Washington Capitals vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Playoffs · Monday, April 23, 2001 · Mellon Arena
Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Washington Capitals 4–3 in overtime on Monday, April 23, 2001 at Mellon Arena. The Penguins outshot the Capitals 36–31.
Goals came from Mario Lemieux, Robert Lang, Brendan Witt, Jeff Halpern, Alex Kovalev, Calle Johansson and Martin Straka.
Johan Hedberg made 28 saves on 31 shots for the win; Olie Kolzig stopped 32 of 36.
Scoring
1st period
Mario Lemieux (4)Alex Kovalev (1), Kevin Stevens (2)0–107:21 PIT · 
Robert Lang (1)Aleksey Morozov (2), Andrew Ference (3)0–208:59 PIT
2nd period
Brendan Witt (2)Unassisted1–214:07 WSH
Jeff Halpern (2)Steve Konowalchuk (2), Ken Klee (1)2–217:28 WSH · 
Alex Kovalev (2)Unassisted2–319:59 PIT ·
3rd period
Calle Johansson (1)Jeff Halpern (3), Steve Konowalchuk (3)3–317:20 WSH
Overtime
Martin Straka (1)Unassisted3–413:04 PIT
Team stats
WSHPIT
3136
57%43%
1/32/6
126
2235
618
512
45
Penalties
- 2:30 into the first period
Aleksey Morozov · high sticking2 min - 3:45 into the first period
Steve Konowalchuk · boarding2 min - 7:08 into the first periodKen Klee · interference2 min
- 11:45 into the first periodBob Boughner · interference2 min
- 9:44 into the second periodBrendan Witt · roughing2 min
- 15:32 into the second periodMartin Straka · high sticking2 min
- 18:31 into the second periodAndrei Nikolishin · hooking2 min
- 19:52 into the second periodKen Klee · high sticking2 min
- 9:56 into the third periodPeter Bondra · holding2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 5 | 23:25 |
| 22Steve KonowalchukL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 23:17 |
| 2Ken KleeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 24:24 |
| 6Calle JohanssonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 28:30 |
| 19Brendan WittD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 24:04 |
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 22:39 |
| 10Ulf DahlenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:44 |
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 28:13 |
| 13Andrei NikolishinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:26 |
| 14Joe SaccoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:49 |
| 16Trevor LindenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 25:53 |
| 17Chris SimonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:24 |
| 20Glen MetropolitC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 07:03 |
| 23Trent WhitfieldC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:25 |
| 77Adam OatesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 21:18 |
| 24Rob ZettlerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:27 |
| 29Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 21:26 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 30:37 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | L | 36 | 4 | .889 |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 27Alex KovalevR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 28:18 |
| 20Robert LangC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 23:42 |
| 25Kevin StevensL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23:40 |
| 66Mario LemieuxC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 31:42 |
| 82Martin StrakaC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 24:50 |
| 95Aleksey MorozovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 20:04 |
| 7Andrew FerenceD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 23:25 |
| 9Rene CorbetL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00:19 |
| 15Wayne PrimeauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:47 |
| 18Josef BeranekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 03:41 |
| 38Jan HrdinaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 21:17 |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | 26:56 |
| 3Marc BergevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:04 |
| 5Janne LaukkanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:13 |
| 6Bob BoughnerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:30 |
| 8Hans JonssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:02 |
| 11Darius KasparaitisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 22:46 |
| 24Ian MoranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22:12 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Johan HedbergG | W | 31 | 3 | .903 |
| 34Garth SnowG | 0 | 0 | – |