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Friday, December 23, 2005 · Mellon Arena

Flyers 5 at Penguins 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 98OVR Sidney Crosby Penguins First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG RC C 98OVR Peter Forsberg Flyers Second Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG L 99OVR Simon Gagne Flyers Third Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:34 Simon Gagne (25) PPG Kim Johnsson (15), Sami Kapanen (8) · Snap PHI 1 – 0 PIT
  2. 11:01 Peter Forsberg (11) Dennis Seidenberg (4), Mike Richards (12) · Tip-in PHI 2 – 0 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 3:42 Dennis Seidenberg (1) PPG Peter Forsberg (38), Freddy Meyer (2) · Snap PHI 3 – 0 PIT
  2. 10:17 Tomas Surovy (2) Sidney Crosby (20), Ziggy Palffy (19) · Wrist PHI 3 – 1 PIT
  3. 15:58 Erik Christensen (6) PPG Mark Recchi (19), Michel Ouellet (2) · Wrist PHI 3 – 2 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 1:43 Sidney Crosby (15) Ziggy Palffy (20), Ric Jackman (15) · Snap PHI 3 – 3 PIT
  2. 2:27 Sidney Crosby (16) Brooks Orpik (4), Erik Christensen (5) · Backhand PHI 3 – 4 PIT
  3. 15:27 Peter Forsberg (12) R.J. Umberger (7), Derian Hatcher (8) · Slap PHI 4 – 4 PIT
  4. 16:36 Mike Knuble (19) Mike Richards (13), Simon Gagne (16) · Wrist PHI 5 – 4 PIT

Philadelphia Flyers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Peter Forsberg C 2 1 5 0 1 0 22:26 2.50
Simon Gagne L 1 1 7 1 1 +1 22:45 2.05
Mike Richards C 0 2 4 1 0 +1 12:40 1.70
Dennis Seidenberg D 1 1 1 0 0 +2 17:00 1.60
R.J. Umberger C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 11:09 0.78
Sami Kapanen R 0 1 2 0 0 0 20:17 0.78
Freddy Meyer D 0 1 0 2 0 +1 17:08 0.78
Mike Knuble R 1 0 1 1 0 0 23:03 0.68
Kim Johnsson D 0 1 1 0 2 -1 25:14 0.65
Derian Hatcher D 0 1 0 0 2 -2 18:21 0.43
Michal Handzus C 0 0 2 1 1 0 18:17 0.20
Brian Savage L 0 0 2 0 1 0 15:55 0.20
Chris Therien D 0 0 1 1 1 0 14:32 0.13
Mike Rathje D 0 0 2 0 1 0 18:44 0.05
Jeff Carter C 0 0 3 0 0 0 13:57 -0.08
Jon Sim L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 5:59 -0.15
Ben Eager L 0 0 1 0 0 0 6:12 -0.30
Donald Brashear L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 5:31 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Antero Niittymaki W 26 22 4 .846 60:00 -0.80

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Sidney Crosby C 2 1 4 1 1 +3 20:55 2.93
Ziggy Palffy R 0 2 4 0 1 +3 19:28 1.95
Erik Christensen C 1 1 3 0 0 -1 14:09 1.45
Brooks Orpik D 0 1 0 5 4 +1 20:59 0.98
Tomas Surovy L 1 0 4 1 1 0 13:40 0.90
Ric Jackman D 0 1 4 0 1 0 17:21 0.83
Mark Recchi R 0 1 1 3 1 0 19:20 0.65
Michel Ouellet R 0 1 0 1 0 -2 18:48 0.18
Sergei Gonchar D 0 0 2 1 1 +1 22:16 0.05
Josef Melichar D 0 0 1 1 2 0 19:08 0.02
John LeClair L 0 0 0 1 0 0 8:38 0.00
Ryan Whitney D 0 0 1 1 4 -1 22:34 -0.02
Ryan Malone L 0 0 0 3 0 0 13:31 -0.05
Matt Hussey C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 6:14 -0.15
Lyle Odelein D 0 0 1 1 2 -1 18:35 -0.18
Andre Roy R 0 0 0 2 0 -2 3:00 -0.30
Matt Murley L 0 0 0 0 1 0 6:01 -0.33
Shane Endicott C 0 0 1 1 0 -1 16:09 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Marc-Andre Fleury L 32 27 5 .844 59:01 -1.05