🐻 Away Bruins 16-7-1
3–1
Final
🐧 Home Penguins 16-7-4
Goals 1st2nd3rdF
🐻 BOS 0213
🐧 PIT 0011

Bruins at Penguins

Bruins beat Penguins 3–1 at PPG Paints Arena on December 5, 2011.

🗓 📍 PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh 🏒 2011-12 🔁 Bruins lead the season series 1–0
⚔️ Head-to-head

⭐ Three stars

Best games by the box score
1st star 🐻 BOS
Rich Peverley
2 A
3 shots · 20:38 TOI
2nd star 🐻 BOS
Benoit Pouliot
1 G
4 shots · 14:23 TOI
3rd star 🐻 BOS
Tim Thomas
45 saves
0.978 SV% · 1 GA

🚨 Scoring

4 goals · in order
2nd period
🐻 Gregory Campbell Go-ahead 2nd · 02:57
Assists: Daniel Paille, Shawn Thornton · beat Marc-Andre Fleury
1–0
🐻 Benoit Pouliot 2nd · 07:18
Assists: Rich Peverley · beat Marc-Andre Fleury
2–0
3rd period
🐻 Tyler Seguin PP 3rd · 01:07
Assists: Patrice Bergeron, Rich Peverley · beat Marc-Andre Fleury
3–0
🐧 Matt Cooke 3rd · 10:54
Assists: Joe Vitale · beat Tim Thomas
3–1

🧩 Lines & pairings

Estimated from ice time
🐻Bruins
L1 Peverley · Krejci · Kelly 20:01
L2 Lucic · Bergeron · Horton 18:29
L3 Marchand · Pouliot · Seguin 14:23
L4 Paille · Thornton · Campbell 6:18
D1 Chara · Ference 22:57
D2 Seidenberg · Boychuk 19:30
D3 McQuaid · Corvo 14:46
🐧Penguins
L1 Malkin · Staal · Crosby 21:43
L2 Neal · Kunitz · Sullivan 17:28
L3 Cooke · Kennedy · Dupuis 15:30
L4 Vitale · Adams · Asham 6:15
D1 Martin · Orpik 25:44
D2 Niskanen · Picard 16:26
D3 Despres · Bortuzzo 12:30

📊 Team stats

Away left · home right
🐻BOS PIT🐧
27 Shots on goal 46
1/5 Power play (goals / chances) 0/5
13 Hits 24
9 Blocked shots 8
1 Takeaways 3
4 Giveaways 7
20 Penalty minutes 20
BOS shooting 11.1% (3/27) PIT shooting 2.2% (1/46)

🥅 Goaltending

Saves, shots faced and save percentage
🐻Bruins
Tim Thomas
45/46
.978 SV% · 1 GA · 59:43 TOI
🐧Penguins
Marc-Andre Fleury
24/27
.889 SV% · 3 GA · 58:48 TOI

🗺 Where the goals came from

4 of 4 goals located
Gregory Campbell · 2nd 02:57 · 1–0 Benoit Pouliot · 2nd 07:18 · 2–0 Tyler Seguin · 3rd 01:07 · 3–0 Matt Cooke · 3rd 10:54 · 3–1
BOS PIT
The net is on the right for both teams. Hover a dot for the goal.

🔮 Period by period

AI
After 1st — 0–0
Bruins
Bruins — tied after 1st: 6-2 (75% win rate, 8 games)
Penguins
Penguins — tied after 1st: 2-1 (67% win rate, 3 games)
After 2nd — 2–0
Bruins
Bruins — leading by 2 goals after 2nd: 3-0 (100% win rate, 3 games)
Penguins
Penguins — trailing by 2 goals after 2nd: 0-2 (0% win rate, 2 games)

⚔️ Last meetings

All →
Bruins lead the season series 1–0
Mar 52011 🐧PIT @ 🐻BOS 3–2 OT Jan 152011 🐧PIT @ 🐻BOS 3–2 Jan 102011 🐻BOS @ 🐧PIT 4–2 Nov 102010 🐻BOS @ 🐧PIT 7–4 Mar 182010 🐧PIT @ 🐻BOS 3–0
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❓ BOS vs PIT, answered

Who won Bruins vs Penguins on December 5, 2011?

Bruins won 3–1. The final score was Bruins 3, Penguins 1.

Who scored for Bruins?

Benoit Pouliot, Gregory Campbell, Tyler Seguin.

Who scored for Penguins?

Matt Cooke.

How did the Bruins goalie play?

Tim Thomas made 45 saves on 46 shots (.978 save percentage).

How did the Penguins goalie play?

Marc-Andre Fleury made 24 saves on 27 shots (.889 save percentage).

Where is Bruins vs Penguins played?

At PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, the Penguins home rink.

What is the Bruins vs Penguins season series?

Bruins lead the season series 1–0 after 1 game.

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🧭 Around this game

Before and after, for both teams
🐻 Bruins
BeforeDec 3 🍁TOR @ 🐻BOS 1–4 AfterDec 6 🐻BOS @ ✈️WPG 1–2
🐧 Penguins
BeforeDec 3 🐧PIT @ 🌪️CAR 3–2 AfterDec 8 🐧PIT @ 🔔PHI 2–3
Also on December 5
🍁TOR 4–2 🗽NYR ⚡TBL 2–4 🏛️OTT 🦅WSH 4–5 🐆FLA 🌵PHX 4–3 🪶CHI
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