Montréal Canadiens vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Thursday, December 7, 2006 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
RDS · FSN-NY
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the New York Islanders 4–2 on Thursday, December 7, 2006 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Canadiens outshot the Islanders 36–27.
Saku Koivu scored twice. Arron Asham, Craig Rivet, Guillaume Latendresse and Mike Sillinger also scored.
Cristobal Huet made 25 saves on 27 shots for the win; Rick DiPietro stopped 32 of 36.
Scoring
1st period
Arron Asham (4)Jason Blake (14), Mike Sillinger (11)0–101:25 NYI
Craig Rivet (3)Unassisted1–105:36 MTL
Guillaume Latendresse (6)Sheldon Souray (11), Saku Koivu (17)2–119:30 MTL
2nd period
Saku Koivu (9)Michael Ryder (10), Alex Kovalev (13)3–106:51 MTL · 
Mike Sillinger (8)Sean Hill (9), Viktor Kozlov (10)3–208:53 NYI ·
3rd period
- Saku Koivu (10)Michael Ryder (11), Sheldon Souray (12)4–205:10 MTL ·
Team stats
MTLNYI
3627
50%50%
2/61/5
1012
2123
3115
515
612
Penalties
- 10:16 into the first period
Steve Begin · holding2 min - 11:13 into the first period
Bench · too many men on the ice2 min - 14:08 into the first periodMike Komisarek · high sticking2 min
- 2:48 into the second periodBruno Gervais · holding2 min
- 5:31 into the second periodSean Hill · hooking2 min
- 8:43 into the second periodSaku Koivu · hooking2 min
- 1:52 into the third periodAlexei Zhitnik · hooking2 min
- 4:27 into the third periodMike York · hooking2 min
- 11:03 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 14:17 into the third periodAlexander Perezhogin · hooking2 min
- 18:23 into the third periodMike Komisarek · tripping2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 11Saku KoivuC | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 19:11 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 18:12 |
| 44Sheldon SourayD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 24:22 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:11 |
| 84Guillaume LatendresseL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12:50 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 22:33 |
| 14Radek BonkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:04 |
| 15Sergei SamsonovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 12:58 |
| 20Mike JohnsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18:17 |
| 22Steve BeginL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 09:55 |
| 25Mathieu DandenaultR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:14 |
| 35Tomas PlekanecC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 13:32 |
| 42Alexander PerezhoginR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:41 |
| 57Garth MurrayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:43 |
| 6Janne NiinimaaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:30 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:07 |
| 32Mark StreitD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:15 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 18:33 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30David AebischerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Cristobal HuetG | W | 27 | 2 | .926 |
New York Islanders
| 18Mike SillingerC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 21:34 |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 16:23 |
| 45Arron AshamR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 13:57 |
| 55Jason BlakeL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 20:59 |
| 6Sean HillD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 18:50 |
| 10Richard ParkR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:44 |
| 11Andy HilbertL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 09:19 |
| 12Chris SimonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 05:24 |
| 16Mike YorkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16:14 |
| 17Shawn BatesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:17 |
| 33Eric BogunieckiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:13 |
| 57Blake ComeauL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:33 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19:45 |
| 3Tom PotiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 26:17 |
| 8Bruno GervaisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:38 |
| 24Radek MartinekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:05 |
| 32Brendan WittD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22:41 |
| 77Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:22 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike DunhamG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Rick DiPietroG | L | 36 | 4 | .889 |