Washington Capitals vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Wednesday, January 14, 2009 · Mellon Arena
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Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6–3 on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at Mellon Arena. The Capitals outshot the Penguins 42–29.
Alex Ovechkin scored twice. Evgeni Malkin, Viktor Kozlov, Miroslav Satan, Alexander Semin, Ryan Whitney, Tomas Fleischmann and Jeff Schultz also scored.
Jose Theodore made 26 saves on 29 shots for the win; Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 36 of 41.
Scoring
1st period
Evgeni Malkin (18)Sidney Crosby (41), Miroslav Satan (16)0–105:45 PIT ·
2nd period
Viktor Kozlov (10)Nicklas Backstrom (34)1–101:06 WSH
Miroslav Satan (13)Max Talbot (5), Tyler Kennedy (11)1–208:23 PIT
Alexander Semin (17)Sergei Fedorov (9), Tomas Fleischmann (8)2–212:40 WSH
3rd period
Alex Ovechkin (28)Brooks Laich (12), Nicklas Backstrom (35)3–201:48 WSH · 
Ryan Whitney (1)Sidney Crosby (42), Dustin Jeffrey (2)3–303:12 PIT
Tomas Fleischmann (15)Alex Ovechkin (28), Nicklas Backstrom (36)4–308:11 WSH · - Alex Ovechkin (29)Mike Green (20)5–311:27 WSH
Jeff Schultz (1)Brooks Laich (13)6–318:54 WSH · ·
Team stats
WSHPIT
4229
42%58%
2/61/6
1212
1724
1421
47
43
Penalties
- 2:59 into the first period
Donald Brashear · high sticking double minor4 min - 3:36 into the first periodJeff Schultz · cross checking2 min
- 14:16 into the first period
Brooks Orpik · slashing2 min - 16:00 into the first periodEvgeni Malkin · interference2 min
- 17:16 into the second periodMatt Cooke · interference2 min
- 19:02 into the second periodHal Gill · slashing2 min
- 0:50 into the third periodBrooks Orpik · tripping2 min
- 4:49 into the third periodJose Theodore · delaying game puck over glass2 min
- 7:07 into the third periodPetr Sykora · high sticking2 min
- 14:08 into the third periodNicklas Backstrom · tripping2 min
- 18:42 into the third periodMilan Jurcina · hooking2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 10 | 23:00 |
| 19Nicklas BackstromC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 1 | 19:21 |
| 14Tomas FleischmannL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 14:35 |
| 21Brooks LaichC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 5 | 19:07 |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 16:04 |
| 28Alexander SeminR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 19:20 |
| 91Sergei FedorovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 16:05 |
| 52Mike GreenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 29:42 |
| 55Jeff SchultzD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 2 | 19:05 |
| 10Matt BradleyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:46 |
| 16Eric FehrC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 08:10 |
| 39David SteckelC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 14:08 |
| 87Donald BrashearL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:06 |
| 92Michael NylanderC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 11:15 |
| 4John ErskineD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 21:21 |
| 23Milan JurcinaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | 15:37 |
| 27Karl AlznerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:55 |
| 43Bryan HelmerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 10:19 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brent JohnsonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | W | 29 | 3 | .897 |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14:30 |
| 87Sidney CrosbyC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | 22:50 |
| 25Max TalbotC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 11:17 |
| 42Dustin JeffreyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 12:15 |
| 48Tyler KennedyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 15:25 |
| 71Evgeni MalkinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 12 | 23:29 |
| 19Ryan WhitneyD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 28:45 |
| 11Jordan StaalC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 20:51 |
| 16Paul BissonnetteL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 04:22 |
| 17Petr SykoraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:13 |
| 24Matt CookeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 16:45 |
| 28Eric GodardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:17 |
| 32Chris MinardL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:49 |
| 2Hal GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 18:08 |
| 4Rob ScuderiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:44 |
| 13Alex GoligoskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:36 |
| 44Brooks OrpikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 22:47 |
| 58Kris LetangD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:23 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Marc-Andre FleuryG | L | 41 | 5 | .878 |
| 30Dany SabourinG | 0 | 0 | – |