National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Pittsburgh 3, Minnesota 2
Monday, December 31, 2018 6:00 PM
When: 6:00 PM ET, Monday, December 31, 2018
Where: Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Referees: Marc Joannette, Wes McCauley
Linesmen: Darren Gibbs, Derek Nansen
Attendance: 19163
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Pittsburgh 2103
Minnesota 1012
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
5:27 - Wild Mikko Koivu (PP) Assists: Nino Niederreiter , Charlie Coyle
15:43 - Penguins Sidney Crosby (PP) Assists: Phil Kessel , Kris Letang
19:39 - Penguins Phil Kessel (EV) Assists: Sidney Crosby , Zach Aston-Reese
Penalties
3:48 - Penguins Riley Sheahan (2) Holding
 14:45 - Wild Nate Prosser (2) Kneeing
2nd Period
Scoring
10:19 - Penguins Riley Sheahan (EV) Assists: Phil Kessel , Matt Cullen
Penalties
8:08 - Penguins Zach Aston-Reese (2) Roughing
 8:08 - Wild Marcus Foligno (2) Roughing
3rd Period
Scoring
15:55 - Wild Zach Parise (EV) Assists: Mikko Koivu , Mikael Granlund
Penalties
None.
Pittsburgh Penguins
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Casey DeSmith G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00
Matt Murray G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Olli Maatta D 0 0 0 E 0 0 18:35
Matt Cullen C 0 1 1 +1 0 0 11:10
Brian Dumoulin D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 23:33
Dominik Simon LW 0 0 0 E 0 4 15:51
Tanner Pearson LW 0 0 0 E 0 2 12:30
Riley Sheahan C 1 0 1 +1 2 1 9:00
Derick Brassard C 0 0 0 E 0 1 13:31
Marcus Pettersson D 0 0 0 E 0 0 14:32
Derek Grant C 0 0 0 E 0 0 9:48
Zach Aston-Reese LW 0 1 1 E 2 2 17:06
Juuso Riikola D 0 0 0 E 0 3 17:50
Kris Letang D 0 1 1 +1 0 0 25:16
Jake Guentzel LW 0 0 0 -1 0 4 18:34
Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 0 E 0 4 18:11
Patric Hornqvist RW 0 0 0 E 0 2 16:46
Jack Johnson D 0 0 0 E 0 2 19:16
Phil Kessel RW 1 2 3 +2 0 4 14:56
Sidney Crosby C 1 1 2 E 0 2 19:56
Minnesota Wild
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Alex Stalock G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Devan Dubnyk G 0 0 0 0 0 58:01
Charlie Coyle C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 18:09
Mikko Koivu C 1 1 2 E 0 4 16:53
Zach Parise LW 1 0 1 E 0 5 18:45
Eric Staal C 0 0 0 E 0 4 18:22
Matt Hendricks C 0 0 0 E 0 0 8:26
Jason Zucker LW 0 0 0 E 0 4 15:12
Marcus Foligno LW 0 0 0 -1 2 0 9:19
Jordan Greenway LW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 15:39
Luke Kunin C 0 0 0 E 0 1 15:29
Ryan Suter D 0 0 0 E 0 1 27:50
Eric Fehr C 0 0 0 E 0 1 9:19
Nino Niederreiter RW 0 1 1 -1 0 0 15:28
Jonas Brodin D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 25:19
Greg Pateryn D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 21:30
Nate Prosser D 0 0 0 E 2 0 7:16
Matt Bartkowski D 0 0 0 E 0 0 10:32
Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 E 0 4 26:01
Mikael Granlund RW 0 1 1 +1 0 3 19:32
Goaltending
Pittsburgh
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Casey DeSmith W (12-6-4) 33 31 2 .939 0 60:00
Minnesota
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Devan Dubnyk L (13-14-3) 32 29 3 .906 0 58:01