Top Cheddar 2026-27

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 · PPG Paints Arena

Blue Jackets 4 at Penguins 3

Final/SO

Three Stars

L 83OVR Dmitri Voronkov Blue Jackets First Star 2G · 3 SOG R 92OVR Rickard Rakell Penguins Second Star 2G · 4 SOG C 93OVR Adam Fantilli Blue Jackets Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:20 Dmitri Voronkov (16) PPG Kirill Marchenko (27), Sean Monahan (27) · Tip-in CBJ 1 – 0 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 0:51 Michael Bunting (13) PPG Sidney Crosby (32), Erik Karlsson (25) · Tip-in CBJ 1 – 1 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 0:24 Rickard Rakell (19) Erik Karlsson (26), Matt Grzelcyk (21) · Wrist CBJ 1 – 2 PIT
  2. 10:09 Rickard Rakell (20) Sidney Crosby (33) · Wrist CBJ 1 – 3 PIT
  3. 12:05 Dmitri Voronkov (17) Kirill Marchenko (28), Adam Fantilli (10) · Wrist CBJ 2 – 3 PIT
  4. 17:24 Adam Fantilli (9) PPG Kent Johnson (13), Zach Werenski (34) · Tip-in CBJ 3 – 3 PIT

Overtime

No scoring

Shootout

  1. Kent Johnson Deciding shootout goal · Wrist CBJ 4 – 3 PIT

Columbus Blue Jackets

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Adam Fantilli C 1 1 3 1 1 +1 19:14 1.70
Dmitri Voronkov L 2 0 3 2 1 0 20:50 1.63
Kirill Marchenko R 0 2 1 0 0 0 21:00 1.38
Sean Monahan C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 12:26 0.58
Kent Johnson C 0 1 1 0 0 -1 17:01 0.50
Zach Werenski D 0 1 1 0 1 -2 29:19 0.40
Dante Fabbro D 0 0 4 1 5 -1 25:56 0.35
Denton Mateychuk D 0 0 3 0 3 0 21:41 0.33
Jake Christiansen D 0 0 0 0 4 +1 11:50 0.30
Mathieu Olivier R 0 0 2 0 1 0 13:41 0.20
Kevin Labanc R 0 0 2 0 1 0 11:11 0.20
Ivan Provorov D 0 0 3 0 2 -1 23:54 0.18
Mikael Pyyhtia L 0 0 2 0 1 0 11:37 0.15
Zachary Aston-Reese L 0 0 1 2 1 0 14:49 0.13
Jack Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 13:13 0.10
Cole Sillinger C 0 0 1 1 1 -1 16:40 0.03
Sean Kuraly C 0 0 0 3 1 0 15:43 0.00
James van Riemsdyk L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 13:17 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Elvis Merzlikins W 23 20 3 .870 64:55 -0.25

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rickard Rakell R 2 0 4 2 0 +1 19:46 1.85
Sidney Crosby C 0 2 1 1 0 +1 20:48 1.43
Erik Karlsson D 0 2 4 0 3 0 24:40 1.40
Michael Bunting L 1 0 3 1 0 0 14:53 0.98
Matt Grzelcyk D 0 1 0 0 1 0 22:39 0.58
Drew O'Connor L 0 0 3 2 0 0 15:46 0.22
Kevin Hayes R 0 0 3 1 1 0 14:58 0.22
Kris Letang D 0 0 1 1 0 +1 22:57 0.22
Bryan Rust R 0 0 0 0 1 +1 19:43 0.20
Marcus Pettersson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 22:01 0.15
Anthony Beauvillier R 0 0 1 4 0 0 13:08 0.08
Owen Pickering D 0 0 1 0 2 0 14:50 0.08
Pierre-Olivier Joseph D 0 0 1 2 0 0 16:17 0.08
Jesse Puljujarvi R 0 0 1 0 0 0 13:37 0.02
Cody Glass C 0 0 0 1 0 0 14:22 0.00
Noel Acciari C 0 0 0 1 1 0 15:45 0.00
Matt Nieto L 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:53 0.00
Blake Lizotte C 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:15 -0.10
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tristan Jarry O 29 26 3 .897 65:00 0.35