Pittsburgh Penguins vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Saturday, March 2, 2019 · Centre Bell
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Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–1 on Saturday, March 2, 2019 at Centre Bell. The Canadiens outshot the Penguins 37–25.
Jake Guentzel scored twice. Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Brendan Gallagher and Jared McCann also scored.
Matt Murray made 36 saves on 37 shots for the win; Carey Price stopped 20 of 24.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Sidney Crosby (29)Jake Guentzel (28), Jared McCann (11)1–000:21 PIT
Evgeni Malkin (21)Sidney Crosby (52), Phil Kessel (44)2–004:38 PIT · 
Jake Guentzel (30)Sidney Crosby (53)3–008:51 PIT
2nd period
- Jake Guentzel (31)Sidney Crosby (54), Erik Gudbranson (7)4–006:24 PIT
Brendan Gallagher (29)Phillip Danault (33)4–107:20 MTL
3rd period
Jared McCann (14)Marcus Pettersson (18), Jake Guentzel (29)5–118:36 PIT ·
Team stats
PITMTL
2537
48%52%
1/30/3
66
2538
209
1518
77
Penalties
- 3:34 into the first period
Jeff Petry · holding2 min - 10:22 into the first period
Jack Johnson · roughing2 min - 13:42 into the first periodPhil Kessel · slashing2 min
- 3:13 into the second periodBrendan Gallagher · interference2 min
- 13:11 into the second periodAndrew Shaw · interference2 min
- 14:30 into the second periodMarcus Pettersson · holding2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 59Jake GuentzelC | 2 | 2 | 4 | +4 | 3 | 17:35 |
| 87Sidney CrosbyC | 1 | 3 | 4 | +4 | 3 | 19:06 |
| 19Jared McCannC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +4 | 2 | 16:04 |
| 71Evgeni MalkinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 17:07 |
| 81Phil KesselC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 16:39 |
| 28Marcus PetterssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | 20:07 |
| 44Erik GudbransonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | 20:27 |
| 7Matt CullenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:06 |
| 10Garrett WilsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:01 |
| 12Dominik SimonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:57 |
| 27Nick BjugstadC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:40 |
| 46Zachary Aston-ReeseC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:32 |
| 53Teddy BluegerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10:33 |
| 72Patric HornqvistR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:52 |
| 4Justin SchultzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24:29 |
| 5Zach TrotmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:18 |
| 50Juuso RiikolaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:53 |
| 73Jack JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:34 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Casey DeSmithG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Matt MurrayG | W | 37 | 1 | .973 |
Montréal Canadiens
| 11Brendan GallagherR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 18:47 |
| 24Phillip DanaultL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 17:43 |
| 13Max DomiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 6 | 18:55 |
| 15Jesperi KotkaniemiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:39 |
| 21Nate ThompsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 10:15 |
| 22Dale WeiseR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:35 |
| 40Joel ArmiaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:43 |
| 41Paul ByronL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:57 |
| 62Artturi LehkonenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:14 |
| 65Andrew ShawC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:32 |
| 90Tomas TatarL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | 16:54 |
| 92Jonathan DrouinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:23 |
| 6Shea WeberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 21:46 |
| 8Jordie BennD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:11 |
| 17Brett KulakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:24 |
| 26Jeff PetryD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 23:43 |
| 32Christian FolinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:51 |
| 53Victor MeteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 23:10 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Carey PriceG | L | 24 | 4 | .833 |
| 37Antti NiemiG | 0 | 0 | – |