Montreal at Atlanta

Period 1
1. MONTREAL, RACHUNEK 1 (HIGGINS, WARD), 02:44
2. MONTREAL, RACHUNEK 2 (SAMSONOV, HATCHER), 09:54

PENALTIES: A. FERENCE Mtl (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 06:50, M. RICHARDS Atl (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 11:51, D. SYDOR Atl (ELBOWING, Minor) 14:50

Period 2
3. MONTREAL, HOSSA 2 (NASLUND, FERENCE), 09:02
4. MONTREAL, RICHARDS 1 (NASLUND, HOSSA), 09:22
5. ATLANTA, ZUBOV 1 (JOKINEN, AXELSSON), 19:16



Period 3
6. MONTREAL, RACHUNEK 3 (SAMSONOV, LECLAIR) (PP), 01:28

PENALTIES: M. RICHARDS Atl (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 00:31, Z. BLATNY Atl (ROUGHING, Minor) 00:38, A. SUTTON Atl (HOOKING, Minor) 09:59, S. ZUBOV Atl (ROUGHING, Minor) 19:57

Goalie Statistics

Jose Theodore (Mtl), 20 saves out of 21 shots, W, 2-0-0
Kari Lehtonen (Atl), 7 saves out of 7 shots
Marc Denis (Atl), 21 saves out of 26 shots, L, 0-2-0

Power Play Conversions

Montreal 1 for 6
Atlanta 0 for 1

Game Stars

1 - Karel Rachunek (Mtl)
2 - Andrew Ference (Mtl)
3 - Marian Hossa (Mtl)

Player Statistics

Montreal G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Brad Richards 1 0 1 +1 0 3 0 22 Alexander Polushin 0 0 0 Even 0 2 0 5 Markus Naslund 0 2 2 +1 0 1 0 16 Andrew Ference 0 1 1 +1 2 6 2 24 Scott Parker 0 0 0 Even 0 1 3 10 Chris Higgins 0 1 1 +1 0 0 2 12 Teemu Selanne 0 0 0 +1 0 3 0 14 Marian Hossa 1 1 2 +1 0 2 0 20 Derian Hatcher 0 1 1 +1 0 0 4 20 John LeClair 0 1 1 +1 0 1 2 20 Jason Ward 0 1 1 +1 0 1 1 11 Karel Rachunek 3 0 3 +2 0 4 1 17 Richard Jackman 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 14 Marc Savard 0 0 0 +1 0 1 3 20 Sergei Samsonov 0 2 2 +1 0 2 0 21 Wade Redden 0 0 0 +1 0 4 1 26 Steve Begin 0 0 0 Even 0 1 0 6 Danny Richmond 0 0 0 Even 0 1 6 18

Atlanta G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Olli Jokinen 0 1 1 Even 0 0 2 22 Mike Richards 0 0 0 -1 4 0 1 20 Zdenek Blatny 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 10 Ilya Kovalchuk 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 22 Espen Knutsen 0 0 0 -3 0 2 1 17 Jay Pandolfo 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 13 Rob Davison 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 15 Per Svartvadet 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 12 Yannick Tremblay 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 14 Dion Phaneuf 0 0 0 Even 0 2 1 22 Alexander Radulov 0 0 0 Even 0 0 2 18 Owen Nolan 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 15 Andy Sutton 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 7 Roman Hamrlik 0 0 0 Even 0 2 1 21 Garnet Exelby 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 4 Per Axelsson 0 1 1 Even 0 1 0 20 Darryl Sydor 0 0 0 Even 2 1 2 19 Sergei Zubov 1 0 1 -1 2 5 0 20

Financial

Attendance: 17080
Net Profit: $1�076�040,00

Game Notes

Markus Naslund injured at 18:37 of the 2nd Period
Kari Lehtonen enters game at 01:28 of 3rd period
Karel Rachunek scores a hat trick

Minor League Box Score

Hamilton       6
Chicago        0
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Dan Bertram 2 (Jamie Allison, Grant Marshall)
Jason Wiemer 2 (Toni Dahlman, unknown)
Steve Moore 1 (Lance Ward, unknown)
Jason Wiemer 3 (John Jakopin, unknown)
unknown (unknown, unknown)
Steve Moore 2 (unknown, unknown)


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Goalies
Hamilton: Jason Bacashihua
Chicago: Jani Hurme
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