New Jersey at Montreal

Shots
123OTT
New Jersey 9 16 10 0 35
Montreal 14 7 9 0 30
Goals
123OTT
New Jersey 2 1 2 0 5
Montreal 3 0 4 0 7


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. MONTREAL, KOVALEV 5 (HIGGINS), 00:19
2. NEW JERSEY, BACKSTROM 1 (WHITE, GIONTA), 07:20
3. NEW JERSEY, MALONE 3 (BACKSTROM) (PP), 08:57
4. MONTREAL, KOVALEV 6 (JOKINEN, STREIT) (PP), 15:26
5. MONTREAL, AVERY 1 (FERENCE, ARMSTRONG), 19:34

PENALTIES: M. KOMISAREK Mtl (ELBOWING, Minor) 04:20, A. FERENCE Mtl (HOOKING, Minor, Misconduct) 08:23, V. VISHNEVSKI NJ (BOARDING, Minor) 15:08

Period 2
6. NEW JERSEY, CLARKE 1 (UNASSISTED), 12:57

PENALTIES: S. BEGIN Mtl (BOARDING, Double Minor) 07:27

Period 3
7. MONTREAL, BEGIN 1 (GRABOVSKI, CULLIMORE), 04:30
8. MONTREAL, ARMSTRONG 3 (AVERY, FERENCE), 05:42
9. NEW JERSEY, RACHUNEK 2 (WEISS, BOYES) (PP), 14:37
10. MONTREAL, PLEKANEC 6 (AVERY, ARMSTRONG) (PP), 16:54
11. MONTREAL, KOMISAREK 3 (AVERY, ARMSTRONG) (PP), 17:47
12. NEW JERSEY, BACKSTROM 2 (WHITE, GIONTA), 19:15

PENALTIES: S. BEGIN Mtl (ELBOWING, Minor) 06:40, M. KOMISAREK Mtl (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 10:18, T. PLEKANEC Mtl (ELBOWING, Minor) 13:18, A. ASHAM NJ (ROUGHING, Double Minor) 16:10

Goalie Statistics

Martin Brodeur (NJ ), 18 saves out of 23 shots, L, 3-2-1
J-F Damphousse (NJ ), 5 saves out of 7 shots
Cristobal Huet (Mtl), 30 saves out of 35 shots, W, 4-2-0
Carey Price (Mtl), 0 saves out of 0 shots

Power Play Conversions

New Jersey 2 for 6
Montreal 3 for 2

Game Stars

1 - Sean Avery (Mtl)
2 - Nicklas Backstrom (NJ )
3 - Colby Armstrong (Mtl)

Player Statistics

New Jersey

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Nicklas Bergfors      0  0  0  Even   0  2   0  9
Arron Asham           0  0  0  Even   4  0   1 12
Brian Gionta          0  2  2  Even   0  4   2 22
Vitaly Vishnevski     0  0  0    -2   2  1   3 24
Colin White           0  2  2  Even   0  1   4 20
Brad Boyes            0  1  1    -2   0  4   2 24
Mike Green            0  0  0    -2   0  2   0 23
Nicklas Backstrom     2  1  3  Even   0  5   3 23
Samuel Pahlsson       0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 10
Ryan Malone           1  0  1  Even   0  1   1 18
Karel Rachunek        1  0  1    +1   0  4   0 21
Stephen Weiss         0  1  1    -2   0  1   2 22
Paul Martin           0  0  0    +1   0  1   2 23
Richard Matvichuk     0  0  0  Even   0  1   0  9
Noah Clarke           1  0  1    +1   0  1   0  3
Sergei Brylin         0  0  0    +1   0  1   1  4
David Clarkson        0  0  0    +1   0  1   0  6
Todd Bertuzzi         0  0  0    -2   0  4   2 23
   
Montreal

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Christopher Higgins   0  1  1  Even   0  3   5 24
Andrew Ference        0  2  2    +1  12  0   2 20
Andrei Kostitsyn      0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  0
Andrei Markov         0  0  0  Even   0  1   2 28
Olli Jokinen          0  1  1  Even   0  4   1 26
Sean Avery            1  3  4    +1   0  4   2 15
Steve Begin           1  0  1  Even   6  2   2 13
Alexei Kovalev        2  0  2  Even   0  5   0 17
Tomas Plekanec        1  0  1    +1   2  2   4 24
Colby Armstrong       1  3  4    +1   0  2   2 15
Tom Kostopoulos       0  0  0  Even   0  1   0  9
Guillaume Latendresse 0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  4
Mark Streit           0  1  1  Even   0  2   1 20
Mathieu Dandenault    0  0  0  Even   0  0   1  4
Mike Komisarek        1  0  1    +1   4  1   1 21
Mikhail Grabovski     0  1  1  Even   0  3   1 14
Janne Niinimaa        0  0  0  Even   0  0   3 19
Jassen Cullimore      0  1  1  Even   0  0   1 12
   

Financial

Attendance: 13721
Net Profit: $1,317,216.00

Game Notes

J-F Damphousse enters game at 05:42 of 3rd period
Carey Price enters game at 19:15 of 3rd period

Minor League Box Score

Albany         5
Hamilton       1
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Jason Wiemer 2 (Sheldon Brookbank, Jason Ryznar)
George Parros 4 (Mike Pandolfo, Erik Rasmussen)
Matthew Corrente 1 (John Oduya, Ian Moran)
Erik Rasmussen 1 (Michael Rupp, Mike Mottau)
Grant Marshall 3 (Barry Tallackson, Pat Rissmiller)

Jonathan Delisle 2 (Kristopher Letang, Duncan Milroy)

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Goalies
Albany: Mike Dunham
Hamilton: Olivier Michaud
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