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Friday, December 14, 2001 · Mellon Arena

Wild 5 at Penguins 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 42OVR Manny Fernandez Wild First Star 39 SV · .951 C 76OVR Sergei Zholtok Wild Second Star 2G · 3 SOG C 83OVR Wes Walz Wild Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 7:29 Sergei Zholtok (6) Marian Gaborik (18), Antti Laaksonen (4) · Slap MIN 1 – 0 PIT
  2. 11:14 Sergei Zholtok (7) PPG Richard Park (2), Lubomir Sekeras (5) · Wrist MIN 2 – 0 PIT
  3. 18:26 Robert Lang (9) PPG Kris Beech (10), Jan Hrdina (8) · Slap MIN 2 – 1 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 5:33 Marian Gaborik (14) Filip Kuba (13), Wes Walz (4) · Tip-in MIN 3 – 1 PIT
  2. 14:59 Jan Hrdina (9) PPG Kris Beech (11), Robert Lang (17) · Backhand MIN 3 – 2 PIT
  3. 15:35 Pascal Dupuis (7) Andy Sutton (4), Lubomir Sekeras (6) · Wrist MIN 4 – 2 PIT
  4. 19:25 Wes Walz (5) SHG Unassisted · Wrist MIN 5 – 2 PIT

Minnesota Wild

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Sergei Zholtok C 2 0 3 0 1 +2 16:05 1.98
Wes Walz C 1 1 2 0 0 +2 19:47 1.88
Marian Gaborik R 1 1 3 0 0 +2 19:41 1.75
Lubomir Sekeras D 0 2 0 1 1 +3 29:50 1.70
Antti Laaksonen L 0 1 3 1 0 +3 19:53 1.30
Pascal Dupuis R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 15:45 1.05
Filip Kuba D 0 1 1 1 0 +2 29:07 0.95
Richard Park R 0 1 1 0 0 0 15:29 0.70
Andy Sutton D 0 1 1 1 2 +1 14:21 0.42
Brad Brown D 0 0 0 1 1 +2 16:24 0.35
Jason Marshall D 0 0 1 2 1 0 13:11 0.13
Ladislav Benysek D 0 0 0 2 1 +1 16:43 0.10
Matt Johnson L 0 0 1 4 0 0 3:19 0.08
Aaron Gavey C 0 0 1 1 0 0 6:34 0.08
Mike Matteucci D 0 0 0 3 1 0 10:22 0.05
Andrew Brunette L 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:48 -0.08
Jim Dowd C 0 0 1 0 0 0 9:34 -0.13
Darby Hendrickson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:31 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Manny Fernandez W 41 39 2 .951 60:00 2.40

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Robert Lang C 1 1 7 0 0 -1 26:08 1.60
Kris Beech C 0 2 2 0 0 0 13:02 1.45
Jan Hrdina C 1 1 3 0 0 -1 23:59 1.45
Janne Laukkanen D 0 0 3 1 1 0 14:22 0.27
Toby Petersen C 0 0 5 0 1 -2 17:50 0.13
Hans Jonsson D 0 0 2 1 0 0 24:18 0.10
Kevin Stevens L 0 0 0 2 0 0 2:40 0.00
Dan Lacouture L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 14:56 0.00
John Jakopin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2:10 0.00
Alex Kovalev R 0 0 6 2 0 -2 25:53 -0.05
Milan Kraft C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 16:19 -0.15
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 11:40 -0.15
Andrew Ference D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 19:20 -0.15
Josef Melichar D 0 0 1 2 1 -2 16:01 -0.22
Stephane Richer R 0 0 3 0 0 -2 15:28 -0.23
Michal Rozsival D 0 0 1 4 3 -3 19:53 -0.27
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 0 7 0 -1 17:04 -0.35
Billy Tibbetts R 0 0 0 4 0 -1 9:45 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Johan Hedberg L 20 16 4 .800 59:23 -1.40