Pittsburgh Penguins vs Minnesota Wild

Regular season · Monday, December 31, 2018 · Xcel Energy Center

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3–2

32–33

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Game summary

The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Minnesota Wild 3–2 on Monday, December 31, 2018 at Xcel Energy Center. The Wild outshot the Penguins 33–32.

Goals came from Mikko Koivu, Sidney Crosby, Phil Kessel, Riley Sheahan and Zach Parise.

Casey DeSmith made 31 saves on 33 shots for the win; Devan Dubnyk stopped 29 of 32.

Goals
PIT	2	1	0	3	32
MIN	1	0	1	2	33

Three stars

Scoring

1st period

Mikko Koivu (5)Nino Niederreiter (12), Charlie Coyle (12)0–105:27 MIN ·
Sidney Crosby (18)Phil Kessel (28), Kris Letang (25)1–115:43 PIT ·
Phil Kessel (17)Sidney Crosby (30), Zachary Aston-Reese (4)2–119:39 PIT

2nd period

Riley Sheahan (5)Phil Kessel (29), Matt Cullen (4)3–110:19 PIT

3rd period

Zach Parise (17)Mikko Koivu (18), Mikael Granlund (26)3–215:55 MIN

Team stats

PITMIN

3233

47%53%

1/11/1

44

2529

159

04

610

Penalties

3:48 into the first periodRiley Sheahan · holding2 min
14:45 into the first periodNate Prosser · kneeing2 min
8:08 into the second periodZachary Aston-Reese · roughing2 min
8:08 into the second periodMarcus Foligno · roughing2 min

Season series

Pittsburgh Penguins

Pittsburgh Penguins skaters

81Phil KesselC	1	2	3	+2	4	0	1	0	–	0	0	18	14:56
87Sidney CrosbyC	1	1	2	0	2	2	2	0	46	0	2	28	19:56
7Matt CullenC	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	0	50	0	1	17	11:10
15Riley SheahanC	1	0	1	+1	1	1	1	2	–	0	0	15	09:00
46Zachary Aston-ReeseC	0	1	1	0	2	1	1	2	–	0	0	25	17:06
58Kris LetangD	0	1	1	+1	0	1	0	0	–	0	1	30	25:16
12Dominik SimonC	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	–	0	0	20	15:51
14Tanner PearsonL	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	–	0	0	16	12:30
19Derick BrassardC	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	38	0	1	17	13:31
38Derek GrantC	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	–	0	0	15	09:48
59Jake GuentzelC	0	0	0	−1	4	1	0	0	–	0	0	25	18:34
71Evgeni MalkinC	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	0	58	0	1	25	18:11
72Patric HornqvistR	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	–	0	0	24	16:46
3Olli MaattaD	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	–	0	0	24	18:35
8Brian DumoulinD	0	0	0	+1	1	2	4	0	–	0	0	32	23:33
28Marcus PetterssonD	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	–	0	0	20	14:32
50Juuso RiikolaD	0	0	0	0	3	3	1	0	–	0	0	26	17:50
73Jack JohnsonD	0	0	0	0	2	5	1	0	–	0	0	26	19:16

Pittsburgh Penguins goalies
Goalie
1Casey DeSmithG	W	33	31	2	.939	60:00
30Matt MurrayG		0	0	0	–	00:00

Minnesota Wild

Minnesota Wild skaters

9Mikko KoivuC	1	1	2	0	4	0	0	0	65	1	2	23	16:53
3Charlie CoyleC	0	1	1	−1	2	1	0	0	47	0	1	22	18:09
11Zach PariseL	1	0	1	0	5	3	1	0	–	0	0	22	18:45
22Nino NiederreiterR	0	1	1	−1	0	1	0	0	–	0	2	23	15:28
64Mikael GranlundC	0	1	1	+1	3	0	0	0	–	0	1	21	19:32
12Eric StaalC	0	0	0	0	4	3	1	0	67	1	0	21	18:22
15Matt HendricksC	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	33	0	0	13	08:26
16Jason ZuckerL	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	–	1	2	21	15:12
17Marcus FolignoL	0	0	0	−1	0	3	0	2	–	0	1	14	09:19
18Jordan GreenwayL	0	0	0	−1	2	3	1	0	–	1	0	22	15:39
19Luke KuninC	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	–	0	0	19	15:29
21Eric FehrC	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	–	0	1	12	09:19
20Ryan SuterD	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	–	0	0	27	27:50
25Jonas BrodinD	0	0	0	−1	2	2	3	0	–	0	0	26	25:19
29Greg PaterynD	0	0	0	−1	0	2	0	0	–	0	0	23	21:30
39Nate ProsserD	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	–	0	0	10	07:16
44Matt BartkowskiD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0	0	15	10:32
46Jared SpurgeonD	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	0	–	0	0	28	26:01

Minnesota Wild goalies
Goalie
32Alex StalockG		0	0	0	–	00:00
40Devan DubnykG	L	32	29	3	.906	58:01