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» Pittsburgh Penguins 4 Washington Capitals 2

March 9,2008 (Sunday)
in Washington,DC - Verizon Center

Goals/Period	1	2	3	Tot
PIT	0	2	2	4
WAS	0	2	0	2

Shots	1	2	3	Tot
PIT	4	9	13	26
WAS	11	22	5	38

PowerPlay	PP Game	PP Season	PK Season
PIT	0 / 5	65 / 319 (20.4%)	247 / 308 (80.2%)
WAS	2 / 7	55 / 287 (19.2%)	243 / 301 (80.7%)

Start: 12:30pm
Attendance: 18,277
Referees: Paul Devorski, Don VanMassenhoven
Officials: Darren Gibbs, Jonny Murray

Pittsburgh Penguins	Game #70	39-27-4	82 Pts	Prev Game at FLA	Next Game vs BUF
Washington Capitals	Game #70	32-30-8	72 Pts	Prev Game vs BOS	Next Game at CGY

Three Stars: (1) Evgeni Malkin (PIT) (2) Alexander Ovechkin (WAS) (3) Sidney Crosby (PIT)

Goals

1st Period
No Goals
2nd Period
1.	WAS	Brooks Laich [17] [c32] (Powerplay) ( Alexander Semin [14], Alexander Ovechkin [40] )	7:23
2.	PIT	Petr Sykora [22] [c271] ( Evgeni Malkin [52], Jeff Taffe [6] )	8:42
3.	PIT	Sidney Crosby [21] [c96] ( Evgeni Malkin [53], Sergei Gonchar [45] )	18:08
4.	WAS	Alexander Semin [21] [c69] (Powerplay) ( Alexander Ovechkin [41], Sergei Fedorov [21] )	19:46
3rd Period
5.	PIT	Sidney Crosby [22] [c97] (GW) ( Unassisted )	19:32
6.	PIT	Jordan Staal [10] [c39] (Empty Net) ( Evgeni Malkin [54] )	19:47

Goalies

Goalie	Career	Team	Decision	Min	GA	Shots	Saves	Record	sGAA
Marc-Andre Fleury	Career	PIT	W	60	2	38	36	12-9-1	2.77
Cristobal Huet	Career	WAS	L	60	3	25	22	23-14-6	2.50

Penalties

1st Period
1.	PIT	Maxime Talbot	[5]	Hooking	2	3:15
2.	WAS	Alexander Semin	[3]	Roughing	2	4:43
3.	WAS	Mike Green	[9]	Hooking	2	9:29
4.	PIT	Jarkko Ruutu	[1]	Charging	2	17:56
2nd Period
5.	PIT	Petr Sykora	[3]	Holding	2	5:00
6.	PIT	Brooks Orpik	[4]	Slashing	2	6:01
7.	WAS	Shaone Morrisonn	[4]	Tripping	2	12:19
8.	WAS	Sergei Fedorov	[1]	Slashing	2	16:06
9.	PIT	Hal Gill	[2]	Cross checking	2	18:55
10.	PIT	Brooks Orpik	[4]	Roughing	2	19:31
3rd Period
11.	WAS	Quintin Laing	[1]	Kneeing	2	9:04
12.	PIT	Bench Penalty	[-]	Too many men/ice - bench	2	15:02

Faceoffs

Pittsburgh Penguins
	Game			Season
Player	FW	FL	FO%	FW	FL	FO%

Jordan Staal	11	11	50.0%	416	560	42.6%
Sidney Crosby	5	11	31.3%	527	501	51.3%
Evgeni Malkin	4	11	26.7%	277	431	39.1%
Maxime Talbot	1	5	16.7%	183	223	45.1%
Jeff Taffe	1	0	100.0%	53	63	45.7%
Ryan Malone	0	1	.0%	12	23	34.3%

