Minnesota Wild vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Thursday, January 25, 2018 · PPG Paints Arena
ATTSN-PT · FS-N
Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Minnesota Wild 6–3 on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at PPG Paints Arena. The Penguins outshot the Wild 39–26.
Dominik Simon scored twice and Evgeni Malkin scored twice. Carl Hagelin, Brian Dumoulin, Eric Staal, Mikael Granlund and Jonas Brodin also scored.
Casey DeSmith made 23 saves on 26 shots for the win; Devan Dubnyk stopped 17 of 21.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Dominik Simon (3)Sidney Crosby (36), Ian Cole (6)0–103:54 PIT
Evgeni Malkin (22)Sidney Crosby (37), Phil Kessel (35)0–209:09 PIT ·
2nd period
Carl Hagelin (4)Evgeni Malkin (29), Phil Kessel (36)0–309:28 PIT
Brian Dumoulin (3)Sidney Crosby (38), Carl Hagelin (10)0–410:55 PIT
3rd period
- Evgeni Malkin (23)Justin Schultz (12), Phil Kessel (37)0–501:42 PIT ·
- Dominik Simon (4)Unassisted0–602:32 PIT
Eric Staal (20)Nate Prosser (4), Marcus Foligno (11)1–608:44 MIN
Mikael Granlund (15)Ryan Suter (26), Jason Zucker (17)2–610:50 MIN · 
Jonas Brodin (5)Marcus Foligno (12), Eric Staal (23)3–611:46 MIN
Team stats
MINPIT
2639
53%47%
1/52/2
410
1718
1013
311
39
Penalties
- 8:37 into the first period
Jason Zucker · tripping2 min - 15:12 into the first period
Carl Hagelin · hooking2 min - 1:25 into the second periodKris Letang · roughing2 min
- 13:11 into the second periodPatric Hornqvist · closing hand on puck2 min
- 17:18 into the second periodDominik Simon · delaying game smothering puck2 min
- 1:28 into the third periodMathew Dumba · slashing2 min
- 10:15 into the third periodJean-Sebastien Dea · slashing2 min
Season series
Minnesota Wild
| 12Eric StaalC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 1 | 16:28 |
| 17Marcus FolignoL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 12:40 |
| 16Jason ZuckerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 16:37 |
| 64Mikael GranlundC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 17:11 |
| 20Ryan SuterD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 25:09 |
| 25Jonas BrodinD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 24:13 |
| 39Nate ProsserD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12:03 |
| 3Charlie CoyleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:16 |
| 7Matt CullenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:29 |
| 9Mikko KoivuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:38 |
| 11Zach PariseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | 16:03 |
| 14Joel Eriksson EkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:22 |
| 26Daniel WinnikL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:08 |
| 37Kyle RauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:58 |
| 63Tyler EnnisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:24 |
| 23Gustav OlofssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 15:00 |
| 24Mathew DumbaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 21:33 |
| 46Jared SpurgeonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 22:02 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Alex StalockG | 18 | 2 | .889 | |
| 40Devan DubnykG | L | 21 | 4 | .810 |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 71Evgeni MalkinC | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 16:19 |
| 81Phil KesselC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 3 | 15:30 |
| 87Sidney CrosbyC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 1 | 17:32 |
| 12Dominik SimonC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 13:51 |
| 62Carl HagelinL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 5 | 17:58 |
| 4Justin SchultzD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19:32 |
| 8Brian DumoulinD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 21:35 |
| 28Ian ColeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 18:01 |
| 15Riley SheahanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:25 |
| 17Bryan RustR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:11 |
| 34Tom KuhnhacklR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:09 |
| 39Jean-Sebastien DeaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:36 |
| 43Conor ShearyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | 13:18 |
| 59Jake GuentzelC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:46 |
| 72Patric HornqvistR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:34 |
| 3Olli MaattaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 19:53 |
| 6Jamie OleksiakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 18:20 |
| 58Kris LetangD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 22:07 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Casey DeSmithG | W | 26 | 3 | .885 |
| 30Matt MurrayG | 0 | 0 | – |