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December 20,2007  (Thursday) in Boston,Massachusetts - TD Banknorth Garden	Goals/Period 1 2 3 4 Tot PIT 3 1 0 0 5 BOS 0 2 2 0 4	Shots 1 2 3 4 Tot PIT 14 9 4 2 29 BOS 13 11 17 0 41	PowerPlay PP Game PP Season PK Season PIT 0 / 5 31 / 163 (19.0%) 128 / 163 (78.5%) BOS 2 / 7 25 / 126 (19.8%) 108 / 140 (77.1%)
Start: 7:00pm Attendance: 15,304 Referees: Eric Furlatt, Bill McCreary Officials: Scott Driscoll, Brad Kovachik	Pittsburgh Penguins Game #34 17-16-1 35 Pts Prev Game at NYR Next Game vs NYI Boston Bruins Game #34 18-12-4 40 Pts Prev Game at OTT Next Game at STL Three Stars: (1) Sidney Crosby  (PIT)  (2) Evgeni Malkin (PIT)  (3) P.J. Axelsson (BOS)

Goals 1st Period 1. PIT Evgeni Malkin    [12]  [c45]   ( Sidney Crosby [29],  Colby Armstrong [7] ) 0:55 2. PIT Sidney Crosby    [16]  [c91]   ( Colby Armstrong [8],  Sergei Gonchar [21] ) 8:26 3. PIT Evgeni Malkin    [13]  [c46]   ( Sidney Crosby [30] ) 11:53 2nd Period 4. PIT Erik Christensen    [4]  [c28]   ( Ryan Whitney [9],  Colby Armstrong [9] ) 11:26 5. BOS Marco Sturm    [11]  [c189]   (Powerplay)   ( Andrew Ference [7],  Glen Metropolit [7] ) 16:04 6. BOS P.J. Axelsson    [5]  [c89]   (Shorthanded)   ( Jeremy Reich [1] ) 17:38 3rd Period 7. BOS Petteri Nokelainen    [3]  [c4]   ( Andrew Ference [8],  Glen Metropolit [8] ) 13:14 8. BOS Dennis Wideman    [4]  [c18]   (Powerplay)   ( Marco Sturm [12],  Marc Savard [30] ) 17:05 Shootout Results 1.  PIT  Erik Christensen scored. Winner 2.  BOS  Phil Kessel was stopped. 3.  PIT  Kristopher Letang scored. 4.  BOS  Marco Sturm was stopped. Goalies Goalie Career Team Decision Min GA Shots Saves Record sGAA Ty Conklin Career PIT W 65 4 41 37 1-0-0 4.94 Tim Thomas Career BOS OTL 65 4 29 25 10-7-3 2.22

Penalties 1st Period 1. PIT Georges Laraque [1] Delay of Game 2 12:30 2. BOS Zdeno Chara [1] Delay of Game 2 12:30 3. PIT Georges Laraque [5] Fighting 5 14:36 4. BOS Zdeno Chara [3] Fighting 5 14:36 5. PIT Evgeni Malkin [1] Slashing 2 18:45 2nd Period 6. BOS Glen Metropolit [2] Holding 2 3:09 7. PIT Sidney Crosby [1] Fighting 5 5:09 8. BOS Andrew Ference [2] Roughing 2 5:09 9. BOS Andrew Ference [1] Fighting 5 5:09 10. BOS Dennis Wideman [3] Holding 2 6:58 11. PIT Evgeni Malkin [4] Tripping 2 10:30 12. BOS Dennis Wideman [2] Slashing 2 11:13 13. PIT Adam Hall [2] High Sticking 2 13:25 14. PIT Sergei Gonchar [1] Tripping 2 14:36 15. BOS Glen Metropolit [3] Hooking 2 16:49 3rd Period 16. PIT Jarkko Ruutu [4] Hooking 2 6:57 17. PIT Sergei Gonchar [2] Holding 2 11:06 18. PIT Erik Christensen [2] Hooking 2 16:27

Faceoffs

Pittsburgh Penguins   Game Season Player FW FL FO% FW FL FO% Sidney Crosby 12 12 50.0% 381 352 52.0% Erik Christensen 16 6 72.7% 105 71 59.7% Jordan Staal 7 8 46.7% 159 211 43.0% Adam Hall 3 3 50.0% 171 168 50.4% Jeff Taffe 2 2 50.0% 2 2 50.0% Petr Sykora 1 1 50.0% 5 4 55.6% Evgeni Malkin 0 1 .0% 73 121 37.6% Colby Armstrong 0 1 .0% 2 5 28.6% Gary Roberts 1 0 100.0% 4 2 66.7%   42 34 55.3% 958 1008 48.7%

