With the Toronto Maple Leafs’ playoff spot secured, they are now vying for home ice as they chase the Florida Panthers for second in the Atlantic Division. By notching two points against the Pittsburgh Penguins, they’re now three points back of the Panthers with one game in hand.
Game charts are all below, read on to see it all!
Game events
- The Leafs posted 23 shots and had nearly as many of their shots blocked with the Penguins blocking 20. They also missed 13 shots.
- On the other end of the ice, the Penguins were more on the shoot-first mentality as they had 32 shots, 29 misses, and just 13 shots blocked.
- Toronto was shorthanded five times but didn’t give up any goals on the penalty kill.
Goals
| Goal | Assists | Time | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rickard Rakell | Evgeni Malkin | 18:06 | 1st | PIT 1 – 0 TOR |
| Matthew Knies | T.J. Brodie, Morgan Rielly | 5:36 | 2nd | PIT 1 – 1 TOR |
| Auston Matthews (PPG) | John Tavares | 1:22 | 3rd | PIT 1 – 2 TOR |
| Drew O’Connor | Pierre-Olivier Joseph, Sidney Crosby | 13:38 | 3rd | PIT 2 – 2 TOR |
| Jake McCabe | Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner | 1:30 | OT | PIT 2 – 3 TOR |
- Auston Matthews scored his 65th goal of the season to tie Alex Ovechkin for the most goal scored in one season by any active player.
- A power play faceoff win by John Tavares made its way in slow motion to Matthews to take the biggest windup of all time for his 65th marker.
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All situations Corsi
- As mentioned, the Leafs were in the penalty box five times. This made the ice tile heavily in Pittsburgh’s favour as their power play is excellent at generating shots.
- However, Ilya Samsonov was the Leafs’ best penalty killer as he was flawless when Toronto was shorthanded. Instead, the Leafs scored the game’s only power play goal.
- The Leafs had a good number of high-danger shots and were able to score from in close on two goals.
- The first saw Matthew Knies being in a perfect spot to tip in a pass to the crease from T.J. Brodie—who’s been excellent since returning from being healthy scratched.
- The second came in overtime where a miscommunicated line change for the Leafs turned into a broken play where Jake McCabe was able to walk right in to score.
5v5 Corsi
- At 5v5, the game was much closer, and in fact the Leafs controlled most of the 5v5 play throughout the game.
- Toronto didn’t have a full two minutes of 5v4 play at all as their first power play was sandwiched by Penguins power plays and their second lasted mere seconds before Matthews scored.
- The Penguins had a strong push to get the tying goal.
- Shot locations were more even at 5v5 and both teams had good systems to get slot chances. Both Samsonov and Alex Nedeljkovic played well at even strength as they both faced high volumes of good scoring chances.
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