Boston Bruins vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Tuesday, December 12, 2006 · Centre Bell
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Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 4–3 on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at Centre Bell. The Canadiens outshot the Bruins 40–34.
Marc Savard scored twice and Sergei Samsonov scored twice. Andrei Markov, Guillaume Latendresse and Petr Tenkrat also scored.
David Aebischer made 31 saves on 34 shots for the win; Hannu Toivonen stopped 36 of 40.
Scoring
1st period
Andrei Markov (3)Alex Kovalev (14), Saku Koivu (19)0–106:36 MTL ·
2nd period
Marc Savard (8)Patrice Bergeron (20), Zdeno Chara (13)1–102:09 BOS · 
Sergei Samsonov (5)Janne Niinimaa (2), Mathieu Dandenault (3)1–206:52 MTL- Marc Savard (9)Glen Murray (9)2–207:34 BOS ·
3rd period
- Sergei Samsonov (6)Tomas Plekanec (6)2–312:49 MTL
Guillaume Latendresse (7)Maxim Lapierre (1), Michael Ryder (12)2–416:00 MTL
Petr Tenkrat (3)Jason York (4), Marc Savard (26)3–419:09 BOS
Team stats
BOSMTL
3440
43%57%
2/41/5
128
2732
1716
1710
1520
Penalties
- 5:05 into the first period
Jason York · hooking2 min - 8:44 into the first periodAndrew Alberts · interference2 min
- 10:19 into the first period
Alexander Perezhogin · high sticking2 min - 10:19 into the first periodAlexander Perezhogin · high sticking2 min
- 14:55 into the first periodStanislav Chistov · interference2 min
- 17:47 into the first periodMarc Savard · tripping2 min
- 1:13 into the second periodAlexander Perezhogin · hooking2 min
- 5:24 into the second periodPaul Mara · holding2 min
- 5:59 into the second periodSaku Koivu · hooking2 min
- 20:00 into the third periodPatrice Bergeron · tripping2 min
Season series
Boston Bruins
| 91Marc SavardC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 6 | 21:02 |
| 17Petr TenkratR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:31 |
| 27Glen MurrayR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 18:00 |
| 37Patrice BergeronC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 5 | 22:50 |
| 25Jason YorkD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13:39 |
| 33Zdeno CharaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 27:46 |
| 13Stanislav ChistovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:22 |
| 16Marco SturmL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 18:35 |
| 18Mark MowersR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14:27 |
| 20Wayne PrimeauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:13 |
| 22Shean DonovanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:52 |
| 26Brad BoyesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:15 |
| 32Jeff HogganR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:05 |
| 43Yan StastnyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:23 |
| 6Brad StuartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 24:26 |
| 23Paul MaraD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 19:41 |
| 41Andrew AlbertsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 19:51 |
| 68Milan JurcinaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:19 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Tim ThomasG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 54Hannu ToivonenG | L | 40 | 4 | .900 |
Montréal Canadiens
| 15Sergei SamsonovL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 7 | 17:15 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19:53 |
| 25Mathieu DandenaultR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 13:16 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:58 |
| 35Tomas PlekanecC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 16:03 |
| 40Maxim LapierreC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 08:10 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 17:51 |
| 84Guillaume LatendresseL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 12:57 |
| 6Janne NiinimaaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 14:44 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 5 | 22:59 |
| 14Radek BonkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:24 |
| 20Mike JohnsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | 17:18 |
| 42Alexander PerezhoginR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:54 |
| 57Garth MurrayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:21 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 18:51 |
| 32Mark StreitD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11:20 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 22:32 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 24:42 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30David AebischerG | W | 34 | 3 | .912 |
| 39Cristobal HuetG | 0 | 0 | – |