Montréal Canadiens vs New York Rangers

Regular season · Wednesday, January 31, 2001 · Madison Square Garden

2–4

24–37

Game summary

The New York Rangers beat the Montréal Canadiens 4–2 on Wednesday, January 31, 2001 at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers outshot the Canadiens 37–24.

Petr Nedved scored twice. Jan Hlavac, Stephane Robidas, Trevor Linden and Rich Pilon also scored.

Mike Richter made 22 saves on 24 shots for the win; Jose Theodore stopped 33 of 36.

Goals
MTL	0	1	1	2	24
NYR	0	2	2	4	37

Scoring

2nd period

Jan Hlavac (21)Petr Nedved (29)0–102:24 NYR
Petr Nedved (15)Radek Dvorak (28), Jan Hlavac (17)0–214:23 NYR
Stephane Robidas (3)Chad Kilger (11), Saku Koivu (12)1–219:51 MTL

3rd period

Petr Nedved (16)Radek Dvorak (29), Jan Hlavac (18)1–316:57 NYR
Trevor Linden (9)Eric Chouinard (3)2–318:28 MTL ·
Rich Pilon (2)Mark Messier (27)2–418:54 NYR ·

Team stats

MTLNYR

2437

52%48%

1/40/1

713

2034

2013

1728

1729

Penalties

7:16 into the first periodTheo Fleury · holding the stick2 min
13:30 into the first periodChristian Laflamme · fighting5 min
13:30 into the first periodAdam Graves · fighting5 min
11:48 into the second periodAdam Graves · hooking2 min
14:46 into the second periodKarl Dykhuis · cross checking2 min
7:11 into the third periodRich Pilon · interference2 min
17:38 into the third periodMark Messier · cross checking2 min

Season series

Montréal Canadiens

Montréal Canadiens skaters

11Saku KoivuC	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	50	0	1	29	23:48
14Trevor LindenC	1	0	1	−1	4	3	0	0	65	2	1	25	22:19
25Chad KilgerL	0	1	1	0	3	2	0	0	40	1	1	28	23:29
40Eric ChouinardC	0	1	1	−1	1	2	0	0	–	0	2	20	13:34
56Stephane RobidasD	1	0	1	−1	1	2	2	0	–	0	1	31	24:34
8Jim CampbellR	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	–	0	1	18	13:34
32Oleg PetrovR	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	0	–	2	0	23	22:10
37Patrick PoulinL	0	0	0	−3	3	3	2	0	–	3	2	19	14:58
45Arron AshamR	0	0	0	−1	0	1	0	0	–	2	1	14	08:46
46Matt HigginsC	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	50	0	0	11	06:36
47Juha LindL	0	0	0	−1	0	1	2	0	–	0	0	14	09:25
63Craig DarbyC	0	0	0	−3	0	1	0	0	63	1	2	24	16:24
78Eric LandryC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	33	0	0	8	04:28
22Eric WeinrichD	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	–	1	1	28	25:13
24Christian LaflammeD	0	0	0	−2	0	2	2	5	–	0	0	23	17:51
28Karl DykhuisD	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	–	0	1	20	15:05
44Sheldon SourayD	0	0	0	−3	2	0	4	0	–	0	3	27	19:32
79Andrei MarkovD	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	–	1	0	24	17:47

Montréal Canadiens goalies
Goalie
30Mathieu GaronG		0	0	0	–	00:00
60Jose TheodoreG	L	36	33	3	.917	58:51

New York Rangers

New York Rangers skaters

27Jan HlavacL	1	2	3	+2	4	1	1	0	–	3	3	22	17:54
93Petr NedvedC	2	1	3	+2	6	0	0	0	33	6	3	24	20:10
20Radek DvorakR	0	2	2	+2	3	0	0	0	100	1	3	22	20:11
11Mark MessierC	0	1	1	+1	2	3	2	2	55	4	2	29	21:39
47Rich PilonD	1	0	1	0	1	5	3	2	–	2	6	25	20:24
6Manny MalhotraC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0	0	2	01:22
9Adam GravesL	0	0	0	+1	4	3	0	7	–	0	0	25	17:28
10Sandy McCarthyR	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	0	–	0	2	20	16:31
14Theo FleuryR	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	2	20	2	0	25	20:27
18Mike YorkL	0	0	0	+1	3	1	1	0	57	1	2	25	19:43
28Eric LacroixL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0	0	1	00:43
29Jeff TomsL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	–
38Jeff UlmerR	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	–	1	2	23	17:45
2Brian LeetchD	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	–	5	0	27	24:56
3Kim JohnssonD	0	0	0	+3	2	3	0	0	–	0	4	22	16:28
22Tomas KloucekD	0	0	0	+3	1	3	0	0	–	0	1	20	15:15
24Sylvain LefebvreD	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	–	1	0	25	19:54
25Alexei GusarovD	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	–	0	1	26	21:46

New York Rangers goalies
Goalie
30Kirk McLeanG		0	0	0	–	00:00
35Mike RichterG	W	24	22	2	.917	60:00