Montreal at Minnesota

Shots
123OTT
Montreal 10 9 11 0 30
Minnesota 9 9 10 0 28
Goals
123OTT
Montreal 1 4 4 0 9
Minnesota 0 2 0 0 2


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. MONTREAL, NIINIMAA 1 (KOSTOPOULOS, GRABOVSKI), 18:36

PENALTIES: E. JOVANOVSKI Min (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 03:27, M. STREIT Mtl (ELBOWING, Minor) 08:26, S. HARTNELL Min (HOOKING, Minor) 11:25, A. FERENCE Mtl (HOOKING, Minor) 13:16

Period 2
2. MONTREAL, PLEKANEC 2 (AVERY, FERENCE) (PP), 03:01
3. MONTREAL, KOVALEV 1 (JOKINEN, HIGGINS) (PP), 06:22
4. MINNESOTA, MOORE 1 (ROLSTON, JOHNSSON) (SH), 10:02
5. MINNESOTA, DOAN 1 (ROLSTON) (PP), 11:31
6. MONTREAL, KOMISAREK 2 (HIGGINS, KOVALEV), 14:10
7. MONTREAL, HIGGINS 1 (JOKINEN, KOVALEV), 18:56

PENALTIES: S. DOAN Min (CHARGING, Minor) 01:27, W. WALZ Min (HEAD-BUTTING, Major) 05:54, M. KOMISAREK Mtl (ROUGHING, Minor) 11:10

Period 3
8. MONTREAL, HIGGINS 2 (KOVALEV, PLEKANEC) (PP), 06:21
9. MONTREAL, KOVALEV 2 (MARKOV, JOKINEN) (PP), 08:22
10. MONTREAL, HIGGINS 3 (KOVALEV, JOKINEN) (PP), 14:36
11. MONTREAL, PLEKANEC 3 (MARKOV, JOKINEN), 15:32

PENALTIES: O. JOKINEN Mtl (HOOKING, Minor) 02:08, P. NUMMELIN Min (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 03:57, Z. CHARA Min (CHARGING, Minor, Misconduct) 04:30, K. JOHNSSON Min (ROUGHING, Minor) 07:47, S. DOAN Min (ROUGHING, Minor) 14:30, Z. CHARA Min (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 17:19

Goalie Statistics

Cristobal Huet (Mtl), 26 saves out of 28 shots, W, 1-1-0
Niklas Backstrom (Min), 14 saves out of 19 shots, L, 1-1-0
Mikael Tellqvist (Min), 7 saves out of 11 shots

Power Play Conversions

Montreal 5 for 9
Minnesota 1 for 4

Game Stars

1 - Alexei Kovalev (Mtl)
2 - Christopher Higgins (Mtl)
3 - Olli Jokinen (Mtl)

Player Statistics

Montreal

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Christopher Higgins   3  2  5    +2   0  4   1 23
Andrew Ference        0  1  1  Even   2  0   1 26
Andrei Kostitsyn      0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  1
Andrei Markov         0  2  2    +3   0  4   2 26
Olli Jokinen          0  5  5    +3   2  1   3 25
Sean Avery            0  1  1  Even   0  0   1 21
Steve Begin           0  0  0    +1   0  0   1 10
Alexei Kovalev        2  4  6    +3   0  7   1 19
Tomas Plekanec        2  1  3    +1   0  5   4 27
Colby Armstrong       0  0  0  Even   0  1   2 23
Tom Kostopoulos       0  1  1    +1   0  1   0  8
Guillaume Latendresse 0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  3
Mark Streit           0  0  0  Even   2  2   1 23
Mathieu Dandenault    0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  3
Mike Komisarek        1  0  1    +3   2  3   4 25
Mikhail Grabovski     0  1  1    +1   0  0   1  9
Janne Niinimaa        1  0  1    +1   0  2   1 13
Jassen Cullimore      0  0  0    +1   0  0   1  8
   
Minnesota

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Ed Jovanovski         0  0  0    -1   2  0   4 19
Keith Carney          0  0  0  Even   0  1   2 10
Patrice Bergeron      0  0  0    -1   0  0   1 22
Brian Rolston         0  2  2    -1   0  3   2 22
Petteri Nummelin      0  0  0  Even   2  0   0 12
Kurtis Foster         0  0  0    -1   0  1   0  5
Shane Doan            1  0  1    -2   4  6   1 18
Scott Hartnell        0  0  0    -2   2  1   1 20
Martin Skoula         0  0  0    -1   0  0   0  5
Zdeno Chara           0  0  0    -1  14  1   6 17
Simon Gagne           0  0  0    -1   0  3   1 21
Pierre-Marc Bouchard  0  0  0    -1   0  3   1 14
Wes Walz              0  0  0    -2   5  2   0 21
Sean Hill             0  0  0    -2   0  1   1 22
Mark Parrish          0  0  0  Even   0  2   3  9
Eric Belanger         0  0  0  Even   0  1   2 11
Dominic Moore         1  0  1    -1   0  1   0  6
Kim Johnsson          0  1  1    -2   2  2   4 25
   

Financial

Attendance: 14425
Net Profit: $1,384,800.00

Game Notes

Mikael Tellqvist enters game at 18:56 of 2nd period
Christopher Higgins scores a hat trick

Minor League Box Score

Hamilton       4
Houston        1
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Jonathan Ferland 1 (unknown, Kyle Chipchura)
Jonathan Delisle 1 (Maxim Lapierre, Duncan Milroy)
Maxim Lapierre 1 (Jamie Rivers, Mathieu Biron)
Jean-Philippe Cote 2 (Kristopher Letang, Martti Jarventie)

Serge Payer 2 (Joel Ward, Erik Westrum)

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Goalies
Hamilton: Olivier Michaud
Houston: Mathieu Chouinard
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