	22	39	36.1%	1880	2156	46.6%

Washington Capitals
	Game			Season
Player	FW	FL	FO%	FW	FL	FO%

Sergei Fedorov	17	4	81.0%	435	338	56.3%
Boyd Gordon	9	5	64.3%	407	337	54.7%
Brooks Laich	5	7	41.7%	215	240	47.3%
Nicklas Backstrom	7	4	63.6%	352	409	46.3%
Matt Cooke	0	1	.0%	10	16	38.5%
Eric Fehr	0	1	.0%	0	2	.0%
Alexander Ovechkin	1	0	100.0%	6	11	35.3%

	39	22	63.9%	2056	1974	51.0%

Pittsburgh Penguins Roster
#	Player	Pos	cGP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PM	Shots	BlSh	Hits	IceTime	PP	SH
2	Hal Gill	D	777	0	0	0	2	2	0	1	2	18:22	0:06	4:48
5	Darryl Sydor	D	1161	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	13:24	1:30	0:57
9	Pascal Dupuis	LW	425	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	3	19:08	0:10	4:09
11	Jordan Staal	C	151	1	0	1	1	0	3	1	2	18:36	0:49	5:20
12	Ryan Malone	LW	287	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	23:24	5:57	4:35
17	Petr Sykora	C	843	1	0	1	1	2	3	0	0	14:52	2:43	0:23
19	Ryan Whitney	D	213	0	0	0	1	0	2	4	0	20:13	8:01	0:57
25	Maxime Talbot	C	175	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	14:39	0:18	4:11
27	Georges Laraque	RW	625	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4:29	0:00	0:00
37	Jarkko Ruutu	LW	407	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	4	8:57	0:00	0:36
38	Jeff Taffe	F	137	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	9:58	1:14	0:00
39	Chris Minard	F	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0:36	0:00	0:00
44	Brooks Orpik	D	285	0	0	0	1	4	0	2	8	18:32	0:00	3:53
48	Tyler Kennedy	C	44	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	12:03	2:17	0:00
55	Sergei Gonchar	D	892	0	1	1	3	0	2	2	1	28:09	7:42	5:28
58	Kristopher Letang	D	59	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	3	19:49	1:37	3:14
71	Evgeni Malkin	C	148	0	3	3	3	0	5	0	0	23:18	7:48	2:03
87	Sidney Crosby	C	209	2	0	2	2	0	6	1	1	19:37	7:08	0:00

			8098	4	5	9	20	12	26	16	29

Washington Capitals Roster
#	Player	Pos	cGP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PM	Shots	BlSh	Hits	IceTime	PP	SH
3	Tom Poti	D	653	0	0	0	-2	0	0	1	1	18:45	1:32	5:01
4	John Erskine	D	216	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	13:38	0:00	3:35
8	Alexander Ovechkin	LW	233	0	2	2	-2	0	10	2	2	25:22	9:54	0:23
10	Matt Bradley	RW	399	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	1	10:44	0:00	3:28
14	Eric Fehr	RW	37	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	10:25	1:33	0:00
15	Boyd Gordon	RW-C	192	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	1	16:38	0:00	4:44
19	Nicklas Backstrom	C	70	0	0	0	-1	0	4	1	0	21:05	8:54	0:00
21	Brooks Laich	C	221	1	0	1	-3	0	3	0	0	16:20	5:00	4:51
23	Milan Jurcina	D	184	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	12:06	0:00	2:04
24	Matt Cooke	LW	570	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	6	10:18	0:00	0:00
25	Viktor Kozlov	C-LW	818	0	0	0	-1	0	5	2	2	18:06	2:08	0:22
26	Shaone Morrisonn	D	268	0	0	0	-2	2	0	3	1	22:08	0:00	4:32
28	Alexander Semin	LW	180	1	1	2	-1	2	3	0	0	18:41	8:19	0:00
52	Mike Green	C	94	0	0	0	-3	2	2	0	0	26:17	7:15	0:00
53	Quintin Laing	LW	40	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	9:23	0:00	1:59
55	Jeff Schultz	D	98	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	15:38	0:14	3:44
87	Donald Brashear	LW	915	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	1	4:14	0:00	0:00
91	Sergei Fedorov	C	1184	0	1	1	-2	2	2	1	0	20:21	7:26	3:09

			6732	2	4	6	-21	10	38	15	23

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