NHL · Saturday 17 October · Ball Arena
Colorado Avalanche – Pittsburgh Penguins 5:2: NHL, 17/10/2026
Key facts
Form, table position, scoring and head-to-head in one place
Form: up to the last 5 matches in all competitions, most recent on the left (W = win, D = draw, L = loss). Averages come from the league table; where there is none, from these recent matches.
Form · last 5
League position
Goals per game · season
Match report
The match in a few sentences: score, scorers, table impact
The text is generated automatically from the match data and updates with it.
NHL: Colorado Avalanche – Pittsburgh Penguins 5:2 (17 October). Colorado Avalanche won. Venue: Ball Arena.
By period: 1:2, 3:0, 1:0. Pittsburgh Penguins led after the first period (1:2), but their opponents came back to win.
Goals: E. Malkin (Pittsburgh Penguins); B. Rust (Pittsburgh Penguins); A. Lehkonen (Colorado Avalanche) ×2; G. Landeskog (Colorado Avalanche); T. Hughes (Colorado Avalanche); N. MacKinnon (Colorado Avalanche).
Table now: Colorado Avalanche — 5th, 22 points from 18 matches; Pittsburgh Penguins — 15th, 14 points from 18 matches.
Latvians in this match
Latvian players in this match and their contribution
The data source carries no player nationality, so for club matches we use the desk's list of Latvian players; for national-team matches, every Latvia player.
- 🇱🇻 Arturs SilovsPittsburgh Penguins27 saves from 32 shots (84.4%)
Score by period
Goals in each period
OT = overtime, SO = shoot-out.
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | Σ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado Avalanche | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Pittsburgh Penguins | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Events
Goals with assists and penalties by period
1st period
- 08'
🏒 E. Malkin0:1
assist: V. Koivunen, E. Karlsson
- 08'
- 11'
🏒 A. Lehkonen1:2
assist: N. MacKinnon, M. Necas
- 14'pen.
High sticking
- 17'pen.
Interference
2nd period
- 00'
🏒 A. Lehkonen2:2
assist: N. MacKinnon, M. Necas
- 04'
🏒 G. Landeskog3:2
- 11'pen.
Interference
- 12'pen.
Slashing
- 14'
🏒 T. Hughes4:2
assist: N. MacKinnon, C. Makar
3rd period
Game leaders
Top performers in this game
Points (goals + assists)
- 14
- 23
- 32
- 42
- 51
- 61
Skaters
Each skater's contribution in this game
G = goals, A = assists, P = points (G + A), Pen. = penalties. Counted from match events; +/−, shots and time on ice are not available from the data source.
Colorado Avalanche
| Player | G | A | P | Pen. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N. MacKinnon | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| M. Necas | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| A. Lehkonen | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| C. Makar | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| G. Landeskog | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| T. Hughes | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| B. Nelson | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| N. Kadri | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| G. Brindley | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| J. Manson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| Player | G | A | P | Pen. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. Rust | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| E. Malkin | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| E. Karlsson | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| S. Crosby | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| S. Girard | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| V. Koivunen | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| B. Kindel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| K. Letang | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| T. Novak | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Goaltenders
Shots, saves and goals against
SOG = shots on goal, SV = saves, GA = goals against, SV% = SV / SOG, TOI = time on ice.
Colorado Avalanche
| Goaltender | SOG | SV | GA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. Blackwood(W) | 32 | 30 | 2 | 93.8% |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| Goaltender | SOG | SV | GA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Silovs | 32 | 27 | 5 | 84.4% |
Team stats
Both teams' numbers side by side
- 32Shots on goal32
- 30Saves27
- 93%Save %84%
- 34Faceoffs won23
- 6Penalty minutes8
- 3Penalties4
- 1Power-play goals0
- 25%Power play %0%
- 100%Penalty kill %75%
- 0Short-handed goals0
Teams in the table
Both teams' positions in the league table
Full table on the competition page. Form: recent matches, most recent on the right.
| # | Team | P | W | OTW | OTL | L | Pts | Form |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 22 | WWLLW | |
| 15 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 14 | LLLWL |
Form
Team leaders
Each team's best players this season
Points (goals + assists)
Goal scorers
Assists
Recent matches
Both teams' recent results in all competitions
H — home, A — away