Boston Bruins   Game Season Player FW FL FO% FW FL FO% Marc Savard 11 15 42.3% 338 339 49.9% Glen Metropolit 14 11 56.0% 246 272 47.5% Vladimir Sobotka 4 7 36.4% 28 29 49.1% Phil Kessel 2 6 25.0% 113 145 43.8% Jeremy Reich 1 1 50.0% 5 1 83.3% P.J. Axelsson 1 1 50.0% 10 16 38.5% Marco Sturm 0 1 .0% 1 11 8.3% Chuck Kobasew 1 0 100.0% 15 16 48.4%   34 42 44.7% 943 1042 47.5%

Pittsburgh Penguins Roster # Player Pos cGP G A Pts +/- PM Shots BlSh Hits IceTime PP SH 3 Mark Eaton D 382 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 0 20:13 0:00 6:32 4 Robert Scuderi D 182 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 21:08 0:00 5:05 5 Darryl Sydor D 1125 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 18:37 1:49 1:38 10 Gary Roberts LW 1189 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:49 2:46 0:00 11 Jordan Staal C 115 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 1 20:33 1:02 6:30 16 Erik Christensen C-W 123 1 0 1 1 2 5 0 0 15:55 3:00 1:04 17 Petr Sykora C 808 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 15:14 4:53 0:00 18 Adam Hall RW 362 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 1 14:48 0:11 5:46 19 Ryan Whitney D 179 0 1 1 0 0 3 4 1 27:32 6:43 4:48 20 Colby Armstrong RW 155 0 3 3 4 0 2 0 0 20:36 0:32 4:29 27 Georges Laraque RW 589 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 4:53 0:23 0:00 37 Jarkko Ruutu LW 371 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 10:18 0:00 3:34 38 Jeff Taffe F 101 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5:39 1:33 0:00 48 Tyler Kennedy C 21 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 11:56 2:33 0:00 55 Sergei Gonchar D 856 0 1 1 0 4 3 2 0 24:48 5:09 5:10 58 Kristopher Letang D 23 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 15:18 1:57 0:00 71 Evgeni Malkin C 112 2 0 2 2 4 5 0 0 22:44 5:33 0:53 87 Sidney Crosby C 194 1 2 3 2 5 1 0 1 20:20 3:10 2:10   8065 4 7 11 9 26 29 15 9

Boston Bruins Roster # Player Pos cGP G A Pts +/- PM Shots BlSh Hits IceTime PP SH 6 Dennis Wideman D 175 1 0 1 1 4 5 1 0 29:01 6:59 2:19 11 P.J. Axelsson LW 681 1 0 1 -1 0 6 0 1 22:28 3:15 4:39 12 Chuck Kobasew RW 254 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 18:55 3:45 1:49 13 Glen Metropolit C 214 0 2 2 1 4 3 1 0 22:21 3:15 2:07 16 Marco Sturm LW 713 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 20:28 6:13 3:06 17 Milan Lucic LW 29 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 13:36 4:41 0:00 21 Andrew Ference D 431 0 2 2 -2 7 2 4 4 21:14 2:47 1:54 27 Glen Murray RW 980 0 0 0 -3 0 2 0 0 7:24 1:57 0:00 33 Zdeno Chara D 645 0 0 0 -2 7 3 1 3 30:13 8:01 5:32 38 Bobby Allen D 46 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6:23 0:26 0:36 44 Aaron Ward D 661 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 25:19 3:44 4:47 45 Mark Stuart D 66 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 0 17:20 1:16 1:56 53 Jeremy Reich LW 63 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 5:34 0:00 2:19 56 Petteri Nokelainen RW 37 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 5:20 0:11 0:00 60 Vladimir Sobotka C 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 8:57 0:03 1:10 72 Peter Schaefer LW 528 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 13:45 3:18 0:04 81 Phil Kessel C 104 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 1 17:53 3:41 0:04 91 Marc Savard C 619 0 1 1 -3 0 6 0 1 21:53 7:03 1:35   8217 4 7 11 -10 22 41 9 19

Transactions Since last game)

Pittsburgh Penguins Transactions Dec 19,2007 - Connor James assigned to Scranton Wilkes-Barre Dec 19,2007 - Jeff Taffe recalled from Scranton Wilkes-Barre

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