Pittsburgh at Minnesota

Shots

	1	2	3	OT	T
Pittsburgh	12	16	9	4	41
Minnesota	12	11	16	6	45

Goals

	1	2	3	OT	T
Pittsburgh	1	2	2	0	5
Minnesota	1	3	1	0	5

Scoring Summary

Period 1
1. MINNESOTA, MARLEAU 8 (PRUCHA, SCHULTZ), 02:12
2. PITTSBURGH, VYBORNY 9 (NYLANDER, WHITNEY) (PP), 15:28

PENALTIES: M. PETTINGER PIT (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 01:25, K. WANVIG MIN (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor, Misconduct) 01:25, P. PRUCHA MIN (CHARGING, Minor) 10:47, M. ERAT PIT (CHARGING, Minor) 13:25, D. BRASHEAR MIN (ROUGHING, Minor) 14:33, B. ROLSTON PIT (HIGHSTICKING, Minor, Misconduct) 15:33, P. MARLEAU MIN (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 15:33

Period 2
3. MINNESOTA, HULSE 2 (BRASHEAR, CONNOLLY), 00:21
4. MINNESOTA, MARLEAU 9 (SEMIN), 05:08
5. MINNESOTA, MARLEAU 10 (BELL, JONSSON), 09:24
6. PITTSBURGH, ROLSTON 12 (NYLANDER, LUKOWICH), 10:10
7. PITTSBURGH, LECAVALIER 8 (UNASSISTED) (PP), 11:32

PENALTIES: K. WANVIG MIN (ROUGHING, Minor) 10:57

Period 3
8. PITTSBURGH, NYLANDER 6 (VYBORNY, LECAVALIER) (PP), 07:01
9. MINNESOTA, PRUCHA 11 (MARLEAU, SCHULTZ), 09:27
10. PITTSBURGH, TIMONEN 3 (NYLANDER, PETTINGER) (PP), 14:09

PENALTIES: M. VLASIC PIT (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 03:12, P. KANE MIN (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 04:19, O. TVERDOVSKY MIN (ELBOWING, Minor) 06:44, K. WANVIG MIN (ELBOWING, Minor) 12:33, S. DOAN PIT (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor, Misconduct) 15:42

Overtime
NO SCORING

Goalie Statistics

Olaf Kolzig (PIT), 15 saves out of 15 shots, T, 9-3-4
Cam Ward (PIT), 25 saves out of 30 shots
JS Giguere (MIN), 29 saves out of 34 shots, T, 8-10-3
Johan Holmqvist (MIN), 7 saves out of 7 shots

Power Play Conversions

Pittsburgh 4 for 6
Minnesota 0 for 3

Game Stars

1 - Patrick Marleau (MIN)
2 - Petr Prucha (MIN)
3 - Michael Nylander (PIT)

Player Statistics

Pittsburgh

G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Brian Rolston 1 0 1 +1 12 3 0 21 Joni Pitkanen 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 15 Kimmo Timonen 1 0 1 -3 0 2 3 30 David Vyborny 1 1 2 -1 0 9 1 28 Brad Lukowich 0 1 1 -1 0 2 2 26 Shane Doan 0 0 0 -3 12 4 2 21 Kevin Dallman 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 10 Vincent Lecavalier 1 1 2 -4 0 5 5 30 Kristian Huselius 0 0 0 -2 0 3 2 21 Matt Pettinger 0 1 1 Even 2 2 1 13 Ryan Whitney 0 1 1 -1 0 2 2 24 Antti Laaksonen 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 8 Jeff Carter 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 12 Martin Erat 0 0 0 Even 2 0 2 10 Duvie Westcott 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 10 Michael Nylander 1 3 4 -1 0 5 2 25 Robert Scuderi 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 0 Marc Edouard Vlasic 0 0 0 Even 2 0 1 14

Minnesota

G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Lars Jonsson 0 1 1 Even 0 1 2 7 Alexander Semin 0 1 1 +3 0 8 0 23 Darryl Sydor 0 0 0 +1 0 2 3 25 Donald Brashear 0 1 1 +1 2 1 5 21 Petr Prucha 1 1 2 +3 2 7 1 26 Adam Hall 0 0 0 Even 0 1 2 15 Cale Hulse 1 0 1 +1 0 1 2 23 Patrick Kane 0 0 0 +1 2 4 2 21 Nicklas Bäckström 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 13 Mike Van Ryn 0 0 0 +3 0 3 2 23 Nick Schultz 0 2 2 +3 0 0 2 23 Alexandre Giroux 0 0 0 Even 0 1 0 6 Kyle Wanvig 0 0 0 Even 16 1 0 11 Brendan Bell 0 1 1 Even 0 0 1 6 Oleg Tverdovsky 0 0 0 Even 2 0 1 12 Travis Roche 0 0 0 Even 0 1 0 10 Patrick Marleau 3 1 4 +3 2 9 2 28 Tim Connolly 0 1 1 +1 0 5 2 24

Financial

Attendance: 15867
Net Profit: $666,414.00

Game Notes

Joni Pitkanen injured at 17:57 of the 2nd Period
Olaf Kolzig enters game at 09:27 of 3rd period
Johan Holmqvist enters game at 14:09 of 3rd period
Patrick Marleau scores a hat trick

Minor League Box Score

WBScranton     0
Houston        1
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unknown (Mark Cullen, Matt Foy)

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Goalies
WBScranton: unknown
Houston: Philippe Sauve
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