National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Pittsburgh 2, Carolina 1
Wednesday, December 31, 2014 7:00 PM
When: 7:00 PM ET, Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Where: Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Referees: Graham Skilliter, Tom Kowal
Linesmen: Steve Barton, Mark Shewchyk
Attendance: 18639
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Carolina 1001
Pittsburgh 1012
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
9:12 - Hurricanes Eric Staal (EV) Assists: Elias Lindholm , Jiri Tlusty
19:38 - Penguins Chris Kunitz (EV) Assists: Beau Bennett , Andrew Ebbett
Penalties
4:35 - Hurricanes Eric Staal (2) Interference
 16:45 - Penguins Bench (2) Too many men on ice
2nd Period
Scoring
No Scoring.
Penalties
3:31 - Hurricanes Elias Lindholm (2) Hooking
 3:31 - Penguins Jayson Megna (2) Holding the stick
 7:16 - Hurricanes Jay McClement (2) Hooking
 13:56 - Hurricanes Brad Malone (2) Hooking
3rd Period
Scoring
18:18 - Penguins Brandon Sutter (EV) Assists: Beau Bennett , Chris Kunitz
Penalties
0:51 - Penguins Christian Ehrhoff (2) Boarding
 6:33 - Penguins Chris Kunitz (2) Slashing
Carolina Hurricanes
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Cam Ward G 0 0 0 0 0 58:59
Anton Khudobin G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Andrej Sekera D 0 0 0 E 0 0 26:16
Ryan Murphy D 0 0 0 E 0 1 13:32
Eric Staal C 1 0 1 +1 2 3 20:42
Nathan Gerbe LW 0 0 0 E 0 3 17:35
Elias Lindholm C 0 1 1 E 2 5 18:22
Jay McClement C 0 0 0 E 2 3 10:48
Jiri Tlusty LW 0 1 1 +1 0 2 19:22
Riley Nash C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 16:42
Zach Boychuk LW 0 0 0 E 0 0 5:13
Brad Malone C 0 0 0 E 2 0 7:15
Chris Terry LW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 10:30
Justin Faulk D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 28:34
Patrick Dwyer RW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 14:27
Michal Jordan D 0 0 0 E 0 0 12:07
Victor Rask C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 17:35
Jeff Skinner LW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 16:53
Ron Hainsey D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 21:30
Brett Bellemore D 0 0 0 E 0 2 15:15
Pittsburgh Penguins
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Thomas Greiss G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Marc-Andre Fleury G 0 0 0 0 0 59:40
Robert Scuderi D 0 0 0 +2 0 0 18:53
Christian Ehrhoff D 0 0 0 E 2 6 24:59
Nick Spaling C 0 0 0 E 0 2 17:34
Chris Kunitz LW 1 1 2 +2 2 2 16:12
Brandon Sutter C 1 0 1 E 0 3 18:46
Beau Bennett RW 0 2 2 +2 0 4 17:29
Andrew Ebbett C 0 1 1 +1 0 0 5:46
Craig Adams RW 0 0 0 E 0 2 13:49
Bobby Farnham RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 5:06
Bryan Rust RW 0 0 0 -1 0 6 14:40
Robert Bortuzzo D 0 0 0 E 0 0 16:32
Simon Despres D 0 0 0 +1 0 2 18:00
Derrick Pouliot D 0 0 0 E 0 0 14:58
Marcel Goc C 0 0 0 E 0 4 14:44
Kris Letang D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 26:44
Jayson Megna C 0 0 0 E 2 2 7:07
Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 21:20
Sidney Crosby C 0 0 0 E 0 1 19:47
Goaltending
Carolina
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Cam Ward L (9-15-2) 39 37 2 .949 0 58:59
Pittsburgh
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Marc-Andre Fleury W (20-6-3) 25 24 1 .960 0 59:40