New Jersey Devils vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Thursday, February 24, 2000 · Centre Molson
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the New Jersey Devils 3–2 in overtime on Thursday, February 24, 2000 at Centre Molson. The Canadiens outshot the Devils 39–23.
Goals came from Sergei Nemchinov, Martin Rucinsky, Petr Sykora, Sergei Zholtok and Benoit Brunet.
Jeff Hackett made 21 saves on 23 shots for the win; Martin Brodeur stopped 36 of 39.
Scoring
2nd period
Sergei Nemchinov (8)Petr Sykora (35)1–004:29 NJD
Martin Rucinsky (19)Sergei Zholtok (8), Francis Bouillon (12)1–119:28 MTL ·
3rd period
Petr Sykora (18)Scott Gomez (38), Scott Niedermayer (28)2–106:51 NJD · 
Sergei Zholtok (20)Dainius Zubrus (21), Oleg Petrov (12)2–209:22 MTL
Overtime
Benoit Brunet (9)Saku Koivu (11), Patrice Brisebois (18)2–300:58 MTL ·
Team stats
NJDMTL
2339
48%52%
1/32/3
1010
2022
1521
2021
1615
Penalties
- 15:38 into the first period
Scott Stevens · cross checking2 min - 19:54 into the first period
Karl Dykhuis · interference2 min - 11:11 into the second periodDainius Zubrus · hooking obstruction2 min
- 17:48 into the second periodSergei Brylin · holding2 min
- 3:11 into the third periodTrevor Linden · roughing2 min
- 3:11 into the third periodDainius Zubrus · roughing2 min
- 3:11 into the third periodKen Daneyko · roughing2 min
- 3:11 into the third periodKen Daneyko · roughing2 min
- 5:32 into the third periodPatrice Brisebois · hooking obstruction2 min
- 19:51 into the third periodRandy Mckay · high sticking2 min
Season series
New Jersey Devils
| 17Petr SykoraR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 18:28 |
| 12Sergei NemchinovL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:14 |
| 23Scott GomezC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 20:22 |
| 27Scott NiedermayerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 24:33 |
| 9Brendan MorrisonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:10 |
| 11John MaddenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:39 |
| 16Bobby HolikC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:28 |
| 18Sergei BrylinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:01 |
| 20Jay PandolfoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:03 |
| 21Randy MckayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:44 |
| 22Claude LemieuxR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 19:54 |
| 26Patrik EliasC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 17:57 |
| 29Krzysztof OliwaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:19 |
| 3Ken DaneykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:12 |
| 4Scott StevensD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 22:42 |
| 6Brad BombardirD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:32 |
| 24Lyle OdeleinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:31 |
| 28Brian RafalskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 20:20 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Martin BrodeurG | L | 39 | 3 | .923 |
| 31Chris TerreriG | 0 | 0 | – |
Montréal Canadiens
| 34Sergei ZholtokC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 6 | 16:51 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 18:46 |
| 15Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:38 |
| 17Benoit BrunetL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 7 | 20:32 |
| 26Martin RucinskyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 17:43 |
| 32Oleg PetrovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:04 |
| 43Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 23:07 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 09:56 |
| 14Trevor LindenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:22 |
| 23Turner StevensonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:53 |
| 27Shayne CorsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:40 |
| 37Patrick PoulinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:16 |
| 63Craig DarbyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:49 |
| 22Eric WeinrichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:02 |
| 28Karl DykhuisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 19:36 |
| 38Vladimir MalakhovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:25 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:30 |
| 55Igor UlanovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:42 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Jeff HackettG | W | 23 | 2 | .913 |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | 0 | 0 | – |