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March 26,2006  (Sunday) in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania - Mellon Arena	Goals/Period 1 2 3 Tot MON 2 3 1 6 PIT 0 3 2 5	Shots 1 2 3 Tot MON 9 14 2 25 PIT 8 16 11 35	PowerPlay PP Game PP Season PK Season MON 3 / 7 80 / 400 (20.0%) 351 / 435 (80.7%) PIT 2 / 4 79 / 434 (18.2%) 369 / 473 (78.0%)
Start: 7:30pm Attendance: 14,807 Referees: Justin StPierre, Don VanMassenhoven Officials: David Brisebois, Scott Driscoll	Montreal Canadiens Game #71 35-33-3 73 Pts Prev Game vs TOR Next Game vs NYI Pittsburgh Penguins Game #71 18-41-12 48 Pts Prev Game at NYI Next Game at FLA Three Stars: (1) Christopher Higgins  (MON)  (2) Colby Armstrong (PIT)  (3) Saku Koivu (MON)

Goals 1st Period 1. MON Christopher Higgins    [15]  [c15]   (Powerplay)   ( Saku Koivu [36],  Michael Ryder [20] ) 04:24 2. MON Radek Bonk    [5]  [c157]   ( Niklas Sundstrom [9],  Mark Streit [7] ) 05:05 2nd Period 3. PIT Colby Armstrong    [11]  [c11]   (Powerplay)   ( Sidney Crosby [47],  Sergei Gonchar [37] ) 00:41 4. MON Christopher Higgins    [16]  [c16]   ( Saku Koivu [37],  Sheldon Souray [23] ) 03:14 5. PIT Tomas SUROVY    [11]  [c26]   (Powerplay)   ( Michel Ouellet [14],  Noah Welch [2] ) 06:04 6. MON Alexei Kovalev    [19]  [c311]   (Powerplay)   ( Mark Streit [8],  Richard Zednik [14] ) 10:51 7. PIT Colby Armstrong    [12]  [c12]   (Shorthanded)   ( Andy HILBERT [7] ) 12:51 8. MON Alexei Kovalev    [20]  [c312]   (Powerplay)   ( Unassisted ) 19:40 3rd Period 9. PIT Noah Welch    [1]  [c1]   ( Josef Melichar [10],  Sidney Crosby [48] ) 01:39 10. MON Michael Ryder    [28]  [c53]   (GW)   ( Mathieu Dandenault [14],  Saku Koivu [38] ) 13:00 11. PIT John LeClair    [17]  [c399]   ( Konstantin Koltsov [3],  Ryan MALONE [18] ) 14:05 Goalies Goalie Career Team Decision Min GA Shots Saves Record sGAA David Aebischer Career MON W 60 5 35 30 26-16-2 3.12 Marc-Andre Fleury Career PIT L 58 6 25 19 11-25-4 3.28

Penalties 1st Period 1. PIT Tomas SUROVY [2] Holding 2 03:00 2. PIT Ryan Whitney [7] Hooking 2 08:21 3. MON Garth Murray [2] Hooking 2 16:09 4. MON Alexei Kovalev [6] Hooking 2 19:47 2nd Period 5. MON Jan Bulis [14] Hooking 2 04:38 6. PIT Tomas SUROVY [3] Holding 2 09:08 7. PIT Ryan Whitney [8] Hooking 2 12:33 8. PIT Tomas SUROVY [4] Hooking 2 18:18 3rd Period 9. PIT Shane Endicott [3] Tripping 2 02:44 10. MON Sheldon Souray [3] Fighting 5 07:57 11. PIT Ryan MALONE [3] Fighting 5 07:57 12. MON Richard Zednik [8] Hooking 2 17:09 13. PIT Sergei Gonchar [4] Interference 2 19:00

