Avalanche vs. Penguins (Mar 24, 2026)

Forward Matchup

N. MacKinnon

COL C #29

S. Crosby

PIT C #87

44

Goals

27

109

Points

59

287

Shots on Goal

132

Defenseman Matchup

C. Makar

COL D #8

E. Karlsson

PIT D #65

67

Points

46

106

Blocks

53

33

Hits

17

Goalie Matchup

S. Wedgewood

COL G #41

A. Silovs

PIT G #37

25

Wins

14

.918

Save Pct

.893

2.16

Goals Against Avg

2.93

COL

Team Stats

PIT

3.75

Goals per Game

3.36

2.43

Goals Against per Game

2.91

33.85

Shots per Game

29.14

26.54

Shots Against per Game

27.18

16.1

Power Play Pct

25.0

82.7

Penalty Kill Pct

84.2

.908

Save Pct

.893

COL

Injuries

PIT

Ross Colton

C

Day to day (Upper Body)

D

Samuel Girard

Day to day (Upper-Body)

Logan O'Connor

RW

Out (Hip)

RW

Kevin Hayes

Day to day (Upper-Body)

Artturi Lehkonen

LW

Out (Upper-body)

D

Jack St. Ivany

Out (Hand)

Gabriel Landeskog

LW

Out (Lower-Body)

C

Filip Hallander

Out (Leg)

D

Ryan Graves

Out (Undisclosed)

RW

Justin Brazeau

Out (Upper-Body)

C

Sidney Crosby

Out (Leg)

2025-26 Central Division

COLPIT

Team	W	L	OTL	PTS	DIFF
Avalanche	44	12	9	97	84
Stars	42	14	10	94	54
Wild	38	17	12	88	32
Mammoth	34	27	6	74	20
Predators	29	27	9	67	-28
Jets	27	28	10	64	-15
Blues	27	29	10	64	-44
Blackhawks	25	30	11	61	-38

Team	W	L	OTL	PTS	DIFF
Hurricanes	42	18	6	90	42
Penguins	33	18	15	81	21
Islanders	38	24	5	81	6
Blue Jackets	34	21	11	79	4
Flyers	31	23	12	74	-14
Capitals	33	27	8	74	9
Devils	33	31	2	68	-25
Rangers	28	30	8	64	-16

COL

Last 5

PIT

Sat, Mar 14

Sat, Mar 14

Thu, Mar 12

Thu, Mar 12

Tue, Mar 10

Tue, Mar 10

Sun, Mar 8

Sun, Mar 8

Fri, Mar 6

Sat, Mar 7

Game Info

March 24, 2026

ESPN+

PPG Paints Arena

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Team Leaders

G

44

N. MacKinnon

A

65

N. MacKinnon

GWG

7

B. Nelson

SV%

.918

S. Wedgewood

Season

Career vs PIT

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Scott Wedgewood S. Wedgewood	36	35	25	4	5	914	839	.918	75	2.16	2	2084
	Mackenzie Blackwood M. Blackwood	29	27	18	8	1	694	630	.908	64	2.41	3	1596

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Mackenzie Blackwood M. Blackwood	9	8	2	6	1	272	243	.893	29	3.68	0	472
	Scott Wedgewood S. Wedgewood	8	7	4	2	0	239	223	.933	16	2.38	1	404

