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National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Minnesota 4, Pittsburgh 3
When: 8:00 PM ET, Monday, January 11, 2010
Where: Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Referees: Eric Furlatt, Brian Pochmara
Linesmen: Greg Devorski, Ryan Galloway
Attendance: 19044
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Pittsburgh 1113
Minnesota 1214
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
3:44 - Penguins Sidney Crosby (EV) Assists: Pascal Dupuis , Mark Eaton
11:40 - Wild Eric Belanger (EV) Assists: Guillaume Latendresse
Penalties
15:40 - Wild Andrew Ebbett (2) Tripping
 17:08 - Penguins Jordan Staal (2) Holding the stick
 17:53 - Wild Antti Miettinen (2) Tripping
2nd Period
Scoring
0:54 - Penguins Pascal Dupuis (EV) Assists: Bill Guerin , Sidney Crosby
1:45 - Wild Martin Havlat (EV) Assists: Guillaume Latendresse
12:03 - Wild Cal Clutterbuck (EV) Assists: Guillaume Latendresse , Eric Belanger
Penalties
3:20 - Wild Derek Boogaard (2) High sticking
 4:10 - Wild Kim Johnsson (2) High sticking
 9:45 - Wild Bench (2) Too many men on ice
 18:02 - Penguins Jay McKee (2) Hooking
 20:00 - Wild Shane Hnidy (2) Roughing
 20:00 - Penguins Maxime Talbot (2) Roughing
3rd Period
Scoring
1:04 - Penguins Sidney Crosby (EV) Assists: Mark Eaton , Pascal Dupuis
6:13 - Wild Guillaume Latendresse (EV) Assists: Kyle Brodziak , Nick Schultz
Penalties
7:21 - Penguins Sergei Gonchar (5) Interference
 13:14 - Wild Shane Hnidy (2) Hooking
Pittsburgh Penguins
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Marc-Andre Fleury G 0 0 0 0 0 59:04 42:51 9:00 7:13 0 0 - - - - -
John Curry G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Alex Goligoski D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 27 21:05 16:31 1:35 2:59 0 0 - - - - -
Ben Lovejoy D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 17 13:10 11:20 0:00 1:50 0 0 - - - - -
Mark Eaton D 0 2 2 +2 0 0 24 18:16 13:29 0:43 4:04 0 0 - - - - -
Pascal Dupuis RW 1 2 3 +2 0 2 16 12:08 11:10 0:00 0:58 0 0 - - - - -
Jordan Staal C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 24 19:12 13:00 2:56 3:16 0 0 - - 6 4 60
Bill Guerin RW 0 1 1 +2 0 2 19 18:03 12:15 5:48 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Michael Rupp C 0 0 0 E 0 1 8 4:22 4:22 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Cooke LW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 19 16:22 9:14 4:20 2:48 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Maxime Talbot C 0 0 0 E 2 1 14 10:36 7:33 0:00 3:03 0 0 - - 1 2 33
Ruslan Fedotenko LW 0 0 0 -2 0 0 20 16:23 15:05 1:18 0:00 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Craig Adams RW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 12 7:59 6:06 0:00 1:53 0 0 - - 1 2 33
Luca Caputi LW 0 0 0 -2 0 0 12 11:16 8:56 2:20 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Tyler Kennedy C 0 0 0 E 0 6 16 13:15 13:03 0:00 0:12 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Sergei Gonchar D 0 0 0 E 5 6 23 24:35 16:35 7:13 0:47 0 0 - - - - -
Kris Letang D 0 0 0 E 0 2 29 24:49 19:10 3:06 2:33 0 0 - - - - -
Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 21 24:41 15:10 8:14 1:17 0 0 - - 5 4 56
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 -2 2 1 19 12:47 10:36 0:00 2:11 0 0 - - - - -
Sidney Crosby C 2 1 3 +2 0 8 22 22:57 14:11 7:45 1:01 0 0 - - 14 17 45
Minnesota Wild
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Niklas Backstrom G 0 0 0 0 0 59:41 43:25 7:13 9:03 0 0 - - - - -
Josh Harding G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Marek Zidlicky D 0 0 0 E 0 4 34 24:25 16:22 3:15 4:48 0 0 - - - - -
Kim Johnsson D 0 0 0 E 2 1 33 28:45 21:31 3:48 3:26 0 0 - - - - -
Greg Zanon D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 29 22:06 16:41 0:33 4:52 0 0 - - - - -
Mikko Koivu C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 28 21:15 14:47 3:27 3:01 0 0 - - 10 8 56
Owen Nolan RW 0 0 0 +1 0 1 28 18:10 12:09 2:44 3:17 0 0 - - 5 3 62
Martin Havlat RW 1 0 1 +1 0 2 19 18:54 14:38 4:16 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Andrew Brunette LW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 23 16:33 13:11 3:22 0:00 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Andrew Ebbett C 0 0 0 E 2 0 11 6:00 5:23 0:37 0:00 0 0 - - 1 1 50
Antti Miettinen RW 0 0 0 -2 2 0 26 18:46 12:41 3:31 2:34 0 0 - - 2 0 100
Kyle Brodziak C 0 1 1 +2 0 2 24 18:04 14:18 0:48 2:58 0 0 - - 7 8 47
Cal Clutterbuck RW 1 0 1 +1 0 1 21 12:20 9:42 1:09 1:29 0 0 - - - - -
Derek Boogaard LW 0 0 0 E 2 0 7 3:59 3:47 0:00 0:12 0 0 - - - - -
Eric Belanger C 1 1 2 +1 0 1 23 15:45 9:26 2:54 3:25 0 0 - - 6 5 55
Shane Hnidy D 0 0 0 +1 4 0 16 9:06 8:16 0:12 0:38 0 0 - - - - -
John Scott D 0 0 0 +2 0 0 15 6:13 6:13 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Robbie Earl LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 9 4:45 4:39 0:06 0:00 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Guillaume Latendresse RW 1 3 4 +2 0 5 20 17:40 14:39 3:01 0:00 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Nick Schultz D 0 1 1 E 0 3 33 25:33 18:49 2:22 4:22 0 0 - - - - -
Goaltending
Pittsburgh
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Marc-Andre Fleury L (37-21-6) 24 20 4 .833 0 59:04
Minnesota
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Niklas Backstrom W (26-23-8) 38 35 3 .921 0 59:41