.0	09:28
Pontus Holmberg #29	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	11:33
Darren Raddysh #43	D	0	0	0	+1	2	1	0	4	0.0	21:42
Emil Lilleberg #78	D	0	0	0	+1	0	3	0	2	0.0	20:42
Erik Cernak #81	D	0	0	0	+2	0	1	1	0	0.0	17:21
J.J. Moser #90	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	19:13

Lightning goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy #88	W	24	21	3	.875	19/21	1/2	58:50

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.