Chicago Blackhawks vs Colorado Avalanche
Regular season · Saturday, December 23, 2006 · Pepsi Center
ALT (HD) · CSN-CH
Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Chicago Blackhawks 3–2 on Saturday, December 23, 2006 at Pepsi Center. The Avalanche outshot the Blackhawks 22–19.
Wojtek Wolski scored twice. Radim Vrbata, Joe Sakic and Patrick Sharp also scored.
Jose Theodore made 17 saves on 19 shots for the win; Nikolai Khabibulin stopped 19 of 22.
Scoring
1st period
Radim Vrbata (7)Tuomo Ruutu (5), Tony Salmelainen (4)1–002:45 CHI
Joe Sakic (15)Ken Klee (9)1–103:57 COL
Wojtek Wolski (9)Unassisted1–210:22 COL · 
Patrick Sharp (5)Denis Arkhipov (5), Duncan Keith (17)2–211:43 CHI ·
2nd period
- Wojtek Wolski (10)Joe Sakic (24), Andrew Brunette (19)2–304:32 COL
Team stats
CHICOL
1922
43%57%
0/51/4
1212
2214
1912
413
1511
Penalties
- 8:58 into the first period
Tony Salmelainen · hooking2 min - 10:37 into the first periodRene Bourque · hooking2 min
- 14:52 into the first period
Ossi Vaananen · high sticking2 min - 13:55 into the second periodPeter Bondra · holding the stick2 min
- 17:00 into the second periodBrett Clark · cross checking2 min
- 17:41 into the second periodRene Bourque · holding2 min
- 18:45 into the second periodMilan Hejduk · high sticking2 min
- 18:45 into the second periodMilan Hejduk · high sticking2 min
- 6:30 into the third periodPaul Stastny · hooking2 min
- 11:54 into the third periodTuomo Ruutu · roughing2 min
- 11:54 into the third periodJohn-Michael Liles · roughing2 min
- 12:57 into the third periodDenis Arkhipov · hooking2 min
Season series
Chicago Blackhawks
| 8Tony SalmelainenL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 04:28 |
| 10Patrick SharpL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 18:44 |
| 15Tuomo RuutuL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12:02 |
| 16Radim VrbataR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:26 |
| 19Denis ArkhipovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18:11 |
| 2Duncan KeithD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 21:46 |
| 11Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 13:40 |
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:50 |
| 14Rene BourqueR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:42 |
| 17Michael HolmqvistC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:19 |
| 22Martin LapointeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 16:59 |
| 24Martin HavlatR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21:18 |
| 29Troy BrouwerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:56 |
| 5Jassen CullimoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:40 |
| 6Lasse KukkonenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 18:24 |
| 7Brent SeabrookD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 20:26 |
| 33Adrian AucoinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:25 |
| 43James WisniewskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:17 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Brian BoucherG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Nikolai KhabibulinG | L | 22 | 3 | .864 |
Colorado Avalanche
| 8Wojtek WolskiL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 17:33 |
| 19Joe SakicC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 18:45 |
| 15Andrew BrunetteL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 16:08 |
| 2Ken KleeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 20:25 |
| 12Brad RichardsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:44 |
| 14Ian LaperriereR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:59 |
| 20Mark RycroftR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:46 |
| 23Milan HejdukR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:00 |
| 24Antti LaaksonenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:06 |
| 26Paul StastnyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:14 |
| 39Tyler ArnasonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:16 |
| 53Brett McLeanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:23 |
| 87Pierre TurgeonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 09:25 |
| 3Karlis SkrastinsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 24:58 |
| 4John-Michael LilesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:40 |
| 5Brett ClarkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25:05 |
| 27Ossi VaananenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 12:44 |
| 71Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:17 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Peter BudajG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | W | 19 | 2 | .895 |