Pittsburgh Penguins

East 1st Round · Game 5 · Best of 7

YES!

Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Philadelphia Flyers

43-27-12, 98 PTS 2 – 3

41-25-16, 98 PTS

Final · Mon, Apr 27

Series: PHI leads 3-2

Game Details

PPG Paints Arena (Pittsburgh) · 18,343 fans · ESPN, NBC Sports Phil, SportsNet PIT View tournament bracket →

Recap

Penguins fend off elimination again with a 3-2 Game 5 win over Flyers to send series back to Philly

Connor Dewar, Kris Letang and Elmer Soderblom scored and the Pittsburgh Penguins avoided elimination for the second time in 48 hours with a 3-2 win over Philadelphia in Game 5 of their first-round series on Monday night.

Recap via ESPN

PPG Paints Arena · Pittsburgh

Line Score

	1	2	3	T
PHI	0	2	0	2
PIT	1	2	0	3

Game Leaders

Philadelphia Flyers

Pittsburgh Penguins

Kris Letang · 1Goals
Sidney Crosby · 2Assists
Sidney Crosby · 2Points

2026-27 Metropolitan Division Standings

Team	W	L	OTL	Pts
NY Rangers	3	1	0	6
Pittsburgh	2	1	0	4
Carolina	1	1	1	3
NY Islanders	1	1	0	2
Washington	1	1	0	2
Columbus	1	1	0	2
New Jersey	1	1	0	2
Philadelphia	0	2	2	2

Scoring

2nd 17:12

Kris Letang Goal (2) Wrist Shot, assists: Sidney Crosby (4), Ryan Shea (1)2–3

2nd 15:06

Travis Sanheim Goal (2) Wrist Shot, assists: Rasmus Ristolainen (4), Travis Konecny (3)2–2

2nd 3:29

Alex Bump Goal (1) Wrist Shot, assists: Rasmus Ristolainen (3), Noah Cates (2)1–2

2nd 3:17

Connor Dewar Goal (2) Snap Shot, assists: Sidney Crosby (3), Blake Lizotte (2)0–2

1st 2:45

Elmer Soderblom Goal (1) Wrist Shot, assists: Anthony Mantha (1), Parker Wotherspoon (1)0–1

Team Stats

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Shots & Puck

20 Shots on Goal 21

16 Blocked Shots 15

42 Hits 37

53.3 Faceoff % 46.7

4 Takeaways 4

11 Giveaways 22

Special Teams

0/2 Power Play 0/2

0 Short-Handed Goals 0

10 Penalty Minutes 8

Box Score

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Forwards

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	FW	FL	FO%	GV	PN
D. Barkey	0	0	0	2	13:09	0	3	0	0	1:10	0:00	11:59	20	2	0	0	0.0	1	0
A. Bump	1	0	0	4	15:29	0	2	1	1	0:00	0:00	15:29	22	2	0	0	0.0	0	0
N. Cates	0	1	0	0	16:19	0	3	1	0	1:28	1:26	13:25	25	0	13	5	72.2	0	0
S. Couturier	0	0	-1	0	11:15	0	4	0	0	0:00	2:13	9:02	15	0	4	0	100.0	0	0
C. Dvorak	0	0	1	1	18:43	0	3	2	0	2:32	1:32	14:39	22	0	7	12	36.8	0	0
T. Foerster	0	0	1	1	16:11	0	4	0	0	1:32	0:21	14:18	24	2	0	0	0.0	1	0
L. Glendening	0	0	0	0	10:42	0	1	0	0	0:00	2:13	8:29	16	1	7	5	58.3	1	0
G. Hathaway	0	0	0	2	8:17	4	3	0	0	0:00	0:00	8:17	13	1	0	0	0.0	0	2
T. Konecny	0	1	-1	0	19:32	4	3	1	0	2:27	0:00	17:05	23	3	0	0	0.0	0	2
P. Martone	0	0	0	1	15:32	0	2	0	0	2:33	0:00	12:59	19	1	0	0	0.0	0	0
O. Tippett	0	0	-2	1	18:01	0	2	2	1	1:19	0:15	16:27	24	3	0	0	0.0	1	0
T. Zegras	0	0	-1	0	19:29	0	4	1	0	2:36	0:00	16:53	22	1	1	6	14.3	0	0

