National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Pittsburgh 5, Nashville 1
Thursday, March 22, 2012 7:00 PM
When: 7:00 PM ET, Thursday, March 22, 2012
Where: Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Referees: Chris Rooney, Mike Hasenfratz
Linesmen: Scott Driscoll, Scott Cherrey
Attendance: 18579
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Nashville 0101
Pittsburgh 2215
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
1:23 - Penguins Evgeni Malkin (EV) Assists: James Neal , Kris Letang
4:06 - Penguins Pascal Dupuis (EV) Assists: Kris Letang , Steve Sullivan
Penalties
19:01 - Predators Shea Weber (2) Interference
 19:26 - Penguins Evgeni Malkin (2) Tripping
2nd Period
Scoring
1:58 - Penguins Matt Cooke (EV) Assists: James Neal
7:35 - Penguins Chris Kunitz (EV) Assists: James Neal , Brooks Orpik
12:01 - Predators Alexander Radulov (EV) Assists: Hal Gill , Patric Hornqvist
Penalties
19:04 - Penguins Sidney Crosby (2) High sticking
3rd Period
Scoring
2:03 - Penguins Evgeni Malkin (EV) Assists: James Neal , Chris Kunitz
Penalties
None.
Nashville Predators
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Pekka Rinne G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00
Anders Lindback G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Shea Weber D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 23:20
Kevin Klein D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 18:45
Martin Erat RW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 17:56
David Legwand C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 15:12
Mike Fisher C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 18:02
Nick Spaling LW 0 0 0 -2 0 1 14:51
Craig Smith C 0 0 0 E 0 2 12:55
Brandon Yip RW 0 0 0 E 0 2 12:52
Ryan Suter D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 25:49
Jordin Tootoo RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 12:54
Patric Hornqvist RW 0 1 1 -1 0 5 12:10
Jack Hillen D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 15:44
Andrei Kostitsyn LW 0 0 0 E 0 2 14:13
Alexander Radulov RW 1 0 1 -2 0 2 15:54
Francis Bouillon D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 20:36
Gabriel Bourque LW 0 0 0 -1 0 4 14:25
Sergei Kostitsyn LW 0 0 0 -2 0 3 16:27
Hal Gill D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 15:55
Pittsburgh Penguins
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Marc-Andre Fleury G 0 0 0 0 0 59:57
Brad Thiessen G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 8:36
Zbynek Michalek D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 22:45
Deryk Engelland D 0 0 0 E 0 1 20:36
Paul Martin D 0 0 0 +3 0 0 19:53
Pascal Dupuis RW 1 0 1 E 0 1 13:21
Jordan Staal C 0 0 0 +1 0 0 16:22
Richard Park RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 10:16
Chris Kunitz LW 1 1 2 +3 0 1 17:14
James Neal LW 0 4 4 +4 0 2 17:04
Matt Cooke LW 1 0 1 +1 0 1 13:36
Steve Sullivan LW 0 1 1 E 0 1 13:56
Craig Adams RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 13:05
Brooks Orpik D 0 1 1 +1 0 0 23:55
Arron Asham RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 10:18
Tyler Kennedy C 0 0 0 E 0 2 12:41
Kris Letang D 0 2 2 +2 0 0 23:50
Evgeni Malkin C 2 0 2 +2 2 10 19:33
Sidney Crosby C 0 0 0 +1 2 1 19:02
Goaltending
Nashville
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Pekka Rinne L (39-16-8) 23 18 5 .783 0 60:00
Pittsburgh
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Marc-Andre Fleury W (40-14-4) 30 29 1 .967 0 59:57