Montréal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Tuesday, December 19, 2006 · HSBC Arena
RDS · MSG
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Buffalo Sabres 5–2 on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at HSBC Arena. The Sabres outshot the Canadiens 44–29.
Chris Higgins scored twice. Ales Kotalik, Alex Kovalev, Maxim Lapierre, Jaroslav Spacek and Francis Bouillon also scored.
Cristobal Huet made 42 saves on 44 shots for the win; Ryan Miller stopped 24 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Ales Kotalik (7)Brian Campbell (18), Chris Drury (13)0–100:34 BUF
Alex Kovalev (9)Andrei Markov (20), Sheldon Souray (18)1–113:01 MTL · 
Chris Higgins (9)Sergei Samsonov (9), Mark Streit (11)2–116:11 MTL · 
Maxim Lapierre (3)Guillaume Latendresse (7), Sheldon Souray (19)3–117:33 MTL
2nd period
Jaroslav Spacek (5)Ales Kotalik (11), Brian Campbell (19)3–212:06 BUF
3rd period
Francis Bouillon (1)Sergei Samsonov (10), Craig Rivet (6)4–207:52 MTL- Chris Higgins (10)Michael Ryder (15)5–211:37 MTL
Team stats
MTLBUF
2944
48%52%
2/40/4
88
514
1315
717
24
Penalties
- 11:29 into the first period
Dmitri Kalinin · hooking2 min - 14:40 into the first periodAles Kotalik · high sticking2 min
- 1:25 into the second periodChris Drury · hooking2 min
- 3:57 into the second period
Tomas Plekanec · hooking2 min - 7:47 into the second periodAlexander Perezhogin · hooking2 min
- 12:25 into the second periodSaku Koivu · hooking2 min
- 3:01 into the third periodToni Lydman · holding2 min
- 14:36 into the third periodAndrei Markov · delaying game puck over glass2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 15Sergei SamsonovL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 12:19 |
| 21Chris HigginsL | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 5 | 17:38 |
| 44Sheldon SourayD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 5 | 23:32 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:33 |
| 40Maxim LapierreC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 11:50 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 15:41 |
| 84Guillaume LatendresseL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 10:05 |
| 32Mark StreitD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11:34 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 17:59 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19:05 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 22:36 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 18:46 |
| 14Radek BonkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:28 |
| 20Mike JohnsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:56 |
| 35Tomas PlekanecC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 2 | 13:22 |
| 42Alexander PerezhoginR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:50 |
| 6Janne NiinimaaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 14:15 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:59 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30David AebischerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Cristobal HuetG | W | 44 | 2 | .955 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 12Ales KotalikR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 14:43 |
| 51Brian CampbellD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23:37 |
| 23Chris DruryC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 18:22 |
| 6Jaroslav SpacekD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 22:44 |
| 9Derek RoyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:59 |
| 13Jiri NovotnyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:21 |
| 22Adam MairC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 06:19 |
| 26Thomas VanekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 16:46 |
| 28Paul GaustadC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 14:59 |
| 29Jason PominvilleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:25 |
| 41Clarke MacArthurL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 07:02 |
| 48Daniel BrièreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 17:35 |
| 55Jochen HechtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 18:24 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:19 |
| 5Toni LydmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:23 |
| 27Teppo NumminenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20:55 |
| 38Nathan PaetschD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:00 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:05 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Ryan MillerG | L | 29 | 5 | .828 |
| 43Martin BironG | 0 | 0 | – |