Defense

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	GV	PN
E. Andrae	0	0	0	0	11:00	2	3	1	0	0:00	0:00	11:00	18	0	0	1
J. Drysdale	0	0	-2	2	22:22	0	0	0	0	1:43	0:00	20:39	28	3	2	0
R. Ristolainen	0	2	1	1	23:21	0	1	1	0	2:06	1:25	19:50	31	2	1	0
T. Sanheim	1	0	1	1	23:30	0	0	4	0	0:22	2:35	20:33	29	1	2	0
N. Seeler	0	0	0	2	12:13	0	3	0	2	0:00	1:26	10:47	19	0	1	0
C. York	0	0	-2	2	22:53	0	1	2	0	0:12	2:34	20:07	28	0	1	0

Goalies

Player	SV	SA	GA	SV%	TOI	ESSV	PPSV	SHSV	PIM
D. Vladar	18	21	3	.857	58:02	14	4	0	0

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Forwards

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	FW	FL	FO%	GV	PN
N. Acciari	0	0	-1	0	15:45	0	4	3	0	0:00	2:53	12:52	19	1	6	3	66.7	1	0
E. Chinakhov	0	0	0	0	12:00	0	3	0	0	0:48	0:00	11:12	19	1	0	0	0.0	0	0
S. Crosby	0	2	1	0	20:13	0	1	1	1	3:11	0:00	17:02	25	3	12	8	60.0	0	0
C. Dewar	1	0	0	2	12:14	0	3	0	0	0:00	1:14	11:00	19	1	0	0	0.0	0	0
B. Kindel	0	0	1	2	11:49	0	2	2	0	0:49	0:00	11:00	17	1	3	10	23.1	1	0
B. Lizotte	0	1	0	1	13:49	0	3	0	0	0:00	1:42	12:07	17	0	4	1	80.0	1	0
E. Malkin	0	0	0	0	14:25	2	0	0	0	1:26	0:00	12:59	18	0	0	1	0.0	2	1
A. Mantha	0	1	1	1	12:28	2	3	1	0	0:34	0:00	11:54	17	1	0	0	0.0	2	1
T. Novak	0	0	0	1	14:04	0	2	0	0	2:13	0:00	11:51	19	1	3	8	27.3	0	0
R. Rakell	0	0	0	5	20:59	0	3	0	0	3:12	0:00	17:47	25	3	0	1	0.0	0	0
B. Rust	0	0	0	2	20:37	0	3	0	0	3:14	2:10	15:13	26	2	0	0	0.0	1	0
E. Soderblom	1	0	1	2	10:50	0	3	0	1	0:21	0:00	10:29	17	1	0	0	0.0	2	0

Defense

Player	G	A	+/-	S	TOI	PIM	HT	BS	TK	PPTOI	SHTOI	ESTOI	SHFT	SM	GV	PN
S. Girard	0	0	0	1	21:41	2	1	1	0	0:12	1:09	20:20	25	1	3	1
E. Karlsson	0	0	0	2	26:23	2	0	2	0	3:18	0:54	22:11	30	0	3	1
K. Letang	1	0	1	1	24:40	0	3	0	0	0:42	1:57	22:01	28	3	2	0
R. Shea	0	1	1	0	17:03	0	0	2	0	0:00	1:58	15:05	22	1	4	0
I. Solovyov	0	0	0	0	6:09	0	2	0	0	0:00	0:00	6:09	10	0	0	0
P. Wotherspoon	0	1	0	1	21:03	0	1	3	2	0:00	2:03	19:00	27	1	0	0

Goalies

Player	SV	SA	GA	SV%	TOI	ESSV	PPSV	SHSV	PIM
A. Silovs	18	20	2	.900	59:48	16	1	1	0

Injury Report

Pittsburgh Penguins

Bryan Rust RWInjured Reserve
Justin Brazeau RWInjured Reserve
Ryan Graves DInjured Reserve

Philadelphia Flyers

Rasmus Ristolainen DDay-To-Day
Nikita Grebenkin RWInjured Reserve
Helge Grans DInjured Reserve

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