Faceoffs
Montreal Canadiens   Game Season Player FW FL FO% FW FL FO% Radek Bonk 15 8 65.2% 390 431 47.5% Saku Koivu 10 3 76.9% 635 566 52.9% Jan Bulis 6 4 60.0% 55 68 44.7% Tomas Plekanec 2 2 50.0% 302 288 51.2% Christopher Higgins 1 1 50.0% 20 21 48.8% Garth Murray 0 1 .0% 41 46 47.1% Steve Begin 1 0 100.0% 286 285 50.1%   35 19 64.8% 2117 2169 49.4%	Pittsburgh Penguins   Game Season Player FW FL FO% FW FL FO% Sidney Crosby 9 11 45.0% 434 537 44.7% Ryan Malone 5 14 26.3% 210 316 39.9% Jani Rita 0 6 .0% 16 26 38.1% Shane Endicott 5 0 100.0% 204 192 51.5% Colby Armstrong 0 2 .0% 8 25 24.2% Konstantin Koltsov 0 1 .0% 3 8 27.3% Andy HILBERT 0 1 .0% 53 73 42.1%   19 35 35.2% 2006 2330 46.3%

Montreal Canadiens Roster # Player Pos cGP G A Pts +/- PM Shots BlSh Hits IceTime PP SH 8 Mike Komisarek D 129 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 2 17:55 0:00 2:00 11 Saku Koivu C 558 0 3 3 2 0 2 0 1 15:10 4:14 0:41 14 Radek Bonk C 740 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 17:47 0:51 3:41 20 Richard Zednik LW 571 0 1 1 -2 2 3 0 1 17:46 7:31 0:00 21 Christopher Higgins LW-C 71 2 0 2 2 0 2 1 0 15:39 3:49 1:05 22 Steve Begin LW-C 245 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 17:45 0:51 3:41 25 Mathieu Dandenault D-RW 687 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 14:36 0:51 0:54 27 Alexei Kovalev RW 907 2 0 2 -2 2 5 1 0 17:31 6:30 0:00 32 Mark Streit D-LW 40 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 18:44 3:58 0:40 35 Tomas Plekanec C 58 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 0 11:09 0:02 1:49 37 Niklas Sundstrom RW 747 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 12:21 0:00 0:40 38 Jan Bulis C 465 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 4 16:17 6:13 0:00 42 Alexander Perezhogin RW 56 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 8:21 0:00 0:00 44 Sheldon Souray D 414 0 1 1 -1 5 1 3 0 22:21 6:23 3:43 52 Craig Rivet D 588 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 21:23 4:06 3:17 57 Garth Murray LW 46 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0 9:13 0:00 0:46 73 Michael Ryder RW 152 1 1 2 2 0 4 0 1 14:56 3:59 0:00 79 Andrei Markov D 323 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 2 25:01 7:22 1:48   8169 6 10 16 0 13 25 10 16

Pittsburgh Penguins Roster # Player Pos cGP G A Pts +/- PM Shots BlSh Hits IceTime PP SH 2 Josef Melichar D 229 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 17:22 0:00 6:21 4 Noah Welch D 2 1 1 2 2 0 1 4 3 15:07 1:17 4:00 5 Robert Scuderi D 59 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 0 22:45 0:00 7:06 7 Michel Ouellet RW 39 0 1 1 -1 0 2 1 0 12:15 1:52 0:00 9 Andy HILBERT RW 74 0 1 1 2 0 4 0 0 21:52 4:01 4:48 10 John LeClair LW 935 1 0 1 0 0 4 2 0 15:51 1:57 0:00 12 Ryan Malone LW 147 0 1 1 0 5 2 0 1 18:34 1:52 6:02 14 Shane Endicott C 40 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 8:23 0:00 0:01 19 Ryan Whitney D 57 0 0 0 -1 4 2 0 1 23:07 5:17 4:18 20 Colby Armstrong RW 36 2 0 2 2 0 5 1 1 23:26 4:19 5:03 23 Eric Boguniecki C 159 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 2 6:39 0:00 0:00 28 Jani Rita RW-LW 55 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 0 6:42 0:00 0:00 36 Andre Roy RW 341 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 3:02 0:00 0:00 43 Tomas SUROVY LW 115 1 0 1 -1 6 2 1 0 12:09 0:26 0:00 44 Brooks Orpik D 138 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 4 16:21 0:00 0:33 55 Sergei Gonchar D 735 0 1 1 -1 2 2 0 0 25:02 5:48 0:22 71 Konstantin Koltsov RW 133 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 1 17:37 0:00 6:33 87 Sidney Crosby C 70 0 2 2 1 0 2 1 1 22:34 4:54 0:46   3474 5 9 14 -1 19 35 16 15

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