Team Leaders

G

27

S. Crosby

A

40

E. Karlsson

GWG

4

S. Crosby

SV%

.893

A. Silovs

Season

Career vs COL

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Nathan MacKinnon N. MacKinnon	64	44	65	109	+57	35	9	16	0	6	1	287	15.3	573	1,113	51.5	48	31	20	138	22:11
Martin Necas M. Necas	62	31	49	80	+44	30	8	9	0	1	0	160	19.4	9	20	45.0	68	23	17	103	21:20
Cale Makar C. Makar	65	19	48	67	+33	22	3	20	0	4	0	171	11.1	0	0	0	33	106	36	74	25:02
Brock Nelson B. Nelson	65	30	25	55	+11	26	8	5	0	7	0	152	19.7	582	1,160	50.2	31	47	18	52	19:36
Artturi Lehkonen A. Lehkonen	59	19	23	42	+31	12	1	1	0	0	0	138	13.8	3	18	16.7	43	28	11	39	18:43
Valeri Nichushkin V. Nichushkin	56	14	24	38	+5	22	1	3	0	1	0	129	10.9	2	4	50.0	47	22	21	47	18:03
Sam Malinski S. Malinski	65	3	26	29	+35	18	0	1	0	1	0	123	2.4	0	0	0	33	72	16	57	16:57
Gabriel Landeskog G. Landeskog	47	9	20	29	+26	35	1	3	0	1	0	104	8.7	125	200	62.5	66	20	12	24	16:29
Brent Burns B. Burns	65	9	19	28	+28	24	0	1	0	5	0	131	6.9	0	0	0	14	78	13	79	19:08
Josh Manson J. Manson	65	5	22	27	+40	76	0	0	0	2	0	99	5.1	0	0	0	147	87	21	67	17:54
Parker Kelly P. Kelly	65	15	11	26	+10	20	0	0	1	2	0	80	18.8	60	163	36.8	144	49	14	37	12:44
Ross Colton R. Colton	60	8	15	23	+13	13	0	0	0	2	0	137	5.8	45	96	46.9	137	22	16	46	12:49
Jack Drury J. Drury	65	8	13	21	+13	20	0	0	0	0	0	71	11.3	460	788	58.4	35	52	20	32	14:51
Devon Toews D. Toews	52	2	15	17	+27	26	0	0	0	1	0	91	2.2	0	0	0	21	64	20	53	22:19
Gavin Brindley G. Brindley	52	6	6	12	+3	8	0	0	0	4	1	58	10.3	13	34	38.2	34	15	4	18	9:41
Zakhar Bardakov Z. Bardakov	51	1	8	9	+7	12	0	0	0	0	0	29	3.4	69	162	42.6	46	20	6	23	7:08
Joel Kiviranta J. Kiviranta	35	3	6	9	+2	6	0	0	0	0	0	32	9.4	3	9	33.3	48	11	4	13	10:21
Brett Kulak B. Kulak	10	0	2	2	+6	4	0	0	0	0	0	10	0.0	0	0	0	5	11	1	9	17:13
Nazem Kadri N. Kadri	4	1	1	2	+2	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	9.1	9	25	36.0	6	3	1	3	21:55
Nicolas Roy N. Roy	5	2	0	2	-1	9	1	0	0	0	0	10	20.0	13	36	36.1	3	2	0	3	12:58
Nick Blankenburg N. Blankenburg	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	1	8:07

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Brock Nelson B. Nelson	46	21	19	40	+5	12	6	3	1	0	3	3	112	18.8	276	548	50.4	41	19	19	12	17:30
Nathan MacKinnon N. MacKinnon	22	9	19	28	+2	10	1	4	0	0	1	0	86	10.5	138	332	41.6	17	10	9	15	21:35
Brent Burns B. Burns	33	9	12	21	-4	22	4	3	0	1	2	1	111	8.1	5	6	83.3	38	43	25	33	22:44
Nazem Kadri N. Kadri	33	9	7	16	-6	16	2	1	0	0	3	0	87	10.3	223	476	46.8	57	12	10	14	17:34
Gabriel Landeskog G. Landeskog	15	7	8	15	0	6	2	3	0	0	3	1	51	13.7	18	34	52.9	38	13	12	4	19:41
Artturi Lehkonen A. Lehkonen	22	8	4	12	+13	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	42	19.0	2	5	40.0	29	8	7	2	16:09
Devon Toews D. Toews	11	2	8	10	+8	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	21	9.5	0	0	0	8	14	8	11	23:32
Martin Necas M. Necas	15	3	4	7	-3	6	1	2	0	0	1	0	36	8.3	15	41	36.6	10	1	4	7	16:12
Brett Kulak B. Kulak	15	0	5	5	+3	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	0.0	0	0	0	19	17	3	7	17:18
Valeri Nichushkin V. Nichushkin	14	1	4	5	+2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	32	3.1	0	0	0	14	5	3	6	16:00
Nicolas Roy N. Roy	12	2	2	4	-4	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	11	18.2	54	121	44.6	16	9	5	3	14:00
Cale Makar C. Makar	9	0	4	4	+4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	0.0	0	0	0	6	8	10	5	24:48
Josh Manson J. Manson	17	1	2	3	-5	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	5.0	0	0	0	31	22	3	8	18:33
Ross Colton R. Colton	10	1	1	2	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	5.3	32	58	55.2	23	6	2	5	12:30
Parker Kelly P. Kelly	7	1	1	2	-2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	14.3	7	20	35.0	18	13	5	2	12:42
Jack Drury J. Drury	11	1	1	2	+2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	12.5	37	70	52.9	4	9	1	2	11:08
Logan O'Connor L. O'Connor	7	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0.0	1	2	50.0	10	7	2	1	13:13
Joel Kiviranta J. Kiviranta	6	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0.0	0	1	0.0	10	2	4	4	11:46
Nick Blankenburg N. Blankenburg	6	0	0	0	-5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0.0	0	0	0	12	7	2	5	19:45
Sam Malinski S. Malinski	2	0	0	0	+2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	0	0	0	0	6	1	5	14:54

