Washington Capitals vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Sunday, January 17, 2021 · PPG Paints Arena
NBC · SN
Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Washington Capitals 4–3 in a shootout on Sunday, January 17, 2021 at PPG Paints Arena. The Penguins outshot the Capitals 27–23.
Goals came from Evan Rodrigues, Nic Dowd, Alex Ovechkin, Colton Sceviour, Nicklas Backstrom and Marcus Pettersson.
Casey DeSmith made 20 saves on 23 shots for the win; Ilya Samsonov stopped 24 of 27.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Evan Rodrigues (1)Brian Dumoulin (1), Jake Guentzel (2)0–100:19 PIT
Nic Dowd (1)Unassisted1–112:04 WSH
Alex Ovechkin (1)Evgeny Kuznetsov (1), Tom Wilson (2)2–114:24 WSH
2nd period
Colton Sceviour (1)Teddy Blueger (1)2–202:10 PIT
Nicklas Backstrom (2)Evgeny Kuznetsov (2), Alex Ovechkin (3)3–210:09 WSH · 
Marcus Pettersson (1)Jason Zucker (1), Bryan Rust (2)3–312:57 PIT
Shootout
Jake GuentzelUnassisted3–400:00 PIT
Team stats
WSHPIT
2327
47%53%
1/40/4
108
4633
910
96
48
Penalties
- 4:57 into the first period
Nick Jensen · tripping2 min - 15:08 into the first period
Brian Dumoulin · holding2 min - 5:20 into the second periodBrenden Dillon · cross checking2 min
- 8:19 into the second periodJake Guentzel · interference2 min
- 8:34 into the second periodT.J. Oshie · interference2 min
- 9:04 into the second periodSidney Crosby · hooking2 min
- 19:39 into the second periodEvgeny Kuznetsov · tripping2 min
- 4:21 into the third periodTom Wilson · slashing2 min
- 9:57 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 23:50 |
| 92Evgeny KuznetsovC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 16:08 |
| 19Nicklas BackstromC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 23:33 |
| 26Nic DowdC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 11:10 |
| 43Tom WilsonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18:32 |
| 10Daniel SprongR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:01 |
| 13Jakub VranaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 11:51 |
| 14Richard PanikR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 13:21 |
| 20Lars EllerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:27 |
| 21Garnet HathawayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 09:38 |
| 62Carl HagelinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 11:51 |
| 77T.J. OshieR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 20:29 |
| 2Justin SchultzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:10 |
| 3Nick JensenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:20 |
| 4Brenden DillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 18:31 |
| 9Dmitry OrlovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 20:47 |
| 33Zdeno CharaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 19:22 |
| 74John CarlsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 25:59 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Ilya SamsonovG | O | 27 | 3 | .889 |
| 41Vitek VanecekG | 0 | 0 | – |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 7Colton SceviourC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 06:57 |
| 9Evan RodriguesC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 18:40 |
| 16Jason ZuckerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 20:17 |
| 17Bryan RustR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 20:32 |
| 53Teddy BluegerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 09:26 |
| 59Jake GuentzelC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21:16 |
| 8Brian DumoulinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 21:20 |
| 28Marcus PetterssonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 19:22 |
| 13Brandon TanevL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:40 |
| 14Mark JankowskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:18 |
| 18Sam LaffertyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:08 |
| 19Jared McCannC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:13 |
| 71Evgeni MalkinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21:58 |
| 87Sidney CrosbyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 21:32 |
| 2Chad RuhwedelD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 14:47 |
| 6John MarinoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 20:21 |
| 50Juuso RiikolaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 14:31 |
| 58Kris LetangD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 29:10 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Casey DeSmithG | W | 23 | 3 | .870 |
| 35Tristan JarryG | 0 | 0 | – |