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27/3/2013
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Pittsburgh Penguins 5 , Buffalo Sabres 3
Shots: 25 - 23
PP: 1 of 4 (9 shots), Passing:65/73=89 %, Challenges:33/52=62 %
PP: 1 of 5 (7 shots), Passing:69/88=78 %, Challenges:35/42=81 %
Attendance: 10321 of 16958 (Mellon Arena)
Ticket income: 629581 Match televised: Yes
Boxscore for the game:
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01:38 1-0
Ilya Kovalchuk [30] (Tim Gleason, Evgeni Malkin)
19:38 1-1
Thomas Meissnitzer [9] (Dana Tyrell, Richard Panik)PP
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31:14 1-2
Teppo Jyrkainen [18] (Carl Cummins, Eric Ouellet)
31:33 2-2
Aleksey Morozov [11] (Kris Letang, Casey Pierro-Zabotel)
36:39 3-2
Ilya Kovalchuk [31] (Dmitry Kulikov, Casey Pierro-Zabotel)SH
39:48 3-3
Luke Schenn [8] (Thomas Meissnitzer, Ryan Kesler)
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46:28 4-3
Alexander Ovechkin [58] (Tim Gleason, Duncan Keith)PP
58:24 5-3
Kris Letang [4] (Antti-Pekka Tuulasmaa) EN
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Penalty summary:
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00:56
Antti-Pekka Tuulasmaa (2 min for roughing)
00:56
Teppo Jyrkainen (2 min for roughing)
04:14
Marco Sturm (2 min for slashing)
05:48
Ilya Kovalchuk (2 min for high-sticking)
08:56
Dmitry Kulikov (5 min for fighting)
08:56
Richard Panik (5 min for fighting)
09:37
Duncan Keith (2 min for high-sticking)
18:41
Mike Comrie (2 min for hooking)
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34:46
Dustin Penner (2 min for hooking)
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42:21
Ryan Kesler (5 min for fighting)
42:21
Antti-Pekka Tuulasmaa (5 min for fighting)
43:33
Teppo Jyrkainen (2 min for boarding)
44:44
Raffi Torres (2 min for boarding)
52:11
Jeff Tambellini (2 min for hooking)
55:55
Teppo Jyrkainen (2 min for hooking)
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Pittsburgh Penguins scoring.
( G A Sh Hi Ga Ta PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
L Mike Comrie 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 8.30 5
R Marco Sturm 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 7.30 6
R Dustin Penner 0 0 2 4 3 1 2 -1 19.00 6
R Ilya Kovalchuk 2 0 2 5 1 0 2 2 20.20 9
C Maxime Talbot 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 11.10 5
C Casey Pierro-Zabotel 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 14.50 6
C Jirí Tlustý 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 11.30 7
C Evgeni Malkin 0 1 3 3 0 3 0 0 21.50 8
L Matt Stajan 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 10.20 4
L Aleksey Morozov 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 7.30 6
L Tomas Fleischmann 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 0 16.00 5
L Alexander Ovechkin 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 21.10 8
D Dmitry Kulikov 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 2 12.30 7
D Christian Ehrhoff 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 16.50 5
D Duncan Keith 0 1 2 1 1 0 2 0 29.40 7
D Kris Letang 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 10.10 7
D Tim Gleason 0 2 1 2 2 1 0 1 24.40 8
D Antti-Pekka Tuulasmaa 0 1 1 8 1 1 7 0 26.50 9
(GA, A, Sv , PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
G Kevin Poulin 3 0 20 0 0 60.00 6
G Cory Schneider 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0
Buffalo Sabres scoring.
( G A Sh Hi Ga Ta PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
R Raffi Torres 0 0 1 4 0 3 2 0 10.10 7
R Stanislav Galiev 0 0 3 2 0 2 0 0 12.10 7
R Richard Panik 0 1 1 2 1 0 5 -2 20.40 6
R Teppo Jyrkainen 1 0 2 0 0 0 6 0 12.50 6
C Dana Tyrell 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 11.50 5
C Paul Nordin 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 12.10 5
C Thomas Meissnitzer 1 1 3 0 3 0 0 0 17.50 7
C Ryan Kesler 0 1 4 1 0 0 5 -3 20.40 8
L Jeff Tambellini 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 8.10 5
L Patrick Thoresen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12.10 4
R Tim Brocklehurst 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 1 16.10 6
L Carl Cummins 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 -1 17.20 5
D Cenek Eiselt 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 12.30 7
D Rostislav Klesla 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 -1 25.20 7
D Eric Ouellet 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 -1 18.20 7
D Andrej Sekera 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 19.00 6
D Luke Schenn 1 0 1 3 0 3 0 0 20.40 8
D Cam Fowler 0 0 2 4 0 3 0 -2 24.30 8
(GA, A, Sv , PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
G Rick DiPietro 5 0 20 0 0 59.30 4
G Jhonas Enroth 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0
Three stars of the game:
1st star: Ilya Kovalchuk
2nd star: Kris Letang
3rd star: Casey Pierro-Zabotel
Notes for Pittsburgh Penguins:
-Ilya Kovalchuk scored his 30th goal of the season.
-Antti-Pekka Tuulasmaa notched his 40th assist of the season.
-Dmitry Kulikov ended his 7 game point drought.
-Kris Letang finally ended his 32 game goal drought.
Notes for Buffalo Sabres:
-Thomas Meissnitzer has marked a new career high in goals with 9 tallies.
-Thomas Meissnitzer has marked a new career high in points with 27 points.
-Eric Ouellet notched his 30th assist of the season.
-Thomas Meissnitzer has marked a new career high in assists with 19 assists.
-Teppo Jyrkainen ended his 7 game goal drought.
-Thomas Meissnitzer finally ended his 10 game goal drought.
-Luke Schenn finally ended his 21 game goal drought.
Other notes:
-Richard Panik beat Dmitry Kulikov in a fight.
-Ryan Kesler beat Antti-Pekka Tuulasmaa in a fight.
Farm game result:
Wilkes-Barre Penguins 4( 28) , Rochester Americans 3( 18)
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0-1 ROC Joonas Marttila (Jon Woods, Brent Regner)
1-1 WIL Lukas Kaspar (Petr Vrana)
1-2 ROC Joonas Marttila (Jon Woods, Brent Regner)
2-2 WIL Linus Videll (Alex Grant)
2-3 ROC Taylor Stefishen (Kris Fredheim)