• Lines: Straka-Lemieux-Morozov, Hrdina-Robitaille-Kovalev, Daigle-Primeau-Nieminen and LaCouture-Manderville-Donovan.
• Defensive pairings: Laukkanen-Tarnstrom, Bergevin-Moran and Jonsson-Pushor.
• Goaltender: Jean-Sebastien Aubin
• Captain: Mario Lemieux
• Alternate captains: Alexei Kovalev, Martin Straka.
• Jan Hrdina gave the Penguins a 1-0 lead when he scored a power play goal at 13:39. Mario Lemieux took a shot from the left boards which hit Montreal goaltender, Jeff Hackett, popped up in the air at the left-side-side of the net and Hrdina batted it home.
  • Pittsburgh, Jan Hrdina 6 (power play) (Mario Lemieux, Dick Tarnstrom), 13:39
• 1st period penalties: Pit, Jonsson, (Tripping) 4:38; Mon, Dykhuis, (Holding) 9:28; Mon, Petrov, (Tripping) 13:18.
• Shots after one period were 8-6 in favor of Montreal.
• Montreal tied the game at one with a Yanic Perreault goal at 11:44. Perreault, all alone out front, took a pass from Doug Gilmour, put a move on Aubin and slid the puck into the open side of the goal..
  • Montreal, Yanic Perreault 9 (Doug Gilmour), 11:44
• Montreal added a Richard Zednik power play goal 38 seconds later to grab a 2-1 lead. While Ian Moran was off for tripping, Zednik picked up a rebound of a Mike Ribeiro shot and knocked it in.
  • Montreal, Richard Zednik 9 (power play) (Mike Ribeiro, Donald Audette), 12:22
• Jan Hrdina got his second of the game and seventh of the year on a delayed penalty call at 14:52. After a scramble out front, Hrdina ended up backhanding the puck past Hackett.
  • Pittsburgh, Jan Hrdina 7 (Mario Lemieux, Ian Moran), 14:52
• 2nd period penalties: Mon, Zednik, (Cross-checking) 4:24; Pit, Moran, (Tripping) 12:10; Mon, Quintal, (Hooking) 14:52.
• Shots after two were 20-16 in favor of Montreal.
• There was no scoring in the third as both goaltenders came up with big saves to keep the game deadlocked at two. Aubin made several acrobatic saves and turned aside a 2-on-1 break with under a minute to go.
• 3rd period penalties: No penalties.
• Andrei Markov scored the overtime game-winner for the Canadiens. Markov picked up the puck in the offensive zone, put a move on Hans Jonsson (who dropped his stick in the process...) and wristed a shot over Aubin's left shoulder from the slot.
  • Montreal, Andrei Markov 4 (Doug Gilmour, Oleg Petrov), 2:25
• OT penalties: No penalties.
• Three Stars of the Game:
  1. Jan Hrdina (2g)
  2. Jeff Hackett, Mon (23 saves)
  3. Jean-Sebastien Aubin (32 saves)
• Shots on goal: Pittsburgh - 25, Montreal - 35.
• Power plays: Pittsburgh 1 of 4, Montreal 1 of 2.
• Goalies: Montreal, Jeff Hackett (25 shots, 23 saves; record: 5-1-2).
  Pittsburgh, Jean-Sebastien Aubin (35 shots, 32 saves; record: 1-3-0).
• Attendance: 13,549 at Mellon Arena.
• Scratches: Andrew Ference (IR - hernia), Josef Melichar (shoulder), Michal Rozsival (shoulder) and Steve McKenna.
• ESPN boxscore: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/boxscore?gameId=221120016

Scoring         1  2  3 OT  T 
Canadiens	0  2  0  1  3
Penguins        1  1  0  0  2 

Shots on goal   1  2  3 OT  T 
Canadiens       8 12 12  3 35
Penguins        6 10  8  1 25