Game Three
| June 2 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 4–2 | Detroit Red Wings | Mellon Arena | Recap |
The Penguins won game three, 4–2, cutting their deficit in the series in half. Pittsburgh got off to a strong offensive start and scored first at 4:48 of the opening period when Evgeni Malkin set up Max Talbot, who fired a one-timed snapshot. Detroit answered less than two minutes later with a Henrik Zetterberg goal at 6:19 in the period. Zetterberg scored on a rebound after Ville Leino's wrap-around attempt was stopped by Marc-Andre Fleury. After Pittsburgh's Brooks Orpik was called for interference, Johan Franzen responding by scoring a goal at 11:33 with under ten seconds left in the penalty. Franzen's score was a one-timer that resulted after Zetterberg fed him a pass around the goal crease. While Detroit dominated the middle of the first period, at one point firing nine straight shots, the Penguins caught a break when the officials missed a penalty for too many men when Pittsburgh had inadvertently created their own powerplay, and played with six men for nearly thirty seconds. Pittsburgh then used a late holding call on Dan Cleary to set up a game tying power play goal. Defenceman Kris Letang fanned on a one-time attempt as he took a pass from Malkin, but regained control of the puck and fired a wrist shot into the net.
The score remained unchanged through the second period, although Detroit had numerous scoring chances. The Penguins' Fleury stopped 16 Detroit shots in the frame, and caught a break as Mikael Samuelsson hit the post on a breakaway. The Penguins came out with strong defence in the third period, and the Detroit offense sputtered, at one point going over ten minutes without a shot. Midway through the third period, the Penguins earned a power play opportunity after Jonathan Ericsson was called for interference. At 10:29, Sergei Gonchar drilled a slapshot from near the blue line, which sailed through traffic and beat a screened Chris Osgood to give the Penguins the lead. Detroit could not mount a late surge with the extra attacker on the ice, and Talbot added an empty net goal at 19:03 for his second of the game to seal the victory.
| Scoring summary | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | Team | Goal | Assist(s) | Time | Score |
| 1st | PIT | Max Talbot (5) | Evgeni Malkin (18) and Kris Letang (8) | 4:48 | 1–0 PIT |
| DET | Henrik Zetterberg (10) | Ville Leino (2) and Johan Franzen (10) | 6:19 | 1–1 | |
| DET | Johan Franzen (12) – pp | Henrik Zetterberg (11) and Niklas Kronwall (7) | 11:33 | 2–1 DET | |
| PIT | Kris Letang (4) – pp | Evgeni Malkin (19) and Sergei Gonchar (11) | 15:57 | 2–2 | |
| 2nd | None | ||||
| 3rd | PIT | Sergei Gonchar (3) – pp | Evgeni Malkin (20) and Sidney Crosby (15) | 10:29 | 3–2 PIT |
| PIT | Max Talbot (6) – en | Ruslan Fedotenko (6) | 19:03 | 4–2 PIT | |
| Penalty summary | |||||
| Period | Team | Player | Penalty | Time | PIM |
| 1st | PIT | Brooks Orpik | Interference | 9:42 | 2:00 |
| DET | Dan Cleary | Holding | 14:46 | 2:00 | |
| DET | Johan Franzen | Tripping | 18:02 | 2:00 | |
| 2nd | PIT | Miroslav Satan | Holding | 15:35 | 2:00 |
| 3rd | DET | Jonathan Ericsson | Interference | 9:46 | 2:00 |
| Shots by period | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | T |
| Detroit | 12 | 14 | 3 | 29 |
| Pittsburgh | 7 | 4 | 10 | 21 |
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