Top Cheddar 2026-27

Sunday, January 2, 2022 · PPG Paints Arena

Sharks 5 at Penguins 8

Final

Three Stars

C 77OVR Evan Rodrigues Penguins First Star 3G · 6 SOG R 88OVR Bryan Rust Penguins Second Star 3G · 2A · 5 SOG G 61OVR Zach Sawchenko Sharks Third Star 20 SV · .952 RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:03 Evan Rodrigues (11) Marcus Pettersson (7), Danton Heinen (6) · Wrist SJS 0 – 1 PIT
  2. 3:12 Jake Guentzel (16) Bryan Rust (8), Sidney Crosby (15) · Snap SJS 0 – 2 PIT
  3. 4:11 Evan Rodrigues (12) Danton Heinen (7), Dominik Simon (5) · Backhand SJS 0 – 3 PIT
  4. 6:09 Bryan Rust (3) Kris Letang (20), Brian Dumoulin (6) · Wrist SJS 0 – 4 PIT
  5. 15:33 Alexander Barabanov (5) Timo Meier (19), Marc-Edouard Vlasic (7) · Wrist SJS 1 – 4 PIT
  6. 16:29 Kasper Bjorkqvist (1) Radim Zohorna (1), Sam Lafferty (2) · Wrist SJS 1 – 5 PIT
  7. 19:32 Bryan Rust (4) John Marino (12), Marcus Pettersson (8) · Tip-in SJS 1 – 6 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 14:27 Brent Burns (4) PPG Nick Bonino (1), Noah Gregor (5) · Slap SJS 2 – 6 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 0:20 Matt Nieto (2) Jake Middleton (5), Andrew Cogliano (7) · Slap SJS 3 – 6 PIT
  2. 3:01 Jake Middleton (3) Erik Karlsson (14), Timo Meier (20) · Tip-in SJS 4 – 6 PIT
  3. 4:09 Logan Couture (12) Timo Meier (21) · Snap SJS 5 – 6 PIT
  4. 17:59 Evan Rodrigues (13) PPG Kris Letang (21), Bryan Rust (9) · Snap SJS 5 – 7 PIT
  5. 19:49 Bryan Rust (5) EN Sidney Crosby (16), Jake Guentzel (13) · Wrist SJS 5 – 8 PIT

San Jose Sharks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Timo Meier R 0 3 2 8 1 0 18:45 2.13
Jake Middleton D 1 1 3 2 1 +1 21:37 1.80
Erik Karlsson D 0 1 2 0 1 +1 26:53 1.03
Logan Couture C 1 0 3 6 0 0 18:32 0.87
Andrew Cogliano C 0 1 3 1 1 -1 14:13 0.70
Nick Bonino C 0 1 1 2 0 0 16:35 0.70
Alexander Barabanov L 1 0 2 0 2 -2 15:29 0.65
Brent Burns D 1 0 2 1 0 -2 23:49 0.65
Matt Nieto L 1 0 3 4 1 -2 14:22 0.58
Tomas Hertl C 0 0 4 3 0 0 19:37 0.30
Marc-Edouard Vlasic D 0 1 0 0 2 -3 16:26 0.28
Noah Gregor L 0 1 0 5 1 -3 16:27 0.23
Lane Pederson C 0 0 0 3 0 0 10:20 0.00
Jonah Gadjovich L 0 0 0 6 0 0 9:38 0.00
Jeffrey Viel L 0 0 0 5 0 0 10:34 0.00
Radim Simek D 0 0 0 1 2 0 15:36 -0.05
Nicolas Meloche D 0 0 1 3 0 -2 13:22 -0.22
Jonathan Dahlen C 0 0 1 1 0 -3 14:22 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
James Reimer L 17 11 6 .647 20:00 -3.40
Zach Sawchenko — 21 20 1 .952 38:32 1.25

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bryan Rust R 3 2 5 1 0 +3 18:33 4.28
Evan Rodrigues C 3 0 6 0 1 0 17:52 2.65
Jake Guentzel C 1 1 2 0 0 +3 20:06 1.98
Sidney Crosby C 0 2 2 0 2 +3 19:39 1.95
Kris Letang D 0 2 5 3 1 0 29:05 1.68
Marcus Pettersson D 0 2 0 1 3 0 14:27 1.40
Danton Heinen L 0 2 1 0 0 0 14:15 1.38
Kasper Bjorkqvist R 1 0 3 1 0 +1 8:54 1.13
John Marino D 0 1 0 1 1 +1 18:20 0.83
Sam Lafferty C 0 1 0 3 0 +1 9:31 0.78
Radim Zohorna L 0 1 0 2 0 +1 8:27 0.78
Brian Dumoulin D 0 1 1 2 0 0 24:37 0.70
Mike Matheson D 0 0 1 2 0 +3 16:06 0.48
Dominik Simon C 0 1 1 1 0 0 15:32 0.40
Chad Ruhwedel D 0 0 1 4 0 +2 15:13 0.38
Zachary Aston-Reese L 0 0 6 9 0 -1 14:39 0.35
Drew O'Connor L 0 0 4 1 0 -1 14:57 0.20
Brock McGinn L 0 0 1 1 1 -1 16:11 -0.02
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Casey DeSmith W 27 22 5 .815 59:40 -1.55