New Jersey at Montreal

Shots
123OTT
New Jersey 14 7 8 0 29
Montreal 8 6 13 0 27
Goals
123OTT
New Jersey 4 0 0 0 4
Montreal 0 2 1 0 3


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. NEW JERSEY, ELIAS 2 (POULIOT, TVERDOVSKY) (PP), 08:21
2. NEW JERSEY, SMITH 1 (POULIOT), 09:22
3. NEW JERSEY, BERGLUND 1 (SUGLOBOV, SMITH) (PP), 14:49
4. NEW JERSEY, PARISE 3 (CAJANEK, AHONEN) (PP), 15:28

PENALTIES: Z. PARISE NJ (FIGHTING) 00:36, T. BERTUZZI Mtl (FIGHTING) 00:36, R. ROZAKOV Mtl (ROUGHING, Minor) 07:58, Z. CHARA Mtl (ELBOWING, Minor) 13:08, N. SPICER Mtl (ROUGHING, Minor) 15:09

Period 2
5. MONTREAL, PROTOPOPOV 3 (BALEJ, JACKMAN), 06:52
6. MONTREAL, PROTOPOPOV 4 (BALEJ, ROZAKOV), 16:13

PENALTIES: J. SMITH NJ (BOARDING, Minor) 01:29, B. ROLSTON NJ (HOOKING, Minor) 16:35

Period 3
7. MONTREAL, CALDER 4 (DIVISEK, BERTUZZI), 05:50

PENALTIES: R. ROZAKOV Mtl (ROUGHING, Minor) 02:35, M. RUPP NJ (, ) 14:55, T. BERTUZZI Mtl (, , Game Misconduct) 14:55

Goalie Statistics

Ari Ahonen (NJ ), 24 saves out of 27 shots, W, 3-0-0
Brent Johnson (Mtl), 25 saves out of 29 shots, L, 4-4-1

Power Play Conversions

New Jersey 3 for 4
Montreal 0 for 2

Game Stars

1 - Igor Protopopov (Mtl)
2 - Jason Smith (NJ )
3 - Christian Berglund (NJ )

Player Statistics

New Jersey

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Petr Cajanek          0  1  1  Even   0  1   0 20
Aleksander Suglobov   0  1  1    -1   0  0   0 14
Jonathan Hedstrom     0  0  0    +1   0  0   0  8
Jason Smith           1  1  2    -1   2  4   0 21
Brian Rolston         0  0  0  Even   2  0   0 19
Petr Sykora           0  0  0  Even   0  3   1 18
Christian Berglund    1  0  1    -2   0  6   4 19
Oleg Tverdovsky       0  1  1    -1   0  2   3 22
Zach Parise           1  0  1    -2   5  3   1 18
Patrik Elias          1  0  1    -2   0  2   0 17
Duvie Westcott        0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 21
John Madden           0  0  0    -1   0  0   1 17
Raymond Giroux        0  0  0    -1   0  0   1 19
Eric Carey            0  0  0    +1   0  0   0  5
Mike Rupp             0  0  0    -1   5  0   0 13
David Hale            0  0  0  Even   0  5   2 19
Wes Esche             0  0  0    -1   0  2   0 18
Marc-Antoine Pouliot  0  2  2    +1   0  0   0  7
   
Montreal

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Ratislav Divisek      0  1  1  Even   0  3   1 17
Michael Schutte       0  0  0  Even   0  1   3 11
Kevin Lyman           0  0  0  Even   0  2   4 12
Dan Brck              0  0  0  Even   0  3   1 18
Josef Balej           0  2  2    +2   0  0   2 23
Barret Jackman        0  1  1    +2   0  1   5 27
Kyle Calder           1  0  1  Even   0  2   2 18
Jay McClement         0  0  0  Even   0  2   0  6
Todd Bertuzzi         0  1  1  Even  20  0   0 17
Zdeno Chara           0  0  0  Even   2  1   1 20
Marc Savard           0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  0
Saku Koivu            0  0  0    +2   0  3   0 19
Igor Protopopov       2  0  2    +2   0  3   2 20
Nikos Spicer          0  0  0  Even   2  1   4 20
Trevor Daley          0  0  0  Even   0  2   2 19
Vladimir Karklins     0  0  0  Even   0  0   2 12
Roman Rozakov         0  1  1    +2   4  1   2 22
Steve Ott             0  0  0  Even   0  2   0 12
   

Financial

Attendance: 17539
Net Profit: $1,473,276.00

Game Notes

Zach Parise and Todd Bertuzzi fight to a draw
Mike Rupp and Todd Bertuzzi fight to a draw
Todd Bertuzzi ejected at 14:55 of the 3rd Period

Minor League Box Score

Albany         17
Quebec         2
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Peter Worrell 3 (Josh Green, Brian Gionta)
Tomas Kurka 2 (Curtis Brown, Joe Noiseux)
Stacy Gagnon 1 (Jeff Batista, Tomi Maki)
Tomas Kurka 3 (Jay Pandolfo, Jonne Kapanen)
Ed Lapointe 2 (Brad Leeb, Jean-Francois Weinrich)
Jay Pandolfo 3 (Samuli Huhtamo, Jan Olssen)
Jean-Francois Weinrich 1 (Bengt Molin, Shane Lovecraft)
Jonne Kapanen 2 (Sean Brown, Ross Tardif)
Mike Peluso 2 (Magnus Gustafsson, Jeff Schultz)
Bengt Molin 2 (John Ku, Brian Gionta)
Jay Pandolfo 4 (Tomas Kurka, Joe Noiseux)
Shane Lovecraft 2 (Jonne Kapanen, Brian Gionta)
Ed Lapointe 3 (Brian Gionta, Bengt Molin)
Sean Brown 1 (Joe Noiseux, Jeff Schultz)
Ross Tardif 2 (Brad Leeb, Samuli Huhtamo)
Josh Green 3 (Jay Pandolfo, Sean Brown)
Curtis Brown 2 (Jay Pandolfo, Tomi Maki)

Jan Tomajko 3 (Brandon Cannon, unknown)
Robert Earl 2 (Doug Pinnick, Enrico Veilleux)

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Goalies
Albany: Paul Chelios
Quebec: Vladimir Tomlin
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