Montréal Canadiens vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Sunday, March 26, 2006 · Mellon Arena
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-5 on Sunday, March 26, 2006 at Mellon Arena. The Penguins outshot the Canadiens 35-25.
Chris Higgins scored twice, Colby Armstrong scored twice and Alex Kovalev scored twice. Radek Bonk, Tomas Surovy, Noah Welch, Michael Ryder and John LeClair also scored.
Scoring
1st period
Chris Higgins (15)Saku Koivu (36), Michael Ryder (20)1–004:24 MTL · PPG
Radek Bonk (5)Niklas Sundstrom (9), Mark Streit (7)2–005:05 MTL
2nd period
Colby Armstrong (11)Sidney Crosby (47), Sergei Gonchar (37)2–100:41 PIT · PPG- Chris Higgins (16)Saku Koivu (37), Sheldon Souray (23)3–103:14 MTL
Tomas Surovy (11)Michel Ouellet (14), Noah Welch (2)3–206:04 PIT · PPG
Alex Kovalev (19)Mark Streit (8), Richard Zednik (14)4–210:51 MTL · PPG- Colby Armstrong (12)Andy Hilbert (7)4–312:51 PIT · SHG
- Alex Kovalev (20)Unassisted5–319:40 MTL · PPG
3rd period
Noah Welch (1)Josef Melichar (10), Sidney Crosby (48)5–401:39 PIT
Michael Ryder (28)Mathieu Dandenault (14), Saku Koivu (38)6–413:00 MTL
John LeClair (17)Konstantin Koltsov (3), Ryan Malone (18)6–514:05 PIT
Team stats
MTLPIT
25Shots on goal35
65%Faceoff %35%
3/7Power play2/4
13Penalty minutes19
16Hits15
10Blocked shots16
2Giveaways2
0Takeaways1
Penalties
- 1st 03:00
Tomas Surovy · holding2 min - 1st 08:21Ryan Whitney · hooking2 min
- 1st 16:09
Garth Murray · hooking2 min - 1st 19:47Alex Kovalev · hooking2 min
- 2nd 04:38Jan Bulis · hooking2 min
- 2nd 09:08Tomas Surovy · holding2 min
- 2nd 12:33Ryan Whitney · hooking2 min
- 2nd 18:18Tomas Surovy · hooking2 min
- 3rd 02:44Shane Endicott · tripping2 min
- 3rd 07:57Sheldon Souray · fighting5 min
- 3rd 07:57Ryan Malone · fighting5 min
- 3rd 17:09Richard Zednik · hooking2 min
- 3rd 19:00Sergei Gonchar · interference2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.