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	56	27	32	59	+1	38	10	10	0	0	4	1	132	20.5	649	1,171	55.4	50	23	22	61	19:35
Bryan Rust B. Rust	59	24	27	51	+3	18	7	15	1	0	4	0	150	16.0	2	11	18.2	26	59	11	62	20:11
Anthony Mantha A. Mantha	66	25	26	51	+15	29	6	5	0	0	0	0	124	20.2	9	36	25.0	42	33	14	65	15:04
Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	46	13	34	47	+13	51	3	14	0	0	1	0	125	10.4	104	236	44.1	20	15	24	76	17:29
Erik Karlsson E. Karlsson	61	6	40	46	+11	18	2	18	0	0	0	0	136	4.4	0	0	0	17	53	30	83	23:48
Thomas Novak T. Novak	66	15	22	37	+3	24	5	2	0	0	2	1	104	14.4	155	368	42.1	10	23	21	41	13:55
Ben Kindel B. Kindel	63	16	15	31	-9	18	4	6	1	1	4	0	129	12.4	224	501	44.7	25	50	18	67	15:17
Rickard Rakell R. Rakell	45	13	18	31	+3	6	4	6	0	1	0	0	123	10.6	45	131	34.4	61	35	18	37	19:00
Justin Brazeau J. Brazeau	48	16	14	30	+4	12	3	2	0	0	4	0	87	18.4	0	2	0.0	60	31	11	32	12:56
Kris Letang K. Letang	60	3	24	27	-5	34	1	8	0	0	2	2	96	3.1	0	0	0	81	77	21	86	21:56
Ryan Shea R. Shea	66	4	23	27	+24	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	64	6.3	0	0	0	34	81	22	48	18:59
Connor Dewar C. Dewar	66	14	11	25	+9	12	0	0	1	1	2	0	99	14.1	18	39	46.2	130	38	8	29	13:43
Parker Wotherspoon P. Wotherspoon	66	3	19	22	+10	42	0	0	0	1	1	0	59	5.1	0	0	0	137	99	25	95	20:10
Yegor Chinakhov Y. Chinakhov	28	11	10	21	+5	4	1	3	0	0	3	0	69	15.9	3	9	33.3	16	9	5	17	15:02
Blake Lizotte B. Lizotte	55	7	12	19	+6	25	0	0	1	0	1	0	49	14.3	238	476	50.0	49	35	12	32	13:52
Noel Acciari N. Acciari	52	8	9	17	+8	21	0	0	0	0	1	0	69	11.6	230	435	52.9	55	40	8	13	13:29
Jack St. Ivany J. St. Ivany	17	0	7	7	+7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	0.0	0	0	0	40	23	4	17	15:39
Ville Koivunen V. Koivunen	32	2	5	7	-5	8	1	3	0	0	0	0	32	6.3	2	2	100.0	4	12	5	14	12:43
Connor Clifton C. Clifton	35	2	3	5	-2	37	0	0	0	0	1	0	23	8.7	0	0	0	135	59	10	28	16:25
Kevin Hayes K. Hayes	25	3	2	5	-4	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	40	7.5	38	106	35.8	32	10	3	18	12:16
Filip Hallander F. Hallander	13	1	3	4	+4	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	22	4.5	0	2	0.0	3	5	2	12	13:09
Ilya Solovyov I. Solovyov	9	0	4	4	+2	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.0	0	0	0	8	9	2	9	13:29
Avery Hayes A. Hayes	11	2	0	2	-6	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	10.5	1	5	20.0	13	7	3	5	10:37
Ryan Graves R. Graves	19	1	0	1	-2	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	5.3	0	0	0	15	35	5	14	15:29
Samuel Girard S. Girard	7	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.0	0	0	0	3	8	0	8	18:25
Elmer Soderblom E. Soderblom	4	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0.0	1	2	50.0	4	1	1	3	12:16

