2008-09 Pittsburgh Penguins (NHL)

(45-28-9) 2nd in Atlantic Division; 4th in Eastern Conference,2009 Stanley Cup Champions

October 4 – Opened the season with a 4-3 overtime win against the Ottawa Senators in Bridgestone Premiere game played in Stockholm, Sweden.

October 5 – Alex Goligoski scored his first NHL goal.

October 11 – Marc-Andre Fleury set a career-high save mark, 47, in a 2-1 loss to the New Jersey Devils. The Pens replaced and updated championship banners at the Mellon Arena.

October 18 – Sidney Crosby scored his 100th NHL goal, earned his 200th assist and reached the 300 point career total in a 4-1 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. Evgeni Malkin had four assists pushing him over the 200-point milestone. Native Pittsburgher Bill Thomas played his first pro game at the Mellon Arena.

November 11 – Jordan Staal scored his second NHL hat trick and set up the game winning goal in overtime.

November 15 – The Penguins wore blue and white at home for the first time in 28 years.

November 26 – Evgeni Malkin scored his third career hat trick and goaltender John Curry got his first win in the NHL.

November 29 – Sidney Crosby scored his second career hat trick in a 4-3 win over the New Jersey Devils.

December 4 – Petr Sykora scored his 100th NHL powerplay goal.

December 6 – Jordan Staal scored his 50th NHL goal in a game against the Ottawa Senators.

December 11 – Petr Sykora scored his first career hat trick, after going 38 games with two goals. Pascal Dupuis also scored his first NHL hat trick in a 9-1 win over the New York Islanders.

December 15: CONSOL Energy Inc. signed a 21-year naming rights agreement with the Pittsburgh Penguins and named the building Consol Energy Center. Luca Caputi scored his first NHL goal, on his first NHL shift.

December 26: Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 37 shots from the New Jersey Devils for his 12th career shutout.

December 30: Jordan Staal became the youngest player in NHL history to play in 200 games.

January 1 – Dustin Jeffrey scored his first NHL goal in a game against the Boston Bruins.

January 13 – Marc-Andre Fleury played in his 200th NHL game.

January 14 – Miroslav Satan scored his 350th NHL goal.

January 18 – Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 33 shots from the New York Rangers for his 13th career shutout.

January 30 – Evgeni Malkin scored his 100th NHL goal.

February 4 – Miroslav Satan played in his 1000th NHL game.

February 11 – Pittsburgh native Bill Thomas scored his first goal for the Pens. Jordan Staal’s assist on the goal was his 100th NHL point.

February 15 – The Penguins fired head coach Michel Therrien and replaced him with Dan Bylsma, from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.

February 25 – Marc-Andre Fleury earned his 100th NHL win by beating the Dallas Stars, 4-1.

March 25 – Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 31 shots from the Calgary Flames to earn his 15th career shutout.

April 7 – Petr Sykora scored his 300th NHL goal.

April 11 – Evgeni Malkin won the NHL scoring race with 113 points.

May 4 – Sidney Crosby recorded his first hat trick of the post season.

May 21 – Evgeni Malkin scored three times on Carolina’s Cam Ward for his first career playoff hat trick.

May 23 – Evgeni Malkin’s two goals and one assist established a team record of sixth consecutive multiple-point game.
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2008-09 Pittsburgh Penguins

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#	Player	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM	.	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM
71	Evgeni Malkin	82	35	78	113	80		24	14	22	36	51
87	Sidney Crosby	77	33	70	103	76		24	15	16	31	14
11	Jordan Staal	82	22	27	49	37		24	4	5	9	8
17	Petr Sykora	76	25	21	46	36		7	0	1	1	0
26	Ruslan Fedotenko	65	15	22	37	44		24	7	7	14	4
81	Miroslav Satan	65	17	19	36	36		17	1	5	6	11
48	Tyler Kennedy	67	15	20	35	30		24	5	4	9	4
58	Kris Letang	74	10	23	33	24		23	4	9	13	26
24	Matt Cooke	76	13	18	31	101		24	1	6	7	22
9	Pascal Dupuis	71	12	16	28	30		16	0	0	0	8
25	Maxime Talbot	75	12	10	22	63		24	8	5	13	19
3 & 13	Alex Goligoski	45	6	14	20	16		2	0	1	1	0
55	Sergei Gonchar	25	6	13	19	26		22	3	11	14	12
44	Brooks Orpik	78	2	17	19	73		24	0	4	4	22
14	Chris Kunitz*	20	7	11	16	16		24	1	13	14	19
4	Rob Scuderi	81	1	15	16	18		24	1	4	5	6
19	Ryan Whitney*	28	2	11	13	16		-	-	-	-	-
13	Bill Guerin*	17	5	7	12	18		24	7	8	15	15
2	Hal Gill	62	2	8	10	53		24	0	2	2	6
7	Mark Eaton	68	4	5	9	36		24	4	3	7	10
43	Phillipe Boucher*	25	3	3	6	24		9	1	3	4	4
15	Mike Zigomanis* (IR)	22	2	4	6	27		-	-	-	-	-
28	Eric Godard	71	2	2	4	171		-	-	-	-	-
37	Bill Thomas	16	2	1	3	2		-	-	-	-	-
42	Dustin Jeffrey	14	1	2	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
32 & 14	Christopher Minard	20	1	2	3	4		-	-	-	-	-
5	Darryl Sydor	8	1	1	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
22	Jeff Taffe	8	0	2	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
63	Tim Wallace	16	0	2	2	7		-	-	-	-	-
61	Luca Caputi	5	1	0	1	4		-	-	-	-	-
67 & 16	Paul Bissonnette	15	0	1	1	22		-	-	-	-	-
27	Craig Adams*	9	0	1	1	0		24	3	2	5	16
20	Janne Pesonen	7	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
65	Ben Lovejoy	2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
33	Ryan Stone	2	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
36	Connor James	1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-

2008-09 Pittsburgh Penguins Goaltending

#	Goalie	GPI	G	A	PTS	PIM	W	L	OT	MIN	GA	GAA	SO	SA	PCT
29	Marc-Andre Fleury	62	-	1	1	8	35	18	7	3641	162	2.67	4	1850	0.913
	Marc-Andre Fleury playoffs	24	-	-	-	2	16	8	-	1447	62	2.61	-	686	0.908
30	Dany Sabourin	19	-	-	-	2	6	8	2	989	47	2.85	0	463	0.898
1	John Curry	3	-	-	-	-	2	1	0	150	6	2.4	0	69	0.913
32	Mathieu Garon*	4	-	-	-	-	2	1	-	206	10	2.91	0	94	0.894
		1	-	-	-	-	0	0	-	24	0	0	0	8	1

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