Top Cheddar 2026-27

Thursday, December 12, 2024 · Centre Bell

Penguins 9 at Canadiens 2

Final

Three Stars

R 91OVR Bryan Rust Penguins First Star 3G · 1A · 6 SOG C 96OVR Sidney Crosby Penguins Second Star 3A · 3 SOG R 92OVR Rickard Rakell Penguins Third Star 2G · 2A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:12 Nick Suzuki (11) Cole Caufield (9) · Backhand PIT 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 4:18 Rickard Rakell (12) PPG Kris Letang (8), Matt Grzelcyk (13) · Snap PIT 1 – 1 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 10:03 Bryan Rust (10) Sidney Crosby (20) · Wrist PIT 2 – 1 MTL
  2. 13:27 Bryan Rust (11) Rickard Rakell (8), Sidney Crosby (21) · Snap PIT 3 – 1 MTL
  3. 14:36 Joel Armia (4) Emil Heineman (3), Jake Evans (10) · Snap PIT 3 – 2 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 4:40 Rickard Rakell (13) Bryan Rust (8), Sidney Crosby (22) · Snap PIT 4 – 2 MTL
  2. 7:42 Kris Letang (6) PPG Michael Bunting (7), Rickard Rakell (9) · Snap PIT 5 – 2 MTL
  3. 8:41 Anthony Beauvillier (8) Cody Glass (6), Drew O'Connor (7) · Poke PIT 6 – 2 MTL
  4. 11:56 Bryan Rust (12) Unassisted · Snap PIT 7 – 2 MTL
  5. 14:20 Matt Nieto (1) Matt Grzelcyk (14), Blake Lizotte (4) · Tip-in PIT 8 – 2 MTL
  6. 18:42 Noel Acciari (3) Unassisted · Snap PIT 9 – 2 MTL

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bryan Rust R 3 1 6 1 0 +3 15:43 3.73
Rickard Rakell R 2 2 4 0 0 +3 16:00 3.45
Sidney Crosby C 0 3 3 3 0 +3 15:40 2.60
Matt Grzelcyk D 0 2 0 0 2 +2 17:24 1.70
Kris Letang D 1 1 3 0 1 0 24:12 1.40
Noel Acciari C 1 0 2 0 0 +2 13:11 1.15
Matt Nieto L 1 0 1 1 0 +2 13:26 1.13
Cody Glass C 0 1 3 1 2 +1 14:58 1.05
Anthony Beauvillier R 1 0 1 1 0 +1 10:44 0.98
Drew O'Connor L 0 1 2 2 0 +1 13:31 0.83
Erik Karlsson D 0 0 4 0 0 +3 19:26 0.75
Blake Lizotte C 0 1 0 0 0 +2 13:01 0.73
Michael Bunting L 0 1 2 1 0 -1 15:04 0.58
Marcus Pettersson D 0 0 0 0 1 +3 23:09 0.50
Ryan Graves D 0 0 0 0 1 +2 14:24 0.20
Owen Pickering D 0 0 0 0 1 0 20:10 0.10
Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 15:32 -0.08
Philip Tomasino R 0 0 1 1 0 -1 16:25 -0.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tristan Jarry W 23 21 2 .913 60:00 0.60

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Nick Suzuki C 1 0 2 0 2 0 20:24 1.00
Cole Caufield R 0 1 2 1 0 +1 19:46 0.88
Joel Armia R 1 0 2 2 0 -1 15:38 0.75
Emil Heineman L 0 1 0 1 0 -1 11:26 0.38
Jake Evans C 0 1 0 2 0 -2 14:00 0.28
Justin Barron D 0 0 0 1 3 +1 12:21 0.25
Kirby Dach C 0 0 2 2 0 0 13:58 0.15
Juraj Slafkovský L 0 0 1 2 1 -1 18:08 -0.08
Mike Matheson D 0 0 3 1 0 -1 23:01 -0.08
Christian Dvorak C 0 0 2 0 1 -2 12:09 -0.10
Kaiden Guhle D 0 0 3 3 2 -3 22:20 -0.12
Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 1 7 3 -2 21:01 -0.12
Alex Newhook C 0 0 1 1 0 -2 15:13 -0.22
Patrik Laine L 0 0 1 0 2 -2 16:14 -0.22
Lane Hutson D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 20:48 -0.28
Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 1 0 -2 13:02 -0.40
Jayden Struble D 0 0 0 1 1 -3 12:53 -0.40
Josh Anderson R 0 0 2 1 1 -3 12:40 -0.55
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Cayden Primeau — 7 4 3 .571 11:19 -1.85
Samuel Montembeault L 26 20 6 .769 48:41 -2.50