Pittsburgh Penguins at Toronto Maple Leafs: game preview
PittsburghPenguins2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 41-25-16 · 98 pts · 10that
TorontoMaple Leafs2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 32-36-14 · 78 pts · 28thTwenty points apart last season
Pittsburgh finished last season 10th in the league on 98 points. Toronto finished 28th on 78.
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Meeting number 220
Across 219 completed games, Toronto lead the head-to-head 110-99-10.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 3 Nov 2025, Pittsburgh were 6th in the league and Toronto 12th. By 23 Dec 2025 it was 20th and 23rd.
Pittsburgh out-attempted Toronto 222 to 136
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Pittsburgh Penguins
Toronto Maple Leafs
Pittsburgh have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 3 games for Pittsburgh, 4 for Toronto. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Pittsburgh, 10 for Toronto.
2025-26: 82 games for Pittsburgh, 82 for Toronto.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
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Small sampleToronto
Small sampleSkaters to watch
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 13 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 14 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Pittsburgh crease
PIT · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 13 Jan
No appearances against Toronto in the last meetings.
Toronto crease
TOR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 13 Jan
No appearances against Pittsburgh in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.7 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Pittsburgh5.002.673.573.27
Toronto2.752.753.093.65Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
8 on the injury lists
Pittsburgh · injuries
Toronto · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Activated C/RW Benjamin Kindel from injured reserve. Placed C/LW David Gustafsson on waivers.
Assigned F Rutger McGroarty to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL).
Reinstated C Blake Lizotte from injured reserve.
Placed RW Nikita Grebenkin on injured reserve.
Moved C Max Domi from the non-roster list to long-term injured reserve.
Placed D Cade Webber on the injured non-roster list.
Pittsburgh · 2026 draft
See all: Pittsburgh · 2026 draft →Toronto · 2026 draft
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