Montreal at New Jersey

Shots
123OTT
Montreal 11 8 9 0 28
New Jersey 12 8 5 0 25
Goals
123OTT
Montreal 1 2 0 0 3
New Jersey 0 1 1 0 2


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. MONTREAL, THORNTON 34 (HEJDUK, SOPEL), 04:30

PENALTIES: M. GELINAS NJ (ELBOWING, Minor) 01:39, J. FAHEY Mon (ELBOWING, Minor) 09:01, A. ZHAMNOV Mon (ROUGHING, Minor) 12:13, R. REICHEL Mon (ROUGHING, Minor) 17:44

Period 2
2. MONTREAL, HEJDUK 40 (ZETTERBERG, THORNTON) (PP), 11:41
3. NEW JERSEY, FISHER 27 (CZERKAWSKI, WARD) (PP), 16:19
4. MONTREAL, BURE 16 (THORNTON, ZHERDEV) (PP), 17:32

PENALTIES: H. ZETTERBERG Mon (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 04:28, B. MEZEI NJ (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 11:19, T. HOLMSTROM Mon (ELBOWING, Minor) 15:46, A. WARD NJ (CHARGING, Minor) 16:56, A. FERENCE NJ (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 17:29

Period 3
5. NEW JERSEY, SIMON 1 (VARADA, NIKOLISHIN), 02:09

PENALTIES: D. MORRIS Mon (BOARDING, Minor) 07:13, A. FERENCE NJ (SPEARING, Major, Game Misconduct) 07:13 (Served by Andrei Nikolishin), J. THORNTON Mon (CHECKING-FROM-BEHIND, Major) 08:02, T. GREEN NJ (HIGHSTICKING, Major) 08:02, C. SIMON NJ (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 08:21, A. NIKOLISHIN NJ (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 16:17, M. GELINAS NJ (HOOKING, Minor) 16:53, B. MEZEI NJ (BOARDING, Minor) 18:52

Goalie Statistics

Andrew Raycroft (Mon), 23 saves out of 25 shots, W, 30-23-6
Mike Dunham (NJ ), 25 saves out of 28 shots, L, 24-38-1

Power Play Conversions

Montreal 2 for 9
New Jersey 1 for 5

Game Stars

1 - Joe Thornton (Mon)
2 - Milan Hejduk (Mon)
3 - Andrew Raycroft (Mon)

Player Statistics

Montreal

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Brent Sopel           0  1  1    +1   0  3   3 26
Sean Hill             0  0  0    -1   0  2   3 27
Steve Staios          0  0  0  Even   0  2   1 25
Joe Thornton          1  2  3  Even   5  2   4 25
Nikolai Zherdev       0  1  1  Even   0  2   4 19
Milan Hejduk          1  1  2  Even   0  3   1 17
Christopher Higgins   0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 10
Derek Morris          0  0  0  Even   2  3   2 23
Mike Leclerc          0  0  0    +1   0  0   2  9
Maxim Afinogenov      0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  5
Valeri Bure           1  0  1  Even   0  4   1 16
Alexei Zhamnov        0  0  0  Even   2  3   1 29
Tomas Holmstrom       0  0  0  Even   2  0   0 15
Nolan Baumgartner     0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  1
Adam Deadmarsh        0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  6
Henrik Zetterberg     0  1  1    -1   2  1   1 17
Jim Fahey             0  0  0  Even   2  1   0  8
Robert Reichel        0  0  0  Even   2  1   1  8
   
New Jersey

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Vaclav Varada         0  1  1    +1   0  2   1 14
Andrew Ference        0  0  0    -1  17  0   1 17
Taylor Pyatt          0  0  0  Even   0  0   2 15
Andrei Nikolishin     0  1  1  Even   2  1   0 14
Mariusz Czerkawski    0  1  1    -1   0  0   0 19
Branislav Mezei       0  0  0    +1   4  1   3 21
Chris Simon           1  0  1    +1   2  1   0  8
Jassen Cullimore      0  0  0  Even   0  3   1 24
Mike Fisher           1  0  1  Even   0  3   0 19
Keith Primeau         0  0  0  Even   0  1   3 18
Willie Mitchell       0  0  0  Even   0  2   2 23
Christian Backman     0  0  0    +1   0  2   1 13
Aaron Ward            0  1  1    -1   2  5   1 23
Scott Parker          0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  4
Niko Kapanen          0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 15
Travis Green          0  0  0  Even   5  1   1  4
Martin Gelinas        0  0  0    -1   4  2   2 21
Samuel Pahlsson       0  0  0  Even   0  0   1 12
   

Financial

Attendance: 12207
Net Profit: $845 945,00

Game Notes

Nolan Baumgartner injured at 09:01 of the 1st Period
Andrew Ference ejected at 07:13 of the 3rd Period

Minor League Box Score

Montreal       2
New Jersey     2
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Guillaume Lefebvre 18 (Alexander Semin, Jeff Jillson)
Brian Holzinger 13 (Ivan Novoseltsev, Jean-Guy Trudel)

Dwayne Zinger 7 (Michal Barinka, Jason Marshall)
Cameron Mann 5 (Mikael Holmqvist, Chad Kilger)

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Goalies
Montreal: Rastislav Stana
New Jersey: Ilya Bryzgalov
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