Montreal 1 @ Pittsburgh 2

The pens carried momentum into the second game jumping out to an early lead with a power play goal from Malkin. Montreal battled back and both teams defensive games were at there best. Samsonov evened up the scored when he undressed Gonchar and slid the puck in on the short side past Fluery.

Once again Sid came to the rescue, this time in the third when he took the feed in the slot from Recchi and fired one past Huet.

shots- pit -18, mtl -12
hits- mtl -37, pit -32
face- pit -21, mtl -8
pp- pit 1/1, mtl 0/1

3 stars
crosby 1g
malkin 1g
gonchar 1a

summary

pit malkin - scuderi, eaton (pp)
mtl samsonov - higgins
pit crosby - recchi, gonchar