Toronto Maple Leafs vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Thursday, March 23, 2006 · Centre Bell
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5–1 on Thursday, March 23, 2006 at Centre Bell. The Maple Leafs outshot the Canadiens 34–30.
Goals came from Chris Higgins, Mathieu Dandenault, Sheldon Souray, Alex Kovalev, Jeff O'Neill and Alexander Perezhogin.
Cristobal Huet made 33 saves on 34 shots for the win; Mikael Tellqvist stopped 25 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Chris Higgins (14)Saku Koivu (34), Michael Ryder (19)0–104:35 MTL
Mathieu Dandenault (4)Radek Bonk (14), Alex Kovalev (36)0–204:47 MTL
Sheldon Souray (10)Mike Ribeiro (30), Richard Zednik (12)0–309:51 MTL · 
Alex Kovalev (18)Craig Rivet (26), Richard Zednik (13)0–417:56 MTL ·
2nd period
Jeff O'Neill (16)Kyle Wellwood (25), Tomas Kaberle (51)1–405:53 TOR · 
Alexander Perezhogin (9)Tomas Plekanec (16)1–511:05 MTL
Team stats
TORMTL
3430
52%48%
1/62/7
1917
3330
1019
1310
2615
Penalties
- 1:18 into the first period
Richard Zednik · holding the stick2 min - 8:21 into the first period
Chad Kilger · interference2 min - 10:13 into the first periodAlexander Perezhogin · hooking2 min
- 16:05 into the first periodJason Allison · high sticking2 min
- 4:48 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 7:10 into the second periodWade Belak · holding2 min
- 12:22 into the second periodAlexander Steen · tripping2 min
- 2:49 into the third periodSteve Begin · high sticking2 min
- 2:49 into the third periodSteve Begin · high sticking2 min
- 7:02 into the third periodWade Belak · holding2 min
- 9:14 into the third periodLuke Richardson · holding2 min
- 13:07 into the third periodJeff O'Neill · high sticking2 min
- 15:39 into the third periodMichael Ryder · high sticking2 min
- 19:07 into the third periodGarth Murray · fighting5 min
- 19:07 into the third periodBen Ondrus · fighting5 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 42Kyle WellwoodC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 09:39 |
| 92Jeff O'NeillC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 13:04 |
| 15Tomas KaberleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 28:17 |
| 3Wade BelakR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:15 |
| 10Alexander SteenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 19:11 |
| 13Mats SundinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 20:43 |
| 14Matt StajanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:56 |
| 16Darcy TuckerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 17:13 |
| 18Chad KilgerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:06 |
| 19Aleksander SuglobovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 09:53 |
| 23Alexei PonikarovskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:18 |
| 41Jason AllisonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:16 |
| 46Ben OndrusR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:42 |
| 80Nik AntropovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:39 |
| 8Aki BergD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 18:16 |
| 22Luke RichardsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 18:36 |
| 24Bryan McCabeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 29:44 |
| 25Alexander KhavanovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:02 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Jean-Sebastien AubinG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 32Mikael TellqvistG | L | 30 | 5 | .833 |
Montréal Canadiens
| 20Richard ZednikR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 16:24 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 6 | 18:29 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:26 |
| 14Radek BonkC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 15:12 |
| 21Chris HigginsL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:22 |
| 25Mathieu DandenaultR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 14:32 |
| 35Tomas PlekanecC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 12:13 |
| 42Alexander PerezhoginR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 11:20 |
| 71Mike RibeiroC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18:18 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:41 |
| 44Sheldon SourayD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 20:39 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21:38 |
| 22Steve BeginL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 12:55 |
| 57Garth MurrayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 12:50 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 17:28 |
| 24Todd SimpsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 16:37 |
| 32Mark StreitD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 10:08 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:02 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30David AebischerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Cristobal HuetG | W | 34 | 1 | .971 |