Atlanta Thrashers vs Montréal Canadiens

Regular season · Tuesday, February 17, 2004 · Centre Bell

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4–1

25–30

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Game summary

The Atlanta Thrashers beat the Montréal Canadiens 4–1 on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 at Centre Bell. The Canadiens outshot the Thrashers 30–25.

Goals came from Jan Bulis, Ilya Kovalchuk, Frantisek Kaberle, Patrik Stefan and Dany Heatley.

Pasi Nurminen made 29 saves on 30 shots for the win; Jose Theodore stopped 21 of 25.

Goals
ATL	1	2	1	4	25
MTL	1	0	0	1	30

Scoring

1st period

Jan Bulis (13)Saku Koivu (27), Richard Zednik (15)0–106:47 MTL
Ilya Kovalchuk (31)Randy Robitaille (16), Marc Savard (28)1–108:55 ATL ·

2nd period

Frantisek Kaberle (3)Ilya Kovalchuk (33), Garnet Exelby (8)2–103:06 ATL
Patrik Stefan (8)Unassisted3–112:30 ATL ·

3rd period

Dany Heatley (3)Randy Robitaille (17), Shawn McEachern (29)4–107:41 ATL

Team stats

ATLMTL

2530

36%64%

2/50/4

810

2221

215

1915

99

Penalties

6:54 into the first periodSteve Begin · hooking obstruction2 min
8:33 into the first periodStephane Quintal · holding2 min
12:20 into the first periodJeff Cowan · holding2 min
12:20 into the first periodPasi Nurminen · roughing2 min
14:03 into the first periodAndy Sutton · slashing2 min
17:36 into the first periodShawn McEachern · interference2 min
11:05 into the second periodPatrice Brisebois · interference2 min
13:01 into the second periodMike Komisarek · cross checking2 min
13:19 into the third periodFrancis Bouillon · hooking2 min

Season series

Atlanta Thrashers

Atlanta Thrashers skaters

17Ilya KovalchukL	1	1	2	0	5	0	2	0	–	22:12
28Randy RobitailleC	0	2	2	+1	4	1	1	0	17	20:27
9Marc SavardC	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	50	23:43
15Dany HeatleyL	1	0	1	+1	4	0	2	0	–	19:23
19Shawn McEachernL	0	1	1	+1	2	2	0	2	–	19:27
27Patrik StefanC	1	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	33	15:13
2Garnet ExelbyD	0	1	1	+2	0	3	2	0	–	24:26
8Frantisek KaberleD	1	0	1	+2	1	0	2	0	–	23:42
10Serge AubinC	0	0	0	0	1	3	3	0	33	17:24
11Jean-Pierre VigierR	0	0	0	−1	1	2	0	0	100	16:35
14Benjamin SimonL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	01:40
16Jeff CowanL	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	–	03:09
20Francis LessardR	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	–	00:46
26Ronald PetrovickyR	0	0	0	+1	0	2	0	0	–	17:11
5Tomas KloucekD	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	–	06:22
23Ivan MajeskyD	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	–	17:12
25Andy SuttonD	0	0	0	−1	1	2	3	2	–	27:10
36Daniel TjarnqvistD	0	0	0	−1	0	0	5	0	–	16:10

Atlanta Thrashers goalies
Goalie
31Pasi NurminenG	W	30	29	1	.967	60:00
34Byron DafoeG		0	0	0	–	–

Montréal Canadiens

Montréal Canadiens skaters

11Saku KoivuC	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	60	18:05
20Richard ZednikR	0	1	1	+1	5	1	0	0	–	17:14
38Jan BulisC	1	0	1	+1	3	2	0	0	100	17:44
15Darren LangdonL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	03:15
22Steve BeginL	0	0	0	−1	1	3	0	2	40	14:36
24Andreas DackellR	0	0	0	−1	1	1	0	0	–	15:40
25Chad KilgerL	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	100	06:32
37Niklas SundstromR	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	–	15:08
71Mike RibeiroC	0	0	0	−1	0	0	0	0	67	20:07
73Michael RyderR	0	0	0	−1	4	2	0	0	–	19:25
90Joe JuneauC	0	0	0	−1	1	0	0	0	56	13:28
94Yanic PerreaultC	0	0	0	−1	0	0	1	0	89	13:56
5Stephane QuintalD	0	0	0	−2	0	1	0	2	–	18:47
8Mike KomisarekD	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	2	–	15:14
43Patrice BriseboisD	0	0	0	+1	2	1	0	2	–	21:00
51Francis BouillonD	0	0	0	+1	2	3	0	2	–	22:09
52Craig RivetD	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	–	17:06
79Andrei MarkovD	0	0	0	−2	3	0	1	0	–	22:48

Montréal Canadiens goalies
Goalie
30Mathieu GaronG		0	0	0	–	–
60Jose TheodoreG	L	25	21	4	.840	59:58