Top Cheddar 2026-27

Sunday, December 21, 2025 · PPG Paints Arena

Canadiens 3 at Penguins 4

Final/SO

Three Stars

C 97OVR Sidney Crosby Penguins First Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG R 88OVR Rickard Rakell Penguins Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 73OVR Oliver Kapanen Canadiens Third Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:31 Oliver Kapanen (11) Juraj Slafkovský (12), Ivan Demidov (20) · Wrist MTL 1 – 0 PIT
  2. 7:58 Sidney Crosby (20) Erik Karlsson (23), Rickard Rakell (8) · Wrist MTL 1 – 1 PIT
  3. 12:40 Rickard Rakell (4) PPG Bryan Rust (17), Sidney Crosby (17) · Wrist MTL 1 – 2 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 3:54 Ivan Demidov (8) Juraj Slafkovský (13), Oliver Kapanen (8) · Wrist MTL 2 – 2 PIT
  2. 11:51 Noel Acciari (2) Kris Letang (15), Arturs Silovs (2) · Wrist MTL 2 – 3 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 4:04 Noah Dobson (6) Sammy Blais (3), Mike Matheson (13) · Backhand MTL 3 – 3 PIT

Overtime

No scoring

Shootout

  1. Rickard Rakell Deciding shootout goal · Backhand MTL 3 – 4 PIT

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Oliver Kapanen C 1 1 7 0 0 +2 14:44 2.25
Ivan Demidov R 1 1 2 1 0 +2 15:56 1.83
Juraj Slafkovský L 0 2 0 1 0 +2 21:13 1.55
Mike Matheson D 0 1 3 1 4 +1 27:23 1.10
Noah Dobson D 1 0 3 1 2 0 22:33 0.77
Sammy Blais L 0 1 1 6 1 +1 8:32 0.75
Lane Hutson D 0 0 3 1 4 0 28:58 0.27
Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 10:40 0.10
Josh Anderson R 0 0 1 3 0 0 18:17 0.08
Joseph Veleno C 0 0 2 0 0 0 13:22 0.05
Adam Engstrom D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 10:40 0.05
Alexandre Carrier D 0 0 0 0 2 0 21:29 0.05
Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 4 1 0 11:05 0.05
Owen Beck C 0 0 0 3 1 +1 10:07 0.00
Alexandre Texier L 0 0 2 1 1 -1 16:48 -0.05
Cole Caufield R 0 0 0 0 1 -1 20:04 -0.10
Nick Suzuki C 0 0 1 0 1 -2 23:26 -0.22
Zachary Bolduc R 0 0 0 3 0 -2 13:05 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jakub Dobes O 31 28 3 .903 65:00 0.55

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rickard Rakell R 1 1 4 2 0 +1 21:44 1.88
Sidney Crosby C 1 1 2 2 1 +1 20:53 1.68
Bryan Rust R 0 1 2 1 1 0 21:36 0.78
Kris Letang D 0 1 3 3 0 +1 23:36 0.70
Noel Acciari C 1 0 1 3 0 -1 12:34 0.63
Erik Karlsson D 0 1 1 1 0 0 27:07 0.55
Brett Kulak D 0 0 2 1 1 +1 21:51 0.35
Ben Kindel C 0 0 3 0 1 0 15:11 0.27
Justin Brazeau R 0 0 1 2 1 0 14:27 0.13
Rutger McGroarty R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 12:49 0.10
Parker Wotherspoon D 0 0 2 1 3 0 21:34 0.10
Kevin Hayes R 0 0 2 1 1 -1 9:26 0.05
Anthony Mantha R 0 0 0 4 1 0 18:13 0.05
Ville Koivunen R 0 0 0 1 0 0 11:47 0.00
Tommy Novak C 0 0 1 0 0 0 17:41 -0.08
Jack St. Ivany D 0 0 2 4 1 -2 12:42 -0.10
Connor Dewar C 0 0 1 4 0 -2 12:00 -0.18
Ryan Shea D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 13:49 -0.40
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Arturs Silovs W 25 22 3 .880 65:00 -0.05