FINAL - Aleksander Barkov scored the decisive goal in the shootout as the Florida Panthers defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins, 4-3. Rust (24, 25) & Malkin (15) scored for the Pens.

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The number of different players to score for the Pens this season, most in NHL
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Number of points Sidney Crosby needs to establish a point-per-game streak of 20 seasons
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Percent chance the Penguins will win the first-overall pick in the 2005 NHL Draft

7th in Metro Division – 14th in Eastern Conference – 25th in NHL

(29-32-11 = 69 points)

Pittsburgh Hockey History Made on March 23rd...

1914 - Pittsburgh Hornets center Bill Thompson was born.
1931 - Hornets defenseman Warren Godfrey was born.
1940 - The Hornets advanced to the second round of the playoffs with a 4-1 win over Springfield.
1947 - The Hornets won their opening round series against the New Haven Ramblers, 3-2.
1954 - The Hornets escaped with a 4-3 overtime win in Hershey to take a 1-0 lead in the series.
1969 - Penguins goalie Joe Daley stopped 32 shots from the Minnesota North Stars to earn his second shutout in a 5-0 Pittsburgh win.
1970 - Pittsburgh Penguins right wing Justin Duberman was born.
1976 - Penguins defenseman Nolan Baumgartner was born.
1980 - The Penguins Mark Johnson, 1980 USA Gold Medal Olympian, scored his first NHL goal in a game against Winnipeg.
1996 - Mario Lemieux was stopped on a penalty shot by Buffalo's Dominek Hasek. It was the second time in his career that Lemieux didn't score on a penalty shot and finished his career with six goals on eight attempts.
2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

Skater Stats Regular Season
# NAME POS GP G A P PIM
87 Sidney Crosby C 70 25 53 78 25
67 Rickard Rakell RW 71 32 30 62 10
65 Erik Karlsson D 72 10 40 59 18
17 Bryan Rust RW 61 25 29 54 18
71 Evgeni Malkin C 62 15 31 46 40
24 Matt Grzelcyk D 72 1 32 33 12
8 Michael Bunting LW 58 14 15 29 48
58 Kris Letang D 65 8 20 28 42
53 Philip Tomasino RW 43 10 10 20 8
72 Anthony Beauvillier LW 63 13 7 20 14
13 Kevin Hayes RW 55 10 10 20 6
46 Blake Lizotte C 53 9 9 18 24
28 Marcus Pettersson D 47 3 15 18 25
10 Drew O'Connor LW 53 6 10 16 16
19 Cody Glass C 51 4 11 15 12
55 Noel Acciari C 72 5 6 11 16
18 Jesse Puljujarvi RW 26 3 6 9 10
43 Danton Heinen LW 18 2 5 7 0
20 Lars Eller C 17 4 3 7 10
5 Ryan Shea D 30 2 3 5 8
19 Connor Dewar C 7 3 1 4 0
20 Conor Timmins D 7 1 3 4 4
83 Matt Nieto LW 31 1 2 3 2
38 Owen Pickering D 25 1 2 3 6
27 Ryan Graves D 51 1 2 3 25
48 Valtteri Puustinen RW 10 1 1 2 4
23 Vladislav Kolyachonok D 9 0 1 2 6
22 Sam Poulin RW 6 0 1 1 2
73 Pierre-Oliver Joseph D 24 0 1 1 22
14 Bokondji Imama RW 15 1 0 1 16
52 Emil Bemstrom C 10 0 1 1 0
3 Jack St. Ivany D 19 0 1 1 17
15 Joona Koppanen LW 3 0 0 1 0
11 Vasily Ponomarev C 4 0 0 0 2
4 Nathan Clurman D 1 0 0 0 2
2 Rutger McGroarty RW 3 0 0 0 0
7 Vincent Desharnais D 10 0 0 0 4
18 Thomas Novak C 2 0 0 0 0
Goalie Stats
# NAME GP W L T OTL SOL Min GA SO GAA G A P PIM
35 Tristan Jarry 28 12 9 5 0 1617 84 0 3.12 0 1 1 2
39 Alex Nedeljkovic 34 13 14 5 -- 1953 103 1 3.16 1 2 3 2
30 Joel Blomqvist 15 4 9 1 0 772 49 0 3.81 0 0 0 0

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