The Atlanta Thrashers were decisively beaten by the Pittsburgh Penguins, 6 to 3, on December 18, 2008.

Final

Penguins

17-10-4

6

Thrashers

10-17-4

3

Team

PIT

ATL

1

2

1

2

3

1

3

1

Total

6

3

Summary

Team Stats

Player Stats

1st period

PIT

ATL

Matt Cooke (EV) assisted by Tim Wallace and Jordan Staal

1

0

Evgeni Malkin (EV) assisted by Petr Sykora

2

0

Marty Reasoner (EV) assisted by Ilya Kovalchuk and Chris Thorburn

2

1

2nd period

PIT

ATL

Jordan Staal (PP) assisted by Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby

3

1

Miroslav Satan (PP) assisted by Jeff Taffe and Ruslan Fedotenko

4

1

Bryan Little (PP) assisted by Todd White and Vyacheslav Kozlov

4

2

Philippe Boucher (EV) assisted by Evgeni Malkin and Petr Sykora

5

2

3rd period

PIT

ATL

Colby Armstrong (EV) unassisted

5

3

Evgeni Malkin (EV-EN) assisted by Sidney Crosby and Rob Scuderi

6

3

Penguins

Thrashers

Goals

6

3

Shots

20

31

Penalty Minutes

22

18

Power-Play Goals

2

1

Power-Play Opportunities

3

5

Faceoff Wins

27

34

Hits

23

17

Giveaways

5

Takeaways

5

7

Penguins

Thrashers

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Marc-Andre Fleury (W)	1	31	3	28	.903	60:00

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Philippe Boucher	1	0	+1	0	1	19:17	1	1	1	1
Matt Cooke	1	0	0	2	1	17:07	4	1	0	0
Sidney Crosby	0	2	-1	2	0	20:57	0	1	2	0
Pascal Dupuis	0	0	0	0	0	7:32	1	0	0	0
Mark Eaton	0	0	0	2	1	16:52	1	3	0	0
Ruslan Fedotenko	0	1	+1	2	0	12:58	1	1	0	1
Eric Godard	0	0	0	10	0	5:31	0	0	0	0
Alex Goligoski	0	0	+1	0	0	18:45	0	1	0	0
Kris Letang	0	0	-1	0	0	17:41	2	0	0	0
Evgeni Malkin	2	2	+3	2	3	24:23	1	0	0	1
Brooks Orpik	0	0	+1	2	1	21:40	1	3	0	0
Miroslav Satan	1	0	-2	0	1	16:04	0	0	1	1
Rob Scuderi	0	1	+2	0	0	24:00	2	3	0	1
Jordan Staal	1	1	+2	0	2	21:15	2	0	0	0
Ryan Stone	0	0	+1	0	3	10:07	5	1	0	0
Petr Sykora	0	2	+2	0	4	15:35	0	0	0	0
Jeff Taffe	0	1	-1	0	1	10:03	0	0	0	0
Tim Wallace	0	1	+1	0	2	12:00	2	0	0	0

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Ondrej Pavelec (L)	1	13	5	8	.615	27:57
Johan Hedberg	0	6	0	6	1.000	30:47

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Colby Armstrong	1	0	0	12	2	11:30	0	0	0	1
Eric Boulton	0	0	0	0	0	9:51	4	1	0	0
Joey Crabb	0	0	0	2	1	15:15	1	0	0	0
Toby Enstrom	0	0	-2	0	0	23:24	1	0	0	0
Ron Hainsey	0	0	-1	0	1	25:52	0	1	0	3
Niclas Havelid	0	0	+1	0	1	22:42	0	1	0	1
Ilya Kovalchuk	0	1	0	0	5	25:25	0	0	0	0
Vyacheslav Kozlov	0	1	-3	0	0	15:41	0	0	1	0
Scott Lehman	0	0	0	0	0	3:03	0	0	0	0
Bryan Little	1	0	-3	0	1	15:57	0	0	0	0
Nathan Oystrick	0	0	-1	0	4	20:10	4	1	0	1
Eric Perrin	0	0	0	0	2	16:37	1	0	0	0
Marty Reasoner	1	0	+1	0	4	15:37	0	0	0	0
Jim Slater	0	0	0	2	2	13:25	1	0	0	0
Chris Thorburn	0	1	+1	0	3	13:25	3	0	1	0
Boris Valabik	0	0	-1	2	0	16:20	1	0	2	0
Todd White	0	1	-3	0	3	17:30	1	0	0	0
Jason Williams	0	0	0	0	2	15:34	0	1	0	1