Minnesota Wild vs Chicago Blackhawks
Regular season · Wednesday, December 5, 2001 · United Center
Game summary
The Chicago Blackhawks beat the Minnesota Wild 4–2 on Wednesday, December 5, 2001 at United Center. The Blackhawks outshot the Wild 27–21.
Goals came from Alexei Zhamnov, Eric Daze, Lubomir Sekeras, Phil Housley, Michael Nylander and Willie Mitchell.
Jocelyn Thibault made 19 saves on 21 shots for the win; Manny Fernandez stopped 23 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Alexei Zhamnov (11)Phil Housley (11), Tony Amonte (14)0–103:21 CHI · 
Eric Daze (14)Michael Nylander (19), Steve Sullivan (15)0–207:02 CHI
Lubomir Sekeras (3)Andrew Brunette (21), Jim Dowd (14)1–208:51 MIN ·
2nd period
Phil Housley (6)Michael Nylander (20), Jon Klemm (8)1–306:15 CHI · 
Michael Nylander (3)Eric Daze (13), Steve Poapst (4)1–408:23 CHI
Willie Mitchell (2)Jason Marshall (2), Marian Gaborik (17)2–418:40 MIN
Team stats
MINCHI
2127
46%54%
1/22/3
64
1823
713
119
10
Penalties
- 2:34 into the first period
Ladislav Benysek · tripping2 min - 8:22 into the first period
Tony Amonte · interference goalkeeper2 min - 3:30 into the second periodPascal Dupuis · interference2 min
- 4:29 into the second periodStacy Roest · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 13:37 into the third periodJim Campbell · closing hand on puck2 min
Season series
Minnesota Wild
| 10Marian GaborikR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 16:23 |
| 15Andrew BrunetteL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 17:16 |
| 34Jim DowdC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 16:24 |
| 2Willie MitchellD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20:18 |
| 32Jason MarshallD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16:52 |
| 77Lubomir SekerasD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 22:41 |
| 11Pascal DupuisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:33 |
| 14Darby HendricksonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:40 |
| 18Richard ParkR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:03 |
| 22Stacy RoestC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:51 |
| 24Antti LaaksonenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:21 |
| 33Sergei ZholtokC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:34 |
| 36Sylvain BlouinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:45 |
| 37Wes WalzC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 18:04 |
| 44Aaron GaveyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:10 |
| 3Ladislav BenysekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:51 |
| 17Filip KubaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 26:57 |
| 55Nick SchultzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 13:41 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Dwayne RolosonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Manny FernandezG | L | 27 | 4 | .852 |
Chicago Blackhawks
| 92Michael NylanderC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 1 | 14:15 |
| 55Eric DazeL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 15:44 |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 23:25 |
| 10Tony AmonteR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 20:46 |
| 13Alexei ZhamnovC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 22:04 |
| 26Steve SullivanL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 15:35 |
| 8Steve PoapstD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 16:26 |
| 42Jon KlemmD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19:41 |
| 11Peter WhiteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:03 |
| 14Ryan VandenbusscheR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 08:01 |
| 15Jim CampbellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:59 |
| 17Mike PelusoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:00 |
| 19Kyle CalderL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 18:31 |
| 22Igor KorolevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:51 |
| 28Mark BellC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:40 |
| 2Boris MironovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 23:08 |
| 4Chris McalpineD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15:52 |
| 25Alexander KarpovtsevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:30 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Steve PassmoreG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Jocelyn ThibaultG | W | 21 | 2 | .905 |