Montreal at Buffalo

Shots
123OTT
Montreal 12 7 10 0 29
Buffalo 5 10 8 0 23
Goals
123OTT
Montreal 1 1 1 0 3
Buffalo 0 1 1 0 2


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. MONTREAL, KOVALCHUK 9 (HEJDUK, DATSYUK), 03:06

PENALTIES: R. HAMRLIK MTL (ROUGHING, Minor, Misconduct) 11:15, P. BOUCHER BUF (CHARGING, Minor) 11:15

Period 2
2. MONTREAL, JOKELA 1 (LEHTINEN), 12:25
3. BUFFALO, BOUCHER 3 (CHUBAROV, MARCHANT) (PP), 12:51

PENALTIES: P. DATSYUK MTL (ROUGHING, Minor) 04:05, J. LEHTINEN MTL (ROUGHING, Minor) 12:43, I. KOVALCHUK MTL (CHARGING, Minor) 13:45, M. ROZSIVAL BUF (ELBOWING, Minor) 13:45, M. MALHOTRA BUF (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 19:09

Period 3
4. MONTREAL, HEJDUK 18 (KOVALCHUK, JOKINEN), 10:11
5. BUFFALO, MARCHANT 8 (RAGNARSSON, RADULOV), 19:59

PENALTIES: A. CHUBAROV BUF (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 03:05, I. RADULOV BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 10:44

Goalie Statistics

Jose Theodore (MTL), 21 saves out of 23 shots, W, 21-12-2
Ryan Miller (BUF), 26 saves out of 29 shots, L, 0-2-0

Power Play Conversions

Montreal 0 for 3
Buffalo 1 for 2

Game Stars

1 - Ilya Kovalchuk (MTL)
2 - Milan Hejduk (MTL)
3 - Pavel Datsyuk (MTL)

Player Statistics

Montreal

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Aki Berg              0  0  0    +2   0  1   5 15
Pavel Datsyuk         0  1  1    +1   2  4   0 28
Martin Skoula         0  0  0  Even   0  0   2 30
Tuomu Ruutu           0  0  0  Even   0  1   0  9
Mikko Jokela          1  0  1  Even   0  4   0 18
Andrei Markov         0  0  0  Even   0  1   2 22
Ilya Kovalchuk        1  1  2    +2   2  2   0 16
Dany Heatley          0  0  0  Even   0  4   1 23
Mike Komisarek        0  0  0  Even   0  2   4 15
Milan Hejduk          1  1  2    +2   0  1   3 22
Richard Zednik        0  0  0  Even   0  3   4 19
Radek Bonk            0  0  0  Even   0  1   1 21
Roman Hamrlik         0  0  0    +2  12  0   0 13
Olli Jokinen          0  1  1    +1   0  2   1 22
Magnus Arvedson       0  0  0  Even   0  0   1  6
Jere Lehtinen         0  1  1  Even   2  3   2 19
   
Buffalo

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Andreas Johansson     0  0  0  Even   0  4   1 21
Brett Harkins         0  0  0    -3   0  3   0 20
Denis Hamel           0  0  0  Even   0  0   4 15
Ales Kotalik          0  0  0    -3   0  1   0 18
Philippe Boucher      1  0  1    -2   2  2   4 23
Michal Rozsival       0  0  0  Even   2  0   1 21
Todd Marchant         1  1  2    -2   0  2   2 24
Artem Chubarov        0  1  1  Even   2  1   2 17
Steve Thomas          0  0  0  Even   0  1   2 18
Igor Radulov          0  1  1    +1   2  0   0  6
Mats Lindgren         0  0  0    +1   0  2   1 10
Marcus Ragnarsson     0  1  1    -2   0  2   3 22
Lyle Odelein          0  0  0  Even   0  0   0 22
Drake Berehowsky      0  0  0  Even   0  3   2 19
Jason Holland         0  0  0  Even   0  0   0 13
Niko Dimitrakos       0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  0
Manny Malhotra        0  0  0  Even   2  1   0 14
Darren McCarty        0  0  0  Even   0  1   2 11
   

Financial

Attendance: 12818
Net Profit: $807,534.00

Game Notes

Tuomu Ruutu injured at 04:05 of the 2nd Period

Minor League Box Score

Hamilton       6
Rochester      1
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Teemu Laine 4 (unknown, Pavel Brendl)
unknown (Tony Salmelainen, Tomas Plekanec)
unknown (Ilkka Mikkola, Stephen Webb)
Tomas Plekanec 8 (Petr Hubacek, unknown)
Petr Hubacek 4 (Jani Rita, unknown)
Jani Rita 6 (unknown, unknown)

Josef Marha 5 (Toivo Suursoo, Karel Mosovsky)

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Goalies
Hamilton: Mikael Tellqvist
Rochester: unknown
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