Pittsburgh Penguins vs Ottawa Senators
Regular season · Saturday, March 1, 2008 · Scotiabank Place
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Game summary
The Ottawa Senators beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5–4 on Saturday, March 1, 2008 at Scotiabank Place. The Senators outshot the Penguins 30–29.
Ryan Malone scored twice and Daniel Alfredsson scored twice. Antoine Vermette, Petr Sykora, Martin Lapointe, Dany Heatley and Evgeni Malkin also scored.
Martin Gerber made 25 saves on 29 shots for the win; Ty Conklin stopped 25 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Ryan Malone (21)Evgeni Malkin (49), Petr Sykora (29)1–008:43 PIT
Antoine Vermette (15)Wade Redden (30), Cory Stillman (31)1–115:11 OTT
Daniel Alfredsson (36)Anton Volchenkov (11)1–216:12 OTT
Petr Sykora (21)Sergei Gonchar (42), Jordan Staal (14)2–219:48 PIT ·
2nd period
- Daniel Alfredsson (37)Unassisted2–301:30 OTT ·
- Ryan Malone (22)Alex Goligoski (1), Evgeni Malkin (50)3–302:35 PIT
Martin Lapointe (4)Wade Redden (31)3–414:40 OTT · 
Dany Heatley (31)Daniel Alfredsson (41), Cory Stillman (32)3–516:12 OTT ·
3rd period
Evgeni Malkin (37)Unassisted4–514:06 PIT
Team stats
PITOTT
2930
42%58%
1/52/5
1919
2237
1511
811
1010
Penalties
- 0:27 into the first period
Sergei Gonchar · delaying game puck over glass2 min - 10:44 into the first periodHal Gill · holding2 min
- 18:38 into the first period
Antoine Vermette · fighting5 min - 18:38 into the first periodMax Talbot · fighting5 min
- 18:56 into the first periodChris Phillips · cross checking2 min
- 18:56 into the first periodAnton Volchenkov · roughing2 min
- 18:56 into the first periodRyan Malone · roughing2 min
- 18:56 into the first periodEvgeni Malkin · boarding2 min
- 19:03 into the first periodMartin Lapointe · roughing2 min
- 0:27 into the second periodMartin Lapointe · hooking2 min
- 4:50 into the second periodMartin Lapointe · high sticking2 min
- 7:03 into the second periodJason Spezza · hooking2 min
- 10:33 into the second periodDean McAmmond · hooking2 min
- 13:40 into the second periodSergei Gonchar · cross checking double minor4 min
- 9:37 into the third periodHal Gill · holding2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 71Evgeni MalkinC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 3 | 22:29 |
| 12Ryan MaloneL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 22:13 |
| 17Petr SykoraR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 21:34 |
| 11Jordan StaalC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 21:03 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 27:02 |
| 67Alex GoligoskiD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:00 |
| 9Pascal DupuisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:13 |
| 25Max TalbotC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:51 |
| 27Georges LaraqueR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:25 |
| 36Connor JamesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:02 |
| 37Jarkko RuutuL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:40 |
| 38Jeff TaffeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:22 |
| 39Chris MinardL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 00:52 |
| 48Tyler KennedyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 15:59 |
| 2Hal GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:58 |
| 5Darryl SydorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 16:20 |
| 44Brooks OrpikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:08 |
| 58Kris LetangD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 25:18 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Marc-Andre FleuryG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Ty ConklinG | L | 30 | 5 | .833 |
Ottawa Senators
| 11Daniel AlfredssonR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 3 | 23:37 |
| 61Cory StillmanL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 14:56 |
| 6Wade ReddenD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 18:27 |
| 15Dany HeatleyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 22:03 |
| 20Antoine VermetteC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 14:08 |
| 28Martin LapointeR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 3 | 10:29 |
| 24Anton VolchenkovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 20:33 |
| 10Shean DonovanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:20 |
| 12Mike FisherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 19:38 |
| 19Jason SpezzaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:00 |
| 22Chris KellyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | 15:08 |
| 27Randy RobitailleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:09 |
| 37Dean McAmmondC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:26 |
| 2Luke RichardsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:32 |
| 4Chris PhillipsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 19:51 |
| 5Christoph SchubertD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 15:07 |
| 14Andrej MeszarosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:09 |
| 44Mike CommodoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 14:44 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Ray EmeryG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 29Martin GerberG | W | 29 | 4 | .862 |