Montréal Canadiens vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Wednesday, December 28, 2005 · St. Pete Times Forum
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at St. Pete Times Forum. The Lightning outshot the Canadiens 44-24.
Goals came from Jan Bulis, Sheldon Souray, Vincent Lecavalier, Ryan Craig, Richard Zednik, Pavel Kubina and Pierre Dagenais.
Jose Theodore made 41 saves on 44 shots for the win; John Grahame stopped 20 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Jan Bulis (5)Alex Kovalev (15)1–005:30 MTL
2nd period
Sheldon Souray (2)Alex Kovalev (16), Andrei Markov (17)2–003:39 MTL · PPG
Vincent Lecavalier (15)Vinny Prospal (27), Paul Ranger (7)2–113:17 TBL
Ryan Craig (3)Tim Taylor (2), Rob DiMaio (10)2–218:58 TBL
3rd period
Richard Zednik (11)Mark Streit (5), Chris Higgins (5)3–201:41 MTL · PPG
Pavel Kubina (2)Tim Taylor (3), Rob DiMaio (11)3–304:06 TBL
Pierre Dagenais (5)Craig Rivet (10), Niklas Sundstrom (6)4–308:34 MTL
Team stats
MTLTBL
24Shots on goal44
53%Faceoff %47%
2/6Power play0/5
12Penalty minutes14
11Hits8
13Blocked shots5
6Giveaways5
7Takeaways8
Penalties
- 1st 09:06
Jan Bulis · tripping2 min - 1st 13:33Mark Streit · hooking2 min
- 1st 17:40Sheldon Souray · roughing2 min
- 2nd 02:45
Vinny Prospal · hooking2 min - 2nd 03:23Nolan Pratt · high sticking2 min
- 2nd 10:11Vinny Prospal · hooking2 min
- 2nd 19:50Nolan Pratt · roughing2 min
- 3rd 06:16Ruslan Fedotenko · holding2 min
- 3rd 10:16Jan Bulis · hooking2 min
- 3rd 10:16Pavel Kubina · interference2 min
- 3rd 11:15Steve Begin · hooking2 min
- 3rd 14:02Sheldon Souray · roughing2 min
- 3rd 19:55Vincent Lecavalier · slashing2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 20:26 |
| 20Richard ZednikR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:03 |
| 21Chris HigginsL | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 4 | 20:54 |
| 26Pierre DagenaisR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 11:44 |
| 37Niklas SundstromR | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 0 | 15:36 |
| 38Jan BulisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 18:21 |
| 32Mark StreitD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13:37 |
| 44Sheldon SourayD | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 4 | 22:28 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22:00 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 27:55 |
| 22Steve BeginL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:14 |
| 25Mathieu DandenaultR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:18 |
| 42Alexander PerezhoginR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:08 |
| 57Garth MurrayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01:52 |
| 71Mike RibeiroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | 15:53 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:22 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 20:32 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Cristobal HuetG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | W | 44 | 41 | 3 | .932 | 60:00 |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 18Rob DiMaioR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 08:56 |
| 27Tim TaylorC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 11:16 |
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 8 | 21:05 |
| 20Vinny ProspalL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 7 | 21:57 |
| 34Ryan CraigC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 10:20 |
| 13Pavel KubinaD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 23:10 |
| 54Paul RangerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 14:33 |
| 8Martin CibakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:22 |
| 17Ruslan FedotenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 16:15 |
| 19Brad RichardsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22:39 |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:55 |
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 4 | 22:27 |
| 33Freddy ModinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 20:55 |
| 76Evgeny ArtyukhinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 10:24 |
| 5Darryl SydorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:28 |
| 21Cory SarichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 17:28 |
| 22Dan BoyleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 25:30 |
| 44Nolan PrattD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 12:43 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Sean BurkeG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | |
| 47John GrahameG | L | 24 | 20 | 4 | .833 | 58:14 |