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Tuesday, November 22, 2005 · Mellon Arena

Capitals 4 at Penguins 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 95OVR Ziggy Palffy Penguins First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG C 98OVR Sidney Crosby Penguins Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG RC L 74OVR Lasse Pirjeta Penguins Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:08 Ziggy Palffy (8) PPG Sergei Gonchar (6), Ric Jackman (13) · Tip-in WSH 0 – 1 PIT
  2. 8:02 Ric Jackman (4) John LeClair (8), Lasse Pirjeta (1) · Wrist WSH 0 – 2 PIT
  3. 11:53 Sidney Crosby (11) Ziggy Palffy (16), Josef Melichar (3) · Backhand WSH 0 – 3 PIT
  4. 14:46 Lasse Pirjeta (4) Ryan Whitney (9) · Slap WSH 0 – 4 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 5:31 Chris Clark (5) Brendan Witt (2), Andrew Cassels (6) · Wraparound WSH 1 – 4 PIT
  2. 5:45 Brooks Laich (2) Unassisted · Wrist WSH 2 – 4 PIT
  3. 13:30 Ziggy Palffy (9) Sidney Crosby (16), Brooks Orpik (2) · Wrist WSH 2 – 5 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 4:46 Matt Pettinger (3) Alex Ovechkin (7), Jamie Heward (6) · Backhand WSH 3 – 5 PIT
  2. 6:29 Brian Willsie (4) SHG Jeff Halpern (12) · Backhand WSH 4 – 5 PIT

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Matt Pettinger L 1 0 5 3 0 +2 12:30 1.28
Jeff Halpern C 0 1 6 0 2 0 19:37 1.22
Alex Ovechkin L 0 1 4 0 0 +1 25:17 1.03
Brian Willsie R 1 0 7 1 1 -1 15:25 1.03
Andrew Cassels C 0 1 0 0 1 +2 16:34 0.98
Chris Clark R 1 0 2 0 1 0 18:57 0.95
Jamie Heward D 0 1 2 0 2 0 23:54 0.93
Brooks Laich C 1 0 4 0 1 -2 9:03 0.80
Brendan Witt D 0 1 0 1 0 +1 21:46 0.68
Steve Eminger D 0 0 1 0 5 +1 24:17 0.32
Bryan Muir D 0 0 5 0 0 0 19:11 0.23
Shaone Morrisonn D 0 0 2 0 4 -1 18:34 0.20
Ben Clymer R 0 0 3 0 0 0 14:58 0.07
Tomas Fleischmann L 0 0 0 1 0 0 7:03 0.05
Jakub Klepis C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 3:27 -0.08
Ivan Majesky D 0 0 1 1 2 -1 9:52 -0.12
Matt Bradley R 0 0 0 1 0 0 12:24 -0.15
Brian Sutherby C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 15:54 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Olie Kolzig L 28 23 5 .821 58:54 -1.45

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ziggy Palffy R 2 1 4 0 0 +1 22:12 2.58
Sidney Crosby C 1 1 4 1 0 +1 19:16 1.78
Lasse Pirjeta L 1 1 3 0 0 +1 10:01 1.75
Ric Jackman D 1 1 1 2 1 +1 22:15 1.45
Josef Melichar D 0 1 0 1 2 +1 15:18 0.88
John LeClair L 0 1 0 1 0 0 16:17 0.63
Ryan Whitney D 0 1 0 0 1 0 21:44 0.58
Brooks Orpik D 0 1 0 2 1 0 19:19 0.53
Sergei Gonchar D 0 1 0 1 0 -1 22:45 0.43
Erik Christensen C 0 0 3 0 0 +1 13:50 0.38
Matt Hussey C 0 0 4 1 1 0 13:10 0.35
Michel Ouellet R 0 0 1 0 1 +1 10:38 0.28
Mark Recchi R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 20:38 0.12
Mario Lemieux C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 17:13 0.02
Matt Murley L 0 0 1 0 1 -1 9:34 -0.02
Max Talbot C 0 0 0 0 1 -1 9:02 -0.10
Ryan Malone L 0 0 1 0 1 -1 11:55 -0.18
Steve Poapst D 0 0 0 2 2 -1 18:50 -0.20
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sebastien Caron W 45 41 4 .911 60:00 1.10