Montréal Canadiens vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Thursday, December 6, 2007 · TD Banknorth Garden
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Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 4–2 on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at TD Banknorth Garden. The Canadiens outshot the Bruins 30–26.
Goals came from Chris Higgins, Kyle Chipchura, Tomas Plekanec, Phil Kessel, P.J. Axelsson and Mathieu Dandenault.
Carey Price made 24 saves on 26 shots for the win; Tuukka Rask stopped 26 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Chris Higgins (12)Roman Hamrlik (12), Mark Streit (13)1–003:03 MTL · 
Kyle Chipchura (3)Ryan O'Byrne (1), Chris Higgins (7)2–013:40 MTL
Tomas Plekanec (9)Andrei Kostitsyn (6)3–018:18 MTL
2nd period
Phil Kessel (9)Dennis Wideman (7), Zdeno Chara (13)3–106:10 BOS · 
P.J. Axelsson (3)Marc Savard (28), Glen Murray (9)3–208:41 BOS
3rd period
Mathieu Dandenault (4)Chris Higgins (8), Ryan O'Byrne (2)4–213:15 MTL
Team stats
MTLBOS
3026
64%36%
1/31/3
1121
1419
105
45
33
Penalties
- 1:09 into the first period
Glen Murray · hooking2 min - 18:39 into the first periodJeremy Reich · fighting5 min
- 18:39 into the first periodJeremy Reich · misconduct10 min
- 18:39 into the first period
Francis Bouillon · fighting5 min - 5:26 into the second periodAndrei Kostitsyn · hooking2 min
- 6:32 into the second periodAlex Kovalev · hooking2 min
- 19:42 into the second periodTom Kostopoulos · high sticking2 min
- 14:02 into the third periodZdeno Chara · holding2 min
- 17:44 into the third periodPetteri Nokelainen · hooking2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 21Chris HigginsL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 2 | 17:02 |
| 3Ryan O'ByrneD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14:30 |
| 14Tomas PlekanecC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 19:25 |
| 25Mathieu DandenaultR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 13:37 |
| 28Kyle ChipchuraC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13:32 |
| 46Andrei KostitsynL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:12 |
| 32Mark StreitD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14:10 |
| 44Roman HamrlikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25:08 |
| 6Tom KostopoulosR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:59 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 16:47 |
| 20Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:12 |
| 22Steve BeginL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 09:02 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20:24 |
| 40Maxim LapierreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:42 |
| 84Guillaume LatendresseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:22 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 26:16 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:42 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | 26:14 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Carey PriceG | W | 26 | 2 | .923 |
| 41Jaroslav HalakG | 0 | 0 | – |
Boston Bruins
| 11P.J. AxelssonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 18:27 |
| 27Glen MurrayR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18:12 |
| 81Phil KesselR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 14:34 |
| 91Marc SavardC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20:00 |
| 6Dennis WidemanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 28:26 |
| 33Zdeno CharaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 23:41 |
| 10Brandon BochenskiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 14:16 |
| 12Chuck KobasewR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:14 |
| 13Glen MetropolitC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:40 |
| 16Marco SturmL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17:35 |
| 17Milan LucicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 06:54 |
| 53Jeremy ReichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:57 |
| 56Petteri NokelainenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:31 |
| 72Peter SchaeferL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 16:30 |
| 38Bobby AllenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:58 |
| 41Andrew AlbertsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 24:29 |
| 45Mark StuartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:48 |
| 48Matt HunwickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:56 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Alex AuldG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Tuukka RaskG | L | 30 | 4 | .867 |