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3/1/2009
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Pittsburgh Penguins 3 , Washington Capitals 1
Shots: 34 - 17
PP: 1 of 7 (17 shots), Passing:73/84=86 %, Challenges:32/44=71 %
PP: 0 of 1 (1 shots), Passing:52/72=72 %, Challenges:42/57=72 %
Attendance: 13806 of 16958 (Mellon Arena)
Ticket income: 637838 Match televised: Yes
Boxscore for the game:
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17:19 1-0
Petr Sykora [17] (Chris Kunitz, Jason Spezza)PP
19:29 1-1
Michael Nylander [13] (Alexander Semin)
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28:28 2-1
Bill Guerin [8] (Petr Sykora, Pascal Dupuis)
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44:51 3-1
Jason Spezza [13] (Pascal Dupuis, Petr Sykora)
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Penalty summary:
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05:52
Mike Green (2 min for hooking)
16:35
Alexander Semin (2 min for holding the stick)
17:39
Matt Cooke (2 min for roughing)
17:39
Brian Pothier (2 min for roughing)
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29:56
Milan Jurcina (2 min for slashing)
31:11
Alexander Ovechkin (2 min for tripping)
39:23
Chris Clark (2 min for cross-checking)
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50:16
Alexander Ovechkin (2 min for hooking)
52:22
Keven Veilleux (2 min for elbowing)
58:34
Brian Pothier (2 min for hooking)
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Pittsburgh Penguins scoring.
( G A Sh Hi Ga Ta PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
R Miroslav Satan 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 7.20 5
R Bill Guerin 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 10.40 7
R Petr Sykora 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 19.20 8
R Daniel Alfredsson 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 20.40 7
C Keven Veilleux 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 -1 7.20 5
C Derek Armstrong 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 10.40 7
C Jason Spezza 1 1 4 0 2 0 0 1 18.50 7
C Evgeny Malkin 0 0 5 2 0 2 0 0 21.10 7
L Chris Kunitz 0 1 7 2 1 1 0 -1 18.40 9
L Matt Cooke 0 0 0 2 1 3 2 1 12.00 8
L Pascal Dupuis 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 1 14.10 8
L Ruslan Fedotenko 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 17.10 6
D Robert Scuderi 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 1 13.50 8
D Hal Gill 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 16.10 7
D Philippe Boucher 0 0 1 3 3 2 0 0 30.00 7
D Mark Eaton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14.50 6
D Brooks Orpik 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 18.20 7
D Sergei Gonchar 0 0 4 0 1 2 0 -1 26.50 7
(GA, A, Sv , PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
G Marc-André Fleury 1 0 16 0 0 60.00 8
G Mathieu Garon 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0
Washington Capitals scoring.
( G A Sh Hi Ga Ta PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
R Graham Mink 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1 7.40 6
R Matt Bradley 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 14.50 6
R Chris Clark 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 18.50 7
R Viktor Kozlov 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 -1 14.10 6
C Boyd Gordon 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 -1 7.40 4
C Nicklas Bäckström 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 16.50 7
C Michael Nylander 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 9.40 7
C Sergei Fedorov 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 -1 17.30 6
L Tomas Fleischmann 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 7.40 5
L Brooks Laich 0 0 1 3 3 5 0 0 21.20 6
L Alexander Semin 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 12.50 7
L Alexander Ovechkin 0 0 2 3 1 0 4 -1 18.10 9
D John Erskine 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 25.10 7
D Milan Jurcina 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 18.00 6
D Brian Pothier 0 0 1 0 1 0 4 -2 22.20 6
D Shaone Morrisonn 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 18.20 6
D Tom Poti 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 14.40 5
D Mike Green 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 -1 21.30 7
(GA, A, Sv , PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
G José Théodore 3 0 31 0 0 60.00 9
G Brent Johnson 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0
Three stars of the game:
1st star: Petr Sykora
2nd star: Jason Spezza
3rd star: Bill Guerin
Notes for Pittsburgh Penguins:
-Petr Sykora notched his 10th assist of the season.
-Bill Guerin finally ended his 11 game goal drought.
Notes for Washington Capitals:
-Alexander Semin notched his 20th assist of the season.
Other notes:
Farm game result:
W-B/Scranton Penguins 4( 17) , Hershey Bears 3( 11)
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1-0 WBS Mike Zigomanis (Craig Adams, Janne Pesonen)
1-1 HER François Bouchard (Staffan Kronwall)
2-1 WBS Chris Minard (Jeff Taffe)
3-1 WBS Tim Wallace (Bill Thomas)
3-2 HER Andrew Gordon (Karl Alzner)
3-3 HER Alexandre Giroux (Maxime Lacroix, Sami Lepistö)
4-3 WBS Mike Zigomanis (Daniel Fernholm)
Goalies: John Curry - Daren Machesney