Pittsburgh Penguins vs St. Louis Blues
Regular season · Saturday, December 29, 2018 · Enterprise Center
ATTSN-PT · FS-MW
Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the St. Louis Blues 6–1 on Saturday, December 29, 2018 at Enterprise Center. The Blues outshot the Penguins 31–30.
Goals came from Sidney Crosby, Juuso Riikola, Zachary Aston-Reese, Patric Hornqvist, David Perron, Jake Guentzel and Evgeni Malkin.
Matt Murray made 30 saves on 31 shots for the win; Jake Allen stopped 13 of 17.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Sidney Crosby (17)Patric Hornqvist (8), Phil Kessel (25)1–000:48 PIT ·
2nd period
Juuso Riikola (1)Tanner Pearson (5), Derick Brassard (6)2–005:13 PIT · 
Zachary Aston-Reese (5)Kris Letang (22), Sidney Crosby (28)3–007:17 PIT
Patric Hornqvist (14)Kris Letang (23), Phil Kessel (26)4–009:25 PIT · 
David Perron (13)Ryan O'Reilly (20), Alexander Steen (9)4–114:36 STL
3rd period
Jake Guentzel (16)Brian Dumoulin (10), Sidney Crosby (29)5–103:05 PIT
Evgeni Malkin (12)Phil Kessel (27), Kris Letang (24)6–103:38 PIT ·
Team stats
PITSTL
3031
51%49%
4/40/2
913
1225
235
79
149
Penalties
- 0:09 into the first period
Alexander Steen · high sticking2 min - 13:11 into the first period
Marcus Pettersson · holding2 min - 3:24 into the second periodAlexander Steen · interference2 min
- 9:18 into the second periodJay Bouwmeester · hooking2 min
- 3:05 into the third periodJoel Edmundson · roughing2 min
- 3:05 into the third periodZachary Aston-Reese · fighting5 min
- 3:05 into the third periodJoel Edmundson · fighting5 min
- 9:56 into the third periodEvgeni Malkin · tripping2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 81Phil KesselC | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 17:36 |
| 87Sidney CrosbyC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 3 | 18:13 |
| 58Kris LetangD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 2 | 23:20 |
| 72Patric HornqvistR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 16:43 |
| 14Tanner PearsonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14:55 |
| 19Derick BrassardC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 16:25 |
| 46Zachary Aston-ReeseC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 15:02 |
| 59Jake GuentzelC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:28 |
| 71Evgeni MalkinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 19:17 |
| 8Brian DumoulinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 21:04 |
| 50Juuso RiikolaD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15:48 |
| 7Matt CullenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 11:50 |
| 12Dominik SimonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14:35 |
| 15Riley SheahanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:00 |
| 17Bryan RustR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:33 |
| 3Olli MaattaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:33 |
| 28Marcus PetterssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:13 |
| 73Jack JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20:25 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Casey DeSmithG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Matt MurrayG | W | 31 | 1 | .968 |
St. Louis Blues
| 20Alexander SteenL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 18:13 |
| 57David PerronL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19:15 |
| 90Ryan O'ReillyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20:34 |
| 7Patrick MaroonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 12:41 |
| 10Brayden SchennC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:46 |
| 17Jaden SchwartzC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 18:41 |
| 18Robert ThomasC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:01 |
| 21Tyler BozakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:02 |
| 49Ivan BarbashevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:07 |
| 70Oskar SundqvistC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:54 |
| 71Jordan NolanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:16 |
| 91Vladimir TarasenkoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:38 |
| 6Joel EdmundsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:17 |
| 19Jay BouwmeesterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:12 |
| 27Alex PietrangeloD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19:56 |
| 29Vince DunnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17:47 |
| 41Robert BortuzzoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:05 |
| 55Colton ParaykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 20:27 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Jake AllenG | L | 17 | 4 | .765 |
| 50Jordan BinningtonG | 13 | 2 | .846 |