NY Rangers at Columbus

Period 1
1. COLUMBUS, NASH 26 (GOMEZ), 00:35
2. NY RANGERS, MIRONOV 11 (OVECHKIN, STEFAN), 00:46
3. COLUMBUS, NASH 27 (GILL, RAFALSKI) (PP), 02:11
4. NY RANGERS, TUKONEN 27 (ZHITNIK, HLAVAC), 11:18

PENALTIES: J. HRDINA NYR (BOARDING, Minor) 02:07, H. JESSIMAN NYR (CHARGING, Minor) 03:08, H. GILL Clb (BOARDING, Minor) 12:16, M. HARTIGAN NYR (HOOKING, Minor) 13:16, K. PRIMEAU Clb (CHARGING, Minor) 13:47, R. SUTER Clb (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 14:28, J. BLAKE Clb (HOOKING, Minor, Misconduct) 17:42

Period 2
5. COLUMBUS, KOVALEV 19 (NASH, KIPRUSOFF), 01:44
6. COLUMBUS, VALABIK 3 (GOMEZ, KOVALEV), 04:07
7. NY RANGERS, ZHITNIK 7 (HLAVAC, BEAUCHEMIN), 06:22

PENALTIES: R. HAHL NYR (BOARDING, Minor) 12:44, A. OVECHKIN NYR (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 14:33

Period 3
8. COLUMBUS, PRIMEAU 25 (ZETTERBERG, BLAKE), 06:26
9. COLUMBUS, NASH 28 (KOVALEV, GOMEZ), 08:55

PENALTIES: H. ZETTERBERG Clb (ROUGHING, Minor) 00:39, P. STEFAN NYR (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 08:23, H. GILL Clb (ROUGHING, Minor) 08:23, J. HLAVAC NYR (ELBOWING, Double Minor) 14:08, B. RAFALSKI Clb (ELBOWING, Minor) 18:41

Goalie Statistics

Al Montoya (NYR), 8 saves out of 9 shots
Evgeni Nabokov (NYR), 18 saves out of 23 shots, L, 22-29-7
Miikka Kiprusoff (Clb), 26 saves out of 29 shots, W, 30-23-8

Power Play Conversions

NY Rangers 0 for 6
Columbus 1 for 6

Game Stars

1 - Rick Nash (Clb)
2 - Alexei Kovalev (Clb)
3 - Scott Gomez (Clb)

Player Statistics

NY Rangers G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Francois Beauchemin 0 1 1 -1 0 0 1 22 Lauri Tukonen 1 0 1 -1 0 2 2 18 Denis Gauthier 0 0 0 Even 0 2 0 9 Patrik Stefan 0 1 1 Even 2 0 0 22 Alexander Ovechkin 0 1 1 Even 2 1 0 20 Jan Hlavac 0 2 2 -1 4 2 1 24 Fedor Tjutin 0 0 0 Even 0 1 0 11 Jozef Balej 0 0 0 Even 0 2 3 19 Scottie Upshall 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 6 Riku Hahl 0 0 0 Even 2 2 3 12 Boris Mironov 1 0 1 Even 0 3 3 20 Henrik Sedin 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 7 Hugh Jessiman 0 0 0 Even 2 0 0 7 Mark Hartigan 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 20 Tom Poti 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 26 Jan Hrdina 0 0 0 Even 2 3 0 13 Alexei Zhitnik 1 1 2 -2 0 5 3 28 Lauri Korpikoski 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 5

Columbus G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Henrik Zetterberg 0 1 1 Even 2 1 4 17 Alexei Kovalev 1 2 3 +2 0 5 0 21 Keith Primeau 1 0 1 Even 2 2 2 24 Scott Gomez 0 3 3 +2 0 1 1 24 Brian Rafalski 0 1 1 +1 2 4 2 29 Rick Nash 3 1 4 +1 0 6 7 29 Jordin Tootoo 0 0 0 Even 0 3 0 9 Alexander Svitov 0 0 0 Even 0 1 0 12 Jason Blake 0 1 1 +1 12 2 0 15 Sami Salo 0 0 0 Even 0 3 3 14 Boris Valabik 1 0 1 +3 0 1 0 23 Ryan Suter 0 0 0 Even 2 1 3 20 Aaron Johnson 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 15 Hal Gill 0 1 1 Even 4 0 3 13 Karlis Skrastins 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 5 Martin Lapointe 0 0 0 Even 0 2 0 16 Ramzi Abid 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 5

Financial

Attendance: 15313
Net Profit: $643�146,00

Game Notes

Al Montoya enters game at 06:26 of 3rd period
Rick Nash scores a hat trick

Minor League Box Score

Hartford       2
Syracuse       2
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John Tripp 27 (Tomas Holmstrom, unknown)
Billy Tibbetts 8 (unknown, Mikael Renberg)

Ryan Stoa 28 (Dimitri Kosmachev, Matt Davidson)
Matt Davidson 16 (Mason Raymond, Ryan O'Byrne)

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Goalies
Hartford: Jean-Sebastien Aubin
Syracuse: Marek Schwarz
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