Montréal Canadiens vs Atlanta Thrashers
Regular season · Monday, December 26, 2005 · Philips Arena
Game summary
The Atlanta Thrashers beat the Montréal Canadiens 4–0 on Monday, December 26, 2005 at Philips Arena. The Thrashers outshot the Canadiens 38–36.
Goals came from Jaroslav Modry, Jim Slater, Marc Savard and Ilya Kovalchuk.
Michael Garnett made 36 saves on 36 shots for the win; Cristobal Huet stopped 34 of 38.
Scoring
1st period
Jaroslav Modry (5)Serge Aubin (7), Eric Boulton (2)0–117:27 ATL
2nd period
Jim Slater (5)Shane Hnidy (2), Jaroslav Modry (12)0–202:01 ATL
Marc Savard (16)Jaroslav Modry (13), Ilya Kovalchuk (25)0–310:41 ATL ·
3rd period
Ilya Kovalchuk (23)Jaroslav Modry (14), Greg De Vries (15)0–418:40 ATL ·
Team stats
MTLATL
3638
45%55%
0/62/7
1412
1830
816
514
1430
Penalties
- 2:55 into the first period
Mike Komisarek · holding2 min - 5:59 into the first periodMathieu Dandenault · hooking2 min
- 10:46 into the first period
Patrik Stefan · tripping2 min - 14:00 into the first periodGarth Murray · tripping2 min
- 5:59 into the second periodMarc Savard · hooking2 min
- 9:10 into the second periodSteve Begin · interference2 min
- 13:42 into the second periodSerge Aubin · hooking2 min
- 15:41 into the second periodGarnet Exelby · interference2 min
- 0:36 into the third periodMarc Savard · holding2 min
- 4:40 into the third periodJim Slater · interference2 min
- 12:36 into the third periodNiklas Sundstrom · interference2 min
- 16:53 into the third periodAndrei Markov · hooking2 min
- 18:14 into the third periodFrancis Bouillon · tripping2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 20Richard ZednikR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:28 |
| 21Chris HigginsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 16:09 |
| 22Steve BeginL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16:17 |
| 25Mathieu DandenaultR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:42 |
| 26Pierre DagenaisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 06:37 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21:03 |
| 37Niklas SundstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:52 |
| 38Jan BulisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:30 |
| 42Alexander PerezhoginR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 12:59 |
| 57Garth MurrayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 09:06 |
| 71Mike RibeiroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:40 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 16:00 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:33 |
| 32Mark StreitD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:09 |
| 44Sheldon SourayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21:41 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 16:03 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 23:23 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24:25 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Cristobal HuetG | L | 38 | 4 | .895 |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | 0 | 0 | – |
Atlanta Thrashers
| 44Jaroslav ModryD | 1 | 3 | 4 | +2 | 1 | 18:18 |
| 17Ilya KovalchukL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 23:31 |
| 9Marc SavardC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 21:18 |
| 10Serge AubinC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 11:26 |
| 23Jim SlaterC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 09:19 |
| 36Eric BoultonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 04:45 |
| 7Greg De VriesD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 23:38 |
| 34Shane HnidyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 10:46 |
| 11Jean-Pierre VigierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 14:11 |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13:38 |
| 16Bobby HolikC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 18:50 |
| 18Marian HossaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 18:48 |
| 19Scott MellanbyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 08:40 |
| 26Ronald PetrovickyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:34 |
| 27Patrik StefanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:02 |
| 2Garnet ExelbyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:55 |
| 25Andy SuttonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:36 |
| 28Niclas HavelidD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 24:33 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Kari LehtonenG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Michael GarnettG | W | 36 | 0 | 1.000 |