National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Pittsburgh 3, Minnesota 2
When: 6:00 PM ET, Monday, December 31, 2018
Where: Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Referees: Marc Joannette, Wes McCauley
Linesmen: Darren Gibbs, Derek Nansen
Attendance: 19163
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Pittsburgh 2103
Minnesota 1012
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
5:27 - Wild Mikko Koivu (PP) Assists: Nino Niederreiter , Charlie Coyle
15:43 - Penguins Sidney Crosby (PP) Assists: Phil Kessel , Kris Letang
19:39 - Penguins Phil Kessel (EV) Assists: Sidney Crosby , Zach Aston-Reese
Penalties
3:48 - Penguins Riley Sheahan (2) Holding
 14:45 - Wild Nate Prosser (2) Kneeing
2nd Period
Scoring
10:19 - Penguins Riley Sheahan (EV) Assists: Phil Kessel , Matt Cullen
Penalties
8:08 - Penguins Zach Aston-Reese (2) Roughing
 8:08 - Wild Marcus Foligno (2) Roughing
3rd Period
Scoring
15:55 - Wild Zach Parise (EV) Assists: Mikko Koivu , Mikael Granlund
Penalties
None.
Pittsburgh Penguins
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Casey DeSmith G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 57:23 0:58 1:39 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Murray G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Olli Maatta D 0 0 0 E 0 0 24 18:35 17:57 0:00 0:38 0 0 1 1 - - -
Matt Cullen C 0 1 1 +1 0 0 17 11:10 10:41 0:00 0:29 0 0 - 1 5 5 50
Brian Dumoulin D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 32 23:33 22:32 0:00 1:01 0 0 2 4 - - -
Dominik Simon LW 0 0 0 E 0 4 20 15:51 15:51 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Tanner Pearson LW 0 0 0 E 0 2 16 12:30 12:30 0:00 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Riley Sheahan C 1 0 1 +1 2 1 15 9:00 9:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 1 - - -
Derick Brassard C 0 0 0 E 0 1 17 13:31 12:56 0:00 0:35 0 0 1 - 3 5 38
Marcus Pettersson D 0 0 0 E 0 0 20 14:32 14:32 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Derek Grant C 0 0 0 E 0 0 15 9:48 9:13 0:00 0:35 0 0 2 - 0 1 0
Zach Aston-Reese LW 0 1 1 E 2 2 25 17:06 16:37 0:00 0:29 0 0 1 1 - - -
Juuso Riikola D 0 0 0 E 0 3 26 17:50 17:50 0:00 0:00 0 0 3 1 - - -
Kris Letang D 0 1 1 +1 0 0 30 25:16 23:17 0:58 1:01 0 0 1 - - - -
Jake Guentzel LW 0 0 0 -1 0 4 25 18:34 17:59 0:00 0:35 0 0 1 - - - -
Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 0 E 0 4 25 18:11 17:13 0:58 0:00 0 0 - 1 7 5 58
Patric Hornqvist RW 0 0 0 E 0 2 24 16:46 15:48 0:58 0:00 0 0 3 - - - -
Jack Johnson D 0 0 0 E 0 2 26 19:16 18:38 0:00 0:38 0 0 5 1 - - -
Phil Kessel RW 1 2 3 +2 0 4 18 14:56 13:58 0:58 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Sidney Crosby C 1 1 2 E 0 2 28 19:56 18:23 0:58 0:35 1 0 2 2 11 13 46
Minnesota Wild
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Alex Stalock G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Devan Dubnyk G 0 0 0 0 0 58:01 55:24 1:39 0:58 0 0 - - - - -
Charlie Coyle C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 22 18:09 17:25 0:44 0:00 0 0 1 - 7 8 47
Mikko Koivu C 1 1 2 E 0 4 23 16:53 16:09 0:44 0:00 1 0 - - 13 7 65
Zach Parise LW 1 0 1 E 0 5 22 18:45 17:29 0:55 0:21 0 0 3 1 - - -
Eric Staal C 0 0 0 E 0 4 21 18:22 17:27 0:55 0:00 0 0 3 1 8 4 67
Matt Hendricks C 0 0 0 E 0 0 13 8:26 8:26 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - 1 2 33
Jason Zucker LW 0 0 0 E 0 4 21 15:12 14:17 0:55 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Marcus Foligno LW 0 0 0 -1 2 0 14 9:19 8:42 0:00 0:37 0 0 3 - - - -
Jordan Greenway LW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 22 15:39 14:55 0:44 0:00 0 0 3 1 - - -
Luke Kunin C 0 0 0 E 0 1 19 15:29 15:29 0:00 0:00 0 0 5 - - - -
Ryan Suter D 0 0 0 E 0 1 27 27:50 25:57 0:55 0:58 0 0 1 - - - -
Eric Fehr C 0 0 0 E 0 1 12 9:19 8:21 0:00 0:58 0 0 - - 0 4 0
Nino Niederreiter RW 0 1 1 -1 0 0 23 15:28 14:44 0:44 0:00 0 0 1 - 0 1 0
Jonas Brodin D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 26 25:19 25:19 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 3 - - -
Greg Pateryn D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 23 21:30 21:30 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Nate Prosser D 0 0 0 E 2 0 10 7:16 7:16 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 2 - - -
Matt Bartkowski D 0 0 0 E 0 0 15 10:32 10:32 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 E 0 4 28 26:01 24:19 0:44 0:58 0 0 1 1 - - -
Mikael Granlund RW 0 1 1 +1 0 3 21 19:32 18:37 0:55 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Goaltending
Pittsburgh
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Casey DeSmith W (12-6-4) 33 31 2 .939 0 60:00
Minnesota
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Devan Dubnyk L (13-14-3) 32 29 3 .906 0 58:01