Top Cheddar 2026-27

Thursday, April 17, 2025 · PPG Paints Arena

Capitals 2 at Penguins 5

Final

Three Stars

R 91OVR Bryan Rust Penguins First Star 2G · 4 SOG C 96OVR Sidney Crosby Penguins Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG R 70OVR Ville Koivunen Penguins Third Star 2A · 2 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:08 Connor McMichael (26) Tom Wilson (32) · Wrist WSH 1 – 0 PIT
  2. 4:54 Bryan Rust (30) Ville Koivunen (6), Matt Grzelcyk (38) · Wrist WSH 1 – 1 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 7:19 Bryan Rust (31) PPG Sidney Crosby (58), Ville Koivunen (7) · Wrist WSH 1 – 2 PIT
  2. 11:56 Sidney Crosby (33) Philip Tomasino (13), Connor Dewar (6) · Snap WSH 1 – 3 PIT
  3. 16:56 Alex Ovechkin (44) PPG Dylan Strome (53), Pierre-Luc Dubois (46) · Slap WSH 2 – 3 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 8:46 Danton Heinen (9) SHG Unassisted · Wrist WSH 2 – 4 PIT
  2. 9:01 Philip Tomasino (11) Rickard Rakell (35), Matt Grzelcyk (39) · Wrist WSH 2 – 5 PIT

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Tom Wilson R 0 1 2 0 2 +1 14:07 0.98
Connor McMichael L 1 0 1 1 0 0 14:50 0.83
Alex Ovechkin L 1 0 2 0 1 -1 15:07 0.80
Pierre-Luc Dubois C 0 1 0 0 1 +1 14:08 0.78
Dylan Strome C 0 1 1 0 0 0 13:10 0.70
Alexander Alexeyev D 0 0 2 2 2 0 23:30 0.20
Lars Eller C 0 0 3 1 2 -2 13:38 0.02
Brandon Duhaime L 0 0 0 2 0 0 11:34 0.00
Dylan McIlrath D 0 0 2 2 2 0 19:56 0.00
Jakob Chychrun D 0 0 2 2 1 -1 25:22 -0.05
Ryan Leonard R 0 0 1 0 1 -1 16:30 -0.08
Anthony Beauvillier R 0 0 1 1 0 -1 12:34 -0.08
Rasmus Sandin D 0 0 1 0 3 -2 23:46 -0.12
Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 1 0 1 -2 24:22 -0.12
Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 1 1 -1 15:27 -0.15
Ethen Frank R 0 0 0 1 2 -2 11:14 -0.25
Taylor Raddysh R 0 0 1 2 0 -2 13:52 -0.28
Andrew Mangiapane L 0 0 0 1 1 -2 13:53 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Clay Stevenson L 38 33 5 .868 60:00 -0.45

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Matt Grzelcyk D 0 2 1 2 2 +3 22:25 1.98
Philip Tomasino R 1 1 3 1 0 +2 15:24 1.95
Bryan Rust R 2 0 4 0 0 +1 17:38 1.90
Sidney Crosby C 1 1 3 0 0 +2 17:51 1.75
Ville Koivunen R 0 2 2 1 2 +1 18:07 1.65
Danton Heinen L 1 0 3 0 1 0 16:18 0.93
Connor Dewar C 0 1 2 2 0 +1 15:09 0.88
Rickard Rakell R 0 1 3 0 0 0 16:50 0.70
Ryan Shea D 0 0 3 2 2 +1 20:59 0.48
Erik Karlsson D 0 0 2 0 0 +3 25:06 0.45
Vasily Ponomarev C 0 0 2 1 0 +1 11:06 0.30
Conor Timmins D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 20:54 0.27
Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 3 1 0 0 16:00 0.22
Samuel Poulin R 0 0 1 2 0 0 9:56 0.08
Joona Koppanen L 0 0 1 6 0 0 15:49 0.02
Valtteri Puustinen R 0 0 1 2 0 0 9:31 0.02
Vladislav Kolyachonok D 0 0 1 3 0 -1 13:50 -0.08
Ryan Graves D 0 0 0 1 1 -1 14:02 -0.10
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Alex Nedeljkovic W 20 18 2 .900 60:00 0.30