Montréal Canadiens vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Regular season · Saturday, December 26, 1998 · Maple Leaf Gardens
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 2–1 on Saturday, December 26, 1998 at Maple Leaf Gardens. The Maple Leafs outshot the Canadiens 30–27.
Goals came from Steve Thomas, Eric Weinrich and Stephane Quintal.
Jeff Hackett made 29 saves on 30 shots for the win; Curtis Joseph stopped 25 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Steve Thomas (12)Mats Sundin (23), Freddy Modin (7)0–100:33 TOR
Eric Weinrich (2)Unassisted1–103:04 MTL
3rd period
Stephane Quintal (1)Saku Koivu (4)2–115:02 MTL
Team stats
MTLTOR
2730
36%64%
0/40/5
108
914
45
1521
65
Penalties
- 7:38 into the first period
Vladimir Malakhov · interference2 min - 8:56 into the first period
Mike Johnson · cross checking2 min - 15:22 into the first periodMartin Rucinsky · hooking obstruction2 min
- 17:34 into the first periodIgor Ulanov · delaying game2 min
- 19:53 into the first periodGarry Valk · interference2 min
- 8:48 into the second periodVincent Damphousse · holding2 min
- 10:22 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 16:11 into the second periodGarry Valk · holding obstruction2 min
- 18:15 into the second periodTurner Stevenson · interference2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 19:32 |
| 5Stephane QuintalD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 23:14 |
| 22Eric WeinrichD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 27:47 |
| 8Mark RecchiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 19:13 |
| 17Benoit BrunetL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:04 |
| 21Jason DaweR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11:25 |
| 23Turner StevensonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:24 |
| 25Vincent DamphousseC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:04 |
| 26Martin RucinskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:17 |
| 27Shayne CorsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 20:44 |
| 34Sergei ZholtokC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 05:42 |
| 37Patrick PoulinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 10:31 |
| 44Jonas HoglundR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 16:27 |
| 46Matt HigginsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 05:29 |
| 29Brett ClarkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:44 |
| 38Vladimir MalakhovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 24:30 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:58 |
| 55Igor UlanovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:55 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Jeff HackettG | W | 30 | 1 | .967 |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | 0 | 0 | – |
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 13Mats SundinC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 23:27 |
| 19Freddy ModinL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12:32 |
| 32Steve ThomasR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 04:59 |
| 7Derek KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:41 |
| 10Garry ValkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:00 |
| 11Steve SullivanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:36 |
| 14Darby HendricksonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 09:33 |
| 18Alyn McCauleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:17 |
| 20Mike JohnsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20:47 |
| 22Igor KorolevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:17 |
| 28Tie DomiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 08:29 |
| 94Sergei BerezinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14:54 |
| 2Dallas EakinsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:08 |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25:00 |
| 15Tomas KaberleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 20:09 |
| 25Jason SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:52 |
| 38Yannick TremblayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:59 |
| 52Alexander KarpovtsevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:10 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Glenn HealyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Curtis JosephG | L | 27 | 2 | .926 |