Philadelphia Flyers vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Thursday, December 21, 2006 · Centre Bell
RDS · CSN-PH
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4–2 on Thursday, December 21, 2006 at Centre Bell. The Canadiens outshot the Flyers 37–28.
Goals came from Guillaume Latendresse, Craig Rivet, Mike Knuble, Mike Johnson, Jeff Carter and Chris Higgins.
David Aebischer made 26 saves on 28 shots for the win; Antero Niittymaki stopped 33 of 37.
Scoring
1st period
Guillaume Latendresse (8)Sergei Samsonov (11), Andrei Markov (21)0–116:40 MTL · 
Craig Rivet (4)Michael Ryder (16), Mark Streit (12)0–217:49 MTL ·
2nd period
Mike Knuble (14)Simon Gagne (11), Alexei Zhitnik (10)1–205:41 PHI · 
Mike Johnson (7)Andrei Markov (22), Radek Bonk (6)1–319:11 MTL · 
Jeff Carter (2)Stefan Ruzicka (3), Kyle Calder (4)2–319:30 PHI ·
3rd period
Chris Higgins (11)Saku Koivu (20)2–413:57 MTL
Team stats
PHIMTL
2837
43%57%
2/52/8
2115
3524
2318
916
1614
Penalties
- 0:40 into the first period
Simon Gagne · hooking2 min - 4:16 into the first periodJoni Pitkanen · holding2 min
- 11:37 into the first period
Mark Streit · holding2 min - 12:06 into the first periodRadek Bonk · hooking2 min
- 13:13 into the first periodJeff Carter · high sticking2 min
- 14:43 into the first periodMike Knuble · slashing2 min
- 16:06 into the first periodAlexei Zhitnik · hooking2 min
- 19:17 into the first periodMike Knuble · holding2 min
- 5:04 into the second periodAlexander Perezhogin · tripping2 min
- 7:57 into the second periodGarth Murray · fighting5 min
- 7:57 into the second periodBen Eager · fighting5 min
- 9:29 into the second periodAlexei Zhitnik · interference2 min
- 12:30 into the second periodMike Johnson · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 18:58 into the second periodAlex Kovalev · holding2 min
- 9:21 into the third periodJeff Carter · high sticking2 min
Season series
Philadelphia Flyers
| 9Stefan RuzickaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10:02 |
| 12Simon GagneL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 20:32 |
| 17Jeff CarterC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 20:02 |
| 19Kyle CalderL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 14:39 |
| 22Mike KnubleR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 20:05 |
| 77Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 5 | 23:42 |
| 11Ryan PotulnyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 09:53 |
| 20R.J. UmbergerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 13:48 |
| 24Sami KapanenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:56 |
| 29Todd FedorukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:50 |
| 40Eric MelocheR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:19 |
| 55Ben EagerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:19 |
| 61Mike YorkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:53 |
| 2Derian HatcherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 23:37 |
| 6Randy JonesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:07 |
| 44Joni PitkanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 25:15 |
| 45Alexandre PicardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:52 |
| 54David PrintzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:38 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Antero NiittymakiG | L | 37 | 4 | .892 |
| 35Martin HouleG | 0 | 0 | – |
Montréal Canadiens
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 22:54 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 18:06 |
| 14Radek BonkC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:30 |
| 15Sergei SamsonovL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14:45 |
| 20Mike JohnsonR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 18:14 |
| 21Chris HigginsL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 16:22 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:39 |
| 84Guillaume LatendresseL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 13:15 |
| 32Mark StreitD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12:13 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 19:44 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 18:41 |
| 35Tomas PlekanecC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:11 |
| 42Alexander PerezhoginR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:25 |
| 57Garth MurrayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:16 |
| 6Janne NiinimaaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:22 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:17 |
| 44Sheldon SourayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:32 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 15:23 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30David AebischerG | W | 28 | 2 | .929 |
| 39Cristobal HuetG | 0 | 0 | – |