National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Pittsburgh 4, Washington 3
When: 7:30 PM ET, Thursday, December 27, 2007
Where: Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Referees: Stephane Auger, Dan Marouelli
Linesmen: Steve Barton, Michel Cormier
Attendance: 17132
Final Scoring Summary
 
Final OT123OTT
Washington 12003
Pittsburgh 20114
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
12:01 - Penguins Jeff Taffe (EV) Assists: Jarkko Ruutu , Darryl Sydor
15:24 - Capitals Donald Brashear (EV) Assists: Boyd Gordon
17:53 - Penguins Colby Armstrong (EV) Assists: Ryan Whitney , Sidney Crosby
Penalties
3:18 - Penguins Georges Laraque (5) Fighting
 3:18 - Capitals Donald Brashear (5) Fighting
 7:05 - Penguins Jarkko Ruutu (2) Holding the stick
 19:43 - Capitals Alexander Ovechkin (2) Cross checking
2nd Period
Scoring
5:23 - Capitals Brian Pothier (EV) Assists: Nicklas Backstrom , Viktor Kozlov
18:26 - Capitals Alexander Ovechkin (EV) Assists: Nicklas Backstrom
Penalties
None.
3rd Period
Scoring
17:44 - Penguins Darryl Sydor (PP) Assists: Erik Christensen
Penalties
4:23 - Penguins Colby Armstrong (2) Interference
 15:48 - Capitals Shaone Morrisonn (2) Roughing
Overtime
Scoring
1:33 - Penguins Sergei Gonchar (EV) Assists: Sidney Crosby , Colby Armstrong
Penalties
None.
Washington Capitals
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Brent Johnson G 0 0 0 0 0 17:53 15:53 2:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Olaf Kolzig G 0 0 0 0 0 43:40 37:44 2:00 3:56 0 0 - - - - -
Brian Pothier D 1 0 1 E 0 1 23 16:21 16:02 0:19 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Tom Poti D 0 0 0 E 0 3 27 22:34 17:40 2:00 2:54 0 0 - - - - -
Alexander Ovechkin LW 1 0 1 +2 2 2 16 16:55 14:34 2:21 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Bradley RW 0 0 0 E 0 2 14 8:38 8:38 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Boyd Gordon RW 0 1 1 +1 0 1 20 13:43 10:52 0:00 2:51 0 0 - - 9 3 75
Matt Pettinger LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 18 14:12 13:07 0:00 1:05 0 0 - - - - -
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 2 2 E 0 1 20 19:13 16:08 3:05 0:00 0 0 - - 8 4 67
Brooks Laich C 0 0 0 E 0 1 21 17:10 15:14 0:51 1:05 0 0 - - 1 4 20
Milan Jurcina D 0 0 0 E 0 1 26 16:51 15:46 0:00 1:05 0 0 - - - - -
Viktor Kozlov RW 0 1 1 +2 0 0 18 14:54 14:03 0:51 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Shaone Morrisonn D 0 0 0 E 2 0 29 19:50 18:52 0:00 0:58 0 0 - - - - -
Alexander Semin LW 0 0 0 -2 0 4 18 19:01 15:52 3:09 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
David Steckel LW 0 0 0 E 0 0 20 15:14 12:19 0:04 2:51 0 0 - - 6 10 38
Tomas Fleischmann C 0 0 0 E 0 1 19 15:50 14:59 0:51 0:00 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Mike Green C 0 0 0 E 0 4 30 24:35 21:15 3:20 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Jeff Schultz D 0 0 0 E 0 0 24 19:24 16:29 0:00 2:55 0 0 - - - - -
Donald Brashear LW 1 0 1 -1 5 3 13 9:31 9:31 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Michael Nylander C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 18 18:20 15:11 3:09 0:00 0 0 - - 2 8 20
Pittsburgh Penguins
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Dany Sabourin G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Ty Conklin G 0 0 0 0 0 61:33 53:37 3:56 4:00 0 0 - - - - -
Robert Scuderi D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 21 17:34 15:43 0:00 1:51 0 0 - - - - -
Darryl Sydor D 1 1 2 +2 0 1 25 20:25 18:13 0:03 2:09 1 0 - - - - -
Gary Roberts LW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 19 13:00 12:40 0:20 0:00 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Jordan Staal C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 22 19:48 13:39 3:36 2:33 0 0 - - 8 6 57
Erik Christensen C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 18 12:32 12:29 0:03 0:00 0 0 - - 6 5 55
Petr Sykora RW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 17 13:18 13:15 0:03 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Adam Hall LW 0 0 0 +1 0 0 15 11:01 8:31 0:00 2:30 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Ryan Whitney D 0 1 1 +2 0 1 26 23:10 21:14 0:03 1:53 0 0 - - - - -
Colby Armstrong RW 1 1 2 +1 2 1 21 18:24 17:55 0:00 0:29 0 0 - - - - -
Georges Laraque RW 0 0 0 -1 5 0 15 9:52 9:52 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Jarkko Ruutu LW 0 1 1 +1 2 0 14 10:00 9:19 0:00 0:41 0 0 - - - - -
Jeff Taffe LW 1 0 1 +1 0 2 12 8:30 8:30 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - 4 1 80
Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 E 0 1 20 17:07 17:07 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Tyler Kennedy C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 17 13:39 13:39 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Sergei Gonchar D 1 0 1 -2 0 2 23 23:56 17:56 3:53 2:07 0 0 - - - - -
Kris Letang D 0 0 0 E 0 3 22 20:54 17:01 3:53 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 0 E 0 3 24 24:19 20:06 3:53 0:20 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Sidney Crosby C 0 2 2 +1 0 5 25 24:43 19:23 3:53 1:27 0 0 - - 10 14 42
Goaltending
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Brent Johnson 9 7 2 .778 0 17:53
Olaf Kolzig L (25-21-6) 18 16 2 .889 0 43:40
Pittsburgh
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Ty Conklin W (18-8-5) 25 22 3 .880 0 61:33