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Erik Karlsson E. Karlsson	33	5	20	25	-10	24	2	10	0	0	1	0	75	6.7	0	0	0	16	41	24	25	24:09
Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	23	14	10	24	+1	14	2	3	0	0	1	0	69	20.3	292	508	57.5	17	3	14	21	20:21
Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	24	8	16	24	-2	18	2	3	0	0	1	0	72	11.1	107	241	44.4	13	9	28	16	19:40
Rickard Rakell R. Rakell	35	8	11	19	-8	6	0	5	0	0	4	1	89	9.0	34	74	45.9	26	11	20	13	17:34
Kevin Hayes K. Hayes	21	6	12	18	+5	10	1	1	1	1	0	0	47	12.8	111	228	48.7	7	3	9	7	15:21
Kris Letang K. Letang	24	2	9	11	+3	4	0	4	0	0	1	1	80	2.5	0	0	0	51	38	20	26	25:25
Bryan Rust B. Rust	15	5	5	10	-3	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	42	11.9	0	1	0.0	13	7	2	9	16:37
Thomas Novak T. Novak	9	1	5	6	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	17	5.9	20	58	34.5	2	6	5	2	13:34
Anthony Mantha A. Mantha	14	2	3	5	-7	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	31	6.5	3	5	60.0	15	5	0	6	15:52
Yegor Chinakhov Y. Chinakhov	6	1	4	5	-1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	10	10.0	0	0	0	4	3	2	1	12:29
Blake Lizotte B. Lizotte	16	1	2	3	-3	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	6.3	69	130	53.1	19	4	3	3	13:06
Connor Clifton C. Clifton	8	0	1	1	+3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0.0	0	0	0	24	6	3	3	15:28
Ryan Graves R. Graves	6	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0.0	0	0	0	6	7	1	2	19:42
Parker Wotherspoon P. Wotherspoon	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	0	0	0	8	7	1	1	20:47
Noel Acciari N. Acciari	11	0	0	0	-5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0.0	59	99	59.6	26	11	4	1	13:27
Justin Brazeau J. Brazeau	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	1	0.0	1	3	0	2	8:24
Ryan Shea R. Shea	2	0	0	0	+3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	17:58
Connor Dewar C. Dewar	6	0	0	0	-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	16	31	51.6	5	4	0	0	10:14
Elmer Soderblom E. Soderblom	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	1	1	100.0	7	2	2	1	9:29
Ilya Solovyov I. Solovyov	1	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	16:18
Jack St. Ivany J. St. Ivany	1	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	12:53

Avalanche COL

Penguins PIT

Forward Matchup

Defenseman Matchup

Goalie Matchup

Team Stats

Injuries

2025-26 Central Division

Last 5

Game Info

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Arturs Silovs A. Silovs	31	31	14	9	8	822	734	.893	88	2.93	2	1805
	Stuart Skinner S. Skinner	18	18	9	5	4	452	403	.892	49	2.72	0	1082