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Pittsburgh Penguins vs Tampa Bay Lightning

Regular season · Thursday, April 2, 2026 · Benchmark International Arena

Pittsburgh PenguinsPittsburghPenguinsAway

3–6

Final

SOG 24–33

Tampa Bay LightningTampa BayLightningHome

The Spot · SN-PIT

Game summary

The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-3 on Thursday, April 2, 2026 at Benchmark International Arena. The Lightning outshot the Penguins 33-24.

Anthony Cirelli scored a hat trick and Egor Chinakhov scored twice. Rickard Rakell, Brayden Point, Zemgus Girgensons and Nikita Kucherov also scored.

Andrei Vasilevskiy made 21 saves on 24 shots for the win; Stuart Skinner stopped 27 of 32.

Goals1st2nd3rdTSOG
Pittsburgh PenguinsPIT201324
Tampa Bay LightningTBL132633

Three stars

  1. ★1st starAnthony CirelliTBL · 3G 0A
  2. ★2nd starNikita KucherovTBL · 1G 2A
  3. ★3rd starZemgus GirgensonsTBL · 1G 0A

Scoring

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Tired legs

Seconds into the shift for every skater on the ice at each goal. Taller bar, longer shift.

0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+
1:23

2–3 · 2nd 14:08 · Point. Mantha was 1:23 into his shift when it went in.

GoalPIT on iceTBL on ice

0–1 TBL

1st 5:06 · Cirelli

Clifton 0:30

1–1 PIT

1st 7:01 · Rakell

Long shift: Chaffee 1:01

2–1 PIT

1st 16:10 · Chinakhov

McDonagh 0:27

2–2 TBL

2nd 0:11 · SH · Cirelli

Malkin 0:11

2–3 TBL

2nd 14:08 · Point

Long shift: Mantha 1:23

2–4 TBL

2nd 19:05 · Girgensons

Karlsson 0:49

2–5 TBL

3rd 13:50 · Kucherov

Long shift: Rakell 1:09

2–6 TBL

3rd 15:33 · EN · Cirelli

Karlsson 1:03

3–6 PIT

3rd 19:58 · PP · Chinakhov

Guentzel 0:47

Hover or tap a bar for the skater.

Across the league. Share of 5v5 unblocked shots that went in, by how far into his shift the defending team’s longest-serving skater was (2025–26).
3.9%
5.8%
6.5%
7.1%
7.3%
0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+

1.9×

Shots against a skater 80s+ into his shift go in 1.9 times as often as against fresh legs (7.3% vs 3.9%).

30%

of 5v5 goals came with a defender 60s+ into his shift.

Team stats

PITTBL
24Shots on goal33
61%Faceoff %39%
1/4Power play0/3
8Penalty minutes10
21Hits18
18Blocked shots10
15Giveaways17
4Takeaways4

Penalties

  • 1st 17:52Connor Clifton · interference2 min
  • 1st 18:24Darren Raddysh · holding2 min
  • 3rd 01:04Evgeni Malkin · roughing2 min
  • 3rd 01:04Oliver Bjorkstrand · roughing2 min
  • 3rd 01:04Evgeni Malkin · cross checking2 min
  • 3rd 07:35Emil Lilleberg · holding2 min
  • 3rd 10:15Connor Dewar · holding the stick2 min
  • 3rd 10:37Darren Raddysh · tripping2 min
  • 3rd 18:10Charle-Edouard D'Astous · cross checking2 min

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