Top Cheddar 2026-27

Saturday, March 30, 2024 · Nationwide Arena

Penguins 3 at Blue Jackets 4

Final/SO

Three Stars

D 92OVR Zach Werenski Blue Jackets First Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG D 80OVR Damon Severson Blue Jackets Second Star 1A · 3 SOG R 91OVR Bryan Rust Penguins Third Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:47 Mathieu Olivier (5) SHG Cole Sillinger (16) · Backhand PIT 0 – 1 CBJ

2nd Period

  1. 13:29 Drew O'Connor (13) Bryan Rust (22), Marcus Pettersson (23) · Slap PIT 1 – 1 CBJ
  2. 18:55 Bryan Rust (24) Sidney Crosby (44), Kris Letang (35) · Slap PIT 2 – 1 CBJ

3rd Period

  1. 8:59 Rickard Rakell (12) Evgeni Malkin (35) · Backhand PIT 3 – 1 CBJ
  2. 9:08 Kirill Marchenko (19) Damon Severson (17), Zach Werenski (41) · Snap PIT 3 – 2 CBJ
  3. 11:47 Zach Werenski (7) Johnny Gaudreau (44) · Snap PIT 3 – 3 CBJ

Overtime

No scoring

Shootout

  1. Damon Severson Deciding shootout goal · Backhand PIT 3 – 4 CBJ

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bryan Rust R 1 1 5 0 1 0 21:37 1.80
Rickard Rakell R 1 0 3 2 2 0 14:50 1.08
Drew O'Connor L 1 0 2 0 3 0 21:21 1.05
Marcus Pettersson D 0 1 0 0 2 +2 26:18 1.03
Evgeni Malkin C 0 1 1 2 0 0 16:33 0.85
Kris Letang D 0 1 1 1 6 -1 26:59 0.80
Erik Karlsson D 0 0 3 0 0 +3 25:40 0.68
Valtteri Puustinen R 0 0 6 0 3 0 12:55 0.65
Sidney Crosby C 0 1 4 0 0 -1 22:31 0.63
Lars Eller C 0 0 2 0 1 +1 18:44 0.30
Reilly Smith R 0 0 4 1 0 0 18:36 0.20
Jesse Puljujarvi R 0 0 0 0 0 0 6:34 0.00
Jeff Carter C 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:27 0.00
John Ludvig D 0 0 1 1 1 -1 13:02 -0.02
Samuel Poulin R 0 0 0 1 0 0 5:10 -0.05
Jack St. Ivany D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 12:42 -0.08
Pierre-Olivier Joseph D 0 0 0 0 4 -1 19:07 -0.10
Michael Bunting L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 9:54 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Alex Nedeljkovic O 37 34 3 .919 65:00 1.15

Columbus Blue Jackets

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Zach Werenski D 1 1 4 1 2 +2 27:24 2.08
Kirill Marchenko R 1 0 6 0 0 +1 22:33 1.40
Damon Severson D 0 1 3 0 2 +3 26:38 1.40
Cole Sillinger C 0 1 3 0 1 +2 23:47 1.15
Mathieu Olivier R 1 0 3 6 0 0 13:48 0.98
Johnny Gaudreau L 0 1 5 0 0 -1 24:28 0.80
Alexandre Texier L 0 0 1 1 1 +1 23:14 0.28
Jake Christiansen D 0 0 3 0 1 0 8:31 0.27
Dmitri Voronkov L 0 0 4 0 2 -1 19:49 0.20
Erik Gudbranson D 0 0 2 1 2 -1 20:17 0.10
Carson Meyer R 0 0 1 1 0 0 4:37 0.08
Ivan Provorov D 0 0 1 3 2 -1 22:09 0.03
Cameron Butler R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:54 0.00
James Malatesta L 0 0 0 2 0 0 5:29 0.00
Mikael Pyyhtia L 0 0 0 1 1 -1 13:20 -0.05
Brendan Gaunce C 0 0 0 3 0 -1 16:54 -0.10
Alex Nylander L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 23:16 -0.15
Jake Bean D 0 0 1 0 1 -3 14:26 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Elvis Merzlikins W 33 30 3 .909 64:26 0.75