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3/12/2007
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Pittsburgh Penguins 5 , Colorado Avalanche 3
Shots: 40 - 28
PP: 0 of 9 (20 shots), Passing:47/56=83 %, Challenges:50/59=83 %
PP: 1 of 7 (12 shots), Passing:64/83=77 %, Challenges:37/45=80 %
Attendance: 16958 of 16958 (Mellon Arena)
Ticket income: 761414 Match televised: Yes
Boxscore for the game:
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16:39 0-1
Jordan Leopold [2] (Peter Forsberg, Ryan Smyth)PP
18:12 0-2
Adam Foote [2] (Ian Laperriere)
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25:52 1-2
Martin Havlat [11] (Darryl Sydor, Sergei Gonchar)
27:58 2-2
Zach Parisé [22] (Evgeny Malkin)
29:04 3-2
Sidney Crosby [18] (Martin Havlat)SH
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46:51 3-3
Ryan Smyth [13] (Adam Foote, Ian Laperriere)SH
47:42 4-3
Sidney Crosby [19] (Sergei Gonchar)
54:07 5-3
Evgeny Malkin [12] (Zach Parisé)
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Penalty summary:
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05:45
Evgeny Malkin (2 min for hooking)
08:34
Pierre-Marc Bouchard (2 min for hooking)
13:37
Ryan Smyth (2 min for slashing)
15:43
Marian Gaborik (2 min for cross-checking)
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22:43
Eric Healey (2 min for hooking)
28:37
Pierre-Marc Bouchard (2 min for holding the stick)
31:44
Eric Healey (2 min for hooking)
36:42
Jarkko Ruutu (2 min for slashing)
38:55
Dan DaSilva (2 min for hooking)
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42:56
Martin Havlat (2 min for slashing)
45:13
Andrew Brunette (2 min for roughing)
49:59
Ryan Smyth (2 min for high-sticking)
50:38
Joe Sakic (2 min for boarding)
54:19
Dan DaSilva (2 min for cross-checking)
56:11
Evgeny Malkin (2 min for high-sticking)
58:29
Wojtek Wolski (2 min for tripping)
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Pittsburgh Penguins scoring.
( G A Sh Hi Ga Ta PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
R Jarkko Ruutu 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 4.20 5
R Georges Laraque 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 8.00 7
R Petr Sykora 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 12.40 6
R Marian Gaborik 0 0 4 1 0 0 2 1 21.40 7
C Maxime Talbot 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 8.00 5
C Pierre-Marc Bouchard 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 0 9.00 7
C Evgeny Malkin 1 1 3 1 0 0 4 2 20.40 9
C Sidney Crosby 2 0 5 1 0 0 0 1 22.50 9
L Niklas Nordgren 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4.40 6
L Pascal Dupuis 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 11.50 5
L Zach Parisé 1 1 3 1 1 0 0 2 17.40 9
L Martin Havlat 1 1 4 0 1 0 2 1 25.10 8
D Brooks Orpik 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 1 18.20 6
D Ryan Whitney 0 0 7 3 0 0 0 2 28.10 8
D Darryl Sydor 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 12.40 8
D Hal Gill 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 17.50 8
D Curtis Murphy 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 14.10 7
D Sergei Gonchar 0 2 5 2 1 2 0 1 28.50 10
(GA, A, Sv , PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
G Marc-André Fleury 3 0 25 0 0 60.00 7
G Ty Conklin 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0
Colorado Avalanche scoring.
( G A Sh Hi Ga Ta PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
R Dan DaSilva 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 1 6.00 5
R Scott Parker 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 7.00 6
R Marek Svatos 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 -1 10.50 7
R Milan Hejduk 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 -2 18.00 6
C Ian Laperriere 0 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 19.40 9
C Paul Stastny 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 -1 13.20 7
C Peter Forsberg 0 1 4 1 0 1 0 -2 18.50 7
C Joe Sakic 0 0 3 1 1 0 2 -2 17.50 7
L Eric Healey 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 1 6.00 6
L Andrew Brunette 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 7.00 6
L Wojtek Wolski 0 0 3 2 0 1 2 -2 16.50 7
L Ryan Smyth 1 1 4 4 1 0 4 -1 20.30 9
D Ruslan Salei 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 8.50 6
D Jordan Leopold 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 -1 13.30 6
D Adam Foote 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 28.20 9
D Brett Clark 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 -1 17.00 7
D Scott Hannan 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -2 28.40 6
D John-Michael Liles 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 -2 23.40 6
(GA, A, Sv , PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
G José Theodore 5 0 35 0 0 60.00 6
G Peter Budaj 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0
Three stars of the game:
1st star: Sidney Crosby
2nd star: Evgeny Malkin
3rd star: Zach Parisé
Notes for Pittsburgh Penguins:
-Sergei Gonchar notched his 20th assist of the season.
Notes for Colorado Avalanche:
-Peter Forsberg notched his 20th assist of the season.
-Wojtek Wolski had his 3 game goal streak snapped.
-Jordan Leopold finally ended his 18 game goal drought.
Other notes:
Farm game result:
Wilkes-Barre Penguins 1( 12) , Hershey Bears 6( 23)
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0-1 HER Brad Richardson (Scott Sheppard, Kurt Sauer)
0-2 HER Patrik Valcak (Riku Hahl)
0-3 HER Josef Vavra (Kurt Sauer, Cody McCormick)
0-4 HER Egor Shastin (Ben Guite, Lucas Lawson)
0-5 HER Egor Shastin (Ben Guite)
0-6 HER Martin Paroulek (Cody McCormick)
1-6 WIL Dennis Bonvie (Olivier Legault)
Goalies: Dany Sabourin - Vitaly Kolesnik