• Lines began as: Morozov-Lemieux-Daigle, Straka-Hrdina-Kovalev, LaCouture-Primeau-Nieminen. Extra forwards McKenna and Manderville.
• Defensive pairings: Tarnstrom-Moran, Bergevin-Rozsival and Pushor-Melichar. Extra defenseman: Jonsson.
• Goaltender: Jean-Sebastien Aubin
• Captain: Mario Lemieux
• Alternate captains: Alexei Kovalev, Martin Straka.
• The Penguins found themselves with 1:51 of 2-man advantage time at 13:22 of the first and...
• ...Martin Straka cashed in with a power play goal at 14:42. Straka picked up a deflected Alexei Kovalev shot which bounced off a Carolina defender and he one-timed it into the net from out front.
  • Pittsburgh, Martin Straka 1 (power play) (Alexei Kovalev, Aleksey Morozov), 14:42
• 1st period penalties: Pit, Kovalev, (Stick Holding) 1:19; Car, Cole, (Holding) 5:28; Car, Hill, (Tripping) 13:13; Car, Ward, (Interference) 13:22.
• Shots after one period were 10-6 in favor of Pittsburgh.
• Carolina tied it up at one when Kevyn Adams scored at 8:02 of the second. Adams picked up a Dick Tarnstrom turnover at the blue-line, beat Tarnstrom with a nice move and swatted a seemingly stoppable shot which in over Jean-Sebastien Aubin's left pad short-side.
  • Carolina, Kevyn Adams 2 (Unassisted), 8:02
• The Hurricanes had 1:53 of 2-man advantage time at 11:56 but were unable to get one by Aubin who made several clutch stops.
• 2nd period penalties: Pit, Moran, (Delay of Game) 1:00; Pit, Nieminen, (Tripping) 5:40; Pit, Moran, (Interference) 11:49; Pit, Nieminen, (Hooking) 11:56; Car, Svoboda, (Interference) 16:19.
• Shots after two were 24-18 in favor of Carolina.
• Alexandre Daigle gave Pittsburgh a 2-1 lead at 5:10 of the third. Daigle got to a puck out front, chipped the puck in the air, swatted at it and appeared to miss, and the puck fluttered over Kevin Weekes' blocker and in. The play was reviewed to determine whether Daigle hit the puck above the crossbar but it was allowed to stand.
  • Pittsburgh, Alexandre Daigle 4 (Mario Lemieux, Dick Tarnstrom), 5:10
• Carolina tied the game with a David Tanabe power play goal just under two minutes later. Tanabe took a point-to-point pass from Rod Brind'Amour and ripped a one-time slapshot which Aubin got a piece of with his glove but was unable to keep out of the net.
  • Carolina, David Tanabe 2 (power play) (Rod Brind'Amour, Sami Kapanen), 7:09
• Bates Battaglia scored the game-winner at 14:23. Battaglia skated out from behind the goal line and swept a soft shot by Aubin from below the right circle.
  • Carolina, Bates Battaglia 1 (Kevyn Adams), 14:23
• 3rd period penalties: TB, Olvestad, (Tripping) 6:35; Pit, Hrdina, (Interference) 7:18.
• Krzysztof Oliwa Ice-time Award: Hans Jonsson - 0:00 of ice-time.
• Three Stars of the Game:
  1. Bates Battaglia, Car (1g)
  2. Kevyn Adams, Car (1g, 1a)
  3. David Tanabe, Car (1g)
• Shots on goal: Pittsburgh - 26, Carolina - 31.
• Power plays: Pittsburgh 1 of 5, Carolina 1 of 8.
• Goalies: Pittsburgh, Jean-Sebastien Aubin (31 shots, 28 saves; record: 1-2-0).
  Carolina, Kevin Weekes (26 shots, 24 saves; record: 7-3-2).
• Attendance: 18,730, a sellout, at the RBC Center.
• Scratches: Andrew Ference (IR - hernia), Randy Robitaille (broken foot), Vladimir Vujtek (shoulder), Shean Donovan (leg) and Janne Laukkanen.
• ESPN boxscore: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/boxscore?gameId=221109007

Scoring         1  2  3   T 
Penguins        1  0  1   2 
Hurricanes      0  1  2   3

Shots on goal   1  2  3   T 
Penguins       10  8  8  26 
Hurricanes      6 18  7  31