Buffalo Sabres vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Tuesday, March 2, 2010 · Mellon Arena
FS-P (HD) · MSG-B
Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Buffalo Sabres 3–2 on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at Mellon Arena.
Goals came from Sergei Gonchar, Pascal Dupuis, Toni Lydman, Ruslan Fedotenko and Derek Roy.
Brent Johnson made 26 saves on 28 shots for the win; Patrick Lalime stopped 25 of 28.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Sergei Gonchar (1)Alex Goligoski (1), Sidney Crosby (1)0–114:58 PIT ·
2nd period
Pascal Dupuis (1)Ruslan Fedotenko (1), Evgeni Malkin (1)0–203:13 PIT
Toni Lydman (1)Patrick Kaleta (1), Craig Rivet (1)1–206:44 BUF
3rd period
Ruslan Fedotenko (1)Tyler Kennedy (1), Kris Letang (1)1–311:03 PIT
Derek Roy (1)Patrick Kaleta (2), Chris Butler (1)2–314:21 BUF
Team stats
BUFPIT
2828
46%54%
0/41/2
1115
2130
1619
33
06
Penalties
- 10:35 into the first period
Craig Rivet · roughing2 min - 10:35 into the first period
Sidney Crosby · slashing2 min - 13:21 into the first periodTim Kennedy · boarding2 min
- 19:06 into the first periodKris Letang · holding2 min
- 17:17 into the second periodBrooks Orpik · hooking2 min
- 1:13 into the third periodThomas Vanek · hooking2 min
- 3:54 into the third periodRuslan Fedotenko · high sticking2 min
- 6:08 into the third periodMike Rupp · fighting5 min
- 6:08 into the third periodPaul Gaustad · fighting5 min
- 7:13 into the third periodSergei Gonchar · interference2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 36Patrick KaletaR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 14:06 |
| 9Derek RoyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 21:43 |
| 5Toni LydmanD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19:13 |
| 34Chris ButlerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 18:36 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 16:11 |
| 13Tim KennedyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:47 |
| 19Tim ConnollyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:53 |
| 21Drew StaffordR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:10 |
| 22Adam MairC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 09:22 |
| 25Mike GrierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 13:30 |
| 26Thomas VanekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 18:05 |
| 28Paul GaustadC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:28 |
| 29Jason PominvilleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 20:11 |
| 41Clarke MacArthurL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:13 |
| 55Jochen HechtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 16:26 |
| 10Henrik TallinderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:34 |
| 44Andrej SekeraD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:04 |
| 57Tyler MyersD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 25:01 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Ryan MillerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Patrick LalimeG | L | 28 | 3 | .893 |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 26Ruslan FedotenkoL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 11:46 |
| 9Pascal DupuisL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12:27 |
| 48Tyler KennedyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 10:45 |
| 71Evgeni MalkinC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 17:48 |
| 87Sidney CrosbyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:34 |
| 3Alex GoligoskiD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:26 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 23:32 |
| 58Kris LetangD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 21:28 |
| 11Jordan StaalC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:30 |
| 13Bill GuerinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:21 |
| 14Chris KunitzL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14:33 |
| 17Mike RuppC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:54 |
| 24Matt CookeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:23 |
| 25Max TalbotC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:56 |
| 27Craig AdamsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:32 |
| 4Jordan LeopoldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 18:12 |
| 7Mark EatonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:44 |
| 44Brooks OrpikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 20:09 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brent JohnsonG | W | 28 | 2 | .929 |
| 29Marc-Andre FleuryG | 0 | 0 | – |