St. Louis Blues vs Chicago Blackhawks
Regular season · Saturday, October 21, 2006 · United Center
KPLR
Game summary
The St. Louis Blues beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4–3 on Saturday, October 21, 2006 at United Center. The Blues outshot the Blackhawks 29–27.
Lee Stempniak scored twice. Rene Bourque, Radim Vrbata, Bill Guerin, Michal Handzus and Petr Cajanek also scored.
Curtis Sanford made 24 saves on 27 shots for the win; Nikolai Khabibulin stopped 25 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Rene Bourque (3)Patrick Sharp (2), Martin Lapointe (2)0–106:28 CHI
Radim Vrbata (3)Michal Handzus (5), Lasse Kukkonen (4)0–206:41 CHI
Lee Stempniak (4)Jamie Rivers (1), Doug Weight (1)1–212:35 STL
2nd period
- Lee Stempniak (5)Petr Cajanek (4)2–200:16 STL ·
Bill Guerin (3)Doug Weight (2), Martin Rucinsky (3)3–210:01 STL
Michal Handzus (3)Bryan Smolinski (5), Adrian Aucoin (3)3–314:50 CHI ·
3rd period
Petr Cajanek (2)Lee Stempniak (3), Keith Tkachuk (7)4–302:57 STL
Team stats
STLCHI
2927
44%56%
1/31/4
1715
1716
1311
04
21
Penalties
- 3:47 into the first period
Reed Low · roughing2 min - 3:47 into the first period
Dan Hinote · diving2 min - 13:47 into the first periodEric Brewer · tripping2 min
- 16:21 into the first periodPatrick Sharp · hooking2 min
- 19:30 into the first periodPatrick Sharp · holding2 min
- 3:48 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 10:38 into the second periodReed Low · fighting5 min
- 10:38 into the second periodMatt Walker · fighting5 min
- 12:15 into the second periodMartin Lapointe · holding the stick2 min
- 13:46 into the second periodBill Guerin · tripping2 min
- 3:17 into the third periodMartin Rucinsky · high sticking2 min
- 7:10 into the third periodLasse Kukkonen · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 7:10 into the third periodJamie Rivers · holding the stick2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 12Lee StempniakR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 4 | 10:05 |
| 26Petr CajanekC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 14:06 |
| 39Doug WeightC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 18:54 |
| 7Keith TkachukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:30 |
| 13Bill GuerinR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 17:25 |
| 62Martin RucinskyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:31 |
| 20Jamie RiversD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 17:12 |
| 9Jay McClementC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:52 |
| 10Dallas DrakeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:22 |
| 17Ryan JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:11 |
| 18Radek DvorakR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:09 |
| 21Jamal MayersR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14:51 |
| 58Dan HinoteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 16:34 |
| 4Eric BrewerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:39 |
| 25Dennis WidemanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24:04 |
| 27Bryce SalvadorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:39 |
| 28Matt WalkerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 19:51 |
| 46Roman PolakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:20 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Curtis SanfordG | W | 27 | 3 | .889 |
| 34Manny LegaceG | 0 | 0 | – |
Chicago Blackhawks
| 26Michal HandzusC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 17:30 |
| 10Patrick SharpL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:11 |
| 11Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | 17:01 |
| 14Rene BourqueR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 18:43 |
| 16Radim VrbataR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 21:17 |
| 22Martin LapointeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 15:08 |
| 6Lasse KukkonenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19:20 |
| 33Adrian AucoinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 23:06 |
| 8Tony SalmelainenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:56 |
| 17Michael HolmqvistC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:41 |
| 20Brandon BochenskiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 08:43 |
| 34Reed LowR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:48 |
| 37Adam BurishR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:01 |
| 51Jeff HamiltonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:46 |
| 2Duncan KeithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 16:14 |
| 7Brent SeabrookD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:38 |
| 23Jim VandermeerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 23:00 |
| 44Danny RichmondD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 14:44 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Brian BoucherG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Nikolai KhabibulinG | L | 29 | 4 | .862 |