Pittsburgh Penguins vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Thursday, March 18, 2010 · TD Garden
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Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Boston Bruins 3–0 on Thursday, March 18, 2010 at TD Garden. The Penguins outshot the Bruins 31–17.
Goals came from Tyler Kennedy, Alexei Ponikarovsky and Mike Rupp.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 17 saves on 17 shots for the win; Tuukka Rask stopped 28 of 31.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Tyler Kennedy (1)Ruslan Fedotenko (1), Brooks Orpik (1)1–008:34 PIT
2nd period
Alexei Ponikarovsky (1)Kris Letang (1), Sergei Gonchar (1)2–019:45 PIT
3rd period
Mike Rupp (1)Unassisted3–005:14 PIT
Team stats
PITBOS
3117
45%55%
0/40/4
1828
2019
1613
57
34
Penalties
- 1:58 into the first period
Matt Cooke · fighting5 min - 1:58 into the first period
Shawn Thornton · fighting5 min - 1:58 into the first periodShawn Thornton · misconduct10 min
- 5:36 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 12:52 into the first periodMatt Cooke · tripping2 min
- 2:22 into the second periodVladimir Sobotka · hooking2 min
- 7:37 into the second periodSergei Gonchar · tripping2 min
- 11:43 into the second periodMike Rupp · fighting5 min
- 11:43 into the second periodZdeno Chara · fighting5 min
- 12:00 into the second periodMark Stuart · hooking2 min
- 17:44 into the second periodSteve Begin · kneeing2 min
- 12:23 into the third periodJordan Leopold · hooking2 min
- 16:28 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 17Mike RuppC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 10:43 |
| 23Alexei PonikarovskyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 18:03 |
| 26Ruslan FedotenkoL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 13:20 |
| 48Tyler KennedyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 10:27 |
| 44Brooks OrpikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 20:29 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 23:02 |
| 58Kris LetangD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 21:35 |
| 9Pascal DupuisL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:06 |
| 11Jordan StaalC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:45 |
| 13Bill GuerinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 17:06 |
| 14Chris KunitzL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 4 | 18:17 |
| 24Matt CookeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:25 |
| 27Craig AdamsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:47 |
| 28Eric GodardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:31 |
| 87Sidney CrosbyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 22:18 |
| 3Alex GoligoskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:45 |
| 4Jordan LeopoldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:04 |
| 7Mark EatonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 18:17 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brent JohnsonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 29Marc-Andre FleuryG | W | 17 | 0 | 1.000 |
Boston Bruins
| 16Marco SturmL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:14 |
| 17Milan LucicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 16:12 |
| 20Daniel PailleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:04 |
| 22Shawn ThorntonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 06:17 |
| 26Blake WheelerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:14 |
| 27Steve BeginL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:39 |
| 28Mark RecchiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:04 |
| 37Patrice BergeronC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:46 |
| 46David KrejciC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 20:28 |
| 60Vladimir SobotkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:17 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:00 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:14 |
| 6Dennis WidemanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:24 |
| 21Andrew FerenceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:37 |
| 33Zdeno CharaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 24:04 |
| 44Dennis SeidenbergD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25:31 |
| 45Mark StuartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 16:39 |
| 48Matt HunwickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:17 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Tim ThomasG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Tuukka RaskG | L | 31 | 3 | .903 |