Ottawa Senators vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Friday, December 23, 2005 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The Ottawa Senators beat the New York Islanders 4–2 on Friday, December 23, 2005 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Islanders outshot the Senators 27–26.
Goals came from Patrick Eaves, Zdeno Chara, Andrej Meszaros, Jason Blake, Dany Heatley and Mark Parrish.
Ray Emery made 25 saves on 27 shots for the win; Rick DiPietro stopped 22 of 26.
Scoring
1st period
Patrick Eaves (4)Vaclav Varada (8), Brian Pothier (12)1–005:08 OTT
Zdeno Chara (7)Daniel Alfredsson (28), Wade Redden (21)2–006:08 OTT · 
Andrej Meszaros (3)Brian Pothier (13), Peter Schaefer (16)3–007:50 OTT ·
2nd period
Jason Blake (15)Jeff Hamilton (4), Mark Parrish (10)3–102:58 NYI · 
Dany Heatley (22)Bryan Smolinski (11), Chris Phillips (10)4–116:18 OTT
3rd period
Mark Parrish (13)Wyatt Smith (3), Janne Niinimaa (8)4–205:52 NYI ·
Team stats
OTTNYI
2627
46%54%
2/42/8
2113
2226
2112
1314
86
Penalties
- 5:13 into the first period
Eric Godard · fighting5 min - 5:13 into the first period
Brian McGrattan · fighting5 min - 5:44 into the first periodJanne Niinimaa · hooking2 min
- 6:08 into the first periodBrent Sopel · hooking2 min
- 9:14 into the first periodWyatt Smith · high sticking2 min
- 19:39 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 0:34 into the second periodJeff Hamilton · tripping2 min
- 1:50 into the second periodBrian Pothier · tripping2 min
- 5:33 into the second periodVaclav Varada · interference2 min
- 11:24 into the second periodWade Redden · hooking2 min
- 13:43 into the second periodAndrej Meszaros · interference2 min
- 3:53 into the third periodChris Phillips · holding2 min
- 9:26 into the third periodVaclav Varada · hooking2 min
- 19:47 into the third periodVaclav Varada · interference2 min
Season series
Ottawa Senators
| 2Brian PothierD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 13:08 |
| 11Daniel AlfredssonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 21:45 |
| 15Dany HeatleyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 22:31 |
| 21Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 15:09 |
| 26Vaclav VaradaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 14:07 |
| 27Peter SchaeferL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15:43 |
| 44Patrick EavesR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 13:02 |
| 3Zdeno CharaD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 26:15 |
| 4Chris PhillipsD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 22:15 |
| 6Wade ReddenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 23:35 |
| 14Andrej MeszarosD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 13:56 |
| 12Mike FisherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 20:32 |
| 16Brian McGrattanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00:05 |
| 20Antoine VermetteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:42 |
| 22Chris KellyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 17:24 |
| 25Chris NeilR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:31 |
| 5Christoph SchubertD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 02:34 |
| 24Anton VolchenkovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21:16 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Ray EmeryG | W | 27 | 2 | .926 |
| 39Dominik HasekG | 0 | 0 | – |
New York Islanders
| 37Mark ParrishR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 19:54 |
| 18Jeff HamiltonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13:17 |
| 28Wyatt SmithC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 11:42 |
| 55Jason BlakeL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 24:08 |
| 44Janne NiinimaaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22:47 |
| 7Trent HunterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20:11 |
| 11Mattias WeinhandlR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:13 |
| 16Mike YorkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:50 |
| 17Shawn BatesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:31 |
| 45Arron AshamR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 11:18 |
| 49Eric GodardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 02:24 |
| 79Alexei YashinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:19 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:58 |
| 3Brent SopelD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:25 |
| 14Chris CampoliD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:52 |
| 24Radek MartinekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 14:34 |
| 25Brad LukowichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 18:48 |
| 77Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23:43 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Garth SnowG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Rick DiPietroG | L | 26 | 4 | .846 |