Montréal Canadiens vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Wednesday, March 8, 2000 · Mellon Arena
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3–0 on Wednesday, March 8, 2000 at Mellon Arena. The Canadiens outshot the Penguins 27–24.
Goals came from Trevor Linden, Brian Savage and Patrick Poulin.
Jeff Hackett made 24 saves on 24 shots for the win; Jean-Sebastien Aubin stopped 24 of 27.
Scoring
2nd period
Trevor Linden (11)Turner Stevenson (10)1–000:20 MTL
Brian Savage (13)Craig Rivet (11), Craig Darby (8)2–012:37 MTL
3rd period
Patrick Poulin (10)Brian Savage (8), Craig Darby (9)3–015:25 MTL
Team stats
MTLPIT
2724
44%56%
0/20/4
106
2018
810
515
52
Penalties
- 2:04 into the first period
Francis Bouillon · tripping2 min - 7:50 into the first period
Jiri Slegr · hooking obstruction2 min - 10:17 into the first periodSheldon Souray · holding2 min
- 12:57 into the first periodMatthew Barnaby · hooking obstruction2 min
- 1:40 into the second periodPatrice Brisebois · high sticking2 min
- 1:40 into the second periodPatrice Brisebois · high sticking2 min
- 11:58 into the second periodSheldon Souray · roughing2 min
- 11:58 into the second periodMatthew Barnaby · cross checking2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 49Brian SavageL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 12:02 |
| 63Craig DarbyC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 10:28 |
| 14Trevor LindenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:07 |
| 23Turner StevensonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 14:44 |
| 37Patrick PoulinL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:12 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 22:44 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:06 |
| 17Benoit BrunetL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:57 |
| 26Martin RucinskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 16:30 |
| 27Shayne CorsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:07 |
| 32Oleg PetrovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:53 |
| 34Sergei ZholtokC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:07 |
| 61Jason WardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01:48 |
| 20Scott LachanceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 17:03 |
| 22Eric WeinrichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 4 | 26:59 |
| 43Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:26 |
| 44Sheldon SourayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:59 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 13:39 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Jeff HackettG | W | 24 | 0 | 1.000 |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | 0 | 0 | – |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 9German TitovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 23:38 |
| 12Martin SonnenbergL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:49 |
| 14Pat FalloonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:38 |
| 20Robert LangC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 07:27 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 6 | 18:22 |
| 29Tyler WrightC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:54 |
| 36Matthew BarnabyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:58 |
| 38Jan HrdinaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:20 |
| 44Rob BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 12:52 |
| 82Martin StrakaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 24:58 |
| 95Aleksey MorozovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:06 |
| 5Brad WerenkaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:30 |
| 8Hans JonssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 21:00 |
| 11Darius KasparaitisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 19:48 |
| 24Ian MoranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 19:12 |
| 28Michal RozsivalD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:50 |
| 32John SlaneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:53 |
| 71Jiri SlegrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 23:02 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Peter SkudraG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Jean-Sebastien AubinG | L | 27 | 3 | .889 |