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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 · Mellon Arena

Bruins 5 at Penguins 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 95OVR Marc Savard Bruins First Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG D 97OVR Dennis Wideman Bruins Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG D 95OVR Zdeno Chara Bruins Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 17:00 Petr Sykora (13) Ruslan Fedotenko (10), Dustin Jeffrey (1) · Backhand BOS 0 – 1 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 4:46 Zdeno Chara (7) PPG P.J. Axelsson (12), Dennis Wideman (16) · Wrist BOS 1 – 1 PIT
  2. 9:30 Marc Savard (12) PPG David Krejci (27), Dennis Wideman (17) · Wrist BOS 2 – 1 PIT
  3. 15:13 Pascal Dupuis (9) Sidney Crosby (35) · Slap BOS 2 – 2 PIT
  4. 16:43 Phil Kessel (23) Marc Savard (33) · Tip-in BOS 3 – 2 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 5:28 Martin St. Pierre (1) SHG Marc Savard (34) · Wrist BOS 4 – 2 PIT
  2. 9:38 Dennis Wideman (8) Zdeno Chara (15), P.J. Axelsson (13) · Snap BOS 5 – 2 PIT

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Marc Savard C 1 2 4 0 0 +2 18:11 2.60
Dennis Wideman D 1 2 2 1 0 +3 24:45 2.55
Zdeno Chara D 1 1 3 2 0 +1 27:44 1.70
P.J. Axelsson L 0 2 1 1 0 +1 18:10 1.53
Phil Kessel R 1 0 8 0 0 0 19:48 1.20
Martin St. Pierre C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 11:10 1.05
David Krejci C 0 1 3 1 0 -1 19:04 0.75
Michael Ryder R 0 0 5 0 0 +1 15:22 0.53
Mark Stuart D 0 0 3 1 2 +1 13:47 0.48
Shawn Thornton L 0 0 1 1 1 0 8:41 0.13
Vladimir Sobotka C 0 0 1 0 0 0 8:46 0.08
Stephane Yelle C 0 0 0 2 1 0 13:21 0.05
Aaron Ward D 0 0 0 5 1 0 17:02 0.05
Chuck Kobasew R 0 0 3 1 0 -1 12:04 0.02
Blake Wheeler R 0 0 2 0 0 0 16:05 0.00
Matt Hunwick D 0 0 0 1 0 -1 19:51 -0.15
Shane Hnidy D 0 0 1 0 1 -2 16:35 -0.32
Milan Lucic L 0 0 1 2 0 -1 11:42 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tim Thomas W 34 32 2 .941 59:52 1.70

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pascal Dupuis R 1 0 4 1 0 0 20:09 1.05
Dustin Jeffrey L 0 1 3 1 1 +1 9:36 1.05
Ruslan Fedotenko L 0 1 4 0 1 0 13:04 0.98
Petr Sykora R 1 0 4 0 1 0 12:55 0.80
Sidney Crosby C 0 1 3 0 0 -1 20:32 0.65
Rob Scuderi D 0 0 0 2 4 +1 19:45 0.35
Philippe Boucher D 0 0 1 1 2 +1 15:48 0.33
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 10:15 0.28
Jordan Staal C 0 0 3 5 1 0 23:18 0.22
Ryan Whitney D 0 0 3 1 4 -2 21:27 0.13
Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 2 2 +1 19:34 0.10
Hal Gill D 0 0 0 0 2 -1 17:49 -0.05
Alex Goligoski D 0 0 2 0 1 -1 10:46 -0.10
Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 4 1 0 -2 21:42 -0.20
Mark Eaton D 0 0 0 0 2 -1 13:36 -0.20
Matt Cooke L 0 0 1 8 0 -1 15:29 -0.22
Max Talbot C 0 0 0 1 1 -1 11:55 -0.25
Tim Wallace R 0 0 1 5 0 0 7:24 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Marc-Andre Fleury L 40 35 5 .875 60:00 -0.25